JQ has placed the New Ithkuil website into production: www.ithkuil.net

He has asked me to post the following message to whatever remains of the online community:

"After six years of work minus an 18-month hiatus from April 2021 to October 2022, I have finished the grammar presentation and website for New Ithkuil, the successor language to Ithkuil. Unfortunately, despite my request for example sentences from the community, I only ever received one such example, so the New Ithkuil example sentences on the site are my own (hopefully there aren't too many mistakes). I also ran out of the steam/motivation necessary to transliterate any of the examples into Ithkuil script, so there are no script transliterations. Oh, well, the old Ilaksh website never had any transliterations either.

“Also, no one ever sent me the requested list of community members who contributed to the project, so I did my best scouring this sub-reddit to try to find their online names. Hopefully no one important to the effort was left out.

“I have worked off-and-on on this project for 45 years. It was fun collaborating (albeit briefly) with the community to generate this resulting product. Goodbye to all and best wishes “

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Here is the Official Script for New Ithkuil.

JQ will be working during 2022 on the official presentation of the new language on ithkuil.net.

EDIT: Tertiary characters were missing. Now added.

So i was bored so i decided to translate this shit

wooo alright guys!!! First carving successful. It says Aţrierţwa. Its made of ţr water root with CTE and representational. Context, coalescent and nomic. I was thinking of different waters as a concept but ultimately acting to produce a greater result (life). Also, I needed a sample with a lot of geometry to really put it to the test. This was made using a 45°, 6mm engraving bit on a cnc router. I used the ithkuil script generator to create an svg, then loaded it into auto desk fusion. Several disastrous attempts later... It worked!

Let me know if Aţrierţwa is valid, and if theres anything else you guys want to see engraved. Im working on stamps as well! All in all, Ithkuil engraves nicely!

Version 0.5.4 of Phonotaxis Document

Version 0.7.5 of the Affixes Document

Version 0.5.1 of the Lexicon

Version 0.19 of the Design Document

Look everyone. I wrote żňugzá li egudiwe'ö (I feel that my stamina improves while I'm running) but forgot to add a single diacritic, and voila: żnugzá li egudiwe'ö (I feel increasing erection while running).

Please be careful, guys, this language bites.

Hello Clowns & Conlang Connoisseurs,

As I'm sure you're aware, change is afoot here in Ithkuil-land. JQ's sudden departure prompted much worrying and fears about the future of the language and the continued role of the community.

This morning I received an email from John Quijada addressing these matters. I've been asked to relay the following information:

• I have no interest in rejoining the sub-reddit, and will not be visiting or lurking -- so any comments or feedback that might be intended for me will not reach me unless you forward them to /u/aftermeasure.

• The ONLY comments/feedback I'm interested in receiving are reports of errors and, later on if this works out and we proceed with the original plan to beta-test the new language, reports of difficulties or problems or gaps in being able to translate particular statements into the language -- indicating the need to add or change something in the morphology or lexicon.

• I do NOT wish to receive any suggestions or wishes or comments on changing the phonology, morpho-phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax, or syntax that is being made purely on some individual's person aesthetic grounds, whim, mood of the moment, my-way-or-the-highway preference, etc. I am through with that. My attitude toward such antics is essentially "If you don't like the way the language does it, go make your own." So, please, do not bother to forward me any suggestions/demands/rants/manifestos, etc. on WHY THINGS HAVE TO BE A CERTAIN WAY. Things ARE going to be a certain way -- mine.

• Given the contentiousness encountered in simply trying to design the morpho-phonology (the least important part of the language), I no longer have any confidence that out-sourcing the lexicon will be successful, as I now fully anticipate that individual schemes for structuring vocabulary will end up descending into the same back-and forth battles-of-will and passive-aggressive nonsense such as refusing to vote in a poll simply because of a meta-level definition. Therefore, I will be designing the lexicon myself.

• If persons have a productive idea they wish me to consider, such as the recent spate of suggestions to expand and transparently systematize the Configuration category, they may present the idea dispassionately to u/aftermeasure who can forward it to me for consideration. And keep it brief. I am not interested in reading any more multi-page treatises when a couple of paragraphs and an example or two will do.

So the Neo-Ithkuil/Ithkuil 4 project is ongoing. JQ still values community input as far as error-reports and testing are concerned. Finally, this subreddit remains the best place to troubleshoot and stay up-to-date on the new language.

Thanks for everyone's critiques, contributions, and continued interest in the language that will become Neo-Ithkuil/Ithkuil 4!

--aftermeasure