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- 25 Oct 2015 02:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
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Re: Strathan language
Some basic phrases, this time in the "standard" register - how you'd talk to strangers you approach on the street, or to colleagues you don't know well, or business partners, or distant relatives, or acquaintances...you get the gist: People you don't know well, but don't need to show exces...
- 17 Oct 2015 02:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Yup! The autonomous is Germanic, the conjunct Goidelic and the relative Brythonic, in this case. I know you've said that the language has many suppletive verb forms, but about how common is this level of suppletion? Fairly so. A lot of basic verbs have it, and obviously their derivatives will thus ...
- 16 Oct 2015 12:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Whoa! The three groups of stems look pretty different; I assume that's due to suppletion? Yup! The autonomous is Germanic, the conjunct Goidelic and the relative Brythonic, in this case. Also very interesting! Sorry if I'm overlooking the answer to this, but is there a limit on how many clitics one...
- 14 Oct 2015 15:54
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: "Kitchen Sink" Natlangs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5893
Re: "Kitchen Sink" Natlangs
Well, if you look at /xk/ as some sort of backwards affricate, it seems pretty weird. But, when viewed as a cluster in which preaspiration is altered to match POA, well, then it makes a lot more sense (at least it does to me). I'd imagine that Hoskh was viewing it in the former way rather than the ...
- 14 Oct 2015 01:51
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: "Kitchen Sink" Natlangs
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5893
Re: "Kitchen Sink" Natlangs
Does that really seem unusual to you? Certain dialects of Scottish Gaelic (eg. Argyll) have this as their realisation of preaspirated /k/.HoskhMatriarch wrote: A phoneme /xk/ (what is that even)
<mac a' bhaca> ("son of the sandbank", I know it doesn't make any sense, just go with it)
/maxk ə vaxkə/
- 14 Oct 2015 01:06
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: One for your phrasebooks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3449
One for your phrasebooks
This was started on facebook when I said this sentence in conversation and then noticed how hilarious it would look if randomly included in a phrasebook. It could be the conlang phrasebook equivalent of "My hovercraft is full of eels" The sentence is: I could have sworn someone told me he ...
- 13 Oct 2015 20:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Pronominal clitics Strathan has pronominal clitics, a bit like Spanish, but including the prepositional pronouns. They are considered a colloquial feature, and in formal writing will tend not to be used. In colloquial speech, they're generally used in clauses containing more than one object, though...
- 13 Oct 2015 15:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Thanks all! Now for some more thoughts: Verb forms I want a decent amount of irregular verbs. Hence, I've decided to have a lot of verbal suppletion from different source langs, along with other processes like apophony. These will provide the stems for verbs in different forms and tenses. There are ...
- 06 Oct 2015 11:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Okay, I'm ready for something more practicable. I've decided that I'm going to have a fairly irregular orthography, so I don't really need to worry about being consistent in my mappings between words I invent in writing and how I want them pronounced. So, now I can include IPA for you. Ladies and ge...
- 04 Oct 2015 12:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Here are some glosses for the opposite register - this is how most people would address members of the Royal Family, the Princes and Princely Families, and the College of Cardinals. Among themselves, the forms of address are actually in a slightly less elaborate register - so it's very much relativ...
- 04 Oct 2015 02:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Yeah, what shimo said - Celtic-seeming features are overtly taken over from Celtic, but it's meant to have Germanic influences as well, and quite a few a priori features. Here are some glosses for the opposite register - this is how most people would address members of the Royal Family, the Princes ...
- 29 Sep 2015 20:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Indeed. I'm very much aware of IPA, I've consciously chosen not to include it mainly because I haven't decided to what extent, if any, I would like a broad-slender system like in the Goidelic languages. Ditto regarding vowel reduction. However, a few notes: The digraph <dh> is generally meant to rep...
- 28 Sep 2015 14:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
your language looks nice, have you had some words in the lexicon of Strathan yet? I can give you a few tentative items, but I can't promise you that I'll hang on to them or that I'll not change the orthography: good - bragh bad - drogh king - Ri church - Ceirc country - Riaghd First person sg nomin...
- 28 Sep 2015 13:51
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Stir-fried wug
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11473
Re: Stir-fried wug
Totally off-topic to the actual thread, but I can't resist pointing out that
in Hindi/Sanskrit (लिंग वेद) would mean "penis veda".idov wrote:Ling Veda
- 23 Sep 2015 14:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
Thanks, all, for the comments! Apologies for slow replies, I've just started term, I'm taking 30 extra credits as well as an uncredited higher-level course while also helping with a research project, so I'm not going to be stellar at replying expediently for the next...year, basically xD You call th...
- 12 Sep 2015 22:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Re: Strathan language
The future in Strathan! Copypaste from FB comment with a few clarifications: Strathan has a conjugated future tense as well as a few auxiliaries expressing future-y concepts. I don't actually have the lexemes yet, so have glosses instead: Read-FUT-1SG This would be the simple future. I will read. Is...
- 02 Aug 2015 17:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Strathan language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5500
Strathan language
The Strathan language is a new project of mine for a micronation. The micronation has a Strathclyde heritage, so this language will be influenced by Goidelic, Brythonic, Scots/Anglo-Saxon and Norse. It will also contain some grammatical innovation because I pretty much always add fun grammar to my a...
- 31 Jul 2015 18:49
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424559
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Anglican, as it stands. I'm not sure where (as in, in what country) I want to end up living yet, so obviously that impacts my decision: If I settle down somewhere where Anglicanism isn't really a thing (like Sweden or so) I might join a suitably similar local denomination (Lutherans, liberal Presbyt...
- 30 Jul 2015 22:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424559
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Ah. It's certainly an interesting endeavour, and I'm in the facebook group for it too :)
- 30 Jul 2015 22:10
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424559
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Ȝe spic Scots? Aye, tho A dinnae uis the "Staunirt Scots skreivin" lik ye seem tae be - no maist o the time onyweys. A 'hink it's no a bad project at aw, but A masel wus taucht ane o the mony variant "naturo"/etymologico screivins tae stairt, an sae A jis fyne masel preferin 'at...