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- 25 Sep 2016 23:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've been making a language that marks dynamic and stative verbs differently, but I've been running into certain verbs that are technically dynamic but I would rather mark stative. My question is can I make different distinctions from what are normally considered active and stative? For example, wha...
- 22 Aug 2016 00:47
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Grammaticalization
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3329
Grammaticalization
So recently I made an isolating conlang with the purpose of being the proto-lang for another conlang. The goal is to derive a fusional language that develops over the course of 1000-1500 years and has an Indo-Europeanesque phonology (I like my conlangs pretty.) The sound changes are easy enough for ...
- 03 Sep 2015 23:23
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
Would he/she be interested? Wonder if I can get in contact with them. Anyway, I should probably post a phonology.Shemtov wrote:Or this can team up with Iiłò'ełìt to make Hebreolangs a thing.....cntrational wrote:Well, I guess Hellenolangs are coming in now
- 03 Sep 2015 03:23
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
Well, I guess Hellenolangs are coming in now Quick, wish for something else! [:)] Hey, 1. Greek is really cool. 2. I've been attempting this for years. 3. I've been away from the conlanger community for awhile, so I would have no idea what the trends are now or even what they were a year ago. I'm p...
- 03 Sep 2015 03:14
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
HEY GUY, I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE BUT no just kidding. It wasn't meant to be as defensive as it came off, I guess. That's pretty good. I've been interested in the Greek of the Septuagint because of its Hebraicisms, but I'd like to go much further than that. Basically, my goal is to have a...
- 03 Sep 2015 00:05
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
Well, I guess Hellenolangs are coming in now Quick, wish for something else! [:)] Hey, 1. Greek is really cool. 2. I've been attempting this for years. 3. I've been away from the conlanger community for awhile, so I would have no idea what the trends are now or even what they were a year ago. I'm p...
- 02 Sep 2015 20:51
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
I was afraid of simplification. I love the case system and conjugation of Greek. I would want to simplify a bit, but it would be hard for me to let go of them altogether. Is there any conceivable way in which I could maintain some of the complexeties of Greek while making something plausible? Anothe...
- 02 Sep 2015 19:31
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
Hebrew uses triconsonantal roots and only the consonants are written. Old Hebrew vowels are not known with accuracy. Then, you should use Greek vowels. It will be very difficult to create a grammar for systems too different. Hebrew has triconsonantal roots and Greek has declensions and conjugations...
- 02 Sep 2015 19:24
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
So, what would be belieavable phonologically? Grammatically? And so on and so forth. I have a small amount of work done on it, but I don't really want to move forward until I know I have something good. Since creoles are the second stage after the pidgin , I think you should first make a Greek/Hebr...
- 02 Sep 2015 19:21
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Re: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
Hey, 1. Greek is really cool. 2. I've been attempting this for years. 3. I've been away from the conlanger community for awhile, so I would have no idea what the trends are now or even what they were a year ago.Thrice Xandvii wrote:Quick, wish for something else!cntrational wrote:Well, I guess Hellenolangs are coming in now
- 02 Sep 2015 04:10
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7425
Greek/Hebrew creole (attempt #2)
Hey everybody. It's been a long time. Glad to be back. Now, I posted about this a few years ago: How do I make a somewhat believable creole out of classical Hebrew and Koine Greek? Somewhat disregarding history, of course. Believable more on the linguistics side of things, a good blend to make sure ...
- 02 Sep 2015 01:40
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: I see you
- Replies: 307
- Views: 95505
Re: I see you
Any Mandarin? I am much too lazy to look. Oh well.
:zho: 我看到你。
I see you.
:zho: 我看到你。
I see you.
- 28 May 2014 08:21
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Grammatical gender
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5047
Grammatical gender
Right now I'm making a conlang loosely based on linguistic phenomena in European (not necessarily Indo-European) languages such as Latin, Greek, Finnish, etc., but that also has a few quirks of its own. The people that speak this language will be to their own world what the Greeks and Romans were to...
- 08 Apr 2013 23:07
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang attempt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1708
Re: Romlang attempt
What do you mean? Oh, I forgot some things. SVO, adjective before noun under influence of Greek, forms basic subjunctives sentences like Baltic languages, for example: Spanish: Puedo correr. (lit. I can to run.) But the same sentence would be subjunctive in my romlang, similar to Greek and Romanian:...
- 08 Apr 2013 02:49
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang attempt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1708
Romlang attempt
This language, which I don't have a name for yet, is supposed to be lexically and to an extent phonologically influenced by Greek. My goal was just to make a romance language that was to my liking, not for the language to be completely plausible, although that would be preferred. A a /a/ B b /β/ (on...
- 22 Jan 2013 23:24
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang sound changes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4162
Re: Romlang sound changes
Ah, my mistake. I forgot to edit that. It should be all short u > u.
- 22 Jan 2013 22:17
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang sound changes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4162
Re: Romlang sound changes
How?Salmoneus wrote:Latin only had two u-sounds. Your soundrules require there to be three.Salmoneus wrote:Huh?wakeagainstthefall wrote:Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin shared these vowels (besides /u:/.)
No.
- 21 Jan 2013 20:31
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang sound changes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4162
Re: Romlang sound changes
Thank you so much, you're being super helpful. [:)] What do you mean by phonological reductions? Do you mean like what happened in Spanish, where the reduced forms of VL "abere" became future tense inflections? And can you give me an example of a Latin verb of motion with the supine and a ...
- 21 Jan 2013 02:07
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang sound changes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4162
Re: Romlang sound changes
I would say that the religious terms would come more from Greek than Latin. And another question: What's another way I can derive a future tense for verbs? I'm going to use vemile (to come) instead of the word for "to go" as far as the analytic way to form it, but how about inflections? I ...
- 20 Jan 2013 07:09
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romlang sound changes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4162
Re: Romlang sound changes
I have 2 questions. First, could I derive nouns from both nominatives and accusatives, even though romance languages more commonly derived nouns from the accusative forms? For example, the word for night in my romlang is nothe, derived from noctem (accusative.) However, the word for wolf is luvos, w...