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by Omzinesý
27 Mar 2024 08:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Xiwook
Replies: 7
Views: 404

Re: Xiwook

Nouns have personal prefixes Person prefixes are simple k(a)- SG1 c(a)- SG2 s(a)- SG3 hu- PL1 cu- PL2 su- PL3 When combined with the definite form, they express possessor. When combined with the indefinite form, they express copular subject. c-lakk SG2-person 'You are a person.' Adjectives are also ...
by Omzinesý
26 Mar 2024 17:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Replies: 12
Views: 516

Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad

Is the semantic distinction between the two basicly that of tense in modern Tsayyākan?
Or aspect?
Or is there something to do with orientation/alignment still?
by Omzinesý
26 Mar 2024 00:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155271

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k b d g t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʂ ʈ͡ɬ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʐ ɖ͡ɮ s ɬ ɕ ʂ ɬ z ʑ ʐ mʰ nʰ m n ŋ l r ɭ ɽ s ʃ x z ʒ ʋ j i ɨ u e ə o ä Most words are monosyllabic. The syllable structure is: C(G)V(C), where G is a glide (ʋ j). When the coda is an obstruent or lacks, the syllable has one of two tones (rising or loweri...
by Omzinesý
24 Mar 2024 22:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
Replies: 196
Views: 86635

Re: Omzinian Scrap thread

Case system for a lang. Kanta 'house' ABS kanta ERG-ABL kanta-r LOC kanta-sa ESS kanta-n ASS kanta-ri I'm boldly copying the idea of prefixal-reduplication as a plural marker from Davush's Tsayyākan. Kanta 'house' ABS kanta-nda ERG-ABL kanta-nda-r LOC kanta-nda-sa ESS kanta-nda-n ASS kanta-nda-ri Po...
by Omzinesý
24 Mar 2024 11:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5598

Re: SBäk e Dlor

ATM my LaTex document of Dlor grammar has 3 3 subordinate conjunctions. One dimension is role: complement/relative, adverbial, some kind of contrast. The second one is tense: simultaneous, anterior, posterior. The third one is mood: factual, non-factual, counterfactual. A natural system is not that ...
by Omzinesý
24 Mar 2024 11:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347265

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)? Several NAM languages are (e.g. Kashaya, Pawnee, ...) – on the surface at l...
by Omzinesý
23 Mar 2024 21:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Replies: 12
Views: 516

Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad

With CVCVC roots, this general pattern of CV:CVC vs. CVCV:C is spread analogically and/or by haplology: makas- sweep mākas- sweeping (not *māmakas) makās- swept (not *makasās I like that. Reminds me of Arabic, but not too much. Being participles, perhaps they were also marked for number. If they to...
by Omzinesý
23 Mar 2024 21:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Replies: 13
Views: 584

Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?

and in part because while I was aware of the existence of affixes having an adverbial function, I didn’t really know how to incorporate them, and I was not fully aware of their range of potential functions or what an important feature they can be in polysynthetic languages (as set forth in the arti...
by Omzinesý
22 Mar 2024 15:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347265

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)? Several NAM languages are (e.g. Kashaya, Pawnee, ...) – on the surface at l...
by Omzinesý
22 Mar 2024 14:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Usani Language and Scratchpad
Replies: 5
Views: 226

Re: Usani Language and Scratchpad

LinguoFranco wrote: 22 Mar 2024 03:53 I'm not familiar with the Russian past tense. Tell me more.
It is an old Proto-Slavic participle 'having done'. It has gender and number inflection.
Different Slavic languages differ in where the copula is used with it. Russian is a zero-copula language and it's never used.
by Omzinesý
21 Mar 2024 22:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Xiwook
Replies: 7
Views: 404

Re: Xiwook

The paradigm of words ending in non-obstruents.

Code: Select all

han 'donkey' 
case		word	ending
NOM INDEF 	han	-
NOM DEF 	ha'n	<'> 	

LOC INDEF 	hantsi -si
LOC DEF 	hanta 	-ta
Some words frequently used in Locative have more complex locative forms. 

ASS INDEF 	hann(i)	-:(i)
ASS DEF 	hann(a)	-:(a) 
by Omzinesý
20 Mar 2024 13:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347265

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)?
by Omzinesý
18 Mar 2024 01:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Replies: 12
Views: 516

Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad

Quenya comes to my mind. I like the case paradigm. It's agglutinative and still has some processes that make it interesting. The plural reduplication is also a nice idea. What if an over-heavy CV:N syllable appears stem-finally and you want to add a suffix? Then the syllable is not word-final anymore.
by Omzinesý
17 Mar 2024 11:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Replies: 13
Views: 584

Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?

VaptuantaDoi wrote: 17 Mar 2024 10:32 [...] and some fairly lexical "aspect" prefixes which include some adverb-ish senses like "until" and a transformative.
Have you described them somewhere?
by Omzinesý
17 Mar 2024 10:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207030

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Keenir wrote: 16 Mar 2024 22:16
Omzinesý wrote: 16 Mar 2024 12:23 My lang Xawook is now Xiwook. I originally wanted it to be Xewook but the phonology does not have /e/.
maybe thats an exonym, or was originally thus?
It is also one option.
But I think allophony does the thing well. I could even try writing the name Xewook.
by Omzinesý
17 Mar 2024 10:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Replies: 13
Views: 584

Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?

My Dlor, which is not polysynthetic in the full sense of the concept but has some features, has prefixes expressing body parts, 'to do with hands', 'to do with mouth/teeth' ... If the word, accent falls on the prefix its function is instrument, if on the root, its function is object.
by Omzinesý
17 Mar 2024 10:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Replies: 13
Views: 584

Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?

How is the system of field/lexical affixes in your polysynthetic conlangs? What meanings are coded in the same slot? Mattissen's "A structural typology of polysynthesis" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00437956.2004.11432546 poses that they are the main feature making a lang po...
by Omzinesý
16 Mar 2024 21:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5598

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...
by Omzinesý
16 Mar 2024 12:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207030

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]
by Omzinesý
14 Mar 2024 22:20
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5598

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 ...