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- 02 May 2024 12:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Do you mean me, or in general? I dislike marking allophones. Whenever possible I use a Romanization that copies the native language's orthography, except when that orthography is needlessly complex, as some of mine are. For example Play has two rows of gylphs for the /ʃ/ syllables, depending on how ...
- 02 May 2024 11:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
kudos on the great work! Vanuap šatetavibe, vapa tis. I apologized for the mess, and I did something to you. . Maybe using both of them together, is from the days when a speaker had to say "vapa tis" is order to distinguish it from "tis" when it was a well-used (and possibly oft...
- 02 May 2024 10:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
Play as of yet lacks the ability to distinguish between sentences like English "say no [to dirt and war]" vs "say no [to dirt] and [to war]". I made the post up above without realizing this. Its possible that, like English, Play speakers will use the first formula when the second...
- 01 May 2024 12:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 592
- Views: 162543
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Dreamlandic: CONSONANTS: /b n s r/ /p m k l/ Those on the top row are more common. VOWELS: /a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū/ Diphthongs are /eu oi au ai/ and /iV uV/ where V is any different vowel. The latter type, which are rising diphthongs, may be parsed as sequences; see below. Syllable structure is (C)V wi...
- 28 Apr 2024 16:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
Terms for humans. Morphemes in dark green are fusional rather than affixal, and thus typically don't appear in their underlying form. Most of these are derived from unetymological rebracketing, as particularly in initial position, a great many parent language forms all merged into the Play syllable ...
- 27 Apr 2024 11:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
fivāpia "dirt" vapias "war" Possibly fivāpia be vapia fu "dirt and war". Thus the expression for "and; with; accompanying" is X be Y-fu . I don't see a way for me to do it without a suffix at the end, since otherwise any inflections on the phrase would only a...
- 25 Apr 2024 14:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 27644
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play pūmmu , to be good at something one is doing; to do easily. From pūm "stab, thrust" plus a dummy verb I haven't assigned a specific meaning to yet. From this I derive pūmmutaus , to be good at something; to be an expert. In other words, it's another example of Play having a word for s...
- 24 Apr 2024 16:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1052
Re: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
I really like this! Super creative. Thanks. I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read these posts. _____________ Today I've written down an idea that's been floating in my mind for a while ... for how to make Dreamlandic even worse. This idea is to make it mandatory for most verbs to indicate ...
- 23 Apr 2024 17:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
Although I say all Play verbs have two arguments and thus are transitive, I admit there is a large class of verbs that I've been using essentially intransitively. This is not an intractable problem, as English has equivalent constructions like "this one gets you" where a generic you is mea...
- 23 Apr 2024 15:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 27644
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Play petupipatuba , a timepiece such as an hourglass or sundial. I see no reason for a culture such as this to have a shorter word for such a thing, nor a more specific one. The Players mostly work by the cycles of the sun, and living at the edge of the tropics the day length doesn't vary much from ...
- 21 Apr 2024 12:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1758
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
3) t > k > ć=č > p 4) ṭ > ḳ > ḱ=ǩ > ṗ (NB: acute = lateral obstruents, caron = postalveolar obstruents, dot = ejective/guttural) Im just curious what the difference is between the consonants with C and those with K. Are the C's affricates and the K's stops? Or are you using the K to stand for eject...
- 19 Apr 2024 05:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Anybody else working on conlangs with non-human phonologies?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1216
Re: Anybody else working on conlangs with non-human phonologies?
My speakers are humans, but my languages tend towards exotic phonologies. I've never really had a good explanation for this, but lately I've been saying that it's because humans in my world are just now evolving the anatomy necessary for speech, and therefore each group of people is evolving towards...
- 13 Apr 2024 18:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1052
Re: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
Building the lexicon isnt a priority for me with Leaper, although I'll need to have some basic words. Here's an example of what the sound changes do to the bisyllabic parent language roots that in Play are mostly still bisyllabic: gʷ "child; baby; female property" ô "sword" lă &q...
- 13 Apr 2024 17:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1052
Re: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
Three of the Leaper mood markers can be matched to four of Play's. Play's tau tata tiu tetu correspond directly to Leaper's kʷa kʷa kʷi kʷo , assuming that the forms were created before the two languages separated (and they need to be, for reasons I wont explain now), and assuming that they all surv...
- 13 Apr 2024 16:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1052
Re: Dreamlandic (and other non-Play) scratchpad
I'd like to evolve a verbal paradigm that blends fusional and agglutinative morphology for Leaper , the language of world diplomacy. Leaper separated from Play 2,300 years before the present time, each evolving rapidly along their own path with little influence in either direction despite their rema...
- 13 Apr 2024 14:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 27644
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
and today I added Play bappa , filling a lexical gap that has been open for years. It means to remove the remains of someone (or something). This avoids the need for a third noun in some sentences, such as English "I clean up after you". Indeed, used alone, Play bappa can vary in meaning f...
- 11 Apr 2024 01:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 27644
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Piausape , a short message written on the back of one's hand, typically with an item in nature such as a small twig as the writing instrument. The writer presses gently so that the very outermost layer of skin is peeled, without injuring themselves. This is because most Play speakers do not have ac...
- 10 Apr 2024 14:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 27644
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Yeah, I like that, though Im a bit surprised you used /gm/ twice instead of using both clusters from the pattern word. -------- Play pamāi "(just) the way (you) are; as it is". This is polarity-neutral like all content words in Play, and ideally emotion-neutral as well although that's impo...
- 09 Apr 2024 17:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
I came up with this a month ago but posted it on Discord only and forgot about it until now. In Play, objects possessed by SAPs are still considered third-person arguments. This is unlike some related languages, including some of its descendants, where the equivalent of "your key" would ta...
- 08 Apr 2024 15:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Play scratchpad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1419
Re: Play scratchpad
Because all Play verbs MUST have two arguments (stated or unstated; usually agent/patient or identity/observer), another thing I struggle with is handling intransitive verbs like English "I'm sorry" / "I apologize". There is simply no way to translate this into Play; I will need ...