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- 16 Mar 2024 21:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
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Re: SBäk e Dlor
I started translating the Machiavelli quote (''Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for change as much as those who are doing badly.') and found that I have no way to say 'novelty'. Ra jén 'COMPL is.new' would translate 'Men desire that they are new'. I decided th...
- 16 Mar 2024 12:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
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Re: What did you accomplish today?
My lang Xawook is now Xiwook. I originally wanted it to be Xewook but the phonology does not have /e/. Then I decided that /i/ just lowers to [e] adjacent to semivowels /j w/.
So it's /ksiwo:k/ -> [ksewo:k]
So it's /ksiwo:k/ -> [ksewo:k]
- 14 Mar 2024 22:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5602
Re: SBäk e Dlor
Motion verbs Kâj 'to go' (on the ground) Sab 'to fly' Bées 'to swim' Mût 'to go fast' Bïr 'to go slowly' Nub 'to follow' The typical lexical prefixes that can be attached to them are: ba- 'by a vehicle' tlu- 'by foot' Directional prefixes are also often attached to them. Without them, they mean 'to ...
- 14 Mar 2024 20:18
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Hold on...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3656
Re: Xiwook
Nouns are the simpler one of the open word classes. Their pattern is Person prefix-stem-suffix(case.number.definiteness) Person prefixes are simple k(a)- SG1 c(a)- SG2 s(a)- SG3 hu- PL1 cu- PL2 su- PL3 The allomorphs with /a/ appear if the stem starts with an obstruent. Marking case, number, and de...
Re: Xiwook
The glottal stop in consonant mutations could be a remnant of an historical syllable boundary. la.ka -> la.k -> laʔk This kind of phenomenon has (probably) happened in Livonian and it has been speculated to be the origin of Danish stød too. It just seems to happen before voiced consonants. Maybe the...
Re: Xawook
Nice phonology. I've always been a fan of that shape of vowel system, and /ʉ/ is highly based. I like the phonology too. /a i o/ is common in Ameracas and /ʉ/ is my current favorite. Is there going to be much morphophonology? Morphophonology is not my strong skill. There might be final consonant mu...
Xiwook
I decided to put my ideas for a vaguely Amerindian language on one thread. I don't know how far it will proceed. p t k kʷ ʔ <p t k kw '> t͡s k͡s <c x> s h <s h> m n ŋ <m n ng> l ɹ j w <l r y w> i ʉ <i u> o <o> ä <a> Vowels can be short or long, written <ii uu oo aa>. /i o a/ can also be nasalized, w...
Re: Kaita
It's nice that this thread reappeared.
I could steal some ideas for my vague natam project.
I could steal some ideas for my vague natam project.
- 04 Mar 2024 12:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5602
Re: SBäk e Dlor
I started translating the Machiavelli quote (''Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for change as much as those who are doing badly.') and found that I have no way to say 'novelty'. Ra jén 'COMPL is.new' would translate 'Men desire that they are new'.
- 04 Mar 2024 12:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5602
- 02 Mar 2024 19:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347870
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In general NI tends never to bring any modifiers, bound or otherwise, with the noun, so noun class markers will probably be dropped (NI nouns also quite often reduced from their free forms, or even suppletive). I was looking for something else but found a Coptic example. The gender marker t- is pre...
- 29 Feb 2024 14:48
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Go and find him!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9175
Re: Go and find him!
:con: Dlor Ká, be-bék sa! sg2.VOC, ANDAT-find sg3 'Go and find him!' Ka 'you' is the only word that has a special vocative form ká . Dlor has an andative form 'to go and V'. Imperative always demands a vocative "subject", like ká . Bék 'to find' can be used in the imperative. Rábek 'to loo...
- 28 Feb 2024 23:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347870
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I don't remember if we have discussed this before.
Which languages have both incorporation and noun classes / genders?
How do they interact? What happens to noun class markers when the noun is incorporated?
Which languages have both incorporation and noun classes / genders?
How do they interact? What happens to noun class markers when the noun is incorporated?
- 28 Feb 2024 10:22
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The undeserving poor
- Replies: 1
- Views: 481
The undeserving poor
I quite from Piketty.
For Giacomo Todeschini, the idea of "the underserving poor" can be traced back to the Middle Ages and perhaps more generally to the end of slavery and forced labor and outright ownership of the poor classes by the wealthy classes.
For Giacomo Todeschini, the idea of "the underserving poor" can be traced back to the Middle Ages and perhaps more generally to the end of slavery and forced labor and outright ownership of the poor classes by the wealthy classes.
- 26 Feb 2024 20:30
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The Cat and the Fish.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 22233
Re: The Cat and the Fish.
:con: Dlor (still lazy with fully cleaning LaTex) \gll Jö-nwim \\ \textsc{ven}-cat\\ 'There was a cat.'\glt \gll Nín u sín sa. \\ be.small and be.white \textsc{sg3}\\ 'She was small and white.'\glt \gll Sód kwi-s-kòom sa, kü-lem. \\ when.\textsc{anterior} eye-\textsc{middle}-be.open \textsc{sg3} \te...
- 26 Feb 2024 20:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5602
Re: SBäk e Dlor
How to derives verbs 'to be hungry' from 'to eat'? 'to mind-eat' maybe?
- 26 Feb 2024 20:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
- Views: 207454
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I at last completed the cat and fish story!
- 24 Feb 2024 11:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5602
Re: SBäk e Dlor
I got stuck with word 'jump' in Cat and fish story.
Most of verb derivation is based on body parts in Dlor. It could well be something like 'leg-jump' but the root would still be the same.
'Leg-fly' maybe?
Most of verb derivation is based on body parts in Dlor. It could well be something like 'leg-jump' but the root would still be the same.
'Leg-fly' maybe?
- 24 Feb 2024 11:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347870
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
But I'd also say: bear in mind that Latin hadn't even eliminated its own stress irregularities - there were a whole bunch of words that didn't obey the normal rules and weren't regularised. So expecting immediate regularisation of a whole heap of new irregulars may be unrealistic. I didn't know tha...