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- 19 Mar 2024 08:46
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #32: Since both sign languages and spoken languages developed diachronically since prehistoric times, a proto-language of all languages of Fredauon would have included spoken words as well as signed gestures. This is similar to the languages spoken on The Islands In Between, even ...
- 18 Mar 2024 18:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 267107
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
visions Wait, I think you changed your guess at some point. Your overall guess *mban, IIRC, is still only 50% right. Your grouping is spot on, though. Your intermediate reconstructions *mba (IIRC,you edited it out) is correct. *mwa and *mbaa, and *ba are also reasonaly correct. *mwon is wrong and mi...
- 17 Mar 2024 21:31
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: AMA on Indonesian
- Replies: 63
- Views: 26845
Re: AMA on Indonesian
Just wanted to mention that I am still working on the next post. Turns out, the syntactic properties of Indonesian TAM markers are pretty complex and still the subject of ongoing research. I am thinking about how to simplify it and what to exclude right now but I might actually have time to do this ...
- 17 Mar 2024 19:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 267107
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
visions Your protoword has half of its segments correct. All your low-level groupings (bæ - pa; mõ - muaŋ; wa mva; mpàà - mmaa) are correct. *mwa is the correct protoform for the low-level grouping [wa mva]. *mbaa is the correct protoform for the low-level grouping [mpàà - mmaa]. *ba is the correct ...
- 16 Mar 2024 21:40
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #31: In the civil servant boarding schools of the Wizard Republic, students usually have a small room on their own. The room has a chest for storing clothing and writing utensils. There is also a small table for studying and a couch-like piece of furniture that is used for sleepin...
- 16 Mar 2024 18:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 267107
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Okay, here are my responses: Just a sketch: 2+3 is a valid group, but you only reconstructed part of the protoform correctly 4+5(+1) is not a valid group, you need to kick out one. This might also help with the protoform. 6+7+8 is not a valid group, you need to kick out one. This might also help wit...
- 15 Mar 2024 18:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1666
- Views: 345314
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Like diachronically?
- 15 Mar 2024 17:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 267107
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Both guesses for the proto-form are way off (like between 0% and 40% of the segments are correct) in the same way. There is no sneaky continuum business but I guess you could say there is some funny business going on. More detailed response to Visions guess: Your low-level groupings are correct (/PA...
- 15 Mar 2024 08:08
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #30: The standard formal way of dressing for a modern wizard consists of trousers and two jackets. A thin tight white jacket is worn beneath a thicker wider black jacket. Both jackets have a zigzag cut pattern in the front and can be buttoned by toggles. A rope is worn around the ...
- 15 Mar 2024 07:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1007
- Views: 267107
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Congratulations on your job
Here is the next challenge:
1. bæ
2. mõ
3. muaŋ
4. pa
5. wa
6. mva
7. mpà:
8. m: a:
This is just a list of cognates in no particular order. The last one has a white space in there because it otherwise produces a strange letter A icon.
Here is the next challenge:
1. bæ
2. mõ
3. muaŋ
4. pa
5. wa
6. mva
7. mpà:
8. m: a:
This is just a list of cognates in no particular order. The last one has a white space in there because it otherwise produces a strange letter A icon.
- 14 Mar 2024 22:07
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
I think I want to avoid any confusion with this. I thought about calling them Jinns but that does not have the right feel.
- 14 Mar 2024 19:40
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #29 : During the Era of Isolation, rogue Wizards based in tunnels below the Great Mountains sold so-called Demons to the people south of the Great Mountains. These demons were voice-commanded drones with a virtual assistent and powered by solar panels. They differed in how much we...
- 14 Mar 2024 08:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #29 : During the Era of Isolation, rogue Wizards based in tunnels below the Great Mountains sold so-called Demons to the people south of the Great Mountains. These demons were voice-commanded drones with a virtual assistent and powered by solar panels. They differed in how much we...
- 12 Mar 2024 20:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1666
- Views: 345314
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
This sounds unusual but not impossible. One way to think of it would be that voicing is contrastive and breathy voice is just an allophonic process that applies to voiced stops before vowels, which is still unusual but maybe not as unusual. IMHO, it would be easier to say that vowels are contrastive...
- 12 Mar 2024 09:03
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #28: The Northern Islands of the shore of the Wizard Republic have remained politically independent for most of their history. After the Great War and especially in the Era of Reconciliation they have exerted a notable cultural influence on the Wizard Republic. They are also well-...
- 11 Mar 2024 15:24
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #27: Writing evolved several times independently on Fredauon. One family includes the Ancient cuneiform scripts and the Abjad/Abigudas used around the Great Mountains, e.g. by the Wizards. Independent families includes the logographic/syllabic blackletter runes around Bólks, the c...
- 10 Mar 2024 19:53
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Which was of course my inspiration for the deconstruction/reconstruction.
- 10 Mar 2024 13:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
True, these dwarves are not bearded, just short. But malnoutrition and lack of sunlight will make them look different from regular people. Maybe dirt from underground labour will also make them look older.
- 10 Mar 2024 10:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #26: The Pang-speaking Dark Elves are a group that split from the Elves after the Great War. Post-traumatic stress disorder caused several violent crimes which lead to the expulsion of many veterans, who later formed the Dark Elves. The Dark Elves have a complex culture that inclu...
- 09 Mar 2024 17:46
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4649
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #25
The so-called Dwarves are victims of forced child labour working in the mines of the southern Great Mountains in order to provide the Wizard Republic with precious metals Outsiders -unaware of the facts- consider them an ethnic group.
The so-called Dwarves are victims of forced child labour working in the mines of the southern Great Mountains in order to provide the Wizard Republic with precious metals Outsiders -unaware of the facts- consider them an ethnic group.