Search found 949 matches

by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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?
by Ælfwine
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. ...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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/?)
by Ælfwine
06 Apr 2024 20:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yorkish
Replies: 6
Views: 1501

Re: Yorkish

I love Germ-langs so I can't wait to see more of this
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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/ ...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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 ...
by Ælfwine
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.)
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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?
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...