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by All4Ɇn
24 Mar 2024 19:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Skaalinska
Replies: 21
Views: 3588

Re: Skaalinska

More like a shift separating Insular from Continental. IIRC both were common during medieval times and then were regularized in their own way (-ja probably to strengthen the weak feminine declension). All this makes me want to work on Vínlenzka n ow. Interesting. I'm trying to keep Skaalinska as mo...
by All4Ɇn
23 Mar 2024 19:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Skaalinska
Replies: 21
Views: 3588

Re: Skaalinska

Indefinite Articles The indefinite articles do not agree in case when used as an article but do agree in gender. There are no indefinite plural articles and simply the plural form of the noun is used instead. Masculine: En Feminine: Na Neuter: Ett Use as numeral and pronoun The neuter form ett is a...
by All4Ɇn
23 Mar 2024 03:58
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Skaalinska
Replies: 21
Views: 3588

Re: Skaalinska

Rediscovered this. Impressive, better than I did trying to make my Western Norse flavored conlang. I especially like how you regularized the -na plural from the genitive. As you may know this was really only in Icelandic (I think the continental Norse languages used -ja there.) Thank you [:D] . Do ...
by All4Ɇn
21 Mar 2024 17:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Skaalinska
Replies: 21
Views: 3588

Re: Skaalinska

Arayaz wrote: 21 Mar 2024 17:13 I hadn't seen this before! It's very well-done!
Thanks [:)]
by All4Ɇn
21 Mar 2024 16:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Skaalinska
Replies: 21
Views: 3588

Re: Skaalinska

Interrogatives All interrogatives in Skaalinska are spelled with an etymological silent <h> Interrogative Pronouns Interrogative pronouns agree in gender Hver (m/f) Nominative: Hver (who) Oblique: Hvem (whom) Genitive: Hvess (whose) Hva (n) Nominative/Oblique: Hva (what) Genitive: Hvas (of what) In...
by All4Ɇn
19 Feb 2024 21:08
Forum: Games
Topic: Sound Changes Game v2
Replies: 2046
Views: 230139

Re: Sound Changes Game v2

<nšéntajdan>
[ʔn̩ˈt͡ʃeːntəʒˌdan] -> [ŋ̩ˈʃẽːtəʒˌdɑ̃]
by All4Ɇn
20 Jan 2024 20:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

What would the names of the U.S. presidents become in Ởnh·Vú-? (If you want, you can go back just as far as FDR, although if you do that you might still want to include such big-namers as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.) All of the presidents would simply use their Roman s...
by All4Ɇn
16 Jul 2023 23:20
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Are ordinal number terms and unit fraction terms at all related? Like “third” in English? Ordinal numbers are formed by preceding a number + a counter with 第 (Đè) such as in 第𠀧任總統 (đè sỏ nìm túnh·tũonh) "the third President" Fractions are formed by taking the Sinic form of a number and fo...
by All4Ɇn
16 Jul 2023 23:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

I've realized that, even though I've been following this thread for years now, it seems as though I've somehow never commented on anything that's been posted here. I'm hoping to be able to go back through all 15 pages and rectify that sometime soon, but until then, I just wanted to say that I'm ver...
by All4Ɇn
03 Jul 2023 22:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

哥𢭫 (Ca·Dưnh)- Fingers The words for the fingers on the hand remain largely Austronesian in origin. Because of this they’re pretty long words by Ởnh·Vú standards. I’ve put them next to their Malay equivalents to make it easy to compare them. Thumb :con: 拇哥𢭫 (mé·ca·dưnh) (literally mother finger) :my...
by All4Ɇn
11 Jun 2023 18:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Man in Space wrote: 10 Jun 2023 02:52 Your labors impress me. I like the depth you go into when crafting and describing this language.
Thank you :). Ởnh·Vú is definitely a language that is very easy for me to get lost in. And I’m always glad to see other people appreciate it
by All4Ɇn
08 Jun 2023 19:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Historical Development of the Phonemes /n ŋ/ A number of complicated sound changes have affected both of these phonemes and so I thought I'd go in depth as to how these two sounds have changed over the course of Ởnh·Vú's development Initial /ŋ/ At the earliest stages of Ởnh·Vú, /ŋ/, like /n/, could...
by All4Ɇn
27 May 2023 16:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Final /c̚/ Spelled <ch>, this is by far the rarest phoneme in Ởnh·Vú. It does not occur in Sinic borrowings and only occurs in a few native words as the result of a number of complex and highly specific sound changes. The phoneme has however been greatly extended through French loans as an approxim...
by All4Ɇn
27 May 2023 16:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Khemehekis wrote: 06 May 2023 00:24Yeah. Like your word for "cowboy".
I really need to keep track of them all for a future post! It’s always so much fun whenever they pop up
by All4Ɇn
26 May 2023 23:48
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1108
Views: 282332

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Examples of refusing to spell something with the sequence <wu> include "wolf", "wonder", "wool", "wood", "wound" and "wont", all of which were originally spelled with < u >. Also "woman" and (ultimately) "won't", which ...
by All4Ɇn
26 May 2023 15:36
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1108
Views: 282332

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'm no expert and Wikipedia might not be the best source, but according to their page, it's a consequence of the Norman Conquest, where Old English words were re-spelled according to Norman rules. Here's the relevant passage quoted from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C#Later_use Interesti...
by All4Ɇn
25 May 2023 22:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Love this confluence! Whenever I see these confluences show up it always makes me so happy! How do you say "ponytail"? "Freckles"? Hmm I’ll have to think about these and then add them to the last post Interesting that "blonde" is derived from the word for orange, while...
by All4Ɇn
25 May 2023 22:12
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1108
Views: 282332

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Does anyone know why the English words starting with <kn> such as knight or knave switched from writing them with <cn>? Given that k is typically only used before front vowels, in <ck>, and in loans, I’m surprised they wouldn’t have left <c> as the silent letter
by All4Ɇn
04 May 2023 20:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

物理模寫 (Vut·Lứ·Vo·Xéy)- Physical Descriptions 伮𨤔咦? (Nu tã hí)- What does he/she look like? 伮 (Nu)... (He/she is...) ...睠 (ꞗuc) - attractive/charming ...被呦 (đram cảnh) - extremely attractive (literally to be craved/aimed for) ...美𡁛 (mí·non) - cute (from a combination of Sinic 美 & French mignonne) ...
by All4Ɇn
17 Apr 2023 17:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99012

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Khemehekis wrote: 15 Apr 2023 01:42 How about . . . physical description?
Another great list [:D]. I’ll start filling in the gaps I have and post it all when I finish