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- 26 Mar 2024 05:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
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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...
- 13 Mar 2024 00:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
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...
- 12 Mar 2024 03:21
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194158
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Also my go to_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).
- 09 Mar 2024 06:28
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194158
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
WordPerfect's a program I haven't heard of for a whileKhemehekis wrote: ↑09 Mar 2024 05:20 I just ran SpellCheck (Corel WordPerfect's version thereof) on my LCV file.
- 07 Mar 2024 04:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 647
Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Hmm, my script doesn't have underdots, though it does have breve below to indicate velars.Arayaz wrote: ↑06 Mar 2024 20:25 The diagram is up with these languages! More would still be appreciated, of course.
- 06 Mar 2024 02:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 647
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
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
- 05 Mar 2024 01:59
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194158
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
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-role-hist ... evolve.amp
May be a useful thing to decide on one's colour terminology
- 27 Feb 2024 12:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
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...
- 27 Feb 2024 10:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 207342
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...
- 23 Feb 2024 18:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 207342
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...
- 23 Feb 2024 17:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 207342
- 14 Feb 2024 02:38
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is it alright if I don't evolve my language?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 340
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...
- 13 Feb 2024 01:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
- 13 Feb 2024 01:33
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Too many pronouns?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 503
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...
- 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: 662
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.
- 10 Feb 2024 20:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
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 ...
- 10 Feb 2024 04:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
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...
- 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.
- 09 Feb 2024 10:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
- 07 Feb 2024 04:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
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 ...