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by kanejam
24 Jun 2015 00:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Indo-European diachronic collablang
Replies: 491
Views: 77432

Re: Indo-European diachronic collablang

14. a
15. a
16. a
17. a
18. a
19. b
20. a
by kanejam
23 Jun 2015 17:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Indo-European diachronic collablang
Replies: 491
Views: 77432

Re: Indo-European diachronic collablang

Win: We have merger of h₂ with h₃ [probably h₁ = h (non-colouring), h₂₃ = ħ (a-colouring)].
Why wouldn't vowel colouring occur before laryngeal merging/dropping as happened in every single branch of IE?

8. a
9. b
10. a
11. a
12. a
13. c
by kanejam
23 Jun 2015 16:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread [2010–2019]
Replies: 8666
Views: 1442331

Re: Conlang Conversation Thread

DesEsseintes wrote:Howúú bošónowúuúnib! Benííbinénit DénE'héí'te.
Hello, my friends! My name is DesEsseintes.
Edit: I've edited this a few times now... [:|]
Myna myna myna myna!
Gloss gloss gloss gloss!
by kanejam
23 Jun 2015 01:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Kišta
Replies: 14
Views: 5485

Re: Kišta

Wow this is fantastic. I love the aesthetic, it feels very Finnish influenced but different enough to stand on its own merits. The topic-focus system is great as well, and explained in a very easy way. I don't have much more to say other than 'more, please!'
by kanejam
23 Jun 2015 00:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Indo-European diachronic collablang
Replies: 491
Views: 77432

Re: Indo-European diachronic collablang

4. Labiovelars: a). Unchanged /kʷ gʷ/ b). /kʷ gʷ → p b/ 5. RUKI law a). applied b). not applied 6. "Thorn" clusters: a). Unchanged or preserved to later stage, when would be eaten by another sound changes (Tocharian) a). First element of "thorn" cluster is deleted: TK → K (Balto...
by kanejam
22 Jun 2015 15:29
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Indo-European diachronic collablang
Replies: 491
Views: 77432

Re: Indo-European diachronic collablang

2. How should be look the palatovelars' reflexes ? a). ç ʝ b). ʃ ʒ c). s z d). θ ð e). we stay with an affricate stage (c͡ç~t͡ʃ~t͡s~t͡θ) e), specifically t͡s d͡z. I agree, although it could always become (d) later on, as in Albanian. We could also go the Albanian route and get a tʃ dʒ out of the la...
by kanejam
22 Jun 2015 01:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Indo-European diachronic collablang
Replies: 491
Views: 77432

Re: Indo-European diachronic collablang

I'll vote b as well, but why do you say fricative rather than affricate?

I'll propose d -> d, dh -> t, t -> t for the next round of voting, which I don't think happened anywhere.
by kanejam
21 Jun 2015 17:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ni'óno3íínow - Esseintially just Latin really
Replies: 61
Views: 14715

Re: Ni'ónotíín - Esseintially just Latin really

I have a dilemma here, though: What to do with /d/ before /i j/? I don't think I want a voicing contrast in the fricatives... You could go the Spanish route and have it become /x/. According to the Wikipedia page, Arapaho contrasts /x h/ which you don't seem to have at the moment. It might also giv...
by kanejam
21 Jun 2015 01:52
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Language practice thread
Replies: 6104
Views: 1004274

Re: Language practice thread

shimobaatar wrote:Ah, keine Sorgen - die Insekten bekommen kleine Helme. [:P]
Ah, no worries - the bugs get little helmets.
N'oublie pas leurs coquilles! Je n'aime pas imaginer une balle dur à 120km/h volant à leurs ...
Don't forget their boxes! I don't want to imagine a hard ball at 120kph flying at their ...
by kanejam
21 Jun 2015 01:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ni'óno3íínow - Esseintially just Latin really
Replies: 61
Views: 14715

Re: Ni'ónotíín - Esseintially just Latin really

this is amazing holy crap ... seriously just wow Hey, I reall like this idea [:)] What about treating Latin /k/ as PA /tS/ and Latin /kʷ/ as PA /k/? Glad you like it. [:)] I was actually thinking the opposite, having /kʷ/ → /tS/... [:S] This is such an amazing project, and /kʷ/ → /tS/ seems like suc...
by kanejam
18 Jun 2015 16:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!
Replies: 49
Views: 17724

Re: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!

You can just nominalize the clause as a whole, like using their example, "the enemy's destruction of the city" would be something like "the the enemy destroyed the city(-ing)". I'm not sure if that's the most common thing since WALS does not discuss the languages with no action ...
by kanejam
18 Jun 2015 07:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!
Replies: 49
Views: 17724

Re: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!

Make sure to check out the different orthographies in the previous post; I've been thinking of placing it in the Balkans, simply because of the cool scripts there. The language will be variously known as Қмачах, Maçah, Ματσσαχ and, historically, عماشاخ. Syntax Continued Slightly More Complex Sentenc...
by kanejam
13 Jun 2015 05:18
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Language practice thread
Replies: 6104
Views: 1004274

Re: Language practice thread

En français, espérer est une piège ; il devrait utiliser le subjonctif (du point de vue d'un étranger) mais il ne l'utilise pas.
In French, espérer is a trap; it should use the subjunctive (from a foreigner's perspective) but it doesn't.
by kanejam
05 Jun 2015 13:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!
Replies: 49
Views: 17724

Re: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!

Ugh, so I'm running in to problems with the chapter on action nominals . They seem to be very, very liberal in what they are calling 'action nominals', and I'm not allowed to use any of them. Does anyone has advice on how some Australian or North American languages manage without? As far as I can te...
by kanejam
03 Jun 2015 12:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tloko / Omya redux
Replies: 38
Views: 11075

Re: Tloko / Omya redux

All of what you said is completely reasonable and well informed. A scholarly answer that I appreciate, very much. De nada! It wasn't particularly scholarly, it's more just what happens in real world syllabaries. Clawgrip would be the one to go to for a scholarly answer! Having said what I said abov...
by kanejam
03 Jun 2015 05:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tloko / Omya redux
Replies: 38
Views: 11075

Re: Tloko / Omya redux

I think most logographic syllabaries come from pictographic systems, so it would likely be mostly 3, although you would expect so arbitraryness and probably also some relation to the syllabary. I can imagine if glyph X that was used eg for 'pala' came to be used for just 'pa', the glyph might be dou...
by kanejam
31 May 2015 00:37
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess The Language!!!
Replies: 5400
Views: 667953

Re: Guess The Language!!!

Spoken in PNG?
by kanejam
29 May 2015 13:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!
Replies: 49
Views: 17724

Re: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!

Well, I'd say they were taken from Janko's database, but I have a feeling that's not quite the answer you're looking for. [:P] Anyway, how are higher numbers formed, and in what ways are they variant? It's fine if you haven't thought about that stuff yet; I completely understand. Actually from Wiki...
by kanejam
29 May 2015 01:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!
Replies: 49
Views: 17724

Re: The Most Average Conlang Ever, NP: Qmachah!

Morpho cont. So the articles are probably going to be more along the lines of specificity, as I've been looking at Polynesian languages a lot recently. They aren't restricted in use, and they are pretty obligatory, maybe not quite as obligatory as French though. Numerals and Quantifiers Qmačah has ...
by kanejam
29 May 2015 00:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631648

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I just finished a 2000 word essay for my course on Lexical Functional Grammar analysing basic syntax in Māori [:D] now I can get back to Qmachah (and hopefully Savvinic as well)