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Not too unusual. Gothic -jj- > -ddj- after all.

My apologies for the late response, I kept formulating a reply and then later deleting it. I believe that a pidgin/creole would be the more likely scenario here. Perhaps a pidgin arose naturally from vikings arriving from Greenland and Iceland to the area in order to trade with the natives of the ar...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑03 Apr 2021 16:53 What I’ve accomplished so far today is to wake up before 11:00 AM. I wasn’t sure I could do that!

I wish I could wake up before 11:00...

I wanted to recently get back into conlanging, and revisit one of my old ideas for a descendant of Old Norse in North America. Though it wouldn't be a straight descendant, but rather a creole or mixed language between Old Norse and a dialect of Cree (perhaps one of the tribes the Norse would have fi...

Something feels strange here ... A germlang that looks like Spanish s like something that has been attempted before, probably derived from Gothic. Shimo's Visigothic fits the bill Ah, I knew it was by someone on this board. Oh, yeah… that . [:S] It was essentially my attempt at using the Brithenig-...

I like it! Interesting morphology with the a~i

Omzinesý wrote: ↑27 Feb 2021 10:10panda 'the donkey'

Creyeditor wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021 13:07 Something feels strange here ...

A germlang that looks like Spanish s like something that has been attempted before, probably derived from Gothic.

Shimo's Visigothic fits the bill

What i did was remove the -ns element from the accusative plural entirely to differentiate the two.

C.f.. "fers" man:

Nom: fers feres
Acc: fer fera
Gen: feras fera

Just loaded Wilhelm's, Wright's and Miller's grammars! I've just managed to take peeks at Miller's (the cream of its cake indeed!) but will do at others given the... will to do so. Fine website you've made there, I must say. How did you manage to create it? You can request Miraheze for your own wik...

Be aware that the "Goths" were generally not always a homogenous group, they picked up many other Germanic tribes and called themselves "Goths." I think Vasiliev's account is the best we have at the moment for the history of the Crimean Goths, so digging through that could be use...

Most welcomed! If you're up to it, let's make this project a collab! To be honest this project is merely one of my little 'getaways'; my magnum inceptum --one that will be the source of my pride and spring me out of obscurity (if I may state so without sounding in the slightest way haughty) after a...

As many here know I toyed a Crimean Gothic descendant and also briefly considered a gothic language in the Dobruja region with heavy influence from the Balkan Sprachbund (it is still a project I wish to do.) Notably, the definite articles were apprehended much like in Romanian, with -ta (masculine) ...

I love north germanic languages as some here know so I find this very cool. As for location, if you want to be conservative but don't want to copy Icelandic, you could place this language perhaps in Finland or further east? It would be peripheral and conservative but not "western." There a...

Excellent, thanks for all the information guys n' gals! I was a bit worried as Wikipedia (fantastic resource I know) tells me that /ç/ is a relatively rare phoneme and contrasts between /ç/, /x/, or /ʝ/ and /ɣ/ even rarer. So far as I'm aware, both these things are true. The palatal area seems part...

Excellent, thanks for all the information guys n' gals! I was a bit worried as Wikipedia (fantastic resource I know) tells me that /ç/ is a relatively rare phoneme and contrasts between /ç/, /x/, or /ʝ/ and /ɣ/ even rarer. Nonetheless, this exact contrast is what my Crimean Gothic reconstruct has, i...

How common is /ç/?

Could it be reasonably contrasted with /x/ and/or /ʝ/?

I have played around with this idea. Notably, all final vowels reduce to schwa (as in Danish) but not before a palatal/velar split in the consonants (also agreeable, as a lot of consonants become straight up retroflex in many dialects of Scandinavian while others become palatalized) which colorizes ...

I always find <ð> (or <þ> for that matter) in a non Germanic conlang to be a bit odd. Though some languages make it work (i.e. Boral)

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑17 Aug 2020 08:39 Aren’t the Scandinavian definite articles from hinn ← *jainaz, cognate with English yon?

hestur + hinn → hesturinn
etc.

Correct, the north germanic article and the article I have used are from different sources. My article is from *sa which through analogy became *þa.

I'm tinkering with a dialect of my old Gothish (Crimean Gothic) conlang, one spoken this time in the Balkans, perhaps corresponding to the rough Dobruja region of Romania. Unlike the former conlang, this language has much stronger influences from the Balkan Sprachbund. Like the North Germanic langua...