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by dva_arla
12 Dec 2021 00:42
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: My first numeral system - feedback welcome
Replies: 6
Views: 3245

Re: My first numeral system - feedback welcome

What I meant to say was "laid out". My bad!
by dva_arla
10 Dec 2021 15:18
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Circassian hanzi: an experiment
Replies: 2
Views: 1130

Re: Circassian hanzi: an experiment

In order to better accommodate the consonant clusters, I have decided to give the kana-based system a quick overhaul: the cluster onsets get their own kana! P- へ T- て S- せ Ç- し L- れ (cf. their homophonic counterparts, used standalone or as the coda of a cluster) P は T た S さ Ç ち L り Contrast: はつ  蠅 б...
by dva_arla
10 Dec 2021 13:19
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: My first numeral system - feedback welcome
Replies: 6
Views: 3245

Re: My first numeral system - feedback welcome

So my idea was to have a traditional base 20 system that's mostly used for titles and dates, and use a base 10 system for day to day tasks (but with traces of the base 20 system still present). Welsh, to my knowledge, uses both systems in the exact distribution that you describe. The numerals seem ...
by dva_arla
10 Dec 2021 13:14
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Circassian hanzi: an experiment
Replies: 2
Views: 1130

Re: Circassian hanzi: an experiment

Links to online dictionaries, for reference:

Chemgui -> Russian
Kabard -> Russian
Russian -> Kabard
by dva_arla
10 Dec 2021 13:03
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Circassian hanzi: an experiment
Replies: 2
Views: 1130

Circassian hanzi: an experiment

Foreword Circassian hanzi was an idea that dawned upon my mind a year ago, when looking up some materials on Circassian and Old Chinese concurrently. Circassian derivational morphology is awfully reminiscent of Old Chinese, and the language is composed of mostly monosyllabic stems and roots, so why...
by dva_arla
09 Dec 2021 22:06
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)
Replies: 4
Views: 1494

Re: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)

I find the Mozarabic material on Wikipedia and Wiktionary highly untrustworthy btw. It seems a conlanger or two who passes an expansion/conlang of Mozarabic as the real thing have done much of the damage... Modern "reconstructions" of extinct languages are bound to contain such 'expansion...
by dva_arla
09 Dec 2021 02:29
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Brahmic Scripts
Replies: 18
Views: 11755

Re: Brahmic Scripts

Still looking through Khotanese manuscripts trying to find an example of the digit for 1000. The Khotanese script ( Fano tçhora ) did have glyphs for the numbers up to 100000 or a million. This is how they look like in the 'cursive' script: https://i.ibb.co/jhbt9fY/millenia.png The first and second...
by dva_arla
08 Dec 2021 23:48
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)
Replies: 4
Views: 1494

Re: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)

Features: Grammar Conjugation: present indicative 3 sg. -d past perfect in 1 sg. -áy ( < -avi) future 1 sg. -áy(o) ( < habeo) 2 sg. -ás 3 sg. -ád past perfect 3 pl. -eron (infix -er-, also in the rest of the conjugation?) imperfect 2 sg. without -r : vení, probably amá 2 pl. -ti ~ -di ('castilismo?...
by dva_arla
08 Dec 2021 23:30
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)
Replies: 4
Views: 1494

Re: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)

Features: Old Andalusian outcomes of Romance vowels & consonants Vowels More general diphthongisation O > ue, E > ie "more developed in the north of Al-Andalus and almost non-existent in the South. (would have to look this up) As in Asturleonian it seems that the diphthong did not develop ...
by dva_arla
08 Dec 2021 15:48
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)
Replies: 4
Views: 1494

Some notes on Mozarabic (and some reading practice)

Orthography ارتوغرفیة ا a ب b پ* p ت t ث** t ~ s ج j /ʒ/ چ* ch /tʃ/ ح h خ h د d ذ** [s]d ~[/s] z ر r ز [s]z[/s] /(d)ʒ/ س ç /s/ ش s /s̪ ~ ʃ/ ص s or ts ض d ط t ظ d ع h غ g ف f ق c ~ g ك c ل l م m ہ ø ~ h و o, u, gu ي i, y certain mergers: ت ط /t/ ج ذ ز /z/ س ص /s/ Notes: *two additions seldom (if at a...
by dva_arla
08 Dec 2021 15:09
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Bullokar's and Franklin's orthographies adapted to ISO 8859-1
Replies: 0
Views: 1244

Bullokar's and Franklin's orthographies adapted to ISO 8859-1

Benjamin Franklin's Reformed Mode of Spelling ; outline in his Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces (1779, pages 467-8) Collation order as employed in the pamphlet Letters which cannot be substituted with any character found in ISO 8859-1 with ease and without being found confusing re...
by dva_arla
07 Dec 2021 02:01
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: NatLang Diachronic Challenge
Replies: 12
Views: 2402

Re: NatLang Diachronic Challenge

Second attempt: I have revised (2) to /nãk: w á/, with no palatal element in the glide. 4. /wáze/ 6. /hosnĩ́́/ 7. /sɾéte/ I have fathomed the long vowel in D to be secondary in #6's case, but didn't expect the same to hold for Nos 4 and 7. 8. /ɲãː/? There was a ɲ > (d)ʑ shift in the evolution of Man...
by dva_arla
06 Dec 2021 01:54
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: NatLang Diachronic Challenge
Replies: 12
Views: 2402

Re: NatLang Diachronic Challenge

Update:
Spoiler:
I am beginning to suspect kʲʷ -- the palatalisation and dentalisation in #2 might as well be brought upon by gemination. The protoform might as well be reconstructed as /nãk:ʷá/.
by dva_arla
06 Dec 2021 01:30
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: NatLang Diachronic Challenge
Replies: 12
Views: 2402

Re: NatLang Diachronic Challenge

Sure thing. No one has guessed so far. Just put them in the threads in a spoiler. Let's go! 1. Most probable protoform: /nõːpa/ ~ /nṹ:pa/ p > b in C while further > w in D õː > ũː in A, B, D *ũ (rather than *õ) is chosen for reasons of symmetry. #6 points to the presence of a high-close nasalised v...
by dva_arla
05 Dec 2021 09:35
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: NatLang Diachronic Challenge
Replies: 12
Views: 2402

Re: NatLang Diachronic Challenge

Is the challenge still open to guesses? Should they be posted in this very same thread or PMed to your inbox?
by dva_arla
27 Nov 2021 08:06
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: The World of Einea
Replies: 36
Views: 13373

Re: The World of Einea

A fine conworld with an intricately-developed lore you've got there; and very intriguingly delivered -- There is much to be learnt presenting a conworld/alt-history from the way you do it.

What tools did you use to make the maps in the first two of your posts?
by dva_arla
27 Nov 2021 05:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)
Replies: 7
Views: 939

Re: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)

Infinitive and subjunctive indicative present endings by conjugation 1 manducar manduc - as a am ati ănt manduc e(m) es e eim eiti ĕnt 2 deibeir deib - es e eim eiti ĕnt deib(e) a(m) as a am ati ănt 3 dicer dic - es e ĕm ĕti ŏnt dic a(m) as a am ati ănt facio fac -(i?) es e ĕm ĕti iŏnt fac i a(m) as...
by dva_arla
27 Nov 2021 04:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)
Replies: 7
Views: 939

Re: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)

Overview of the verb: Classical and Vulgar Latin, Romance languages, and our auxlang: Simple forms projected into the language. Forms that are projected into the language (i.e not discarded) in bold . Non-finite forms Infinitive: manducar Gerundive: manducand (only used in elevated/archaising varian...
by dva_arla
26 Nov 2021 04:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)
Replies: 7
Views: 939

Re: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)

The present and past (or perfect) participles 1 mancar - mancant, mancat 2 habeir - habent, habet~habut 3 coquĕr - coquent, coqut* capĕr - capient, capt 4 sentir - sentient, sentit (Lit. sens, sentt) audir - audient, audit *pronounced as if coct (cf. Latin coctus), but spelled as such (or, alternati...
by dva_arla
26 Nov 2021 03:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)
Replies: 7
Views: 939

Re: Yet another Rom-auxlang (the Interslavic way)

A note on the conjugation: the classes, infinitive, present Verbs are conjugated to four conjugations, corresponding largely to the Latin ones: 1 mancar(e) 'eat': manc, mancas, manca, mancam, mancati, mancănt 2 habeir(e) 'have': hab / hayb, habes, habe, habeim, habeiti, habĕnt 3 coquĕr(e) 'cook': c...