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by Creyeditor
19 Mar 2024 08:46
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 88
Views: 4649

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 ...
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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 ...
by Creyeditor
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 ...
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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?
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
15 Mar 2024 08:08
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 88
Views: 4649

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 ...
by Creyeditor
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.
by Creyeditor
14 Mar 2024 22:07
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 88
Views: 4649

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.
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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-...
by Creyeditor
11 Mar 2024 15:24
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 88
Views: 4649

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...
by Creyeditor
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.
by Creyeditor
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.
by Creyeditor
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...
by Creyeditor
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.