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by Zythros Jubi
27 Feb 2023 19:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tirmasz: Oghuria revisited
Replies: 5
Views: 452

Re: Tirmasz: Oghuria revisited

Eskêl is spelled Eskyl for the time being. I don't want to make the orthography too Hungarian; BTW in Hungarian the short /e/ was spelled <ë>, I use the letter <y> to lessen the occurrence of diacritics, as it is a very common vowel .
by Zythros Jubi
27 Feb 2023 18:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Tirmasz: Oghuria revisited
Replies: 5
Views: 452

Re: Tirmasz: Oghuria revisited

I've come to a bottleneck because much of the inherent Oghuric vocabulary Is unknown to us, especially those peculiar to Oghuric and absent in other Turkic branches. The same can be said about other innovations such as sound changes and semantic shifts. Chuvash alone has limited value, as it has a h...
by Zythros Jubi
07 Feb 2022 08:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: An Unusual Orthography (Concept)
Replies: 12
Views: 1761

Re: An Unusual Orthography (Concept)

Yes, and some Rgyalrongic languages (not closely related but phonologically similar to Old Tibetan and bearing a great number of Tibetan loanwords) have recently started to be written in the Tibetan script, although I can't remember where I read about this. Generally the Tibetan lexical stratum in ...
by Zythros Jubi
29 Jan 2022 15:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Papuanic Conlang(s)?
Replies: 6
Views: 1098

Re: Papuanic Conlang(s)?

Well, there is one named Abakwi.
by Zythros Jubi
16 Jan 2022 17:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Trilingual altlang scenarios
Replies: 5
Views: 1060

Re: Trilingual altlang scenarios

Maybe you can imagine what would a Eastern Romlang spoken in Moravia (Moravian Wallachia), Slovakia (Eastern part) or Dalmatia (Morlachia) sound like. There are plenty of evidence in placenames, as well as vocab related to animal husbandry.
by Zythros Jubi
29 Aug 2021 17:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: 'Re-construction' challenge no #1: Modern Gandhari
Replies: 14
Views: 3622

Re: 'Re-construction' challenge no #1: Modern Gandhari

Maybe you can make a non-Muslim dialect as well, like the Kalashas' (Dardic) language, or a sociolect like Kashmiri Brahmins.
by Zythros Jubi
01 Feb 2021 08:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad
Replies: 16
Views: 4158

Re: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad

Long time no see! Recently I'm going to make a Sinosphere Altaic language (perhaps Mongolic or Para-Mongolic, geographic position or history uncertain).
by Zythros Jubi
01 Sep 2020 05:27
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Most-likely Pathways/Elements for Language Combination
Replies: 9
Views: 3160

Re: Most-likely Pathways/Elements for Language Combination

Hard to imagine, crusaders in (Hellenized) Transoxiana?
by Zythros Jubi
30 Aug 2020 08:00
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
Replies: 14
Views: 4463

Re: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging

Perhaps I can consider Sama-Bajaw languages instead? Recently I came across The linguistic background to SE Asian sea nomadism and found that SE Asian sea nomadism coincided with the spread Malayic in 6-7c., due to the expansion of Srivijaya, and the ethnogenesis of Malagasy is no exception to this....
by Zythros Jubi
29 Aug 2020 11:54
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
Replies: 14
Views: 4463

Re: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging

Some preliminary sound changes from Proto-Chamic: (two dialects' reflexes are separated by a semicolon) Pre-consonants: *p- > p- *t- > t- *c- > ts- *k- > k- *s- > s- *h- > 0- *b- > b-; v- *d- > d-; r- *j- > z- *g- > g-; x- *m- > m- *ñ- > j- *l- > l- *r- > r- Onsets: *p > p *t > t *c > ts *k > k *ʔ >...
by Zythros Jubi
27 Aug 2020 19:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
Replies: 19
Views: 4334

Re: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang

That, or a corpus of Koreanic loans into Tungusic languages and Jurchen / Manchurian, would be helpful. See From Koguryǒ to T’amna*: Slowly riding to the South with speakers of Proto-Korean by Alexander Vovin, who proposed that proto-Koreanic were horseback invaders from Manchuria, while the origin...
by Zythros Jubi
14 Aug 2020 07:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
Replies: 19
Views: 4334

Re: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang

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by Zythros Jubi
12 Aug 2020 09:10
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
Replies: 14
Views: 4463

Re: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging

As for the Mascarenes idea, I estimate that the upper bound of population in 1700s on Mauritius proper (1864.8 km2), Reunion (2511 km2, but more mountainous) and Rodrigues (108km2) to be ca. 150,000, 100,000 and 5,000 respectively, presumably speaking the dialect of the same language or intelligible...
by Zythros Jubi
12 Aug 2020 08:31
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
Replies: 14
Views: 4463

Re: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging

I'm recently attempting on a Sino-Austronesian conlang (and perhaps Sino-Altaic as well), but I'm not sure which branch to choose. Considering the Ryukyu Trench, North Formosan/Kavalanic seems more plausible (instead of languages on the east coast of Taiwan); but I wonder why cultural exchange betwe...
by Zythros Jubi
11 Aug 2020 20:26
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
Replies: 14
Views: 4463

Re: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging

How plausible is it for the Austronesian family to spread in another direction, i.e. to the north(east) into Ryukyu islands?
by Zythros Jubi
11 Aug 2020 06:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
Replies: 293
Views: 99001

Re: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language

Recently I'm planning to make a Sinosphere Austronesian (presumably non-Malayo-Polynesian) conlang. Is it possible for such a language to be spoken in Ryukyu islands? (Without major change in historical background; note that there is little account about Ryukyus before 1200s, so an early Austronesia...
by Zythros Jubi
23 Jun 2020 05:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
Replies: 106
Views: 15411

Re: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad

I wonder the opposition of *-t- and *-d- in locative & ablative cases as well as the old past suffix (may be used as perfective though) -DI- would be retained to date; anyway, Chuvash did that (-t- vs -r-). In Common Turkic, -dA and -dAn have been leveled (even after n/l/r, in post-Orkhon period...
by Zythros Jubi
23 Jun 2020 05:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Stress and rhythm oddities
Replies: 10
Views: 1826

Re: Stress and rhythm oddities

1. Yes. In Eskyl, all words are usually initially stressed; however, loanwords of Latin/Romance origin are often stressed on penult or antepenult if ending in a vowel, and on the final syllable if ending in a consonant (i.e. the vowel has been dropped). 2. Yes. For nouns, compound are stringed toget...
by Zythros Jubi
18 Mar 2020 06:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
Replies: 106
Views: 15411

Re: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad

The Excel file on Google Drive has been updated. Any ideas and suggestions? It's opened as a collablang now.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =737800800
by Zythros Jubi
05 Mar 2020 16:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
Replies: 106
Views: 15411

Re: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad

Any suggestions on the usage of preverb/verbal prefix for telic aspect?