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- 17 Apr 2024 19:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Another one of my ideas for an essentially monosyllabic language. Taking a more naturalistic approach than some of my previous attempts. I wanted to have at least 1000 distinct syllables, but it was difficult to reach that without getting too kitchen-sinky. Actually I think I'm going to discard the...
- 14 Apr 2024 19:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Another one of my ideas for an essentially monosyllabic language. Taking a more naturalistic approach than some of my previous attempts. I wanted to have at least 1000 distinct syllables, but it was difficult to reach that without getting too kitchen-sinky. This scheme has about 766 distinct syllabl...
- 26 Mar 2024 14:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1209
Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Nice work so far. I like the attention given to the declensional classes; I think having variety in inflection is often something overlooked in a priori conlangs.
Re: Abaniscen
Nice start! The coalescence of consonants into palatalized and voiceless forms reminds me a bit of Icelandic. Although I am wondering about how ɾh hɾ > tʼ tʼ came to be.
- 03 Mar 2024 21:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The great Asta thread - not soon enough
- Replies: 39
- Views: 26150
Re: The great Asta thread - not soon enough
I don't think I saw this thread the first time around. Great work putting so much detail into this! I also love the frequentizer results. Very cool to do a computational analysis of your own conlang corpus! The phoneme frequency rankings look very naturalistic.
- 21 Feb 2024 17:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16995
Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
A sketch of an auxlang-inspired-ish scheme - I possibly posted an earlier revision of this somewhere. Phonology /m n/ /p t k/ /b d g/ /ts/ /v s/ /l r j/ /i e a o u/ Maybe I'll add /z/ or /h/. The only word-initial clusters are (stop/fricative)+(l,r,v). No /j/ clusters. Coda can be /n t v s l r j/. C...
- 08 Feb 2024 02:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
- Views: 160475
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
This is very cool. A distinctly pleasing aesthetic, and with a Eurolang. I really like these. I may even steal some bits of this. [tʃiw] especially feels super Brazilian Portuguese-y to me, because, unless I'm wrong, it is a Brazilian Portuguese word. It means tilde, or alternatively, something uni...
- 06 Feb 2024 19:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
- Views: 160475
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Something a bit more Eurasian (if not European) inspired by some allophony I had been considering for my pseudo-Lakes-Plain inventory above. Starting with an inventory like this: /m n/ /p t k/ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ /b d g/ /s h/ /l r/ /w j/ The aspirated stops undergo a Siouan-like change where the aspirated s...
- 05 Feb 2024 06:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
- Views: 160475
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
My own (loosely) Lakes Plain inspired inventory, since VaptuantaDoi got me reading more about them: /p t k/ /b d/ /s/ That's my starting point for the consonants, at least. There might be more. The vowels I have thought more about: /r̩/ /i u/ /e o/ /æ ã ɑ/ /r̩/ is my alternative to the typical Lakes...
- 04 Feb 2024 21:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 663
Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
I'm reading Yoder's grammar of Abawiri right now, and wow, it's fascinating how it really doesn't seem to have any marking of grammatical relations at all. Topics, comments, and focused elements can all be semantic agents, patients, locations, and other roles. I will also point out that all of the a...
- 31 Jan 2024 13:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2016
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
I think your question is based on something of a misapprehension: That the revivers of Hebrew intended to revive Hebrew in its Biblical or Rabbinic form, or that they did not intend for Biblical or Rabbinic Hebrew to be "archaic" relative to the form taken on by revived Hebrew, or at least...
- 29 Jan 2024 23:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
- Views: 160475
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I'm loving all of these minimalist, Iau/Gadsup-influenced inventories. Also, WeepingElf, since you mentioned it, I've been a fan of your Svalbardian sketch ever since I encountered it. It would be cool to see you do something more with it.
- 26 Jan 2024 18:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16995
Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Okay, the first translation of an actual (very brief!) text. I've also begun compiling vocab, and tweaked the frequencies of the consonants to create a slightly different aesthetic in the vocab. I am now using the following glossing abbreviations for the particles: re - ᴍᴅ (modifier) se - ᴘʀ (predic...
- 25 Jan 2024 22:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Celtic/Greenlandic diachronic language [comments encouraged]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 393
Re: Celtic/Greenlandic diachronic language [comments encouraged]
Just as a suggestion, if you're trying to have linguistic convergence with/influence from Greenlandic Inuit, since your scenario involves alternate history and fictional islands anyway, I don't see why you would need to have them wait until 1700 for contact with Greenland. If the island was close en...
- 25 Jan 2024 01:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16995
Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Toying with phoneme frequency and its effects on phonoaesthetics using the Lexifier app . Here's a sample wordlist and the (naturally very simple!) code I used for it: ate ase ehe era mana mare naa nai nao nata neo nere nito noo numo pala pona tama tano tata tasa tahe tene tesi tehe tisa kee voe san...
- 24 Jan 2024 21:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16995
Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
A bit more regarding pe Allowing an unstressed neutral particle that did not strictly define a unique syntactic relationship was a concession I made to naturalism. In another concession to naturalism, I have given it a diachronic origin - a "virtual" one, anyway, since I am not placing th...
- 24 Jan 2024 05:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16995
Re: Porphyrogenitos' scratchpad and intermittent glossolalia
Okay, yet again again revising a particular concept of mine I've posted about before. On numerous occasions I've toyed with a language where all syntactic relations are encoded through four basic constructions - modified-modifier, subject-predicate, action-goal, and apposition. In basically all of m...
- 23 Jan 2024 23:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213519
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
I've been thinking about a generic-specific system like in some Australian languages lately, and also a collective/singulative number system, and just thought of a way to combine the two. Following Wilkinson's (1991) grammar of Djambarrpuyng (Yolngu) and Gaby's (2006) grammar of Kuuk Thaayorre, I po...
- 21 Jan 2024 02:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: River Skasti (new grammar)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13632
Re: Yulá Skásti (new grammar)
I'm a definite fan of the Siouan-like stop-fricative clusters, ks kʃ kx pʃ px, etc. The script you've made is delightful, it is reminiscent both of Cherokee and of the new Osage alphabet, as well as the Latin-derived Fox abugida/alphabet. It would look really nice if you could develop a font that re...
- 20 Jan 2024 20:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
- Views: 160475
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Not sure what this is meant to be. /m n/ ⟨m n⟩ /p t k/ ⟨p t k⟩ /b d g/ ⟨b d g⟩ /v s x/ ⟨w s h⟩ /r l j/ ⟨r l j⟩ /i y u/ ⟨i y u⟩ /e o/ ⟨e o⟩ /a/ ⟨a⟩ Maximal syllable structure CRVC. Any consonant may be in either the onset or coda. Permissible CR clusters: pr pl pj br bl bj tr tv tj dr dv dj kr kl kv ...