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- 19 May 2024 01:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Fortunatian Scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 184
Re: Fortunatian Scratchpad
Actually, I am relieved reading this. My objection against Arvorec is that despite purporting to be a Continental Celtic language, it looks like an Insular one (though it is otherwise very finely crafted, by someone who ḱnows Celtic very well; and one may concede that it is at least located close e...
- 18 May 2024 22:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Fortunatian Scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 184
Re: Fortunatian Scratchpad
Fortunatian was a predominantly VSO language, a feature one could liken to other Q-Celtic languages (such as Old Irish). Does it show other Insular Celtic traits, such as initial mutations, absolute vs.conjunct verb inflection or "conjugated prepositions" as well, or does it avoid these, ...
- 18 May 2024 17:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Fortunatian Scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 184
Re: Fortunatian Scratchpad
Fortunatian was a predominantly VSO language, a feature one could liken to other Q-Celtic languages (such as Old Irish). Does it show other Insular Celtic traits, such as initial mutations, absolute vs.conjunct verb inflection or "conjugated prepositions" as well, or does it avoid these, ...
- 17 May 2024 23:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Fortunatian Scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 184
- 17 May 2024 18:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 141
- Views: 7350
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
A Tonal Anglic Language (Ẹlnk?) Derived from Old English. Probably not spoken on Earth, since the nearest contour-tone languages to the Anglo-Saxons were relatively far, and I don't wanna work out interactions with real languages. So this is more a thought experiment, I suppose, unless I get (or so...
- 16 May 2024 14:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Minimal phonology Finnic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 284
Re: Minimal phonology Finnic
Nice idea; I'd like to see more. Subverting the typology of a natlang by means of plausible changes is fun!
- 15 May 2024 16:55
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 911
- Views: 335816
Re: False cognates
torii vs. Tor 'gate'
- 15 May 2024 16:38
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Amayi
- Replies: 18
- Views: 26625
- 28 Apr 2024 13:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Hi'im conlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1505
Re: Hi'im conlang
It has no setting, it is purely philosophical language; but I can make setting for this conlang if you want. Ah, I had thought it was the language of some science fiction setting, due to the example sentence calling the world a simulation (which I thought might also have something to do with The Ma...
- 26 Apr 2024 11:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 158
- Views: 110129
Re: Surprising cognates
This. Also known as "Souriquois".Arayaz wrote: ↑26 Apr 2024 00:08The what???VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 23:34 The intermediate language was of course some form of the Basque-Algonquian Pidgin.
Re: Daas
Are you referring to having /ʂ/ but no other retroflexes (other than, potentially, your rhotic)? That's not that weird either; Techomonic, for example, a language I worked on with WeepingElf and some others here on the CBB, had that. There are natlangs filling that bill, such as Tocharian, and some...
- 22 Apr 2024 16:57
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 318
- Views: 36887
Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
Nice drawing. Not the kind of stuff I'd put on a book cover or such, but it gets the concept across well.
- 19 Apr 2024 15:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1766
- Views: 371705
- 11 Apr 2024 17:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 135
- Views: 29109
Re: Thinking machine
Yinrih long ago abandoned the idea of cybernetics in favor of wearable tech. There are just too many risks associated with body modification to justify it except where a severe disability is being corrected, and even then it's considered a last resort. The biggest risk is obsolescence, planned or o...
- 09 Apr 2024 15:36
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 318
- Views: 36887
Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
Wouldn't the ring render space travel difficult? Our concerns about space debris seem puny in comparison.
- 19 Mar 2024 20:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 141
- Views: 7350
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
I want to attempt another a posteriori diachronic language, after the failures of Techomonic and Goidheug. I'm not quite sure exactly what I'll do, though. I know that I want to go off of something that's well-reconstructed. I'm definitely not going to work from Proto-Indo-European (we know how wel...
- 15 Mar 2024 17:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2078
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
This looks quite interesting; I always have a soft spot for languages with /p/ as a gap (as opposed to /g/ or other common stops.) What's the deal with these nominalized verbs? --------- On the Mark Rosenfelder stuff, I'm always appreciative of his work. Verdurian may be a Euroclone, but it's a sel...
- 14 Mar 2024 22:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2078
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
I'd say the conversation was more as follows, though: Mark Rosenfelder misused several terms regarding ergativity when he wrote his Old Skourene grammar and some other resources, and that misuse misinformed future conlangers, including Arayaz. Also, his conlangs are overrated and mediocre, Verduria...
- 14 Mar 2024 14:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2078
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
To be fair, one has to consider two things. 1. Almea started as a setting for a Dungeons & Dragons game when Mark Rosenfelder was in high school. This shows in a number of points, you can even recognize the D&D playable races: elcari are essentially Dwarves, flaids are essentially Halflings,...
- 13 Mar 2024 19:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2078
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...