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- 02 Apr 2024 19:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5290
Re: Skaalinska
Demonstratives Like other determinatives, demonstratives (with one exception discussed later) only use their genitive forms when used as pronouns, but use only the nominative/oblique forms when used as determinatives. Denne- This/These Nominative/Oblique Singular (m/f): Denne Genitive Singular (m/f...
- 24 Mar 2024 19:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5290
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...
- 23 Mar 2024 19:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5290
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...
- 23 Mar 2024 03:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5290
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 ...
- 21 Mar 2024 17:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5290
- 21 Mar 2024 16:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5290
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...
- 19 Feb 2024 21:08
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Sound Changes Game v2
- Replies: 2067
- Views: 241957
Re: Sound Changes Game v2
<nšéntajdan>
[ʔn̩ˈt͡ʃeːntəʒˌdan] -> [ŋ̩ˈʃẽːtəʒˌdɑ̃]
[ʔn̩ˈt͡ʃeːntəʒˌdan] -> [ŋ̩ˈʃẽːtəʒˌdɑ̃]
- 20 Jan 2024 20:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 16 Jul 2023 23:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 16 Jul 2023 23:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 03 Jul 2023 22:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 11 Jun 2023 18:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic 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 itMan 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.
- 08 Jun 2023 19:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 27 May 2023 16:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 27 May 2023 16:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
I really need to keep track of them all for a future post! It’s always so much fun whenever they pop up
- 26 May 2023 23:48
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299673
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 ...
- 26 May 2023 15:36
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299673
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...
- 25 May 2023 22:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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...
- 25 May 2023 22:12
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299673
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
- 04 May 2023 20:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100676
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) ...