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by Porphyrogenitos
26 Mar 2024 14:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Replies: 12
Views: 516

Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad

Nice work so far. I like the attention given to the declensional classes; I think having variety in inflection is often something overlooked in a priori conlangs.
by Porphyrogenitos
15 Mar 2024 16:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Abaniscen
Replies: 11
Views: 361

Re: Abaniscen

Nice start! The coalescence of consonants into palatalized and voiceless forms reminds me a bit of Icelandic. Although I am wondering about how ɾh hɾ > tʼ tʼ came to be.
by Porphyrogenitos
03 Mar 2024 21:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The great Asta thread - not soon enough
Replies: 39
Views: 25844

Re: The great Asta thread - not soon enough

I don't think I saw this thread the first time around. Great work putting so much detail into this! I also love the frequentizer results. Very cool to do a computational analysis of your own conlang corpus! The phoneme frequency rankings look very naturalistic.
by Porphyrogenitos
21 Feb 2024 17:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Replies: 48
Views: 16845

Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia

A sketch of an auxlang-inspired-ish scheme - I possibly posted an earlier revision of this somewhere. Phonology /m n/ /p t k/ /b d g/ /ts/ /v s/ /l r j/ /i e a o u/ Maybe I'll add /z/ or /h/. The only word-initial clusters are (stop/fricative)+(l,r,v). No /j/ clusters. Coda can be /n t v s l r j/. C...
by Porphyrogenitos
08 Feb 2024 02:29
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155227

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

This is very cool. A distinctly pleasing aesthetic, and with a Eurolang. I really like these. I may even steal some bits of this. [tʃiw] especially feels super Brazilian Portuguese-y to me, because, unless I'm wrong, it is a Brazilian Portuguese word. It means tilde, or alternatively, something uni...
by Porphyrogenitos
06 Feb 2024 19:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155227

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Something a bit more Eurasian (if not European) inspired by some allophony I had been considering for my pseudo-Lakes-Plain inventory above. Starting with an inventory like this: /m n/ /p t k/ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ /b d g/ /s h/ /l r/ /w j/ The aspirated stops undergo a Siouan-like change where the aspirated s...
by Porphyrogenitos
05 Feb 2024 06:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155227

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

My own (loosely) Lakes Plain inspired inventory, since VaptuantaDoi got me reading more about them: /p t k/ /b d/ /s/ That's my starting point for the consonants, at least. There might be more. The vowels I have thought more about: /r̩/ /i u/ /e o/ /æ ã ɑ/ /r̩/ is my alternative to the typical Lakes...
by Porphyrogenitos
04 Feb 2024 21:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
Replies: 10
Views: 560

Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)

I'm reading Yoder's grammar of Abawiri right now, and wow, it's fascinating how it really doesn't seem to have any marking of grammatical relations at all. Topics, comments, and focused elements can all be semantic agents, patients, locations, and other roles. I will also point out that all of the a...
by Porphyrogenitos
31 Jan 2024 13:57
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
Replies: 28
Views: 1275

Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?

I think your question is based on something of a misapprehension: That the revivers of Hebrew intended to revive Hebrew in its Biblical or Rabbinic form, or that they did not intend for Biblical or Rabbinic Hebrew to be "archaic" relative to the form taken on by revived Hebrew, or at least...
by Porphyrogenitos
29 Jan 2024 23:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155227

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

I'm loving all of these minimalist, Iau/Gadsup-influenced inventories. Also, WeepingElf, since you mentioned it, I've been a fan of your Svalbardian sketch ever since I encountered it. It would be cool to see you do something more with it.
by Porphyrogenitos
26 Jan 2024 18:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Replies: 48
Views: 16845

Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia

Okay, the first translation of an actual (very brief!) text. I've also begun compiling vocab, and tweaked the frequencies of the consonants to create a slightly different aesthetic in the vocab. I am now using the following glossing abbreviations for the particles: re - ᴍᴅ (modifier) se - ᴘʀ (predic...
by Porphyrogenitos
25 Jan 2024 22:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Celtic/Greenlandic diachronic language [comments encouraged]
Replies: 6
Views: 360

Re: Celtic/Greenlandic diachronic language [comments encouraged]

Just as a suggestion, if you're trying to have linguistic convergence with/influence from Greenlandic Inuit, since your scenario involves alternate history and fictional islands anyway, I don't see why you would need to have them wait until 1700 for contact with Greenland. If the island was close en...
by Porphyrogenitos
25 Jan 2024 01:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Replies: 48
Views: 16845

Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia

Toying with phoneme frequency and its effects on phonoaesthetics using the Lexifier app . Here's a sample wordlist and the (naturally very simple!) code I used for it: ate ase ehe era mana mare naa nai nao nata neo nere nito noo numo pala pona tama tano tata tasa tahe tene tesi tehe tisa kee voe san...
by Porphyrogenitos
24 Jan 2024 21:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Replies: 48
Views: 16845

Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia

A bit more regarding pe Allowing an unstressed neutral particle that did not strictly define a unique syntactic relationship was a concession I made to naturalism. In another concession to naturalism, I have given it a diachronic origin - a "virtual" one, anyway, since I am not placing th...
by Porphyrogenitos
24 Jan 2024 05:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Replies: 48
Views: 16845

Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia

Okay, yet again again revising a particular concept of mine I've posted about before. On numerous occasions I've toyed with a language where all syntactic relations are encoded through four basic constructions - modified-modifier, subject-predicate, action-goal, and apposition. In basically all of m...
by Porphyrogenitos
23 Jan 2024 23:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Replies: 900
Views: 207210

Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax

I've been thinking about a generic-specific system like in some Australian languages lately, and also a collective/singulative number system, and just thought of a way to combine the two. Following Wilkinson's (1991) grammar of Djambarrpuyng (Yolngu) and Gaby's (2006) grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre, I po...
by Porphyrogenitos
21 Jan 2024 02:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: River Skasti (new grammar)
Replies: 54
Views: 11290

Re: Yulá Skásti (new grammar)

I'm a definite fan of the Siouan-like stop-fricative clusters, ks kʃ kx pʃ px, etc. The script you've made is delightful, it is reminiscent both of Cherokee and of the new Osage alphabet, as well as the Latin-derived Fox abugida/alphabet. It would look really nice if you could develop a font that re...
by Porphyrogenitos
20 Jan 2024 20:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155227

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Not sure what this is meant to be. /m n/ ⟨m n⟩ /p t k/ ⟨p t k⟩ /b d g/ ⟨b d g⟩ /v s x/ ⟨w s h⟩ /r l j/ ⟨r l j⟩ /i y u/ ⟨i y u⟩ /e o/ ⟨e o⟩ /a/ ⟨a⟩ Maximal syllable structure CRVC. Any consonant may be in either the onset or coda. Permissible CR clusters: pr pl pj br bl bj tr tv tj dr dv dj kr kl kv ...
by Porphyrogenitos
14 Jan 2024 03:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: is it a conlang and a conlanger...
Replies: 12
Views: 608

Re: is it a conlang and a conlanger...

Then a conlang needs a corpus to be a language Yeah, that sounds totally reasonable. The language would then not be the conlang's grammar sketch/document, it would be the patterns of usage established in the corpus—which, contrary to the typical order of things, the grammar description would attemp...
by Porphyrogenitos
14 Jan 2024 03:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: is it a conlang and a conlanger...
Replies: 12
Views: 608

Re: is it a conlang and a conlanger...

You would consider Esperanto and Klingon to be languages, though, wouldn't you? Esperanto, of course. It has native speakers, although I wouldn't say that native speakers are a necessary criterion to be considered a language. The key thing is that it's as productive and usable as any natural langua...