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by Ahzoh
26 Mar 2024 05:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207132

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I worked on word order shenanigans: Conjunctive order: (P)V(S)O Idependent order: (P)(S)OV Examples: La=tasīmtan ˀilgas. "And they have a fish" L=āzan tasīmtan ˀilgas. "And it is they who have a fish" La=tasīmtan lumbūwa ˀilgas. "And the women have a fish" L=āzan tasīmt...
by Ahzoh
13 Mar 2024 00:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

How unusual would it be for a language to have phonemic breathy voiced stops, but no regular voiced nor aspirated stops? Would basically be the opposite of languages that contrast between aspirated voiceless and unaspirated voiced stops Instead of stop[+aspirated][-voiced] vs stop[-aspirated][+voic...
by Ahzoh
12 Mar 2024 03:21
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193810

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: 12 Mar 2024 03:02 As for an online IPA keyboard, I use this site which I believe can write every IPA character (though some are hidden until you press "more" on the right).
Also my go to
by Ahzoh
09 Mar 2024 06:28
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193810

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Khemehekis wrote: 09 Mar 2024 05:20 I just ran SpellCheck (Corel WordPerfect's version thereof) on my LCV file.
WordPerfect's a program I haven't heard of for a while
by Ahzoh
07 Mar 2024 04:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Replies: 21
Views: 645

Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?

Arayaz wrote: 06 Mar 2024 20:25 The diagram is up with these languages! More would still be appreciated, of course.
Hmm, my script doesn't have underdots, though it does have breve below to indicate velars.
by Ahzoh
06 Mar 2024 02:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Replies: 21
Views: 645

Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?

I'm not sure how useful that'd be since so many romanizations overlap, but eh:

Vrkhazhian
ˀ m p b f w n t d s z ś ź r l n̮ k g ḫ y
a e i u ā ē ī ū â ê î û
by Ahzoh
05 Mar 2024 01:59
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Replies: 762
Views: 193810

Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread

Came across this article:
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-role-hist ... evolve.amp

May be a useful thing to decide on one's colour terminology
by Ahzoh
27 Feb 2024 12:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I intend my language to have (optional) polypersonal agreement. How naturalistic would it be for only the affixes agreeing with the subject to distinguish gender/animacy while the object affixes only mark person and number? The result would be thus: 3fs>3s: -tu-kka 3ms>3s: -ti-kka 3ns>3s: -ta-kka 3f...
by Ahzoh
27 Feb 2024 10:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Replies: 900
Views: 207247

Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax

I have this idea for Vrkhazhian: The language has no unmarked ditransitive verbs and the only way to form a true ditransitive is a verb in the applicative voice, of which there are two: the dative and the instrumental (which also double as a benefactive and causative, respectively). So, you'd have a...
by Ahzoh
23 Feb 2024 18:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Replies: 900
Views: 207247

Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax

But wouldn't a kind of 'source' vs. 'goal' vs. 'everything else' work? I guess it would amount to a complex combination of Split-S or Fluid-S with differential object marking and secundative alignment. So like the follwing. Intransitive verbs split according to semantic S-ABL V (e.g. I snore) S-ALL...
by Ahzoh
23 Feb 2024 17:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Replies: 900
Views: 207247

Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax

Visions1 wrote: 22 Feb 2024 21:56 Instead of a Nom-Acc-Gen or Nom-Acc-Obl distinction,
have an Ablative-Allative-Oblique distinction.
Can't work, at least not with that terminology. The definition of oblique is that it covers everything that isn't nominative (and vocative), absolutive, or direct.
by Ahzoh
14 Feb 2024 02:38
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Is it alright if I don't evolve my language?
Replies: 8
Views: 339

Re: Is it alright if I don't evolve my language?

Yes. A written work about a language is just a snapshot in time, after all. A language can be relatively stable for long periods of time with very few or no changes. Maybe not a few thousand years, but a few hundred for sure. Frankly, the more you learn about sound, semantic, and grammatical changes...
by Ahzoh
13 Feb 2024 01:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Omzinesý wrote: 12 Feb 2024 23:32 In what kind of vowel inventories does /ʉ/ (close central rounded vowel) appear?
Wikipedia has a very short list.
Ones with rounding harmony and its unrounded counterpart isn't neutral.
by Ahzoh
13 Feb 2024 01:33
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Too many pronouns?
Replies: 9
Views: 500

Re: Too many pronouns?

I think it would be important to make a distinction between a pronoun stem and pronoun form. A language with a lot of cases may have a lot of pronoun forms but working with a very small set of pronoun stems. Moreover you could have derived stems, such as derivied reflexive stems from basic stems. St...
by Ahzoh
12 Feb 2024 22:29
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Does my take on Godzilla break the Law of the Conservation of Energy?
Replies: 12
Views: 661

Re: Does my take on Godzilla break the Law of the Conservation of Energy?

I always interpreted Godzilla's breath as some kind of directed energy weapon and not some explosion emanated out of a mouth or dragonbreath.
by Ahzoh
10 Feb 2024 20:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Just concerning the "obstruent influence tone without bearing it"-question. Depressor consonant is a good key word. Onset obstruents can synchronically and phonetically influence tone because they require a certain state of the glottis for their voicing value which restricts the possible ...
by Ahzoh
10 Feb 2024 04:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So my language primarily develops tone through merging of voiced and voiceless obstruents in simple onsets and the simplification of complex onsets. This results in an ultimate manifestation of high, low, falling, and rising in open syllables, with the latter two coming from diphthongs. However I ca...
by Ahzoh
10 Feb 2024 01:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Replies: 28
Views: 1177

Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?

Vrkhazhian has no definiteness marking. However, nouns modified by demonstratives are inherently definite. I've also considered that the subject/agents of verbs tend to be definite by default while objects/patients are indefinite by default.
by Ahzoh
09 Feb 2024 10:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Omzinesý wrote: 09 Feb 2024 10:15 There was a conlang genarator that was able to generate relatively nice sketches.
What was its adress?
Gleb?
by Ahzoh
07 Feb 2024 04:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347413

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Does the following make sense? H R > M R = á ǎ > ā ǎ M R > L R = ā ǎ > à ǎ L R > no change = à ǎ > à ǎ H F > no change = á â > á â M F > H F = ā â > á â L F > M F = à â > ā â R H > no change = ǎ á > ǎ á R M > R H = ǎ ā > ǎ á R L > R M = ǎ à > ǎ ā F H > F M = â á > â ā F M > F L = â ā > â à F L > no ...