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by Linguist_Wannabe
15 Jan 2016 07:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CVCV... langs
Replies: 15
Views: 4975

Re: CVCV... langs

Fusional morphology tends to evolve from agglutination, and I can think of a number of ways that this could evolve in a CVCV language: The language has some grammatical process that shifts the stress from one syllable to another. English does (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_nou...
by Linguist_Wannabe
09 Jan 2016 07:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Dŭhog (Collaborative Project), Now: Nominal Morphology, etc.
Replies: 235
Views: 28962

Re: Project Nephrite, the Collaboration: Sound Changes

... That's good to know! Okay, so in that case, I will likely use intervocalic nasalization, but stick with [ŋg] in clusters. How exactly is /ago/~/aŋo/ syllabified (/aŋ.o/ or /a.ŋo/)? Even speakers who nasalise the /g/ always syllabify あご /ago/ as [a.ŋo], just like it would be without the nasalisa...
by Linguist_Wannabe
09 Jan 2016 06:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Language contact between two conlangs: Need help
Replies: 4
Views: 2936

Re: Language contact between two conlangs: Need help

Thanks for sharing, this is really interesting! Before I dig into to all the sound/grammatical changes, I want to ask: have you thought about what changes will be occurring to the lexicons of both languages (and the third creole language)? In terms of lexicon, the only thing that I have thought abo...
by Linguist_Wannabe
07 Jan 2016 13:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Dŭhog (Collaborative Project), Now: Nominal Morphology, etc.
Replies: 235
Views: 28962

Re: Project Nephrite, the Collaboration: Sound Changes

@ Wannabe : After that discussion about [ŋ] came up I had done some looking around, and found that the consonant cluster in /nihongo/ can be rendered a bunch of different ways, including [ŋŋ] and [ŋg]. So, it's good that an independent source (you) can confirm that. Also, I was kind of afraid about...
by Linguist_Wannabe
07 Jan 2016 13:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Language contact between two conlangs: Need help
Replies: 4
Views: 2936

Re: Language contact between two conlangs: Need help

This is a very interesting topic. I wonder why no one hase taken a grap and answered. I suppose "religionalally holy" languages usually have an ancient reguister used for religional purposes. Arabic, Ge'ez, Sanskrit, Latin... Think this doen't have to be seen as a contact phenomenon, yet ...
by Linguist_Wannabe
04 Jan 2016 13:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Language contact between two conlangs: Need help
Replies: 4
Views: 2936

Language contact between two conlangs: Need help

Hi everyone, I have been working away on some conlangs for my far-future Antarctican conworld (global warming has melted the ice). Now that I have fleshed out some, I want to create another one that evolves as the result of heavy language contact between speakers of different languages. Here is the ...
by Linguist_Wannabe
04 Jan 2016 11:13
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Proto-Arctic (proto-sdantan)
Replies: 11
Views: 2917

Re: Proto-Arctic (proto-sdantan)

Is the language influenced by Inuit languages at all?
by Linguist_Wannabe
04 Jan 2016 11:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Dŭhog (Collaborative Project), Now: Nominal Morphology, etc.
Replies: 235
Views: 28962

Re: Project Nephrite, the Collaboration: Sound Changes

Skimmed through this thread, and have a few random thoughts. [ŋ] is definitely heard in modern Japanese (as an allophone of /g/ intervocalically). It gets more common the further north you go up Honshu. Even in Tokyo, it is very common. A minority of speakers even nasalise the /g/ in all non-word in...
by Linguist_Wannabe
04 Jan 2016 10:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Proto-Atlantic
Replies: 16
Views: 3254

Re: Proto-Atlantic

One comment on the doubly articulated stops (e.g. kp, gb). These have an extremely strong tendency to be areal features (see http://wals.info/chapter/19). It seems very unlikely that they would develop in a language spoken in Europe. With your history though, perhaps you could do some diachronics. W...
by Linguist_Wannabe
20 Dec 2015 08:09
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Adding Evidentiality/Mood to Kämpya
Replies: 2
Views: 1154

Re: Adding Evidentiality/Mood to Kämpya

Good points. I should try and get a copy of the book.
by Linguist_Wannabe
19 Dec 2015 05:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rumunil
Replies: 7
Views: 1733

Re: Rumunil

(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C) if you count syllabics consonants as vowels, otherwise is pretty much up (C)(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C)(C)(C) The question that springs to mind here is what restrictions are there on consonant clusters? Is every combination of consonants possible? That is pretty rare cross-ling...
by Linguist_Wannabe
19 Dec 2015 05:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Word nuances in conlangs
Replies: 13
Views: 2044

Re: Word nuances in conlangs

North-East Antarctican http://linguifex.com/wiki/North-East_Antarctican has different words for freshwater and ocean fish. These are /ˈxa̰ɾʲɨ/ [ˈxæ̰ːɾʲḭ] and /ˈkʷɨ̤sːɨ/ [ˈkʷṳsːɨ] respectively. The language has a rich sound symbolism. Tense voiced vowels and palatalised consonants have a strong assoc...
by Linguist_Wannabe
19 Dec 2015 04:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Adding Evidentiality/Mood to Kämpya
Replies: 2
Views: 1154

Adding Evidentiality/Mood to Kämpya

Hi everyone, A while back, I made a conlang Kämpya that lacked TAM marking. Anyway, I decided to put evidentiality into it. I thought about it, and figured that it would work better with mood inflections also added, and conflated with the evidentiality system (for example, what evidential would you ...
by Linguist_Wannabe
11 Oct 2015 04:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang with a Vertical Vowel System
Replies: 2
Views: 1482

Re: Conlang with a Vertical Vowel System

cool system :) That reminds me of Marshallese. I have ever done at least one conlang with a vertical vowel system, the Tweken language. Later I made an ancestor language for the Tweken language and imported the ancestor language of the Tweken language as the Late Central Zempachi of Teles... maybe ...
by Linguist_Wannabe
10 Oct 2015 14:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang with a Vertical Vowel System
Replies: 2
Views: 1482

Conlang with a Vertical Vowel System

Inspired by languages like Abkhaz, I have had a shot at making a conlang with a vertical vowel system. Front and back vowels are allophones of each other (e.g. and are both allophones of a single phoneme/ɨ/. Likewise [e] and [o] are both allophones of /ə/. Here it is http://linguifex.com/wiki/North-...
by Linguist_Wannabe
04 Oct 2015 12:28
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)
Replies: 7
Views: 1978

Re: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)

Snow people! Snow people all the way. Kings and war and such are a bit overdone, in my opinion. The Fjord people are also interesting, and the Tundra people could be, too, but they desperately require fleshing out. Could you provide us with a map with the rough location of each group? Here is a ver...
by Linguist_Wannabe
29 Sep 2015 13:40
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)
Replies: 7
Views: 1978

Re: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)

It looks nice, do you have ideas about languages of them? :) Also, do they have guns? In my opinion, guns would be one of the last disappear technologies, as everyone in a post-apocalyptic world needs them to protect themselves and their families, friends and villages. This conlang http://linguifex...
by Linguist_Wannabe
29 Sep 2015 13:36
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)
Replies: 7
Views: 1978

Re: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)

Snow people! Snow people all the way. Kings and war and such are a bit overdone, in my opinion. The Fjord people are also interesting, and the Tundra people could be, too, but they desperately require fleshing out. Could you provide us with a map with the rough location of each group? Here is a ver...
by Linguist_Wannabe
28 Sep 2015 11:46
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)
Replies: 7
Views: 1978

Antarctican Concultures (Greenhouse World)

To cut a long story short, I want to write a novel set in far future Antarctica, when a runaway greenhouse effect has melted most of the ice, but rendered most of the rest of the world uninhabitable. Large numbers of human refugees (especially from tropical countries) fled south and settled on the s...
by Linguist_Wannabe
19 Sep 2015 07:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Silvish
Replies: 244
Views: 75804

Re: Silvish

Lots of things in this are really cool e.g. the liason and the ablaut.

Just one thing: The language used to have geminate nasals, laterals and rhotics. But it didn't have geminate stops or fricatives. All of the languages that I can think of that have gemination allow it on voiceless stops at least.