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by Ælfwine
23 Mar 2024 20:02
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 Ælfwine
22 Mar 2024 16:50
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.)
by Ælfwine
20 Feb 2024 20:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Replies: 28
Views: 1177

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: 26829

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: 26829

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: 360

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: 7
Views: 1048

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: 7
Views: 1048

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: 1108
Views: 282248

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: 13815

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...
by Ælfwine
11 Dec 2023 07:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13815

Re: Lexember 2023

Theme: Food, Cooking, Cuisine, etc.

Modern Gothic
бреэн brejen [ˈb̥rɛːjən]
verb - to roast

Related to Dutch broeien "to heat up," English brew.

(NB: Thanks Shimo!)
by Ælfwine
08 Dec 2023 20:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Modern Pictish conlang
Replies: 6
Views: 336

Re: Modern Pictish conlang

There's very little known about Pictish, so I believe it might be difficult to scrape enough material for a full functioning conlang. Although this hasn't stopped people before from creating conlangs from scarcely known material! So good luck to you.
by Ælfwine
08 Dec 2023 20:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Extreme Conlang Ideas
Replies: 37
Views: 2155

Re: Extreme Conlang Ideas

EXTREME, LANGUAGES, BRO! EXTREME! CONLANGING ON TOP OF MOUNT LHOTSE WHILE SNOW BOARDING EXTREME![/b CHOMSKY VS EVERETT WRESTLING WHILE DEBATING THEIR OPINIONS ON> LIVE TV XTREEM!!!! CREATING IAU TYPE MORPHOLOGY IN A VIET-MUONG AUXLANG BY CARVING THE WORDS ONTO THE TABLE WITH A CHAINSAW POWERED BY L...
by Ælfwine
08 Dec 2023 20:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: aelf's scratchpad
Replies: 7
Views: 1048

Re: aelf's scratchpad

I want to talk about Mariupol Gothic nouns, particularly its animacy system that I started to develop. Anyway, brief explanation of the Mariupol Gothic cases before I move on to the good stuff. The nominative generally marks the subject of a sentence. The accusative marks the direct or indirect obje...
by Ælfwine
06 Dec 2023 17:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13815

Re: Lexember 2023

Modern Gothic:

таушън tauschen ['tau.Sən] rabbit, hare

tauschen likely is a Wanderwort that was borrowed into Crimean Gothic by way of Crimean Tatar. The word was probably borrowed after the early sound change of au > ø, otherwise we would expect tœschen here.
by Ælfwine
24 Nov 2023 00:58
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: aelf's scratchpad
Replies: 7
Views: 1048

Re: aelf's scratchpad

Slight orthographical notes: <ѱ> is /θ/. Why not use <ѳ> (fita) as it's based on theta? Fita isn't distinctive enough for me. It shares a glyph with barred oe. <ѱ> is very similar to Bib Got <𐌸> which in turn may derive from Greek psi. So using Cyrillic psi is a good substitution. Compare roughly h...
by Ælfwine
23 Nov 2023 07:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: aelf's scratchpad
Replies: 7
Views: 1048

Re: aelf's scratchpad

I starting declining verbs in Mariupol Gothic and got some interesting results. Here's an example of an infinitive. Slight orthographical notes: <ѱ> is /θ/. In my romanization ь is written <e> and ъ is written <a>. <e> or <ь> causes the previous consonant to palatalize: /ɣ/ becomes [ʝ] and /x/ becom...
by Ælfwine
18 Nov 2023 06:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207075

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I rebooted my old gothic conlang and renamed it Mariupol Gothic. The reason for the rename is a historical change. Instead of being Tatarized, the goths of the Tauric peninsula remained as Orthodox Christians. So when Catherine the Great invited the Crimean Greeks to settle newly conquered lands, a...
by Ælfwine
15 Nov 2023 20:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347320

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

My language's character for the interdental was fita, <ѳ> but i deemed it too close to other characters at the time like barred oe <ө> so i changed it to cyrillic psi <ѱ> in analogy with the biblical gothic character <𐌸> thiuth (in turn thought to have been influenced from the runic character <þ> th...
by Ælfwine
11 Nov 2023 03:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207075

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I rebooted my old gothic conlang and renamed it Mariupol Gothic. The reason for the rename is a historical change. Instead of being Tatarized, the goths of the Tauric peninsula remained as Orthodox Christians. So when Catherine the Great invited the Crimean Greeks to settle newly conquered lands, a...