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by idov
06 Nov 2015 14:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Riluetmon
Replies: 8
Views: 1030

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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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 ...
by idov
07 Oct 2015 00:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Siasô
Replies: 15
Views: 2074

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...
by idov
05 Oct 2015 15:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Siasô
Replies: 15
Views: 2074

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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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 ...
by idov
21 Sep 2015 08:08
Forum: Translations
Topic: Stir-fried wug
Replies: 39
Views: 11451

Re: Stir-fried wug

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by idov
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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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 ...
by idov
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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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...
by idov
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.
by idov
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...
by idov
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...