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- 27 Feb 2023 19:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tirmasz: Oghuria revisited
- Replies: 5
- Views: 487
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 .
- 27 Feb 2023 18:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tirmasz: Oghuria revisited
- Replies: 5
- Views: 487
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...
- 07 Feb 2022 08:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An Unusual Orthography (Concept)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1828
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 ...
- 29 Jan 2022 15:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Papuanic Conlang(s)?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1126
Re: Papuanic Conlang(s)?
Well, there is one named Abakwi.
- 16 Jan 2022 17:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Trilingual altlang scenarios
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1089
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.
- 29 Aug 2021 17:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: 'Re-construction' challenge no #1: Modern Gandhari
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3669
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.
- 01 Feb 2021 08:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4227
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).
- 01 Sep 2020 05:27
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Most-likely Pathways/Elements for Language Combination
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3215
Re: Most-likely Pathways/Elements for Language Combination
Hard to imagine, crusaders in (Hellenized) Transoxiana?
- 30 Aug 2020 08:00
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4541
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....
- 29 Aug 2020 11:54
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4541
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 >...
- 27 Aug 2020 19:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4431
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...
- 14 Aug 2020 07:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4431
- 12 Aug 2020 09:10
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4541
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...
- 12 Aug 2020 08:31
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4541
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...
- 11 Aug 2020 20:26
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Ideas for African Chamic conlanging
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4541
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?
- 11 Aug 2020 06:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ởnh·Vú- Chamic Language
- Replies: 293
- Views: 100213
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...
- 23 Jun 2020 05:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
- Replies: 106
- Views: 15839
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...
- 23 Jun 2020 05:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Stress and rhythm oddities
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1854
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...
- 18 Mar 2020 06:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
- Replies: 106
- Views: 15839
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
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =737800800
- 05 Mar 2020 16:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
- Replies: 106
- Views: 15839
Re: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
Any suggestions on the usage of preverb/verbal prefix for telic aspect?