Day 28: My Lexember 2025 in HTML

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Day 27: Landscape: "kwidunu nâfumbâ"

New Words

• kwidunu n. view, visual perception, act of seeing
• kwidunu nâfumbâ: n. landscape, scenerey, view

Example

• [ˈbiⁿtsi keˈkoⁿdʑa lə ˈkugi ᵑkʷiˈdunu nəˈɸuᵐbə]
• Binsi kekonja lâ kugi nkwidunu nâfumbâ.
• binsi ke~konja lâ kugi N=kwidunu n=âfumbâ
• 1PL.IN IPFV~travel along road GEN=view GEN=land
• We're taking the scenic route.

Finished?

Now all 26 words in the "landscape" visual dictionary are finished as well as the title itself. I originally committed to these 27 days, and I haven't decided yet what to do with the remaining four of Lexember.

See the ALT text on the image for the complete list of words.

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Day 26: Cliff: "tibunu nâfumbâ"

New Words

• tibunu: n. an instance of the act dropping, the distance which something drops, very steep or nearly vertical rock face
• tibunu nâfumbâ: n. rock face, cliff (more explicitly the geographic sense)

Example

• [tɕa ˈkeᵑgoˈ ⁿti'bunu ˈhiⁿtə aᵑˈkʷeⁿda ˈkeᵑgo ˈᵐboje]
• Cha kengo ntibunu hintâ ankwenda kengo mboye.
• cha kengo N=tibunu hintâ AN-kwenda kengo N=boye
• on top GEN=cliff 1PL.EX AV-see top GEN=cloud
• From the top of the cliff we saw the top of the clouds.

The not-very-subtle easter egg: boye

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Day 25: Canal: "bilunu nkekonsa"

New Words

• kekonsa: adj. constructed, man-made, artificial (actually passive voice of the verb konsa`make, build, construct)
• bilunu nkekonsa: n. canal ("man-made river")
• kwânyâ: n. tongue, language
• kwânyâ nkekonsa: n. conlang ♥️

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Day 24: Glacier: "bilunu mboro"

New Words

• bilunu mboro n. glacier (literally "ice river")

Example

• Boro ambenka tumunuhâ cha kengo nteme lâ bilunu mboro.
• boro AN-benka tumunu=HA cha kengo N=teme lâ bilunu N=boro
• snow AV-pit cover=3SG.IN at overside GEN=mountain and river GEN=ice
• The snow layed its cover over mountain and glacier.

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Day 23: Ice Cap: "tumunu mboro"

New Words

• tumunu: n. coating, (non-rigid) cover, blanket (metaphorically)
• boro: n snow, ice
• tumunu mboro: ice cap

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Day 22: Volcano: "teme ngwahenga (lâ kolyo)"

I've been looking forward to this one!

New Words

• kolyo: n. contained fire (like in a stove, oven, kiln or furnace; not for light, or in the open like in a campfire or bonfire), blaze [also see Day 3]
• henga: n. oven
• wahenga: n. kiln
• teme ngwahenga: n. volcano (literally "kiln mountain")
• teme ngwahenga lâ kolyo: n. erupting volcano ("kiln mountain ablaze")

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Day 21: Harbor, Port

New Words

• ondofo: harbor, port

Grammar

The letters/phones f [ɸ], h [x̞], and hw [x̞ʷ] are allophones of "one and a half" phoneme: a non-sibilant fricative with labialization only phonemic before non-rounded vowels.

Valid combinations:

• he, hi, hwe, hwi
• ha, hâ, hwa, hwâ
• fo, fu

If f appears before a non-roubded vowel it turns into hw, and if h or hw appear before a rounded vowel they turn into f.

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