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- 17 Oct 2015 15:36
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How to design your own script
- Replies: 88
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Re: How to design your own script
I have not figured out how to do right-to-left fonts, but apparently you just overlay your font over arabic or hebrew letters. I did it, didn't work. The problem with right-left or top-bottom fonts is not really the font itself, but the software on which you write with the font, if the software doe...
- 17 Oct 2015 04:00
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How to design your own script
- Replies: 88
- Views: 103801
Re: How to design your own script
I have not figured out how to do right-to-left fonts, but apparently you just overlay your font over arabic or hebrew letters. I did it, didn't work. The problem with right-left or top-bottom fonts is not really the font itself, but the software on which you write with the font, if the software doe...
- 17 Oct 2015 00:14
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How to design your own script
- Replies: 88
- Views: 103801
Re: How to design your own script
Could someone include in this thread how to make a font for their script? All I can do with mine now is write it (and often badly) with a calligraphy pen. I don't actually have all the letters designed anyways though. That's a complicated and often tedious process. First you need to familiarize you...
- 16 Oct 2015 16:59
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How to design your own script
- Replies: 88
- Views: 103801
Re: How to design your own script
I made a pdf version, do you mind if I share it? it's properly attributed to you of course.
- 04 Aug 2014 21:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
- Replies: 1180
- Views: 257666
Re: Con-Script Development Centre
It looks pretty nifty! Shouldn't the language name be written. As Rīagi, though, given your example? Have you considered having the two geminating/length marks be one descenders instead of being in-line? @Ahzoh: Yeah, I did not have an issue with that at all. I immediately saw they were diacritics ...
- 04 Aug 2014 20:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
- Replies: 1180
- Views: 257666
Re: Con-Script Development Centre
First version of the script for Riagi inspired by javanese and (very) loosely built upon the Rongorongo inscriptions
- 04 Aug 2014 20:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have a doubt, should I consider the word "tomorrow" in "The sun will shine tomorrow" an adverb or a noun? Normally I would say an adverb but Riagi has a case for time, so I'm not sure what to do. If I treat it like an adverb then the case will become pretty much unused, but if...
- 03 Aug 2014 04:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have a doubt, should I consider the word "tomorrow" in "The sun will shine tomorrow" an adverb or a noun? Normally I would say an adverb but Riagi has a case for time, so I'm not sure what to do. If I treat it like an adverb then the case will become pretty much unused, but if ...
- 02 Aug 2014 05:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
- Replies: 2876
- Views: 455182
Re: Yay or Nay?
What do you think of 'Reference markers'? Reference markers are verb-like copulas that can take an object and a referenced argument as their subject for the purpose of building subordinate clauses. But unlike verbs, they cannot be conjugated and their word structure is strictly VO with the subject i...
- 02 Aug 2014 01:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1665010
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Finished glossing 50 of the 218 syntax testing sentences for Riagi
http://linguifex.com/wiki/Riagi/Sample_sentences
http://linguifex.com/wiki/Riagi/Sample_sentences
- 01 Aug 2014 20:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How do you write the syntax for your conlangs? I find that most conlangs around either have a VERY simple syntax description or none at all.
Re: Riagi
That might take a while, I have a general idea of how the syntax works, but I have basically no lexicon yetDesEsseintes wrote:I like this language. I would love to see a sample text as the aesthetic looks promising.
Re: Riagi
I like it. Like a slightly off-set Finno-Ugric language... ...but one question: What is the story with <s v>? Really, the only thing that "stands out" for explanation, IMO. Well, I'm nowhere near a linguist, but when I was researching Polynesian languages I noticed that Hawaiian has free ...
- 26 Jul 2014 05:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Yeah, that's the issue, I think that I'll just skip it. I can always make another language with a gender system as complex as I want.loglorn wrote:Isn't one of the requisites to be considered a 'noun class' or a 'gender' system is to have something agree with it?
- 26 Jul 2014 04:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
When do you think it's a good idea to have genders in languages? For all I know, Riagi, my conlang, has no agreement between parts of speech, would a gender system have any purpose there? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any examples of gender systems having a real "purpose" in a ...
- 26 Jul 2014 03:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
When do you think it's a good idea to have genders in languages?
For all I know, Riagi, my conlang, has no agreement between parts of speech, would a gender system have any purpose there?
For all I know, Riagi, my conlang, has no agreement between parts of speech, would a gender system have any purpose there?
- 24 Jul 2014 22:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are switch reference systems usable for nesting prepositions? No, I don't see how what are usually called switch-reference marking systems would be useful for nesting adpositions. But your method of nesting adpositions looks neat and cool (or whatever); maybe it shouldn't be called a switch-referen...
- 24 Jul 2014 22:01
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Non-finite verbs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2429
Re: Non-finite verbs
Wow, really great and clear answer, Thank you very much :D
- 24 Jul 2014 17:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2087037
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are switch reference systems usable for nesting prepositions? For example: INDF -tree- ABS be on.top DEF -house- NOM and- SAME be next.to DEF -river- NOM The house is on top of a tree next to the sea Where a non-canonical SR marker states that what is next to the sea is the tree (object), not the ho...