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- 22 Sep 2020 22:36
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Diglossia and usage of official language
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1620
Diglossia and usage of official language
Why do some official languages fail to become primary languages of their populations? As an example, Standard German managed to become a language actually used as the primary language of vast majority of people in Germany and Austria. It replaced the spoken dialects (except in Bavaria) completely an...
- 27 Aug 2020 17:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Oil languages conservatism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1114
Oil languages conservatism
Are certain langues d'oil more conservative in terms of morphology/phonology than others? Modern French has lost more or less all conjugations and has lost even the plural markings. Are there any Oil languages that keep more of them/ Arpitan I believe has well preserved conjugations and Occitan/Cata...
- 24 Aug 2020 00:00
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3873
Re: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan
I was thinking along your lines. I would put the Roman population in either Hokkaido or Kyusiu-Honsiu. In case of Hokkaido it means more contact with Japan in case of Kyusiu-Honsiu it means both It would be extremely difficult to get a sizeable Roman population as far as Japan. I guess it would have...
- 22 Aug 2020 02:39
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2612
Re: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
PS DO you you mean a new instrumental/ablative construction,
something like this "
spatha mente (with a sword)
caballo mente (on horseback)
That would be interesting. cheval /ʃə.val/ + ment = chevalement /ʃə.valəmɑ̃/
something like this "
spatha mente (with a sword)
caballo mente (on horseback)
That would be interesting. cheval /ʃə.val/ + ment = chevalement /ʃə.valəmɑ̃/
- 22 Aug 2020 02:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2612
Re: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
Proto Uralic is reconstructed as having 6 cases. Finnish has 16, Hungarian 22 cases. So the Uralic languages actually add new cases. I wonder if an IE language could do the same if it started with postpositions. I have seen a paper arguing that all PIE cases except for nominative and accusative are ...
- 22 Aug 2020 00:54
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2612
Re: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
BUt what if they actually survived in daughter branches of PIE and became predominant over prepositions? Could they then supplant the disappearing case forms? So in Latin you would have Marcus patrum libris dat > Marcos da libru patre a *(instead of "a patre" Marcus mihi librum patris dat ...
- 21 Aug 2020 23:10
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2612
WI: Late PIE develops postpositions
Assume that late PIE for a reason unknown switched from prepositions to postpositions (it it even possible?) and all daughter families continue this trend. Would the nominal declension system become more stable? It's likely for this reason that Uralic languages don't really lose cases - when they ar...
- 21 Aug 2020 23:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3873
WI: Latin ISOTed to Japan
Let's assume around 0 AD a population speaking Latin (Classical Latin for that matter) is ISOTed to Japan. Of course they don't carry their civilization along but adopt Chinese civilizational model as Japan did IOTL.
ANy ideas in what direction would such a language develop?
ANy ideas in what direction would such a language develop?
- 11 Jul 2017 20:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Hypothetical Slavic passive
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4567
Re: Hypothetical Slavic passive
No, it did not survive in any attested Balto-Slavic language.
- 11 Jul 2017 18:40
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Hypothetical Slavic passive
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4567
Hypothetical Slavic passive
Hi.
Anyone ever thought how would a hypothetical passive voice look like in modern Slavic lanuages (or even Proto-Slavic), had it survived long enough?
Anyone ever thought how would a hypothetical passive voice look like in modern Slavic lanuages (or even Proto-Slavic), had it survived long enough?
- 13 Oct 2015 00:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A mixed West Germanic language
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2447
Re: A mixed West Germanic language
Not make a conlang... Just translate the given passage to have a glimpse what it may look like.
- 12 Oct 2015 23:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A mixed West Germanic language
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2447
A mixed West Germanic language
I am thinking over a concept of a language spoken in North America that would be based on Dutch with heavy English influence on phonology and grammar and to a lesser extent, vocabulary. Orthography would be based mostly on the Dutch one Guys, how might it look like? The same text in English and Dutc...
- 25 Feb 2015 21:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orign of PIE morphology
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6578
Re: Orign of PIE morphology
Would 2500 years from now be enough for a semitic like derivational morphology to emerge in English or French?
- 23 Feb 2015 21:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orign of PIE morphology
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6578
Re: Orign of PIE morphology
So some PIE ancestor had been analytic and then became agglutinative and then fusional?
If enough time passes, will a similar morphology evolve in French or English?
If enough time passes, will a similar morphology evolve in French or English?
- 23 Feb 2015 21:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A hypothetical Slavic descendant...?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2333
A hypothetical Slavic descendant...?
I have seen a posteriori conlangs created from various sort of languages, including a multitude of English descendants and I came across an idea that it would be great to create a future Slavic language. I don't know if I should ask such question, my linguistic knowledge is minimal but - would someo...
- 23 Feb 2015 21:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orign of PIE morphology
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6578
Orign of PIE morphology
We know from comparative method that PIE had a rich fusional morphology - but how exactly did that morphology come into existence? Did it evolve from something simpler, like an analytic language? If yes, how might it have looked like?