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by CarsonDaConlanger
26 Jul 2021 21:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347156

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

I'm asking if it's possible for the adjectives to mark gender and number and not case, even if nouns decline for all three. I'd expect it in a language where adjectives tend to be closer to verbs than nouns. Since verbs are very commonly marked for number and gender but not case, you'd expect the s...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 Jul 2021 00:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: N̠īṛevic Family Megathread
Replies: 7
Views: 2388

Re: N̠īṛevic Family Megathread

I'm really interested to see how this will evolve! I love expansive diacronics projects with multiple daughter families.
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 Jul 2021 00:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yeuz
Replies: 2
Views: 1623

Re: Yeuz

Updated: I've been thinking about this a lot and decided I wanted to go a different rout with this lang. So uh here's the new phonology: /m n ŋ/ m n ng /p b t d t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g/ p b t d ch j k g /f θ s h/ f th s h /l r j w/ l r y w /i ɪ y u/ i i ü u /e ə ø o/ e e ö o /a/ a All stressed vowels may be len...
by CarsonDaConlanger
22 Jul 2021 20:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yeuz
Replies: 2
Views: 1623

Re: Yeuz

Addendum 1: I forgot to put in phonotactics lol The basic structure is (C)C(j,w)V(C) with the following rules: 1: onset clusters of 2 obstruants will share the voicing 2nd one 2: bilabial or palatal consonants cannot precede any consonant in the onset other than a glide 3: glides cannot appear afte...
by CarsonDaConlanger
22 Jul 2021 20:13
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yeuz
Replies: 2
Views: 1623

Yeuz

The Yeuz Language Yeuz, natively Leishiyéuz /lɪ.ʃiˈjøz/, is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the Tsij Kingdom. Named for the long, winding river it is centered on, the civilization roughly equivalent to a bronze age one on earth is a center of wealth and culture in its region. Its people h...
by CarsonDaConlanger
20 Jun 2020 04:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347156

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

In languages with case prefixes, is number also often prefixed as well?
by CarsonDaConlanger
11 Jun 2020 23:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yønsen
Replies: 7
Views: 1680

Re: Yønsen

When the agent is reintroduced using the dative case, it implies that the agent did the action for their benefit. Miik yan snarin. Do you mean that the subject appears in Dative noun-DAT verb-MEDPASS or that there is a distinct dative argument noun-NOM verb-MEDPASS noun-DAT ? Sorry for the confusio...
by CarsonDaConlanger
28 May 2020 04:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yønsen
Replies: 7
Views: 1680

Re: Yønsen

Grammar Part Three: Verbs (Part One) Yønsen verbs mostly distinguish aspect over tense, although a future tense can be indicated using the auxiliary verb “rya” meaning to come. Verbs are conjugated to imperfective and perfective, as well as habitual, inchoative, and cessative. Likewise there is a d...
by CarsonDaConlanger
27 May 2020 18:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yønsen
Replies: 7
Views: 1680

Re: Yønsen

Nice, a new conlang. I like the vowel inventory. It is strange but when I look at it deeply I cannot find any specific strange or "unnatural" feature in it. Do you have some linguistic feeling/inspiration behind it, say it should feel like Sanskrit or a native American language or somethi...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 May 2020 23:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yønsen
Replies: 7
Views: 1680

Re: Yønsen

Grammar Part One: Typology (I meant to add this to the introduction but I forgot lol) Yønsen can be classified as following: Nominative accusative Head marking Head final Synthetic (agglutiative) Primarily suffixing Grammar Part Two: Nominals and Pronouns Nominals (Nouns and adjectives) and pronoun...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 May 2020 20:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yønsen
Replies: 7
Views: 1680

Yønsen

Introduction Yønsen, or more specifically Lens Yønsen “Standard Yønsen,” is a language spoken in the Yønir Prairie by a society at a technological development roughly similar to that of Classical Greece. They live in rather large cities (for the time period), mostly farming wheat and oats, and trad...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 May 2020 17:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347156

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

Hilariously, I know of one example of the opposite, where clitic pronouns are the only ones that have vowel harmony. In Standard Arabic, inflectional affixes (like na-, -na, -u, -tu, -tum, -tunna, -aani) and derivational affixes (like mu-, mi-, ta-, -iiya) do not undergo vowel harmony, but a few of...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 May 2020 06:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347156

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

At this point I'm already attached to them being clitics (they get used similarly in other places as part of the increasing head marking-ness of the language as it evolves.) The scope of vowel harmony is extremely language specific. Harmony can be either progressive or regressive (or both) and may a...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 May 2020 05:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347156

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

How likely is it for prefixed subject/object clitics to not interact with vowel harmony Not very, I think, but certainly it's not unheard of to have affixes that ignore harmony. Hungarian has the suffix -kor , which ignores vowel harmony, thus: egykor "at one" kettőkor "at two" ...
by CarsonDaConlanger
26 May 2020 01:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347156

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

How likely is a verbal system with just perfective and imperfective where some verbal roots are inherently perfective and need an affix to make them imperfective? (I know this existed in PIE but is it attested elsewhere?) Assuming the default unmarked aspect is imperfective. Likewise, would a syste...
by CarsonDaConlanger
04 Dec 2019 07:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Auitluo
Replies: 1
Views: 975

Auitluo

I took a break from conlanging for a while due to work and a little bit of depression, but I'm back baby! And today I bring you my latest conlang: Auitluo. Here are a few basics: Split ergative alignment (inanimate nouns are ergative) Slightly agglutinative but mostly analytical inflection SOV Adje...
by CarsonDaConlanger
09 Nov 2019 07:38
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043755

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

How naturalistic is it for a language to have an auxiliary (derived from a verb meaning do) that takes person/maybe tense (its an agglutinative language so the two are completely separate) that comes after a serial verb construction? It would replace person/tense on the meaning verbs in the construc...
by CarsonDaConlanger
13 May 2019 16:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043755

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

Speaking of which, how do langs with no tense and only aspect convey a generic past tense? Do they use perfective aspect? Wouldn't that just make it a tense anyways? For example how would they say "John fought the snake?" Langs without tenses don't convey tenses because they don't need to...
by CarsonDaConlanger
10 May 2019 18:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043755

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

Using perfective is a common strategy, but that doesn't make it a past tense; it's just that most of the time an event considered without internal structure takes place in the past. Any event in the present is ongoing to some extent, and while the future is a possibility, it's just less likely than...