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Riluetmon
A young scribe is standing in the middle of the vast forest that just barely lies outside the city he was born in. He was chosen for the task of documenting this purported language of the glade as one of few who have studied the relatively new science sometimes jokingly known as "linguistics&q...
- 12 Oct 2015 22:00
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: "Kitchen Sink" Natlangs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5893
Re: "Kitchen Sink" Natlangs
I also remember someone on this forum talking about how terrible and unnaturalistic the vowel system of Swedish is. Here it is! http://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=439 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Swedish_monophthongs_chart.svg/280px-Swedish_monophthongs_chart.s...
- 11 Oct 2015 17:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang word easter eggs?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 35803
Re: Conlang word easter eggs?
kwenias /kweni͡as/ girl queen In case you didn't know: FYI: The word "queen" ultimately derives from PIE *gwen meaning "woman". Still today you can find cognates like "kvinde" "kvinna" and "kona" (all meaning "woman") from Danish, Swedish ...
Re: Siasô
How do Kelen's relationals not count as auxilary verbs? I think there's some language in Australia where there are 3 verbs and you have to say "do a swim" for "swim"... Well, that's only because I have no idea what a pure fortis-lenis contrast should sound like (well, maybe a fa...
Re: Siasô
Siasô is a verb language. It has literally no other parts of speech than verbs. It has many affixes. 10/10 Kelen's counterpart. Nothing but verbs and affixes [...]syllable structure is complex and many clusters are allowed both initially and finally. Consonants are strongly labialized and all conso...
- 05 Oct 2015 10:23
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Stir-fried wug
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11451
Re: Stir-fried wug
Totally off-topic to the actual thread, but I can't resist pointing out that Ling Veda in Hindi/Sanskrit (लिंग वेद) would mean "penis veda". http://i.giphy.com/R6bDgXEXCLcIw.gif Umm... Well. [:$] That was not intended... I'm mostly happy that I am on one of pretty few places on the intern...
- 21 Sep 2015 09:01
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Stir-fried wug
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11451
Re: Stir-fried wug
That does not adequately explain what a wug is. From where is it from? For what does it desire? For what is its purpose? Then even its non-existence was not, nor its existence, There was no Wug then, nor the Wugs beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then linguistic ...
- 21 Sep 2015 08:08
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Stir-fried wug
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11451
- 01 Sep 2015 21:18
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Rants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5869
Re: Rants
[...]Yes, modern physics (good old Newtonian physics in engineering seems to be a different matter, but that's not being researched) is pretty much doing nobody anything practical at this point. Linguistics is helping preserve people's cultures and languages and helping people learn languages among...
- 01 Sep 2015 20:22
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Would you analyse this as a suffix or prefix?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1204
Re: Would you analyse this as a suffix or prefix?
The closest thing I've seen in a natlang is the "ligature" found in Miskito . There are several ways to distinguish whether your affix is a suffix or a prefix. Multiple Adjectives: (I'm going to assume your nouns precede their adjectives.) I think this has already been explained well. If i...
- 11 Aug 2015 17:03
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Vowels
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2813
Re: Vowels
[y] is cooler than [ö], just saying. Even though I like both. Nasalisation can have multiple origins, the most obvious is the spread of nasalisation from a consonant to an adjacent vowel, but some in one natlang (can't remember which one), /i e u o/ are oral while /a/ is always nasalised. This, from...
- 10 Aug 2015 19:46
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: (Con)linguistic Tool Development Collaboration
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2152
Re: (Con)linguistic Tool Development Collaboration
Well, I'm no software developer and I have yet to fully create a single conlang and present it but I have been fooling around with a contool or another mostly to check out different phonologies. The most common use of tools intended for conlanging seems to be creating huge lists of words. The most c...
- 30 Jul 2015 17:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Count to 10 in your Conlang
- Replies: 206
- Views: 53087
Re: Count to 10 in your Conlang
Try to figure out the origins of all of them! [...] Don't mind if I do! ein I would assume a north-germanic language, maybe Norwegian. It sounds a lot like the Norwegian masculine or the Swedish utrum indefinite article. ni Obvious Japanese is obvious. tre Directly out of, once again, Norwegian and...
- 13 Jul 2015 17:49
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
- Replies: 140
- Views: 113268
Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Romanization game; page 76: /n ɳ ŋ/ <n ñ ŋ> /t ʈ k q/ <t ṭ g k> /s ʂ ɕ x χ h/ <s ṣ x ch q h> /l ɭ ʟ/ <l ḷ ll> /r ɽ ʀ/ <r ṛ rr> /ɾ ɾ˞/ <d dd> /ɹ ɻ/ <y ỵ> /i ɨ u/ <i ü u> /a/ <a> I'm proud now. /b t d k g/ <b t d k g> /m n/ <m n> /f s h/ <f s h> /j w l/ <j w l> I'm a bit less proud now. /ɑ ɑ̃ e ẽ i ĩ ...
- 04 Jul 2015 23:40
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Ideas for retroflexes?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2119
Re: Ideas for retroflexes?
I think the most interesting thing you could do would be to front those retroflexes just a tad and Presto! You've made yourself a lang that distinguishes apicals from laminals. Some dialect of Arabic has apical [d] but laminal [t], so if you want to voice the phonemes you might just want to look int...
- 28 Jun 2015 02:32
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: In the beginning
- Replies: 82
- Views: 24485
Re: In the beginning
Excuse me, but what do you mean by adding more meaning through syllables/suffixes? Do you mean something like this?: Su - an - alu - m - oi PLURAL - DEFINITIVE - cat - INSTRUMENTAL - MY Through the use of the cat s of mine . And thus you have a word that means roughly "with my cats". If so...
- 27 Jun 2015 19:39
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Consymbols
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1548
Re: Consymbols
Were we qwed, we wouldn't worry. Why? Using the royal we to ensure alliteration makes me giggly. ɤ ȣ ɪɪ ɓg g ɱ ͡— ɾɳ ɨ̂ ŋ ʬ ǁ̴ Because using only IPA symbols (albeit, some unusual ones,) I was able to approximate the whole zodiac quite exactly. You may think the zodiac consists of very unique symbol...
- 25 Jun 2015 20:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zamũzi Qamà
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2912
Re: Zamũzi Qamà
Yes.
As previously stated, I will reserve my judgement though. There are many more things to syntax than that.
As previously stated, I will reserve my judgement though. There are many more things to syntax than that.
- 25 Jun 2015 20:02
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 946
- Views: 262472
Re: You
Alias(es): Ossicone Location: Maryland Date of birth: September 8th Gender: Female Occupation: Part-time teacher Interests: Linguistics, architecture. Conlangs: Inyauk, Amjati, Swedish. Other hobbies: Swimming, cooking, being an ass. Where do you see yourself in ten years? I have no fucking idea. C...
- 25 Jun 2015 14:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zamũzi Qamà
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2912
Re: Zamũzi Qamà
At no occasion have I've been mean to him (I am not sure about gender here but if you say so...) or called his language is uninteresting. I've called it "not unique" and "englishy" but that is the full extent of my criticism, ignoring my concerns for how naturalistic it is. And I...