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- 23 Nov 2017 08:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
- Replies: 7
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Re: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
You might consider using an extension like Stylish, at least until the default font is changed to something other than Trebuchet MS.
- 06 Nov 2017 19:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
3. For some languages, e.g. certain Semitic languages, certain numerals have the opposite gender from the noun they are counting. It might be something like: For numerals from two to ten, when expressing that many masculine objects, mark the numeral as feminine, but when expressing that many femini...
- 26 Oct 2017 22:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044194
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Suppose that the old simple past gave way to a progressive form like English “was X-ing”. hasate riba-ma kudi farmer till-PST field hasate li-ma riba-n kudi farmer COP-PST till-GER field After syncope of unstressed vowels, the copula became a clitic attached onto the noun. haste=ľ-ma riba-n kuď farm...
- 26 Oct 2017 21:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How plausible is it for the nominative ending in a marked nominative language to develop from a copula?
- 25 Oct 2017 16:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Doesn’t /e o/ > /i u/ count as justification?gestaltist wrote:Do you have any justification for the centralization at all? I think /i u/ > /ə və/ makes sense in that the /v/ distinguishes the two vowels. I'm just wondering why the centralization would happen in the first place?
- 09 Oct 2017 08:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A Priori Diachronic Collablang
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1876
- 09 Oct 2017 04:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A Priori Diachronic Collablang
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1876
Re: A Priori Diachronic Collablang
My ISP blocks Pastebin. Can someone host the lexicon elsewhere?
- 06 Oct 2017 01:55
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492726
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Is the first word tantum ‘so much’?
- 05 Oct 2017 19:21
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492726
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Is the second word the dative singular of a noun?
- 02 Oct 2017 09:06
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1318001
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
When did Standard German become non-rhotic? According Renata Szczepaniak, around the end of the 10th century Are you implying that Middle High German was non-rhotic? Karl Lepsius and Alexander Ellis both described final /r/ in German as a consonant well into the 19th century, and Japanese transcrip...
- 02 Oct 2017 06:09
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1318001
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
When did Standard German become non-rhotic?
- 28 Sep 2017 19:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044194
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm aware. My correlatives table isn't completely regular, nor is it totally filled in.Creyeditor wrote:Yes, it certainly is. Plus it sounds interesting. Just remember that natlangs (and the ideal naturalistic conlangs) are not Esperanto.
- 28 Sep 2017 08:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044194
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I’m thinking of making pro-verbs a part of the correlative system in my personal conlang, that is, have a semi-regular series of verbs meaning "to do this", "to do what", "to do nothing", "to do something else", etc. Does this seem reasonable?
- 26 Sep 2017 20:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044194
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
[æi ɪi ɒe ɐʉ jʉː]
- 18 Sep 2017 21:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ashtarlang scratchpad
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6032
Re: Ashtarlang scratchpad
The phonology of the language from the last post: /i ɨ u e ə o a/ i y u e ă o a /m p b f v~ʋ/ m p b f v /n t d θ ð l ɾ~ɹ/ n t d th dh l r /ts s dz z/ ts s dz z /tʃ ʃ dʒ ʒ/ ch sh dzh zh /k χ g ʁ j/ k kh g gh j All consonants (except /j/) are palatalized when followed by /j/, which is usually then eli...
- 18 Sep 2017 04:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ashtarlang scratchpad
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6032
Re: Ashtarlang scratchpad
Okay, time to show off the verbal system of my main personal conlang. Can you tell me if this is realistic at all? (I just mean the morphology. I’ll explain the semantics later.) The verbal template is basically: [polarity] - [evidentiality] - [mood] - [verbal prefix] - [object] - root - [aspect+rel...
- 17 Sep 2017 23:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1035900
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I'm not sure if syllable-final clicks are even possible, let alone attested anywhere...
- 16 Sep 2017 08:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1631867
Re: What did you accomplish today?
While bored in my Electric Machines class, I came up with a vague idea for a romlang. Looking at it now, it’s just another boring Gallo-Romance dialect, but it was fun to play around with at the time (or at least more fun than listening to my professor go on and on about the wiring of three-phase tr...
- 13 Sep 2017 21:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044194
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
It’s mostly a Euroclone semantically and phonologically, with 12 noun cases and an increasingly complex verbal system that I haven’t built in full. (The template for the verb is something like [negation]-[evidentiality]-[mood]-[verbal prefix]-[object]-[root]-[aspect.relative tense]-[main tense]-[sub...
- 13 Sep 2017 20:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044194
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks. I think you wrote "progressive" rather than "prospective" a number of times, but it was clear anyway. As for your edit, the main use for the present perfective in my language is as a recent past. It can also be used when telling a story ("... and then he turns around...