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when you were designing clanmew, did you intend for wrah and gryyr to represent a split between alienable and inalienable possession, or is that just a coincidence?

Like most things that were settles on very early in Clanmew, it was something I extrapolated from how @bonefall first designed the language from his viewpoint of being a monolingual English speakers completely unfamiliar with linguistics.

wrah was in fact one of the very first words whose usage I helped define. I extrapolated it from how it was used in one of the earliest example sentences: "amam wrah", which Bones translated as "toad mine".

Given how it was established that Clanmew didn't have a dedicated first person singular pronoun at first, I thought it would be interesting to analyze it as a verb with a null prefix for first person. Thus amam ∅-wrah. And there you go, Clanmew's OSV word order.

gryyr was of course defined as a complement to wrah, evolving from the other already established element of Clanmew of having a null copula. Inalienable possession made the most sense. I didn't explain it to Bones that way at the time, he was still quite new to the technical language, but that was certainly the idea.

#I have since educated him though #clanmew #warrior cats #wc #warrior cats au #better bones AU #haneossia

Closing in on 10,000 words on just my naming sheet aka the ClanMew/ClowderMew noun dictionary for all intents and purposes. And I'm probably halfway to 2/3rds of the way in at best.

(I have most of the non-plants listed, and I'm sorting through plants rn to add them. Then it's adding the ClanMew/ClowderMew words for each one)

This has been the main doc I've been working on for Skyfall for the last several months. Hence the lack of posting lmao.

I love working on conlangs so this just absorbed all my attention.

#wc skyfall rewrite #skyfall project #skyfall worldbuilding #clanmew #clanmew: clowdermew

Clanmew Word Generator

So while I play with making my own dialect(s) of Bonefall's Clanmew, I run into more and more situations where I need words that simply don't exist, and coming up with them is very scary and hard! Luckily, there is GenWord, a conlanging tool that allows you to randomly generate words based on specific settings. I hyperfixated a little too close to the sun and worked out as complete a set of rules for Clanmew as possible, which I'll put here for any other dialect-makers to use :3.

First, the categories. These parts tell the generator what consonants and vowels are available, as well as the frequency with which they appear. I used a character frequency counter to determine the order. The main two categories are consonants and vowels. You could add more categories for your different types of consonants (stops, liquids), but when I tried that I think I made it less Clanmew-y and I was too tired to keep playing with it. That feature does give you more control over your consonant clusters, though, if you'd like to play with it. There's a tutorial on the site that goes over how. Anyway!

C=rRhkwbpsfnmglSHcYCqFP tdj V=aoeiuy

I've put a space between T, D, and J at the top because they only show up in 1-4 words (out of over 1.6k) in the current Clanmew lexicon. According to Bones, J is Townmew-specific and there shouldn't be any dental consonants, so some people may choose to omit those.

The capital letters do matter for something called the Rewrite Rules, which tell the generator to swap out certain characters for consonant clusters. I am also including some illegal consonant clusters to prevent those from showing up. These are all the ones I noticed in Clanmew, but feel free to let me know if I missed any:

S||ss Y||yy R||rr B||pb H||sh C||ch P||pf F||ff rrrr||rr cp||p|c pm||mp ii||i kk||k

Now comes the hard part: syllables. These are pretty hard because there's no easy way to check for frequency, so I just kinda....stared at the list and did my best. This section checks for how consonants and vowels can show up in a syllable. If that makes sense. It is also ordered by frequency again.

Single-word syllables: VC VCC CVC CCVCC CCV VCCC

Word-initial syllables: CV V CVC VC CCVC CCV

Mid-word syllables: CV V VC CVC

Word-final syllables: CV V VC CVC

Honestly, I could probably refine that a bit more, add more syllable types and play with the order, but it's actually starting to break my brain, lol. I would love better control over the frequency of specific clusters (rw for example), and I'm sure I could achieve that with some more work, but this will do for now. People with more patience and Clanmew/conlang experience than me, feel free to tweak stuff and show me!

Also, just for reference, here is a post Bones made about how they come up with words, which you can take or leave as you see fit :3.

#xenomoggy #cat xenofiction #xenofiction #clanmew dialects #clanmew #conlang

I am so obsessed with warrior cat/xenomoggy stuff today..

Anyway, I used Bonefall's Clanmew conlang to make some hypothetical names for my main xenomoggy guys. It was all taken straight from the lexicon so it's not articulated at all, but I like it.

Jackdaw-Prance : Miaw-Fookse

Lily'Soft : Urcha'Afi

Clash-Raven : Kubo-Nyok

Swirling-Robin : Aiu-Birri

Blue'Sight : Lupar'Pipo

I do need to update this family's toyhouse profiles into their xenomoggy versions but that's another time when I've got the setting and story more developed lol

#hayhay talkin'#clanmew

How could I ever have lost you...

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

...when I loved you?

I never stopped working on the Starkit's Prophecy translation—it just grew into some kind of vast, unimpeachable beast.

The first half of the ordeal is done.

#clanmew #starkit's prophecy

Ooooh, thanks so much for the clanmew dictionary. I was thinking about translating some of my oc's names to clanmew for fun just when I saw it.

Is it as simple as slapping a prefix and suffix together or is combining the words more complicated for a name?

You do just slap prefix + suffix together, yeah! If any of y'all have Clanmew Q's, you can always ask me. Bones is not focused on the Better Bones AU, but we have a wealth of unreleased material and I can always help out with translations related to stuff that we already have.

#clanmew #warrior cats #warrior cats au #better bones au

An attempt at Clanmew (Part 1?)

Recently, I stumbled onto a warrior cats based conlang called Clanmew. From what I can tell, it's by tumblr users Bonefall and Troutfur.

I really want to try my hand at learning this. I'll be posting some update logs as I go, to practice! Beware some mistakes, as like I said, I'm learning. The translation will be in bold. This short introduction will be of a random oc i made on the spot, Sageheart (Meiababun)

#clanmew #warrior cats

Skubibauss en Pao

To try and regain motivation to work on my translation of Starkit's Prophecy into Clanmew (the Warrior Cats conlang of @troutfur and @bonefall), I wrote an original story in Clanmew, set in the Better Bones AU and inspired by a story I read in a book of Filipino folktales from the 1920s.

Provided here is that story, an English translation, and an interlinear gloss.