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- 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
- 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...
- 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....
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...