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- 20 Jul 2018 22:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1041
- Views: 268879
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
I've not taken part in one of these before so I hope my ideas aren't too silly, but my initial guess is kʷɛsiʔ . My reasoning is as follows [kʷ] seems most likely for the initial, maybe splitting early to [k] and [p]>[f] [ɛ] seems like the vowel most in the "centre" of the vowels we see fi...
- 16 Oct 2017 01:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2044139
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have some questions relating to language change. Do contractions have to be phonetically motivated, or can you have them form without sound changes? How do you get morphophonological changes where it looks like only certain common morphemes are effected by a particular sound change the rest of the...
- 26 Sep 2017 19:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedlanging Challenge VII (22 - 25 September)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12929
Re: Speedlanging Challenge VII (22 - 25 September)
@ InquisitorJL I guess I don't insult anybody if I say this is the most interesting of the langs of this challEnge. I also made a lang with Ossicone's story some year ago. There is much interesting stuff in your lang, of course not in the easiest form to read. Phonology is interesting with its stre...
- 25 Sep 2017 16:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedlanging Challenge VII (22 - 25 September)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12929
Re: Speedlanging Challange VII (22 - 25 September)
I was really excited when I saw this thread, I go through phases with conlanging and I was just coming into one after over a year of not really thinking about it. But it got to Monday and I had lots of rough ideas and nothing concrete to write down. So I've decided to challenge myself and go about i...
- 22 Sep 2017 22:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedlanging Challenge VII (22 - 25 September)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12929
Re: Speedlanging Challange VII (22 - 25 September)
Is there a time limit to time spent on the language, or just as much as you can do before the end date?
- 22 Feb 2016 22:47
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is English a logographic writing system?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 43293
Re: Is English a logographic writing system?
During research on English spelling reform (in short: main barrier is vowels, rhotics and voicing in different dialects) I have come to the conclusion that English is at least partially logographic and will only become more so as time passes. Am I right to conclude this? Is English really logograph...
- 22 Feb 2016 16:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New Approach to Conlanging
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5217
Re: New Approach to Conlanging
My understanding of his argument is it goes something along the lines of: Models are a descriptive approximation, not an actual explanantion of how a language works or how something came about Conlangers learn models and follow them like dogma, without understanding what is going on underlyingly in ...
- 15 Feb 2016 11:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedconlanging Weekend
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9359
Re: Speedconlanging Weekend
The amount you managed to come up with and write in only an hour is very impressive! Very nice work there! [:D] As I said, a lot of it was related to ideas I've already had for stuff I want to do anyway, but I've been too perfectionist to get down, I guess the time constraint and the fact I wouldn'...
- 13 Feb 2016 18:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedconlanging Weekend
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9359
Re: Speedconlanging Weekend
I saw this initially about the time it was posted but I was going away for the weekend and had no time and just forgot about it. Thanks to a recent post I saw it again and decided to give it a go because I've had real trouble with progressing with language projects and kind of drifted away from the ...
- 22 Oct 2015 19:18
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Realistic inflections
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1206
Realistic inflections
If this is more appropriate for the Conlanging forum feel free to move it. I've been lurking around conlanging communities for 10 years now but never really made any progress with projects so I still feel very much like a beginner, even if I've read lots of stuff. Something I've been wondering about...
- 13 Oct 2015 00:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A mixed West Germanic language
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2451
Re: A mixed West Germanic language
Not make a conlang... Just translate the given passage to have a glimpse what it may look like. How can someone translate without first knowing the language, or in this case been as it is hypothetical, making it. We don't just *know* what this language would look like, at best without spending time...
- 28 Sep 2015 22:24
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Difficulties with [ji] and [wu]
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1607
Difficulties with [ji] and [wu]
In my current conlanging project I've been ending up with a lot of /ji/ and /wu/ in many different environments - word initially, following a consonant or a vowel. I initially saw no reason to include allophony but paying attention to my pronunciation I seem to be struggling with it. I looked for co...
- 10 Sep 2015 23:23
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317951
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Historical linguistics question here, what causes stress patterns to change? It seems to be a pretty common thing to change over time, and a lot of further sound changes can come from it, but I don't actually know what causes it in the first place.
- 21 Jan 2011 10:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Let's test our synaesthesia!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5632
Re: Let's test our synaesthesia!
['viʌ] - doesn't really make me think of anything/could mean anything If I'd had to translate it as something it'd probably end up being 'meh' [uʒɛ'si] - a verb, maybe 'to see' or 'to feel' ['hodo] - some sort of title, like Mr. or sir [meɪ'ɑlɑ] - relaxation or sleep ['tæk] - a particle or conjuctio...
- 25 Aug 2010 02:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: First Conlang: Aigean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5247
Re: First Conlang: Aigean
a-priori: some of these ideas have been floating around my head for quite some time but I didn't have enough to put them all together. I have been reading about japanese and turkish recently, as well as dutch phonology - I wasn't intending to mimic these but I've felt some of my ideas have unintenti...
- 25 Aug 2010 01:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: First Conlang: Aigean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5247
Re: First Conlang: Aigean
It's late, and I'm going on holiday tomorrow, so I haven't got as much done as I like, but here is a quick look at nominal morphology, as well as an attempt at the first line of the babel text. Nominal Morphology Nouns are marked for number and case. Case markings for some cases vary depending on th...
- 24 Aug 2010 15:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Weird Phrases from your Conlangs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5489
Re: Weird Phrases from your Conlangs
Is this language based around computer architecture?Mahal wrote:My conlang: PUSH see-1SG.2SG
English: "the proposition that I saw you and/or I see you and/or I will see you is hereby pushed onto the stack"
- 23 Aug 2010 22:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: First Conlang: Aigean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5247
Re: First Conlang: Aigean
Verbal Morphology Verbs are marked for voice, evidentiality, mood and the subject of the verb. They also take particles for marking a limited combined tense/aspect distinction. Verbal roots are distinguished between mono and polysyllabic roots, as well as roots ending in vowels or consonants. A mon...
- 22 Aug 2010 23:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: First Conlang: Aigean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5247
Re: First Conlang: Aigean
Something along the lines of Topic - Verb - (S) - (O). Whatever is the topic would be moved ahead of the verb. An example - using nom/acc for ease Subject as topic - The dog bit the man dog-TOP bite man-ACC Object as topic - The dog was bitten by the rat OR As for the dog, the rat bit it dog-TOP bit...
- 22 Aug 2010 22:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: First Conlang: Aigean
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5247
First Conlang: Aigean
Looking back on my previous attempts at conlanging, Aijean (in the conlang called Haidje ) is probably the first time I have gotten far enough into a project before it could be called a conlang. I've read about lots of conlangs, and also written down vague collections of ideas before, but never prod...