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- 09 Mar 2020 21:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 765
- Views: 219690
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I've just discovered that in a new language I've been working on for some time, the verb stem for "sail, navigate" will have the shape marīn- , which looks like it's a real world reference but which is in fact derived (almost) regularly from the proto-form *mhari-hiçn- "go with the Oc...
- 26 Feb 2020 21:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 765
- Views: 219690
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I agree, this is very cool!
- 21 Feb 2020 08:39
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1372
- Views: 365309
Re: Other Creativity
Nice. (Except that the river near Ull looks a bit strange, it seems to go uphill in the first half of its course...)
- 20 Dec 2019 10:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
- Replies: 147
- Views: 116212
Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
just would rather start 12/29 or 12/30 than 12/28) (Also it took me unbearably long to decypher your dates) Understandable. Rather than the 29th or 30th of December, alynnidalar could just as easily have been asking to go on the 12th day of the 29th or 30th month. We damn Americans insist on having...
- 16 Oct 2019 09:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2069624
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it at all possible that a language currently spoken in Europe could lack the phoneme /j/ except in the case of loanwords? I'm having a hard time finding any languages which lack the sound. It's more than possible due to being an accurate description of German, which has /ʝ/ rather than /j/ nativ...
- 14 Oct 2019 11:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2069624
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Quick notation question: I'm working on a language that uses a lot of reduplication, which is glossed with a tilde according to the Leipzig Glossing Rules, e.g. kekearu CV~ kearo-u EMPH~big -FG 'very big' The language also has several morphemes that condition nasality on a preceding or following vow...
- 10 Oct 2019 12:00
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 751
- Views: 464155
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I had some contact with the term "Bildkultur" during my studies at university, and it tends to mean something like "(the historical development of) the cultural practice of depicting certain things/topics/issues/... in pictorial arts (including paintings, drawings, photography, and po...
- 25 Aug 2019 23:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: British Romance Language Collablang
- Replies: 522
- Views: 157789
Re: British Romance Language Collablang
218) a
219) c: /ɪ ʊ ə ɛ ɔ æ/ > [ɪ ʊ ɐ ɛ ɔ ɑ]
220) c: /iː uː eː oː ɑː/ > [eɪ̯ oʊ̯ ɛː ɔː ɑː] after /ʁ/, and [ɪə̯ uə̯ eɐ̯ oɐ̯ ɑː] before /ʁ/
221) a
219) c: /ɪ ʊ ə ɛ ɔ æ/ > [ɪ ʊ ɐ ɛ ɔ ɑ]
220) c: /iː uː eː oː ɑː/ > [eɪ̯ oʊ̯ ɛː ɔː ɑː] after /ʁ/, and [ɪə̯ uə̯ eɐ̯ oɐ̯ ɑː] before /ʁ/
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- 02 Aug 2019 19:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25807
Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics
[...]For example, they often are or contain so-called "harmonic clusters" consisting of two obstruents, the first of them labial or coronal, and the second velar or uvular, which behave as a single segment in various situations. Can the same consonant clusters also be used "as non-ha...
- 29 Jul 2019 21:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25807
Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics
One of the most interesting languages worldwide with regard to phonotactics IMO is Georgian. It has very complex consonant clusters, especially in syllable onsets (and especially word-initially), as in /prt͡skvna/ ‘to peel’, /mt͡s’vrtneli/ ‘trainer’, or /brt’χ’eli/ ‘flat’. It also allows quite compl...
- 19 Jul 2019 08:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2069624
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Any ideas how infixes arise? I know analogised metathesis is one way, but I wanted to find a way for vowel infixing. For a vowel infix between two consonants, epenthesis based on phonotactic restrictions (e.g. breaking up difficult clusters) or prosodic considerations (e.g. to prevent two stressed ...
- 18 Jul 2019 14:10
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1329378
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are there other natlangs that have different forms of adjectives depending on whether they're used attributively or predicatively? I'm sure I know examples, I just can't think of any right now. Are they always a few irregular forms (like English my vs. mine and lone vs. alone) or are there any lang...
- 10 Jul 2019 15:29
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Different Way of Doing Adpositions - help request
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11691
Re: Different Way of Doing Adpositions - help request
You might want to look into serial verb constructions ; specifically, at the way some languages use serialized "coverbs" in order to express positional and directional meanings. Two good introductions are "The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistic generali...
Re: Silvish
You're welcome!
Re: Silvish
So, if I understand it correctly: - a stressed penult will always be followed by a syllable with an unstressed short vowel - an unstressed penult will always be followed by a stressed final syllable - a final syllable with a long vowel will always be stressed If the above is true, I would suggest th...
Re: Silvish
Can you give a few example words with unstressed long vowels in the penult? Maybe you can find a rule for when these occur...
- 21 May 2019 14:20
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1329378
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Here's an elaborate explanation (in German). The main points, summarized in English: The simple past has its main use as a narrative past tense , especially in the written language. Reading/hearing a text that uses this form feels kind of like watching a film, where events are reported without rega...
- 02 May 2019 16:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1329378
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In Germanic languages apart from English, do participles ever get used in clauses like particularly in the classical IE languages? eg. :eng: Having entered the city/upon entering the city, we proceeded to look for the king. :lat: Civitatem ingressi, regni inquirere processimus. German can do this: ...
- 23 Apr 2019 00:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2069624
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Yes. (Although your system is a bit unusual in that you are marking inverse voice on the unexpected agent rather than on the verb, which makes it superficially look a bit like a kind of "pseudo-ergative" case with a slightly odd distribution.)
- 11 Apr 2019 09:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 592
- Views: 162642
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I agree with sangi39 that the lack of /tsʼ tɬʼ/ is fairly unusual in such an inventory, but given your relatively simple syllable structure, this lack is easy to explain with diachronics: Suppose an earlier stage of the language had no glottalized consonants, with only /p t k ʔ/ as voiceless stops, ...