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- 12 May 2024 20:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 208
- Views: 89461
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
Did I already mention my idea of a Finnic language with this vowel inventory. i ɨ u e o ä Length is contrastive. Starting from Finnish-ish y i u ø e o æ ɑ Short y, ø -> ɨ Long ø: -> ɨ: Long y: -> yi (as in Estonian), put interpreted as /ui/ Long ɑ: in non-initial syllables -> ɨ Genitive -n lengthen...
- 11 May 2024 16:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 208
- Views: 89461
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
Where in the Finn-lands is it spoken, though?
- 11 May 2024 04:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: Medieval New England conlang
Thanks Crey! Okay, so I figured out a quick-n-dirty way to expand Old English's case system to at least that of Crimean Tatar. The locative was derived by appending the preposition *in* to the root of the noun and the plural was formed by attaching -as in analogy with the nominative and accusative. ...
- 10 May 2024 20:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Medieval New England conlang
New (but related of course) conlanging project (because I obviously don't have enough) I'm creating English — but a descendant of English spoken in Medieval New England in the Crimea. It would be adjacent (and perhaps influenced by) Crimean Gothic. It's possible even that Middle Crimean English word...
- 07 Apr 2024 07:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1761
- Views: 370198
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
/t͡s/ > /θ/ is attested as a sound change, but is /θ/ > /t͡s/ attested at all? (Perhaps via way of /θ/ > /t͡θ/?)
Re: Yorkish
I love Germ-langs so I can't wait to see more of this
- 31 Mar 2024 22:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: aelf's scratchpad
It is a Hungarian thing, yes. Its why <s> is /ʃ/ Probably at one point this phoneme was apical, i.e. [s̺]. According to Wiki, "In the Middle Ages, it occurred in a wider area, covering Romance languages spoken throughout France, Portugal, and Spain, as well as Old High German and Middle High G...
- 31 Mar 2024 19:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: aelf's scratchpad
It is a Hungarian thing, yes. Its why <s> is /ʃ/ Probably at one point this phoneme was apical, i.e. [s̺]. According to Wiki, "In the Middle Ages, it occurred in a wider area, covering Romance languages spoken throughout France, Portugal, and Spain, as well as Old High German and Middle High G...
- 31 Mar 2024 17:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: aelf's scratchpad
s > ʃ tʃ > s Huh? Doesn't t͡ʃ → s usually happen by t͡ʃ → ʃ → s? How would that co-occur with s → ʃ? Or would this be by t͡ʃ → t͡s → s? I still wouldn't buy t͡ʃ → t͡s but s → ʃ. In fact, s → ʃ ubiquitously feels weird. But is that a Hungarian thing? It is a Hungarian thing, yes. Its why <s> is /ʃ/ ...
- 31 Mar 2024 04:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: aelf's scratchpad
I ate from an Italian restaurant and now I want to make a romlang again. Thinking of rebooting the Pannonian language I had years back. The Pannonian area has an interesting opportunity for a romlang — it was Romance speaking up until about ca. 400 when it succumbed to outside invasion. Linguistical...
- 23 Mar 2024 20:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5292
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 ...
- 22 Mar 2024 16:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5292
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.)
- 20 Feb 2024 20:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1593
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Mariupol Gothic doesn't have a real indefinite article, though you could use the numeral "ită" meaning "one" after the noun. This then is reduced like a clitic. C.f. mannătă "one man" (opposed to many men, or this man specifically) Definiteness on the other hand is mark...
- 18 Feb 2024 21:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Altlang Ideas Discussion
- Replies: 101
- Views: 27363
Re: Altlang Ideas Discussion
An interesting idea, but not quite what I'm looking for. What I am thinking is that a successful Norse colony in Vinland potentially spurring earlier European colonization of the Americas. Perhaps Basque and French colonists colonize other parts of eastern canada followed by England and Scotland. Cu...
- 11 Feb 2024 22:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Altlang Ideas Discussion
- Replies: 101
- Views: 27363
Re: Altlang Ideas Discussion
Thinking again of a romlang, except perhaps nestled somewhere in North Italy, amongst all those other weird and wonderful Italian dialects there. Key feature might be a shift of stress to the initial syllable due to widespread pretonic syncope. A Finnic lang where inessive and illative merge as well...
- 26 Jan 2024 16:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Celtic/Greenlandic diachronic language [comments encouraged]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 412
Re: Celtic/Greenlandic diachronic language [comments encouraged]
Interesting. Is there any influence from Old Norse or Danish, considering they were also in the area?
- 01 Jan 2024 06:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: aelf's scratchpad
I’m really enjoying this Gothic language and I’m excited to see what you do with the aspectual system. I did something similar with Gutisk ( https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=254551#p254551 ) but I must admit I had difficulty actually utilizing it much in practice. Thanks Spanick! I really liked...
- 23 Dec 2023 06:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: aelf's scratchpad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1940
Re: aelf's scratchpad
The Mariupolian Gothic perfective (perfect aspect) is marked with the prefix гъ gă /ɦə/. It's use mimics the Russian по prefix. Example: гънемън gănemăn /ɦəˈne.mən/, "to have take" or glossed more appropriately, PRF-take-INF. I have a lot more to say about this, but i need to do a bit more...
- 22 Dec 2023 23:06
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 299931
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I cant seem to find an answer to this so im asking around, but does anyone know if the Ukrainian dialects in east Ukraine (north of Crimea) share with Russian word final devoicing? I'm aware normally Ukrainian does not, but I'm also aware that the dialect continuum means peripheral varieties sometim...
- 12 Dec 2023 21:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2023
- Replies: 319
- Views: 16277
Re: Lexember 2023
This is mostly catchup at this point. I've been playing with a bunch of funky sound changes that while diverge from the Crimean Gothic corpus are pretty cool. I may justify these changes as all happening past the 16th century. I can give the more conservative and schwaful 16th century forms if anyon...