Search found 497 matches

by Adarain
29 Apr 2017 18:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Replies: 1041
Views: 268824

Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge

I’m getting there, maybe I can finish the challenge up today or tomorrow :D
by Adarain
28 Apr 2017 06:29
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

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

Is it unusual to have a natlang to have no grammatical tense, but still have verbs conjugate for aspect, and maybe even mood? Not at all. Also, could you have a fusional language where there is no grammatical gender or conjugation for tense and person? I'm asking because I want to make a fusional l...
by Adarain
27 Apr 2017 21:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Replies: 1041
Views: 268824

Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge

What I meant was that I’m planning a big challenge like these based on a conlang of mine, but I want it to be done with the diachronics I’m actually doing, so it’s gonna take a while. Meanwhile I’ve started a challenge. It won’t be done today tho cause I’m maybe a third done and am going to bed now....
by Adarain
27 Apr 2017 18:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Replies: 1041
Views: 268824

Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge

Well I guess I oughtta do sth then, eh? Sadly I still don’t have the map of my conworld yet so no stuff from my major projects is done yet :/ I can either jot something together (gimme a few hours), or alternatively I’ll skip and post my thing whenever I’ve got it ready (think of pushing my turn to ...
by Adarain
27 Apr 2017 11:47
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Does my grammar make sense?
Replies: 23
Views: 11659

Re: Does my grammar make sense?

Define more accurate. More accurate in the sense that /w/ is more labial than it is velar articulation-wise. I mean it's the approximant equivalent to [k͡p]. You could call it a labialized velar approximant [ɰʷ] or a velarized labial approximant [β̞ˠ]. Whether you classify the phoneme as anything i...
by Adarain
24 Apr 2017 14:47
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: You
Replies: 946
Views: 262687

Re: You

Haven’t updated this here since I joined. Time for a new post I’d say Alias(es): Sascha Location: Switzerland Date of birth: Aug 1996 Gender: Male Occupation: Till end of June: Civil Service as a Nursing Assistant; starting my Bachelor in Physics after Interests: Ling, Math, Physics, Programming, Pi...
by Adarain
24 Apr 2017 00:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Replies: 1041
Views: 268824

Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge

I basically came to the same conclusion as sangi, except that I think the second vowel was indeed *i and that the palatalization simply happened after i→ə. That is, my words are *ˈtʃi.tʃak and *ˈtʃa.tʃiŋ. I conjecture stress was initial because V→ə only happened in unstressed syllables, before stres...
by Adarain
20 Apr 2017 17:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Speedlanging weekend V: 22th April
Replies: 20
Views: 5115

Re: Speedlanging weekend V: 22th April

As I didn’t have time last time round, I’ll gladly participate this time.
by Adarain
19 Apr 2017 20:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread [2010–2019]
Replies: 8666
Views: 1442413

Re: Conlang Conversation Thread

다 거 나서 타그먀 아냐 가 ta ke nase tlakumya anya ka /ta kɛ naːʃe t͡ɬakuːmʲa aːɲa ka/ 2s O spider web-CAUS see Q Have you ever seen a spider spin its web? Aȿoɀo! Gañreot ȿoɀot ibañdautano. [ˈʂɔ.ɻaɔ | ˈɠaŋ.ɹɛ.jɔt ˈʂɔ.ɻɔʈ e.ˈɓaŋ.ɗa.o.ta.nɔ] A-ȿoɀ-o! Gañre-o-t ȿoɀ-o-t i-bañdaut-a-no 1-NOM-do_so-SG! interesting...
by Adarain
17 Apr 2017 23:23
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Swahili's locative noun-classes ... not cases?
Replies: 10
Views: 3806

Re: Swahili's locative noun-classes ... not cases?

Yes, but even colloquially yours is okay, too. I just wanted to give it that feel, you know [;)] Mine is more like the start of a description, while yours is more likely to be at the end of some advice. At least that's what my intuition says. Kewl. As a non-native speaker, just never seen it. I tho...
by Adarain
17 Apr 2017 02:45
Forum: Translations
Topic: "already"
Replies: 37
Views: 7480

Re: "already"

:deu: German Ist er schon da, wenn wir kommen? [ʔɪst ʔɛɐ̯ ʃɔn da, vən viɐ̯ ˈkʰɔmən↗] COP.3SG 3SG.MASC.NOM already there, when 1PL.NOM come.1PL Will he already be there when we arrive? This one actually sounds off to me. That's one of the rare cases where I find using the present (instead of the fut...
by Adarain
12 Apr 2017 18:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Usʔa Pa Kas, Naksult̓ and Mesak - Three Unrelated Languages
Replies: 4
Views: 2094

Re: Usʔa Pa Kas, Naksult̓ and Mesak - Three Unrelated Langua

Naksult̓ (morpho)phonology Firstly, to get it out of the way, here's the phonemes and romanization: https://i.gyazo.com/d42f116baccb1778eabed4ba95128a79.png Vowels are /a i u/, acute marks a high tone, non-accented syllables are unspecified for tone (i.e. they receive their tone from intonational p...
by Adarain
12 Apr 2017 11:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Vulgar: a language generator
Replies: 42
Views: 10777

Re: Vulgar: a language generator

I've already given my criticisms over on reddit, so just so you don't have to hear the same thing again from others here, these are things I've already reported: The phoneme inventories have been tweaked. I think they are quite a bit more naturalistic now, but tell me what you think. I'm not saying...
by Adarain
11 Apr 2017 19:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Vulgar: a language generator
Replies: 42
Views: 10777

Re: Vulgar: a language generator

I've already given my criticisms over on reddit, so just so you don't have to hear the same thing again from others here, these are things I've already reported: * For some reason, this crashes my phone's browser after generating about 3-4 languages; a friend also told me that his Chrome crashed aft...
by Adarain
11 Apr 2017 17:38
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631761

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Nah, tone is quite marginal, I don't think I'll put it on any roots. It might be possible for more than one tone to exist on the same word though. I currently rank MaxT (without any further specification of what tones) higher than any other constraint, so all tones must survive even if this means in...
by Adarain
11 Apr 2017 16:46
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631761

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I made a small OT grammar for tone in Naksult'. There are three verbal suffixes, -c̓ (first person), -ł (second person) and -ƛ̓ (both, i.e. first person inclusive, somewhat transparently just a compound of the first two), which may or may not introduce a H tone. If they do so, they act as true perso...
by Adarain
06 Apr 2017 17:44
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Deutscher Gesprächsthread | German Conversation Thread
Replies: 272
Views: 216085

Re: Rumhängethread

Ich hab mir da in etwa die gleichen Überlegungen gemacht und fange im Herbst ein Physikstudium an.
by Adarain
04 Apr 2017 21:45
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455752

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

As far as I'm aware, it isn't very easy to get vector graphics into a LaTeX doc. You're probably best off converting them into pngs of a desirably high resolution and scaling them down in the document to the appropriate size. Alternatively, you could probably hack something together in tikz, but I e...
by Adarain
28 Mar 2017 19:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

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

Thanks all for the present/non-present info. Another quick question: Which is the likelier soundchange? ('b' is a prefix, and 'hol' is a pronoun, and my lang has no aspirated stops) 'b' + 'hol' -> vol OR 'b' + 'hol' -> pol Or something else entirely? Other alternatives to consider: [pʰol] (this wou...
by Adarain
28 Mar 2017 17:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

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

Huh, okay then. I was just wondering since clicks aren't documented in that position in any natlang. Then again, as someone over on the ZBB put it, there doesn't seem to be any consensus as to whether that's down to the history of click genesis or a fact of biology. Honestly if you asked me I'd poi...