Czech maso "flesh, meat" v.s. English muscle
the words sound kinda similar(and l > o/u can happen diachronically) and the semantics are also related, but they are not cognates.
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- 23 Jan 2021 04:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 777
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- 16 Jan 2021 21:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
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Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
English Norse "the collective Scandinavian people" v.s. Swedish nors "smelt(fish)"
- 07 Jan 2021 04:16
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: alternative English with German superstrate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 190
Re: alternative English with German superstrate
Probably a greater tendency to use native words, and a tendency to calque words from German. Grammatically I personally don't think it would be much different, maybe some native derivational affixes(not inflections) would be more productive as they look similar to the cognates in German(i.e. the be-...
- 05 Dec 2020 05:24
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 367
- Views: 55885
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I have written that Kompalia is a pioneer in contacting non-human extraterrestrial civilizations, but I am not sure if this is ok for you all. Also I want to keep the mechanism of FTL drives unexplained as of now, is it ok for you all? Those are both fine by me! Do we have an idea of which country ...
- 04 Dec 2020 16:45
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Twin Aster (Linguifex's conworld megathread)
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Re: Linguifex's conworld megathread
I wonder if I should also create a megathread for my conworlds' things
- 11 Nov 2020 19:09
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 367
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Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I have written that Kompalia is a pioneer in contacting non-human extraterrestrial civilizations, but I am not sure if this is ok for you all. Also I want to keep the mechanism of FTL drives unexplained as of now, is it ok for you all? Those are both fine by me! Do we have an idea of which country ...
- 10 Nov 2020 03:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
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- Views: 55885
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
sure that can do, anytime is ok.
and thanks for sharing the timeline.
Also I think the current technological level of Damta is about 500 years ahead that of our world, does this still hold?
and thanks for sharing the timeline.
Also I think the current technological level of Damta is about 500 years ahead that of our world, does this still hold?
- 05 Nov 2020 11:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 367
- Views: 55885
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
also Querlongs should be Quers, the word Querlong is the name for their language.k1234567890y wrote: ↑29 Oct 2020 11:38 Also
I am having an idea of sharing the Querlongs, a group of non-human aliens from my conworld(s) with Damta.
- 31 Oct 2020 16:33
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
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- Views: 55885
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I've done a bit more conworlding - written some more about the Second Confederation, and started an article about religion/philosophy in the Bokisig culture. I've also measured some distances, and though I've only occupied a small part of the map so far, some of the distances were huge. I'd like to...
- 30 Oct 2020 04:04
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
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- Views: 55885
- 29 Oct 2020 11:38
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 367
- Views: 55885
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
Also
I am having an idea of sharing the Querlongs, a group of non-human aliens from my conworld(s) with Damta.
I am having an idea of sharing the Querlongs, a group of non-human aliens from my conworld(s) with Damta.
- 29 Oct 2020 07:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
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Re: False cognates
English gas v.s. Finnish kaasu
they sound really similar lol but the English word is from Dutch gas, which in turn is possibly from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); while the Finnish word is from a Sami language, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *käsä (“dew”)
they sound really similar lol but the English word is from Dutch gas, which in turn is possibly from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); while the Finnish word is from a Sami language, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *käsä (“dew”)
- 28 Oct 2020 16:42
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 367
- Views: 55885
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
Just updated something for Likepeg people, sorry for the hiatus
- 27 Oct 2020 15:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
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Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Japanese Totoro (name of a fictional animal) and Old High German totoro "egg yolk"
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- 15 Oct 2020 11:02
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 367
- Views: 55885
- 15 Oct 2020 11:02
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 123
- Views: 54992
Re: Surprising cognates
English bite and English fibre (borrowed from Latin fibra)
both of them are from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ("to split")
both of them are from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ("to split")
- 11 Oct 2020 05:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
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Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
An isolating language where there are no adpositions, and there are no inflectional affixes and productive derivational affixes either, all meanings of adpositions are conveyed by the use of verbs and nouns(and the language has serial verb construction), and most conjunctions are from content words...
- 10 Oct 2020 06:32
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How necessary are noun cases?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1808
Re: How necessary are noun cases?
.... But on the other hand, nominal cases can be useful, and you can take a look at what others have said above, but in my opinion, nominal cases simply are not a necessity. To sum up. Many features that are frequently quite useful are also frequently not strictly necessary, and occasionally deuced...
- 09 Oct 2020 16:47
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How necessary are noun cases?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1808
Re: How necessary are noun cases?
according to WALS, 100 out of 261(38.3%) languages don't have noun cases, that is, nearly 2 out of every 5 languages don't have noun cases: https://wals.info/chapter/49 also 98 out of 190(51.6%) languages have a neutral alignment on nouns, that is, more than half of all languages distinguish the sub...
- 12 Sep 2020 14:27
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: If you were to write one novel...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1738
Re: If you were to write one novel...
also I kinda wanna write novels in my conlangs xd or at least have dialogues of my conlangs involved