I drew inspirations from German, Serbocroatian, Lithuanian and Tsez. I pretty much screwed myself twice over by doing that, but it ok :)
And how about you?
Edit: Thread merged with and renamed after this one. -Aszev, 2020-05-07
Nūdenku waga honji ma naku honyasi ne ika-ika ichamase! female-appearance=despite boy-voice=PAT hold boy-youth=TOP very be.cute-3PL Honyasi zō honyasi ma naidasu. boy-youth=AGT boy-youth=PAT love.romantically-3S
English course in Ravcic wrote:Primary influences: Danish, French, German, English, Hungarian, Latin
Minor influences: Dutch, Ido, Mayan, Chinese, Old Greek
Taken from the course. These are they. :-)
Native
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner/ Moderate
Current thoughts and interests for the future:
My conlang: Ravcic
Lots of things. Mostly Micronesian and Polynesian; also some other Austronesian elements. I try to keep amazonian languages in mind as well, but that generally falls by the wayside as I don't find out as much about them. [I'm not a scholar - I go by articles here, overviews there, introductory chapters now and then, not serious read-through-the-whole-grammar stuff]
ian9113 wrote:Oops. West Slavic is Polish and Czech and stuff. :-s
Don't worry. I once grouped Ossetian, Latvian and Estonian in the same "Caucasian European" group, in homework for Serbian. And we were supposed to write a story.
I was so ripping myself to shreds thru laughter after
Midhera is basically just a ripoff of every native american language ever (especially the Athabaskan family). Except the phonology which started as a ripoff of Quenya (which was a ripoff of Finnish) but slowly transformed into an inhuman abomination.
[ˈkḁse̥θe̥l̥ːḁsi̥j̥e̥θ]!
My pronouns are <xe> [ziː] / <xym> [zɪm] / <xys> [zɪz]
Micamo wrote:Midhera is basically just a ripoff of every native american language ever (especially the Athabaskan family). Except the phonology which started as a ripoff of Quenya (which was a ripoff of Finnish) but slowly transformed into an inhuman abomination.
[ˈkḁse̥θe̥l̥ːḁsi̥j̥e̥θ]!
How can you even distinguish anything in that word. The vowels are all voiceless! All of them? Have you ever heard a voiceless vowel. I'd wager you haven't. Japanese has them -- and they're inaudible as far as I can tell.
I'm slowly learning to distinguish the voiceless vowels; It's all about the shape of the tongue and lips in between the consonants. It's subtle, but it's there.
Plosives are the easiest consonant type to interpret a voiceless vowel between, but Midhera has words composing entirely of voiceless sonorants. Like this:
[m̥ḁɹ̥i̥l̥i̥]
My pronouns are <xe> [ziː] / <xym> [zɪm] / <xys> [zɪz]
Micamo wrote:I'm slowly learning to distinguish the voiceless vowels; It's all about the shape of the tongue and lips in between the consonants. It's subtle, but it's there.
Plosives are the easiest consonant type to interpret a voiceless vowel between, but Midhera has words composing entirely of voiceless sonorants. Like this:
[m̥ḁɹ̥i̥l̥i̥]
.....
My god! How do you shout in that language?
EDIT: What's more, how do you whisper, if practically everything has a voicing distinction?
Midh believe discussion is a thing to always be done closely, calmly, personally, slowly, quietly. If one ever found the need to shout, words would probably not be used: Roars and hisses would take their place.
(Dragons, remember?)
Besides, in actual conversation no more than 2 entirely voiceless syllables in a row would appear very often in a row. That example I gave was pretty much deliberately constructed for the sake of showing it off. Possible? Yes. Representative of the language as a whole? No.
My pronouns are <xe> [ziː] / <xym> [zɪm] / <xys> [zɪz]