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- 07 May 2024 17:21
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3524
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Re: Romanization game #2
/p t k kʷ/<p t c cw> /f θ s ʂ ɕ x xʷ/<f cz ci s cj ch cv> /t͡s ʈ͡ʂ t͡ɕ/<ce cr cy> /m n ŋ ŋʷ/<m n ng nw> /l j w/<l j w> /r/<r> /i iː y yː u uː/<i i' ü û u ú> /e eː o oː/<e é o ó> /a aː/<a á> <e> and <i> are written as <ë> and <y> after <c>, <ci>, and <ce>. Next: /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ/ /b ɓ t d ɗ c ɟ ʄ k ɠ q ɢ...
- 07 May 2024 15:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 907
- Views: 215195
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
How about crossing marked nominative alignment with split ergativity? Let's say the split is based on animacy. Animate subjects and inanimate objects of transitive verbs would be marked with the direct (?) case. Wece-sung tuba-sung diku. woman-DIR stone-DIR admire. The woman admires the stone. Both ...
- 07 May 2024 08:39
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 113
- Views: 10057
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #38
Common trees on Fredauon include Ginkgo trees, Seal Trees, Scale Trees, Ferns, Seed Ferns, Cycads, and Conifers.
Common trees on Fredauon include Ginkgo trees, Seal Trees, Scale Trees, Ferns, Seed Ferns, Cycads, and Conifers.
- 07 May 2024 08:30
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 802
- Views: 201824
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I see from your descriptions that our tastes differ considerably (I also like science fiction/fantasy/superhero stuff but I really need some action scenes in order to be happy in addition to stuff that makes me ponder or something new. And I get weirded out by most crime shows and political drama.) ...
- 07 May 2024 08:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1071
- Views: 275423
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
My first guess:
otekjō
otekjō
- 06 May 2024 17:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 113
- Views: 10057
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Maybe it's better to just stay inside.
- 06 May 2024 14:58
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 113
- Views: 10057
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
I guess that depends on the height that the aeroplankton occurs in. When it's higher up, people will see it but not feel it. I was thinking of it being closer to the dust in the Sahara Air Layer *here*. If it comes down on an inhabited area, it might cause problems for people with asthma or allergie...
- 06 May 2024 09:25
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 113
- Views: 10057
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #37 Certain parts of Fredauon are very rich in aeroplakton. This includes several species of balloning animals, such as small flying spiders, mites and caterpillars, as well as roundworms, and spores of quillwort trees and ferns. During certain seasons this areal phenomenon is hig...
- 03 May 2024 08:09
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: The partner of the benefactive is...?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 235
Re: The partner of the benefactive is...?
I don't think a benefactive case is the case used for the 'giver', that should be a pegative case, IINM. The case used for a recipient is the dative case.
- 27 Apr 2024 19:11
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: What happened on November 18th 2019 at 18:41 UTC?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 276
Re: What happened on November 18th 2019 at 18:41 UTC?
My guess is that there were lots of bots on that day, maybe even spambots. Maybe it was the time when spambots discovered kitchen-sink (conlangs) and tried to sell us kitchens?
- 26 Apr 2024 18:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Hi'im conlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1433
Re: Hi'im conlang
[...] Syntax and inflection [...] E [noun] [verb] , means [verb]ing noun, and e [verb] [noun] means [verb]ed [noun]. For example, e pas ihl (REL dog it-greet) means dog that greets , and e ahli pas (REL I-greet-it dog) means dog that I greet . [...] I like this part. Word order as the distinguishin...
- 16 Apr 2024 18:10
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Phoneme cooccurrence in Phoible inventories
- Replies: 5
- Views: 425
Re: Phoneme cooccurrence in Phoible inventories
/ɛ ɔ/ are lax mid vowels and /e o/ are tense mid vowels.
- 16 Apr 2024 13:26
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Help detect language?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 443
Re: Help detect language?
For me, it looks like symbols from several different scripts. Maybe Hangeul mixed with some Japanese script?
- 16 Apr 2024 10:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Phoneme cooccurrence in Phoible inventories
- Replies: 5
- Views: 425
Re: Phoneme cooccurrence in Phoible inventories
Neat, I wouldn't have guessed the Afro-Asiatic stuff but it certainly makes sense. Ah, all of them are also Chadic and most of them are Central Chadic aka Biu-Mandara. Might be a genetic effect as the two segments are also reconstructed for Proto-Central Chadic per this list: https://en.m.wiktionary...
- 14 Apr 2024 08:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kobardon - Lingua Franca used in Frédauon
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15332
Re: Kobardon - Lingua Franca used in Frédauon
The post on adjectives made me realize that large parts of this should not go in the nominal symtax part and should probably be added to the section on copular clauses. I also decided that complex adjectival attributive construction (the very big man, the proud-of-his-son dad, the larger-than-me wom...
- 13 Apr 2024 23:10
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Case system questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 245
Re: Case system questions
Yes, the general idea sounds naturalistic. Why shouldn't it be?
It would help if you could give details on your harmony (vowel harmony, I guess) and the other sound changes. I could try to guess from the examples, but it would be easier if you could explain it.
It would help if you could give details on your harmony (vowel harmony, I guess) and the other sound changes. I could try to guess from the examples, but it would be easier if you could explain it.
- 13 Apr 2024 22:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kobardon - Lingua Franca used in Frédauon
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15332
Re: Kobardon - Lingua Franca used in Frédauon
Prepositional Phrases Prepositional phrases are introduced by particles and can modify nouns. This use of particles can be described as prepositional in that they closely mirror adpositional meanings in other languages. Prepositions precede the noun phrase they belong to. Prepositional phrases modi...
- 13 Apr 2024 22:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Phoneme cooccurrence in Phoible inventories
- Replies: 5
- Views: 425
Phoneme cooccurrence in Phoible inventories
I just wanted to share this graphic that I found on the conlangs subreddit. It shows how often certain phonemes cooccur in a phoneme inventory in the Phoible database. https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/1c34qmy/tree_chart_of_phoneme_cooccurence/ There are some cool surprises there (of course...
- 12 Apr 2024 20:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kobardon - Lingua Franca used in Frédauon
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15332
Re: Kobardon - Lingua Franca used in Frédauon
Thank you I hope some people are still reading my dry walls of text
- 11 Apr 2024 21:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1758
- Views: 368651
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The standard example is 'Kannst du mir ein Stück Brot zu Fuß geben?' 'Can you give me a piece of bread 'by foot', meaning without a plate or anything. There is still some movement involved and I haven't really heard it in other contexts. I vaguely recall that in some North American language 'by foot...