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- 25 Jan 2019 23:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it possible for a conlang to have two methods of inflections used almost exclusively for that particular part of speech? Like say, agglutinative nouns, yet fusional verb forms?
- 05 Jan 2019 03:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So, from what I understand of what you wrote here, you started with the alphabet and then assigned sounds to letters and sequences of letters? If your aim is naturalism, it's probably a better idea to go the other way around: every natural language is spoken before it is written, and no natural lan...
- 05 Jan 2019 03:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are there historical reasons for them? For instance, Spanish spells /k/ as <c> and <qu> because Latin /kʷ/ <QU> lost its labialization, and English spells /i/ as <ee> (among other things) because Middle English /e:/ <ee> was raised. At the moment, there's no historical reasoning. I was just thinkin...
- 05 Jan 2019 02:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
OK, couple of things. Firstly overall I think this is fine. The absence of velars is perhaps a little weird, but I assume *k became the velar fricative, in which case this is fine because you have an explanation for the gap. I also don't mind the high-mid instead of high vowels, though I wouldn't b...
- 04 Jan 2019 06:57
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: A Question About Wordbulding
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3115
Re: A Question About Wordbulding
Thank you for the information, that helps immensely. Additonally, apologies for the delay, post-Christmas hustle and bustle and what not, haha.
- 04 Jan 2019 06:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I just wanted feedback on this sound inventory, if it seems naturalistic or not.I'm making another protolang while I think about what I want to do with my first one. I apologize if this is formatted incorrectly as well! Plosive: /p b t c ɟ/ <p b t c/k j> Nasal: /m ɱ n ɲ ŋ/ <m ɱ n na ng> Tap/Flap: /ɾ...
- 25 Dec 2018 12:33
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: A Question About Wordbulding
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3115
Re: A Question About Wordbulding
Thanks, that helps alot! I'm sure making the lexicon will get easier as I soldier on.
- 24 Dec 2018 22:24
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: A Question About Wordbulding
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3115
A Question About Wordbulding
I'm at a point to where I think I have most of the grammar basics down, and I think I should try making words to see exactly how things work, rectify them, etc. Thus, I'm trying to do wordbuilding and flailing about like I can't swim, really. So apologies if the question below seems inane. I guess m...
- 24 Dec 2018 16:57
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Are your main conpeople human or of a different species?
- Replies: 81
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Re: Are your main conpeople human or of a different species?
My conpeople (Kisians) are essentially humanoid catfolk in terms of species. They've got prehensile tails, their fur color and thickness changes depending on season; they're also rather tall, with a range of heights from about 7'2" to 8'5".
- 24 Dec 2018 00:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
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Re: What did you accomplish today?
In a fit of inspiration over the past few days, I got back into the protolang for my fictional species, called Qianshogō, but I suppose more to the point...
Today I worked a bit on fleshing out how I wanted questions to be formed and I've at least made a list of basic conjunctions.
Today I worked a bit on fleshing out how I wanted questions to be formed and I've at least made a list of basic conjunctions.
- 09 Jun 2018 11:40
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
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Re: Introduction thread(s)
Hi, I go by Random8k or Random, people call me either. I got into conlanging (although I didn't know it was called that) some years ago, when I was learning Spanish in high school. I like to worldbuild, and I have a fictional world with a race of cat-people that I've been working on and off over the...
- 08 Jun 2018 21:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1043442
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
This is from Qianshogo, a protolang that I want to use to derive a conlang from. /m n ŋ/ /b t d k g q/ /tʃ / /s z ʃ ʒ x h/ /ɹ/ /i ɯ/ /e o/ /ɛ/ /a/ There's also a few other diphthongs: /ai ou/ Syllable structure is (C1)V1(C2)(V2)(F). Consonants always have to come with a vowel, and F indicates a grou...