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- 01 Jun 2024 18:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is a special character like đ out of question for /ɹ/?
- 01 Jun 2024 18:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
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Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
What is the message whose data people are analyzing?
Re: Xiwook
Preverbs I'm trying to understand the concept of lexical affix. The most intuitive of them are those deriving from directional markers, because European languages have them. With motion verbs preverbs express direction. Ha-jyy in-go 'enter' With other verbs, they have more abstract meanings. They ar...
- 31 May 2024 22:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Generally the phoneme inventory seems normal thisfar, nothing very strange. I would even add some less typical sound. The romanization of /ɾ ɹ/ as <r rr> is a bit odd; I'd expect them the other way around. It was just a feeling: to me /ɾ/ is a very short sound, while /ɹ/ can be drawn out. I wanted <...
- 31 May 2024 22:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 215
- Views: 90785
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
I'm still repeating the phoneme inventory I've used many times. Phonotactics has something new. p t t͡s k s x z ɣ ɾ m n ŋ ʋ j l y i u yø ie uo ø e o ä The most complex syllable is: C 1 C 2 VCC 4 C 1 : {p t t͡s k s x z ʋ[v]} C 2 : {m n ŋ l ɾ} C 4 : {s z} A voiceless consonant preceding /z/ is voiced...
- 30 May 2024 20:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 609
- Views: 167017
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
What are these?
- 28 May 2024 22:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 215
- Views: 90785
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
Or something more Germanic
ien 'woman' - ienz 'women'
NOM ien - ienz
ACC ien - ienz
GEN-DAT ienu - ienon
ESS iens - ienzs [iens]
Most vowel-final words have the -n.
'man, person'
NOM xma - xmani
ACC xman - xmani
GEN-DAT xman - xmanon
ESS xmas - xmanis
ien 'woman' - ienz 'women'
NOM ien - ienz
ACC ien - ienz
GEN-DAT ienu - ienon
ESS iens - ienzs [iens]
Most vowel-final words have the -n.
'man, person'
NOM xma - xmani
ACC xman - xmani
GEN-DAT xman - xmanon
ESS xmas - xmanis
- 26 May 2024 21:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Any distinction could be coded with tones. I though syncretism could exist of the SIM form and ANT or POST forms in either the counterfactual or the non-factual forms. That's a good point. I will probably somehow use it. Maybe the distinction expressed by tones could actually be the one between com...
- 26 May 2024 10:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 215
- Views: 90785
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
An IE lang with six cases Athematic declension ien 'woman' - ienz 'women' NOM ien - ienz ACC ien -ienz DAT ieni - ienvo ESS iens - ienzs [iens] GEN iene - ienu ABL iene - ienvo The essive is one of my favorite cases, which appears in many of my langs. It is the case of the copula complement. It deri...
- 25 May 2024 22:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 609
- Views: 167017
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I'm still repeating the phoneme inventory I've used many times. Phonotactics has something new. p t t͡s k s x z ɣ ɾ m n ŋ ʋ j l y i u yø ie uo ø e o ä The most complex syllable is: C 1 C 2 VCC 4 C 1 : {p t t͡s k s x z ʋ[v]} C 2 : {m n ŋ l ɾ} C 4 : {s z} A voiceless consonant preceding /z/ is voiced....
- 23 May 2024 11:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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- Views: 378805
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Which ones would be synchretic?Creyeditor wrote: ↑23 May 2024 09:59 I would say Counterfactual anterior or posterior. You could also introduce syncretism into the system btw.
I also think that one distinction could be coded with tones. Which one it could be?
- 23 May 2024 09:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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- Views: 378805
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The current system of Dlor conjunctions contains 3x3 conmplementizers and 3x3 adverbializers. Which of them, you think, are the least used and could thus be compositional instead of single morphemes? Complementizer Factual non-factual counterfactual Anterior x x x Simultaneous x x x Posterior x x x ...
Re: Xiwook
On stressing Xiwook is a prototypical stress language (not a tone language). Defined: - The stress bearing unit is syllable (not mora or vowel). - Every phonetic word has one and only one stress. Xiwook is a fixed-stress language. - If the word has at least two syllables, the stress falls on the sec...
- 22 May 2024 08:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 215
- Views: 90785
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
I like this. For some reason it's giving Tibetan vibes. I really like the compounding, too. What happens to the tone of the first vowel in a compound? I'm not sure if I'm going to keep tone in the end. It was initially based on Latvian and Lithuanian, but now that the language generally has more As...
- 21 May 2024 23:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
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Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
A skech of a language I call Tłvon . More or less this phonology: pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k b d g t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʂ ʈ͡ɬ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʐ ɖ͡ɮ s ɬ ɕ ʂ ɬ z ʑ ʐ mʰ nʰ m n ŋ l r ɭ ɽ s ʃ x z ʒ ʋ j i ɨ u e ə o ä Most words are monosyllabic. The syllable structure is: C(G)V(C), where G is a glide (ʋ j). When the coda is an obstr...
- 21 May 2024 17:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 77
- Views: 7273
Re: SBäk e Dlor
Maybe I could solve the problem of relative clauses with absolute constructions. Everything can be a relative clause.
Edit: At least "although" could be an absolute construction.
"I'll go to the dance cource despite of my mother who doesn't like it."
"I'll go to the dance cource despite of my mother who doesn't like it."
- 18 May 2024 01:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Minimal phonology Finnic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 464
Re: Minimal phonology Finnic
Why does sottatak have a geminated t?Eivuhekoi wrote: ↑16 May 2024 12:06Code: Select all
*soutadak soutaa sõudma sottatak *vottadak ottaa võtma hottadak
Hottadak has a d which you excluded.
Re: Xiwook
I think I'll abandon the Algonquian four-way transitivity/gender marking. Animate definite object marker on verbs could be like the definiteness marker on nouns. -' after a vowel -' before a final resonant -a after an obstruent sy' 'does it/him/her/them' sy'n 'to do it/him/her/them' -n could be the ...
Re: Xiwook
The morpheme -ko, I termed Volitional, derives from a word that means (more or less) 'to want'. (I have to think how it affects person paradigms. Are the volitional paradigms more adjective-like?) When it combines with Realis form, it expresses votionality. syko 'willingly does'. When it combines w...
- 15 May 2024 19:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 215
- Views: 90785
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
Did I already mention my idea of a Finnic language with this vowel inventory. i ɨ u e o ä Length is contrastive. Starting from Finnish-ish y i u ø e o æ ɑ Short y, ø -> ɨ Long ø: -> ɨ: Long y: -> yi (as in Estonian), put interpreted as /ui/ Long ɑ: in non-initial syllables -> ɨ Genitive -n lengthen...