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Modern Gothic:

таушън tauschen ['tau.Sən] rabbit, hare

tauschen likely is a Wanderwort that was borrowed into Crimean Gothic by way of Crimean Tatar. The word was probably borrowed after the early sound change of au > ø, otherwise we would expect tœschen here.

Slight orthographical notes: <ѱ> is /θ/. Why not use <ѳ> (fita) as it's based on theta? Fita isn't distinctive enough for me. It shares a glyph with barred oe. <ѱ> is very similar to Bib Got <𐌸> which in turn may derive from Greek psi. So using Cyrillic psi is a good substitution. Compare roughly h...

I starting declining verbs in Mariupol Gothic and got some interesting results. Here's an example of an infinitive. Slight orthographical notes: <ѱ> is /θ/. In my romanization ь is written <e> and ъ is written <a>. <e> or <ь> causes the previous consonant to palatalize: /ɣ/ becomes [ʝ] and /x/ becom...

I rebooted my old gothic conlang and renamed it Mariupol Gothic. The reason for the rename is a historical change. Instead of being Tatarized, the goths of the Tauric peninsula remained as Orthodox Christians. So when Catherine the Great invited the Crimean Greeks to settle newly conquered lands, a...

My language's character for the interdental was fita, <ѳ> but i deemed it too close to other characters at the time like barred oe <ө> so i changed it to cyrillic psi <ѱ> in analogy with the biblical gothic character <𐌸> thiuth (in turn thought to have been influenced from the runic character <þ> th...

I rebooted my old gothic conlang and renamed it Mariupol Gothic. The reason for the rename is a historical change. Instead of being Tatarized, the goths of the Tauric peninsula remained as Orthodox Christians. So when Catherine the Great invited the Crimean Greeks to settle newly conquered lands, a...

is it common for /ʋ/ and /v/ to be distinguished phonemically?

I rebooted my old gothic conlang and renamed it Mariupol Gothic. The reason for the rename is a historical change. Instead of being Tatarized, the goths of the Tauric peninsula remained as Orthodox Christians. So when Catherine the Great invited the Crimean Greeks to settle newly conquered lands, a ...

This is probably one of the most well written and in depth romlangs I have read, Britainese notwithstanding. Bravo. I especially like the particularities with the vowel system and initial stress (I had once tried to do the same with a romlang by deleting pretonic vowels which made initial stress way...

Another phonology question: One of my conlangs has /p t k/ and /pʰ tʰ kʰ/as stops. /p t k/ are often voiced between vowels and sonorants, so in practice, they are usually voiced, while the aspirated stops don't go through lenition. They syllable structure is quite restrictive: It's CVC, but the cod...

An interesting thought that occurred to me earlier on when working on my native american influenced vinlandic conlang. A creole descendant of 17th century English and Algonquian, presuming a different outcome from the failed Roanoke colony. Algonquian would be the superstrate and English the substrate

Hello, its Aelf again everyone's favorite resident Germanophile and lover of a posteriori conlangs. I have some extra time recently and so I decided to toy again with conlanging. So following many others here I decided to make a scratchpad where I can experiment and share some of the ideas I come up...

Thanks for the answers. What i might say is that /s/ here is normally alveolar or retracted in the tongue whilst /ts/ the affricate is more dental, in addition to variance in duration (/ts/ is coarticulated).

How likely can /ts/ and /t͡s/ be distinguished in a language - especially if it has morphological weight?

C.f. the word for "foot" and "feet" in my language looks like this:

fōts > fūts /fu:ts/ "foot"
fōtiz > fūtz (syncope/palatalization) /fu:t͡s/ "feet"

I was reading the wikipedia page on the Azores recently and I found this quip: "According to a 2015 paper published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology, research based on mouse mitochondrial DNA points to a Scandinavian rather than Portuguese origin of the local mouse population.[9][10] Some yea...

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑27 Jun 2023 15:01 Probably not the most original idea, but I've toyed with making a conlang that is the only surviving descendant of the East Germanic branch.

I've worked on a few of these, including modern Crimean Gothic.

s > S everywhere is a fun idea, and so is regaining /s/ from palatalization. Im thinking of reigniting my own hungromlang Pannonian due to this. For the endonym its worth pointing out that Pannonian Romance survived in a few towns (Kestely culture) so I recommend the endonym Castellic, though the si...

Yes this was my thinking. I was think that vowel length would be lost (the second time) like many romance languages but the pitch accent would remain as a phonetic quality. I have to refigure out what Serbocroatian does. I remember vaguely there was some relation in many dialects between tone and vo...

Thank you for the detailed responses, everyone! My thinking now is that I develop tone as a byproduct of language contact with Serbo-Croatian, instead of a natural development from VL. And there seems to be precedent, Wikipedia states this under "Origin and Development" of its article abou...

What might be a clean way to develop a form of pitch accent in a Romance language? I was thinking at first to derive a pitch accent from the loss of Latin final consonants, such as -s and -m, leading to a simple tonal system perhaps marked on the stressed syllable. example: trēs > trì (falling accen...