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- 04 Apr 2024 05:02
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332964
Re: False cognates
(really want to write 'onomatopoeiae' there, just for the extra vowel...) Let's do it! vary massively even between neighbouring languages. The sound of things like frogs is hugely subjective, given that they're made in a totally non-human way. "Ribbit" is kind of like "ticktock"...
- 02 Apr 2024 20:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332964
Re: False cognates
The word for cuckoo in most languages seems to be based off their calls, or diachronically descended from that (e.g. Lithuanian vs. Latvian). But I haven't found much info on what Amerind languages call them. It's weird speaking a European language in a country with very different wildlife. The onl...
- 28 Mar 2024 07:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1074
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Túwemeŋúmwehhómavváŋeším ŋážā. t<úw>ém -e- ŋúm -wē- hóm -ā- váŋ -e- ším | ŋáž -ā get.eaten<CAUS>-LK2-be.cattle-ATTR-be.tasty-SBJ.R2-hunt-LK2-be.fish | be.tall-SBJ.R2 The fisherman tasty-beef-eats | he is tall "The tall fisherman eats tasty beef." In this case, for the time being, the info...
- 24 Mar 2024 17:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1074
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Thank you for the link to that article. It was an interesting read. I'm currently working on a polysynthetic language which is tentatively called Miwosh or ( Míwoš ). It's a revamp of another language of mine, Balog, and the main idea is that I wanted to spoonerise almost all of the particles with t...
- 09 Mar 2024 11:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 858
Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Hibuese:
a b bw by d dw dy dz dzw e g gw gy h hw hy i l lw ly m mb mbw mby mw my n nd ndw ndy ndz ndzw ng ngg nggw nggy ngw ngy nw ny r u v vw vy w y z zw zy zyw
In loanwords: f fy fw k kw ky p pw py q s sw sy t tw ty
a b bw by d dw dy dz dzw e g gw gy h hw hy i l lw ly m mb mbw mby mw my n nd ndw ndy ndz ndzw ng ngg nggw nggy ngw ngy nw ny r u v vw vy w y z zw zy zyw
In loanwords: f fy fw k kw ky p pw py q s sw sy t tw ty
- 24 Feb 2024 10:55
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The food that we were going to sell
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11125
Re: The food that we were going to sell
:con: Hibuese Assuming 1st person exclusive. Zyamo u nanai zi ga nongge zyii ze mwe ne nongge u zyei yu zye zyamo u nganai ngwe. zyamo u nana=i zi ga nongge zyi=i ze mwe ne nongge u zye=i yu zye zyamo u nganai ngwe food SIT 1P=COP PST FUT sell GEN.DEF=COP NEG able PASS sell SIT cause=COP SR cause fo...
- 18 Feb 2024 10:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1519
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
In Hibuese, definiteness is indicated quite optionally using the singular 3rd person pronoun de or its plural form dwe . Subject: It tends not to be used in the subject because subjects tend to be assumed definite. The predicate is generally assumed indefinite, and this results in a cleft-like struc...
- 18 Feb 2024 09:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361785
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Could an argument be made for including /t/ as a possible coda but not any other stops by saying that the language has a preference for coronal consonants in general? It's for a non-human language but they are fairly humanoid, so I'd like to keep details and reasoning for why things are how they ar...
- 28 Jan 2024 15:29
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Ablative Absolute
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9881
Re: Ablative Absolute
:con: Hibuese: U bumbai dzo dyomi do, dumwai bye. u bumba=i dzo dyomi do | dumwa=i bye SIT city=COP ANT.PASS capture A thus | soldier=COP depart A (With) the city being captured, the soldiers left. The do is only there because the situational clause has been fronted. It could also be expressed as: D...
- 22 Jan 2024 19:33
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Go and find him!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9850
Re: Go and find him!
There are two different ways in Wena/Hibuese/Ngeho/Zyange Ho/whatever name I call it, because "look for" is a compound of either "hunt-hold" or "hunt-see", depending on what the purpose of looking for the object is. (1) He zolo nguvwe zyi. he zo-lo ngu- vwe zyi JUSS loc...
- 17 Jan 2024 13:20
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: You helped me
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11380
Re: You helped me
Wai zi be zyu nai zyeu mbingui zongwo.
wa=i zi be zyu na=i zye-u mbi-ngu=i zo-ngwo
2S=COP PST helpA GEN.SR 1S=COP cause-SIT animal-huntA=COP locomoteA-leg
You helped me walk the dog.
(Literally: "You helped that I make that the dog walks.")
wa=i zi be zyu na=i zye-u mbi-ngu=i zo-ngwo
2S=COP PST helpA GEN.SR 1S=COP cause-SIT animal-huntA=COP locomoteA-leg
You helped me walk the dog.
(Literally: "You helped that I make that the dog walks.")
- 07 Jan 2024 07:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 93
- Views: 26590
Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
https://i.imgur.com/H8vBGZk.png Tqoqo oil Joe' 😂 It could also be translated as the sentence This galaxy is lonely . Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for semantic ambiguity. I think it's absolutely fine for a title, but I'm most interested in whether this is a universal ambiguity acro...
- 07 Jan 2024 06:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361785
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Commonthroat uses a Mandarin-style coverb to form passive phrases. I want to be lazy and use other coverbs for a reciprocal voice and a reflexive/middle voice. Does that make sense? This is all in an attempt to avoid pronouns. All looks good to me. Syntactically though, what makes them coverbs and ...
- 31 Dec 2023 17:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 216
- Views: 71522
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
Yawa t'iqqaš ai hebwa na nabwa todzitlukqesaviŋ. yawa | t ii=qaš ai he-bwa na na-bwa [t+o+dz+i+tl+u+kq+e+s+a+v+i]-ŋ hey | time DEF.R5=year LK2 two-set.of.hands one one-set.of.hands [0.5x8+0.5x512+0.5x32+0.5x256+0.5x64+0.5x128+0.5x128+0.5x64+0.5x256+0.5x32+0.5x512+0.5x8]-COLL Hello from the year 202...
- 29 Dec 2023 13:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 216
- Views: 71522
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
In breg serres neden igat. 1sg.1 3sg.nonhuman.4 2sg.FRM.3 cross-2 hope / I hope you're out of the woods by now. Ğa kavu t'ihhil ba xed iit nažudzaŋ is selisas . ğa kavu t ii=hi-l | ba xed ii=t | [n+a+ž+u+dz+a]-ŋ ii=selisas. AFF but time DEF.R5=CONT-day | very hot DEF.R5=time | [0.5x1+0.5x32+0.5x4+0...
- 28 Dec 2023 09:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 216
- Views: 71522
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
T'iw wik e kwisimas ba ŋuŋuwe vuhaž aaz s'iddižim dža Qwiyuhog aunnuhežaŋotän. t ii=wik-e-kwisimas | ba ŋu~ŋuwe v<uh>až aa=ž | s ii=d-i-ž-im | dža Q<w><iy><uh>og auu=[n+u+h+e+ž+a]-ŋ-o-tän time DEF.R5=week-LK2-Christmas | very FREQ-again thunderstorm<EXPERIENCE> DEF.R4=1P | place DEF.R5=DEM-PROX-1S-...
- 14 Dec 2023 16:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361785
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So would <lPrg> mean an act of climbing or would it make more sense for it to mean a climber? It's very typical among natlangs (on Earth anyway 😉) for the most basic nominal derivation from a verb to be either a gerund (the general name of the action) or a noun indicating an event of the action. Pe...
- 14 Dec 2023 14:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361785
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Minor quibbles. (To be fair I also have an extra syllable in California , but who's counting anyway?) The whole point of naming mergers is that you name two words that actually merge, if possible, like "caught/cot". Sometimes it's not, like "father/bother" (I guess "khan/co...
- 13 Dec 2023 04:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361785
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Nah, too many other phonemes differ too, as well as the stress pattern.VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑11 Dec 2023 09:31 Even better, the Kelly four near/California merger ("Is that Kelly number three in northern Mexico? No, that's Kelly four near California.")
/ˌkeliˈfɔːˌnɪə/
/ˌkæləˈfɔːnjə/
- 11 Dec 2023 09:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Extreme Conlang Ideas
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2303
Re: Extreme Conlang Ideas
A video language on something like a sentient cuttlefish. Some morphemes could be iconic, looking like a visual representation of the referent, but over time, they could easily change to be less and less iconic.