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by qzorum
03 May 2016 08:29
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044047

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

What conditions could cause /e/ to split into /e/ and /ɛ/ or /u/ into /u/ and /ʊ/? You might consider some type of harmonization with uvular or pharyngeal consonants, which can shift vowels to a more retracted realization. That type of harmony can operate on adjacent segments only or across whole w...
by qzorum
26 Apr 2016 07:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044047

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

How can a productive honorific verb system (like Korean's "speech levels": -yo -seyo -ipnida etc.) evolve, ie. where can such a thing come from? I'm not an expert, but I suspect it would involve either a large/open set of pronouns, or formal circumlocutions, getting grammaticalized, fused...
by qzorum
25 Apr 2016 10:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631757

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I made a sweet CBB avatar.
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 15:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Wekoq languages (NP: Proto-Wekoq and Waqwaq)
Replies: 13
Views: 4118

Re: The Wekoq languages (NP: Proto-Wekoq and Waqwaq)

Damn but do I dig that phonology. Dat epiglottal trill.

OSV word order spooked me a bit though. What's your morphosyntactic alignment?
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 11:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035812

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

/b tʰ d kʰ g/ <b t d k g> /m n/ <m n> /w s/ <w s> /i e a o u/ <i e a o u> /ae ao ai au/ <ae ao ai au> /b ᵐb t d ⁿd ʨ ʥ ⁿʥ k ɡ ᵑɡ/ <b mb t d nd ch j nj k g ngg~ng> <b mb t d nd ch j nj k g ŋg> /m n ȵ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> <m n ñ ŋ> /ɸ s ɣ h/ <p s gh h> <f s ḡ h> /w l r j/ <w l r y> <w l r y> /i ɨ e ɑ o u/ ...
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 10:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035812

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

DesEsseintes wrote:
qzorum wrote:Hey! A fellow hater of /p/, to boot! (Both of my languages mostly killed p)
qzorum, you should know that killing /p/ is all the rage. [:P]
Is it really? I legitimately didn't know that - I usually keep pretty cut off from the rest of the conlang community, at least until recently....
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 10:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
Replies: 57
Views: 10167

Re: An auxlang to be understood not spoken

cntrational wrote:Remember that English is the primary lingua franca of India, the other country with a billion people.
Shh... when you start invoking such practical arguments as this, you realize that English is already the perfect auxlang....
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 08:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
Replies: 5100
Views: 1035812

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

/b t d k ɡ ʔ/ <b t d k g '> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /ɸ s z h/ <f s j h> /w ɭ~ȴ j/ <w l y> /i e ɑ ə o u/ <i e a ä o u> /ĩ ẽ ɑ̃ ə̃ õ ũ/ <i̱ e̱ a̱ ä̱ o̱ u̱> /iː eː ɑː oː uː/ <ii ee aa oo uu> /ĩː ẽː ɑ̃ː õː ũː/ <i̱i̱ e̱e̱ a̱a̱ o̱o̱ u̱u̱> Hey! Nice! A fellow lover of slightly-more-than-5-vowel inventories w/ le...
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 08:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: An auxlang to be understood not spoken
Replies: 57
Views: 10167

Re: An auxlang to be understood not spoken

Last summer I made a catechoradical language based on Mandarin, English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and Malay. A lot of the design goals were auxlangy - exceptionless compositional grammar, simplistic and neutral phonology - but of course I never had any aspirations for it except to have something to w...
by qzorum
24 Apr 2016 08:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: A Priori or A Posteriori?
Replies: 64
Views: 10558

Re: A Priori or A Posteriori?

Until recently I considered myself a hardcore a priori-ist, but with my current project I decided to dive into some deeper depths and pick up a couple of a post habits. I still don't use a natlang as the ancestor, but I've been developing Lavvìnko and Botharu both from an a priori ancestor, and I've...
by qzorum
23 Apr 2016 17:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Grand Master Plan of the Kasanic language family
Replies: 7
Views: 1785

Re: Grand Master Plan of the Kasanic language family

This looks very nice. I'm afraid I haven't had a close look at the diachronics yet and so can't really comment on that, but I really like both the proto-inventory and the resulting daughter phonologies. This makes me want to get back to work on Proto-Híí. Thanks! Yeah, diachronics are definitely a ...
by qzorum
22 Apr 2016 18:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Replies: 900
Views: 207291

Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax

Salishan languages can be analyzed as having no nouns, only verbs. There are arguments against it, but i haven't read them. Honestly I'm not sure why the Salish languages always get singled out as lacking a noun/verb distinction. They definitely have syntactic nouns and verbs, it's just that roots ...
by qzorum
22 Apr 2016 10:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Grand Master Plan of the Kasanic language family
Replies: 7
Views: 1785

Grand Master Plan of the Kasanic language family

I finally worked out the details for the sound changes from Proto-Kasanic to Botharu. William Annis calls this a grand master plan, so that's the title I'm going with. I was basically trying to create two languages with the most different phonologies possible, mainly because when I was making Lavvin...
by qzorum
18 Apr 2016 22:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044047

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

It kinda depends on how your infinitive is used - infinitive isn't so much a standard category as a label that can debatably be applied to 0-several things per language. The Indo-European infinitive just started life as a way to turn verbs into nouns; I think in most languages that have them the inf...
by qzorum
18 Apr 2016 21:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Idea and a few conzepts for an auxlang / fictlang
Replies: 9
Views: 2126

Re: Idea and a few conzepts for an auxlang / fictlang

I wouldn't say /y/ is easy to pronounce. It's not very common, and based on my experience of Americans trying to learn Mandarin, it's a tough sound to learn later in life.
by qzorum
18 Apr 2016 16:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ideas for a lang
Replies: 14
Views: 3158

Re: Ideas for a lang

Hmm... What are the speakers like? How silly is silly? Austronesian alignment silly or verbs-agree-for-subject's-political-affiliation-and-sock-color silly?
by qzorum
17 Apr 2016 21:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: West Azorean language
Replies: 3
Views: 1277

Re: West Azorean language

The old orthography was used by Portugese missionaries during the colonization of the islands - although the language was not studied in detail during this time, most records of the old language come from these transcriptions. The new orthography is used for the revived language spoken by survivors...
by qzorum
17 Apr 2016 19:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: West Azorean language
Replies: 3
Views: 1277

Re: West Azorean language

Hm.. it may be nice if you stuck the phonemic inventory in a featural chart, and give a bit of information about syllable structure and allophony.

What's the difference between old and new orthography?

When is VSO used?
by qzorum
17 Apr 2016 19:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Idea and a few conzepts for an auxlang / fictlang
Replies: 9
Views: 2126

Re: Idea and a few conzepts for an auxlang / fictlang

The choice of /y/ instead of /u/ is a little odd. /a e i o u/ is by far the most common vowel inventory, and speakers of most languages would probably have trouble with /y/.
by qzorum
17 Apr 2016 19:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Nsụsụ - An Esseintial Speedlang
Replies: 16
Views: 3189

Re: Nsụsụ - An Esseintial Speedlang

DesEsseintes wrote:hwaza + nála → hwazáála
tzíle + nála → tzilééla
mmọlọ + nála → mmọlọ́ọ́la
sụsụ + nála → sụsụụla
sísí + nála → sísíala
omù → nála → omùala
What happens to tone when vowel assimilate? I'll admit I can't spot the pattern.