Search found 4184 matches
- 21 Apr 2024 17:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
3) t > k > ć=č > p 4) ṭ > ḳ > ḱ=ǩ > ṗ (NB: acute = lateral obstruents, caron = postalveolar obstruents, dot = ejective/guttural) Im just curious what the difference is between the consonants with C and those with K. Are the C's affricates and the K's stops? Or are you using the K to stand for eject...
- 19 Apr 2024 23:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Using a word gen, having troubles deciding what order of frequency my phonemes should be in. Learned that phoneme distributions tend to follow a Yule-Simon distribution pattern. So I have a bunch of questions whose answers i think will give me insight on what to do: 1) Would sonorants/resonants be ...
- 19 Apr 2024 05:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Going on English's distribution, this is the frequency of English's letters: ETAONRISHDLFCMUGYPWBVKJXQZ So obviously coronals are the most common consonants in English. Coronal endings as markers of plurals, verb forms, noun cases, etc. are also the most common inflectional suffixes cross-linguisti...
- 19 Apr 2024 02:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Using a word gen, having troubles deciding what order of frequency my phonemes should be in. Learned that phoneme distributions tend to follow a Yule-Simon distribution pattern. So I have a bunch of questions whose answers i think will give me insight on what to do: 1) Would sonorants/resonants be m...
- 17 Apr 2024 20:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
First off, if this would be better suited for a different thread (the Linguistics & Natlangs one specifically), it's fine to move it. Anyway, when dividing morpheme boundaries in a gloss, what does one do if a morpheme is separable, but has an effect on the root? Specifically: fulh "to mak...
- 09 Apr 2024 01:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think you're kind of coming from the wrong direction and getting trapped as a result. Languages don't work on the principle of "here's a cool label a linguist invented - I guess I'd better work out where it most logically applies!" It might look like that, but I'm trying to work with a ...
- 08 Apr 2024 21:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have modality obligatorily marked on the verb, and I have three basic moods: actual/realis [REAL], potential/irrealis [IRR], and counterfactual [CONTF]. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what verb should be marked irrealis and which should be marked as counterfactual when it comes to if-th...
- 08 Apr 2024 01:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have modality obligatorily marked on the verb, and I have three basic moods: actual/realis [REAL], potential/irrealis [IRR], and counterfactual [CONTF]. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what verb should be marked irrealis and which should be marked as counterfactual when it comes to if-the...
- 05 Apr 2024 03:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In Vrkhazhian the consonants /h j w/ elided in all places but word-initially (with some exceptions), which resulted in a lot of compensatory lengthening or vowel coalescence. The language has primary stress but also secondary and tertiary stress that are predictably placed every other syllable going...
- 04 Apr 2024 20:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Voiced codas can lengthen vowels, but I wonder if long vowels can voice codas?
- 26 Mar 2024 05:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 750
- Views: 217495
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I worked on word order shenanigans: Conjunctive order: (P)V(S)O Idependent order: (P)(S)OV Examples: La=tasīmtan ˀilgas. "And they have a fish" L=āzan tasīmtan ˀilgas. "And it is they who have a fish" La=tasīmtan lumbūwa ˀilgas. "And the women have a fish" L=āzan tasīmt...
- 13 Mar 2024 00:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How unusual would it be for a language to have phonemic breathy voiced stops, but no regular voiced nor aspirated stops? Would basically be the opposite of languages that contrast between aspirated voiceless and unaspirated voiced stops Instead of stop[+aspirated][-voiced] vs stop[-aspirated][+voic...
- 12 Mar 2024 03:21
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199811
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Also my go to_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024 03:02 As for an online IPA keyboard, I use this site which I believe can write every IPA character (though some are hidden until you press "more" on the right).
- 09 Mar 2024 06:28
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199811
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
WordPerfect's a program I haven't heard of for a whileKhemehekis wrote: ↑09 Mar 2024 05:20 I just ran SpellCheck (Corel WordPerfect's version thereof) on my LCV file.
- 07 Mar 2024 04:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 861
Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Hmm, my script doesn't have underdots, though it does have breve below to indicate velars.Arayaz wrote: ↑06 Mar 2024 20:25 The diagram is up with these languages! More would still be appreciated, of course.
- 06 Mar 2024 02:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 861
Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
I'm not sure how useful that'd be since so many romanizations overlap, but eh:
Vrkhazhian
ˀ m p b f w n t d s z ś ź r l n̮ k g ḫ y
a e i u ā ē ī ū â ê î û
Vrkhazhian
ˀ m p b f w n t d s z ś ź r l n̮ k g ḫ y
a e i u ā ē ī ū â ê î û
- 05 Mar 2024 01:59
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199811
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Came across this article:
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-role-hist ... evolve.amp
May be a useful thing to decide on one's colour terminology
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-role-hist ... evolve.amp
May be a useful thing to decide on one's colour terminology
- 27 Feb 2024 12:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362813
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I intend my language to have (optional) polypersonal agreement. How naturalistic would it be for only the affixes agreeing with the subject to distinguish gender/animacy while the object affixes only mark person and number? The result would be thus: 3fs>3s: -tu-kka 3ms>3s: -ti-kka 3ns>3s: -ta-kka 3f...
- 27 Feb 2024 10:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213690
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
I have this idea for Vrkhazhian: The language has no unmarked ditransitive verbs and the only way to form a true ditransitive is a verb in the applicative voice, of which there are two: the dative and the instrumental (which also double as a benefactive and causative, respectively). So, you'd have a...
- 23 Feb 2024 18:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213690
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
But wouldn't a kind of 'source' vs. 'goal' vs. 'everything else' work? I guess it would amount to a complex combination of Split-S or Fluid-S with differential object marking and secundative alignment. So like the follwing. Intransitive verbs split according to semantic S-ABL V (e.g. I snore) S-ALL...