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Sorry for double-posting, but I have another question. In English, one can nominalize a verb and state its patient by using the genitive (" the eating of vegetables is beneficial for one's health"). In addition, one can state the agent with a possessive construction (" my running in ...

It works (or at least should work) if you split one of the changes into two phases and place the other change between those. Option 1: 1. Reduce all final consonants to something like [h] or a glottal stop. 2. Delete all final vowels. 3. Delete the reduced consonants. Option 2: 1. Reduce all final v...

My main project is Old Albic, which belongs to the fictional Hesperic branch of the Indo-European family, and I am currently working on Proto-Hesperic (though right now only at a very slow pace, as I am too occupied with other matters). The Hesperic family is planned to contain, besides Old Albic, a...

I find it difficult to control such a system. My languages with large inventories are few and last short. Yes, large inventories are difficult to handle. Many years ago, there was a guy on the CONLANG mailing list who worked on a language named Tech . One of the reasons why he made little progress ...

Isn’t 1.4 Solar masses Chandrasekhar’s limit? At that mass the star will go supernova, wouldn’t it? And, don’t smaller-mass stars survive longer than larger-mass stars, as long as we’re considering only stars massiver than brown dwarfs? Chandrasekhar's limit has nothing to do with this; it's just a...

Nice and interesting critter!

To answer your question, I think conlanging is a lot of people's first introduction to linguistics ─ and thus to a lot of the principles behind languages, which makes it a lot easier to learn. And beyond that, it teaches more about languages as one researches. Yes. I taught myself historical lingui...

How would the presence of a planetary ring effect the progress of spaceflight of the planet's inhabitants? From what I know, all orbits have to pass through the equatorial plane. This includes the stuff that makes up the ring. Also, would the ring prevent the building of a space elevator? Relevant....

Fine. It's good to use a name that is unambiguous across the Multiverse.

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I dimly remember reading somewhere (but I don't remember where) that the Rongorongo tablets were made only after contact with Europeans, in imitation of European writing, and are meaningless. I don't know what to think of that idea, though.

And even when we know which language is encoded in a script, it may resist decipherment. A case in point is the Rongorongo tablets from Easter Island. We know which language this must be - it can hardly be anything else than an archaic form of the Rapa Nui Polynesian language that is spoken by the i...

What are some mellifluous/beautiful/soft sounds or sound combinations for you? /kl/ reminds me of drops of water. /çʲ/ reminds me of shifting snow. How on earth do you palatalize /ç/? Wish I had a way to record here, but the sound that I have wanted to add to a language for a while sounds like that...

I'd expect the labiovelars to evolve into labials in such a system.

I think you’d want your speech-community to be about 20,000,000 people, for it to actually behave typically, as regards language change. That’s based on someone’s guess somebody published somewhere; citation needed, maybe, but no citation available, sorry! 20 million is a large speech community. Mo...

Arayaz wrote: ↑24 Oct 2023 03:09

WeepingElf wrote: ↑02 Oct 2023 20:09 Where do you see yourself in ten years? Can't say for now. I hope to get some of my music and my stories published by then.

Do you have any music online (e.g. on Youtube)?

Yes.

@Üdj, that is an enormous number of projects. I don't know how many conlangs I started and abandoned in my life, but they definitely weren't that many. Well, I am a quite different type of conlanger: I am a loyalist, with filler leanings. My main project, Old Albic, is something I have been working ...

GoshDiggityDangit wrote: ↑12 Oct 2023 17:02 And so by the time that this system developed, the declensions were no longer meaningfully distinct from each other?

No. The declensions underwent some mergers - 4th merged into 2nd, 5th into 1st - but one can say that there are still three declensions in languages such as Italian.

The dative and ablative cases were already identical in form in most declensions in Classical Latin; and the loss of final -m led to the accusative merging into this as well. On top of this, there was a syntactic change: the genitive was ousted by de + ablative, and the dative by ad + accusative. Th...