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Bro is my favourite preposition in Europic. All prepositions are categorized as a sub-type of adverb, and they (mostly) consist of a single ...

Sorry for not keeping up with Vocabruary the last few days – there’s a lot going on. Mostly good stuff (inventing a new conlang, getting som...

The original deployment of Europic had a lot of hyphenation. A spelling reform in 2101 cut out about half of the hyphens, but a handful of w...

 Another Classical Calque (derivation) for you. I'm not feeling well today and I don't feel like writing much, so sorry you went thr...

A lot of auxiliary languages, particularly those intended for use by the Western world, have a tendency to port classical vocabulary (those ...

There are a number of “grouping” affixes in Europic, which may or may not be mutually exclusive. ‑opr‑ most readily translates to ‘pair’, bu...

This is a badly-coined word, at least for an auxiliary language. Good thing I don’t believe in auxiliary languages, right? First of all, a p...

I don’t really have a theme for Vocabruary this year (particularly since it wasn’t invented until late last night), but there are a few tran...

First post of 2025, which is hard to believe, considering it’s been the longest January on record. After a break from the grind of Lexember,...

This is an interesting example of a weird thing that happens to the Germanic geminate /rr/ cluster. You can see that it started out in Proto...

Something weird happened to a lot of Valthungian nouns and adjectives starting around 600ᴀᴅ. (Well, at this time they weren’t so much Valthu...

From afar it appears that some of the diachronic map is out of sequence; in particular, the Old Valthungian spelling of sivbvr looks like it...

I have a migraine, so I don’t have anything interesting to say today. Sorry.