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- 28 Mar 2024 07:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 598
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Túwemeŋúmwehhómavváŋeším ŋážā. t<úw>ém -e- ŋúm -wē- hóm -ā- váŋ -e- ším | ŋáž -ā get.eaten<CAUS>-LK2-be.cattle-ATTR-be.tasty-SBJ.R2-hunt-LK2-be.fish | be.tall-SBJ.R2 The fisherman tasty-beef-eats | he is tall "The tall fisherman eats tasty beef." In this case, for the time being, the info...
- 24 Mar 2024 17:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 598
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Thank you for the link to that article. It was an interesting read. I'm currently working on a polysynthetic language which is tentatively called Miwosh or ( Míwoš ). It's a revamp of another language of mine, Balog, and the main idea is that I wanted to spoonerise almost all of the particles with t...
- 09 Mar 2024 11:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 647
Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Hibuese:
a b bw by d dw dy dz dzw e g gw gy h hw hy i l lw ly m mb mbw mby mw my n nd ndw ndy ndz ndzw ng ngg nggw nggy ngw ngy nw ny r u v vw vy w y z zw zy zyw
In loanwords: f fy fw k kw ky p pw py q s sw sy t tw ty
a b bw by d dw dy dz dzw e g gw gy h hw hy i l lw ly m mb mbw mby mw my n nd ndw ndy ndz ndzw ng ngg nggw nggy ngw ngy nw ny r u v vw vy w y z zw zy zyw
In loanwords: f fy fw k kw ky p pw py q s sw sy t tw ty
- 24 Feb 2024 10:55
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The food that we were going to sell
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10373
Re: The food that we were going to sell
:con: Hibuese Assuming 1st person exclusive. Zyamo u nanai zi ga nongge zyii ze mwe ne nongge u zyei yu zye zyamo u nganai ngwe. zyamo u nana=i zi ga nongge zyi=i ze mwe ne nongge u zye=i yu zye zyamo u nganai ngwe food SIT 1P=COP PST FUT sell GEN.DEF=COP NEG able PASS sell SIT cause=COP SR cause fo...
- 18 Feb 2024 10:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1177
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
In Hibuese, definiteness is indicated quite optionally using the singular 3rd person pronoun de or its plural form dwe . Subject: It tends not to be used in the subject because subjects tend to be assumed definite. The predicate is generally assumed indefinite, and this results in a cleft-like struc...
- 18 Feb 2024 09:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Could an argument be made for including /t/ as a possible coda but not any other stops by saying that the language has a preference for coronal consonants in general? It's for a non-human language but they are fairly humanoid, so I'd like to keep details and reasoning for why things are how they ar...
- 28 Jan 2024 15:29
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Ablative Absolute
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9804
Re: Ablative Absolute
:con: Hibuese: U bumbai dzo dyomi do, dumwai bye. u bumba=i dzo dyomi do | dumwa=i bye SIT city=COP ANT.PASS capture A thus | soldier=COP depart A (With) the city being captured, the soldiers left. The do is only there because the situational clause has been fronted. It could also be expressed as: D...
- 22 Jan 2024 19:33
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Go and find him!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9175
Re: Go and find him!
There are two different ways in Wena/Hibuese/Ngeho/Zyange Ho/whatever name I call it, because "look for" is a compound of either "hunt-hold" or "hunt-see", depending on what the purpose of looking for the object is. (1) He zolo nguvwe zyi. he zo-lo ngu- vwe zyi JUSS loc...
- 17 Jan 2024 13:20
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: You helped me
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11275
Re: You helped me
Wai zi be zyu nai zyeu mbingui zongwo.
wa=i zi be zyu na=i zye-u mbi-ngu=i zo-ngwo
2S=COP PST helpA GEN.SR 1S=COP cause-SIT animal-huntA=COP locomoteA-leg
You helped me walk the dog.
(Literally: "You helped that I make that the dog walks.")
wa=i zi be zyu na=i zye-u mbi-ngu=i zo-ngwo
2S=COP PST helpA GEN.SR 1S=COP cause-SIT animal-huntA=COP locomoteA-leg
You helped me walk the dog.
(Literally: "You helped that I make that the dog walks.")
- 07 Jan 2024 07:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 57
- Views: 22338
Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
https://i.imgur.com/H8vBGZk.png Tqoqo oil Joe' 😂 It could also be translated as the sentence This galaxy is lonely . Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for semantic ambiguity. I think it's absolutely fine for a title, but I'm most interested in whether this is a universal ambiguity acro...
- 07 Jan 2024 06:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Commonthroat uses a Mandarin-style coverb to form passive phrases. I want to be lazy and use other coverbs for a reciprocal voice and a reflexive/middle voice. Does that make sense? This is all in an attempt to avoid pronouns. All looks good to me. Syntactically though, what makes them coverbs and ...
- 31 Dec 2023 17:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 197
- Views: 64378
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
Yawa t'iqqaš ai hebwa na nabwa todzitlukqesaviŋ. yawa | t ii=qaš ai he-bwa na na-bwa [t+o+dz+i+tl+u+kq+e+s+a+v+i]-ŋ hey | time DEF.R5=year LK2 two-set.of.hands one one-set.of.hands [0.5x8+0.5x512+0.5x32+0.5x256+0.5x64+0.5x128+0.5x128+0.5x64+0.5x256+0.5x32+0.5x512+0.5x8]-COLL Hello from the year 202...
- 29 Dec 2023 13:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 197
- Views: 64378
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
In breg serres neden igat. 1sg.1 3sg.nonhuman.4 2sg.FRM.3 cross-2 hope / I hope you're out of the woods by now. Ğa kavu t'ihhil ba xed iit nažudzaŋ is selisas . ğa kavu t ii=hi-l | ba xed ii=t | [n+a+ž+u+dz+a]-ŋ ii=selisas. AFF but time DEF.R5=CONT-day | very hot DEF.R5=time | [0.5x1+0.5x32+0.5x4+0...
- 28 Dec 2023 09:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 197
- Views: 64378
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
T'iw wik e kwisimas ba ŋuŋuwe vuhaž aaz s'iddižim dža Qwiyuhog aunnuhežaŋotän. t ii=wik-e-kwisimas | ba ŋu~ŋuwe v<uh>až aa=ž | s ii=d-i-ž-im | dža Q<w><iy><uh>og auu=[n+u+h+e+ž+a]-ŋ-o-tän time DEF.R5=week-LK2-Christmas | very FREQ-again thunderstorm<EXPERIENCE> DEF.R4=1P | place DEF.R5=DEM-PROX-1S-...
- 14 Dec 2023 16:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So would <lPrg> mean an act of climbing or would it make more sense for it to mean a climber? It's very typical among natlangs (on Earth anyway 😉) for the most basic nominal derivation from a verb to be either a gerund (the general name of the action) or a noun indicating an event of the action. Pe...
- 14 Dec 2023 14:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Minor quibbles. (To be fair I also have an extra syllable in California , but who's counting anyway?) The whole point of naming mergers is that you name two words that actually merge, if possible, like "caught/cot". Sometimes it's not, like "father/bother" (I guess "khan/co...
- 13 Dec 2023 04:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Nah, too many other phonemes differ too, as well as the stress pattern.VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑11 Dec 2023 09:31 Even better, the Kelly four near/California merger ("Is that Kelly number three in northern Mexico? No, that's Kelly four near California.")
/ˌkeliˈfɔːˌnɪə/
/ˌkæləˈfɔːnjə/
- 11 Dec 2023 09:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Extreme Conlang Ideas
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2157
Re: Extreme Conlang Ideas
A video language on something like a sentient cuttlefish. Some morphemes could be iconic, looking like a visual representation of the referent, but over time, they could easily change to be less and less iconic.
- 11 Dec 2023 09:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
FWIW I don't have the elbow/Albo merger; I think that's most characteristic of people from Malbourne. As for interjections, I've noticed that "yeah" and "nah" don't gain intrusive-ɹ consistently; I'd happily say [jeː əɾ ˈɪz] but [lʊː ən ˈʊːɾə] just sounds weird. So it's certainl...
- 11 Dec 2023 07:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm trying to translate a piece of my writing into Ruykkarraber, and I'm stuck, but not because of any complicated constructions, no. I'm stuck on how to derive a word for "or." Like, where does it come from? What's a basic root that could turn into it? I feel like some of my Ruykkarraber...