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- 01 May 2024 06:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 163837
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Possible third version of Classical Hanese: /p pʰ b t tʰ d t͡s t͡sʰ d͡z ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʰ d͡ʐ t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ d͡ʑ k kʰ g/ <p p' b t t' d c c' z ch ch' zh q q' j k k' g> /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ/ <m n nh ń ŋ> /s ʂ ʐ ɕ h/ < s sh r x h> /l j w/ <l î w> / i ɨ ʉ u/ <i y ư u> /e ɵ o/ <ê ơ ô> /ɛ ɐ ɔ/ <e ă o> /a:/ <a> /iʉ iu ie iɵ io i...
- 26 Apr 2024 21:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1766
- Views: 370805
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
A few questions about Measure Words: Can a language without measure words borrow a limited amount of MWs wholesale, instead of developing its own MWs from its own vocabulary? If the answer to the first question is yes, can MWs be borrowed as definite markers? Can a language use MWs only when the nou...
- 14 Apr 2024 20:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 163837
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Possible third version of Classical Hanese: /p pʰ b t tʰ d t͡s t͡sʰ d͡z ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʰ d͡ʐ t͡ɕ t͡ɕʰ d͡ʑ k kʰ g/ <p p' b t t' d c c' z ch ch' zh q q' j k k' g> /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ/ <m n nh ń ŋ> /s ʂ ʐ ɕ h/ < s sh r x h> /l j w/ <l î w> / i ɨ ʉ u/ <i y ư u> /e ɵ o/ <ê ơ ô> /ɛ ɐ ɔ/ <e ă o> /a:/ <a> /iʉ iu ie iɵ io iɛ...
- 28 Mar 2024 22:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1766
- Views: 370805
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If a Culture counts using Base-20, and they only have words up to 20^2 (400), and they encounter a Base-10 culture, would it be realistic for them to borrow the word for 1,000 to mean 20^3 (8,000)? Or is it more likely they would they switch to base-10 for numbers over 1000? Depending on the techno...
- 28 Mar 2024 19:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1766
- Views: 370805
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If a Culture counts using Base-20, and they only have words up to 20^2 (400), and they encounter a Base-10 culture, would it be realistic for them to borrow the word for 1,000 to mean 20^3 (8,000)? Or is it more likely they would they switch to base-10 for numbers over 1000?
- 07 Mar 2024 22:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3171
Re: Zeigouŋdeizese
Numbers (AKA the Janko post): Zeigouŋdeizese has a base-20 number system, with a subbase of 5. Numbers 1-20 1 Iha 2 Ca' 3 Auzi 4 Caaŋ 5 Lau 6 Lauha 7 Lauca' 8 Lauzi 9 Laucaaŋ 10 Ciŋc'aal 11 Ciŋc'aaliha 12 Ciŋc'aalca' 13 Ciŋc'aalauzi 14 Ciŋc'aalcaaŋ 15 Całim 16 Całimiha 17 Całiŋca' 18 Całimauzi 19 Ca...
- 05 Mar 2024 23:22
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Adding a naming system to a "normal" conlang?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1274
Re: Adding a naming system to a "normal" conlang?
I don't think it should work with the gods though since even though they aren't omnipotent they were created primarily from the dying body of the creator god after they had overexerted themselves when they used too much mana creating the earth. The five original gods were made from the five limbs o...
- 05 Mar 2024 22:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1766
- Views: 370805
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If a language only has a singular/plural distinction, but descended from a proto-lang that marked dual and Paucal (3-5) on the noun, how naturalistic would it be to say that if a noun phrase has 2-5 as a numeral, the language does not require plural marker on the noun? Or is the opposite more natura...
- 29 Feb 2024 07:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Non-decimal number systems in conlangs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1121
Re: Non-decimal number systems in conlangs
The current plan for Zeigouŋdeizese is base-20 with a subbase of 5.
So, 1-5 have unique names
then
5+1
5+2
5+3
5+4
Half-completeness (10)
Half-completeness+1
Half-completeness+2
Half-completeness+3
Half-completeness+4
3 5s (15)
3 5s+1
3 5s+2
3 5s+3
3 5s+4
One Count
So, 1-5 have unique names
then
5+1
5+2
5+3
5+4
Half-completeness (10)
Half-completeness+1
Half-completeness+2
Half-completeness+3
Half-completeness+4
3 5s (15)
3 5s+1
3 5s+2
3 5s+3
3 5s+4
One Count
- 28 Feb 2024 06:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 158
- Views: 110097
Re: Surprising cognates
Dothraki erin "to be kind" Norwegian ire "Irishman" English penguin (likely, not certain) More words from PIE *peyh₂- "Fat; Milk" Tamil பாயசம் /paːjɐt͡ɕɐm/, [paːjɐsɐm] and Telegu పాయసం /pa:yasam/ "Khir; Rice Pudding" Borrowed from a Sanskrit word meaning &quo...
- 23 Feb 2024 22:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 892
- Views: 282399
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
I still am sometimes confused by the Insular Celtic definite articles resembling Germanic and Romance indefinite ones: :irl: an , :wls: yn etc. vs. :eng: a(n) , :fra: un etc. :hun: Hunagarian too with a ~ az for the definite article, with the same " a before a consonant, the other form before ...
- 23 Feb 2024 22:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang word easter eggs?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 36844
Re: Conlang word easter eggs?
In Zeigouŋdeizese, since the Waanic family is inspired by Mayan and Austronesian, I often take Proto-Mayan and PMP, and Old Malay/Old Javanese words and adapt them to PWaanic phonology and phonotactics and evolve them through the sound changes from PWaanic to Zeigouŋdeizese. Given that the religion ...
- 22 Feb 2024 05:31
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Random musings on World of Fuhe concultures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2296
Re: Random musings on World of Fuhe concultures
Weidjitaakic Spirituality was a cluster of religions practiced in Greater Zeigouŋdeiza, though they also had much of their formative ideas from Greater Hic'ag, and thus many Weidjitaakic ideas were expressed using Hic'agese loanwords, often duoblets of native Zeigouŋdeizese words (since both are mem...
- 15 Feb 2024 20:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3171
Re: Zeigouŋdeizese
I've been unsure how to present the rest of the language, but I landed on the conclusion that I should have waited to present the genitive phrase until after the verb, which I will present now: The language has Austronesian alignment. The verb in its citation form is in the active voice, contionuos ...
- 15 Feb 2024 01:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Altlang Ideas Discussion
- Replies: 101
- Views: 27370
Re: Altlang Ideas Discussion
An interesting thought that occurred to me earlier on when working on my native american influenced vinlandic conlang. A creole descendant of 17th century English and Algonquian, presuming a different outcome from the failed Roanoke colony. Algonquian would be the superstrate and English the substr...
- 13 Feb 2024 06:25
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Naming Practices
- Replies: 54
- Views: 35367
Re: Naming Practices
It's quite an interesting time for this thread to pop up again, since I'm preparing both linguistic and religious infodumps on the Zeigouŋdeizese language and spirituality, and was unsure where to put naming practices. Zeigouŋdeizese people have at least Three Names at birth, and gain a Fourth somet...
- 28 Jan 2024 03:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3171
Re: Zeigouŋdeizese
The genitive phrase: Inalienable possesion is formed by adding the possessive suffixes directly to the possesum. Possessive suffixes: 1P sing: -(i)n 1P Plr. Incl. -(i)nek 1P PLR Exlcl. -(i)naanu 2P sing: (y)ek 2P Plr: -(y)eŋta 3P Sing. -(w)uu 3P plr: (y)eim So from Leŋjeil "foot" Leŋjeilin...
- 23 Jan 2024 18:43
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 892
- Views: 282399
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
jam is The two forms might actually go back to the same Proto-Indo-Iranian form *ǰámaHnas, making the two forms distantly related cousins. Huh, I always thought the Persian was a borrowing from the Arabic, and that it is a Semitic term, as it also exists in Hebrew and Aramaic. I guess the Persian f...
- 23 Jan 2024 03:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3171
Re: Zeigouŋdeizese
CV Reduplication is an important part of the language, and causes the following morphophonological changes to the reduplicated vowel: <aa>, <ii> and <uu> shorten, <ai> and <au> monophthongize to <ei> and <o> repsectively, <e> becomes <a>, and <eu> changes to either <u> or <o>. This last change is co...
- 21 Jan 2024 04:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3171
Zeigouŋdeizese
Zeigouŋdeizese is a Waanic language, specifically the Lingua Franca of Greater Zeigouŋdeiza, the westernmost part of a a large peninsula (and small islands off the coast of said peninsula) on the southwest part of the Island of Waan, which is located about 4KM off the Northeast coast of Fuhe. The la...