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- 26 Jul 2021 21:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm asking if it's possible for the adjectives to mark gender and number and not case, even if nouns decline for all three. I'd expect it in a language where adjectives tend to be closer to verbs than nouns. Since verbs are very commonly marked for number and gender but not case, you'd expect the s...
- 26 Jul 2021 00:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: N̠īṛevic Family Megathread
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Re: N̠īṛevic Family Megathread
I'm really interested to see how this will evolve! I love expansive diacronics projects with multiple daughter families.
Re: Yeuz
Updated: I've been thinking about this a lot and decided I wanted to go a different rout with this lang. So uh here's the new phonology: /m n ŋ/ m n ng /p b t d t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g/ p b t d ch j k g /f θ s h/ f th s h /l r j w/ l r y w /i ɪ y u/ i i ü u /e ə ø o/ e e ö o /a/ a All stressed vowels may be len...
Re: Yeuz
Addendum 1: I forgot to put in phonotactics lol The basic structure is (C)C(j,w)V(C) with the following rules: 1: onset clusters of 2 obstruants will share the voicing 2nd one 2: bilabial or palatal consonants cannot precede any consonant in the onset other than a glide 3: glides cannot appear afte...
Yeuz
The Yeuz Language Yeuz, natively Leishiyéuz /lɪ.ʃiˈjøz/, is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the Tsij Kingdom. Named for the long, winding river it is centered on, the civilization roughly equivalent to a bronze age one on earth is a center of wealth and culture in its region. Its people h...
- 20 Jun 2020 04:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In languages with case prefixes, is number also often prefixed as well?
Re: Yønsen
When the agent is reintroduced using the dative case, it implies that the agent did the action for their benefit. Miik yan snarin. Do you mean that the subject appears in Dative noun-DAT verb-MEDPASS or that there is a distinct dative argument noun-NOM verb-MEDPASS noun-DAT ? Sorry for the confusio...
Re: Yønsen
Grammar Part Three: Verbs (Part One) Yønsen verbs mostly distinguish aspect over tense, although a future tense can be indicated using the auxiliary verb “rya” meaning to come. Verbs are conjugated to imperfective and perfective, as well as habitual, inchoative, and cessative. Likewise there is a d...
Re: Yønsen
Nice, a new conlang. I like the vowel inventory. It is strange but when I look at it deeply I cannot find any specific strange or "unnatural" feature in it. Do you have some linguistic feeling/inspiration behind it, say it should feel like Sanskrit or a native American language or somethi...
Re: Yønsen
Grammar Part One: Typology (I meant to add this to the introduction but I forgot lol) Yønsen can be classified as following: Nominative accusative Head marking Head final Synthetic (agglutiative) Primarily suffixing Grammar Part Two: Nominals and Pronouns Nominals (Nouns and adjectives) and pronoun...
Yønsen
Introduction Yønsen, or more specifically Lens Yønsen “Standard Yønsen,” is a language spoken in the Yønir Prairie by a society at a technological development roughly similar to that of Classical Greece. They live in rather large cities (for the time period), mostly farming wheat and oats, and trad...
- 26 May 2020 17:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Hilariously, I know of one example of the opposite, where clitic pronouns are the only ones that have vowel harmony. In Standard Arabic, inflectional affixes (like na-, -na, -u, -tu, -tum, -tunna, -aani) and derivational affixes (like mu-, mi-, ta-, -iiya) do not undergo vowel harmony, but a few of...
- 26 May 2020 16:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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- 26 May 2020 06:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
At this point I'm already attached to them being clitics (they get used similarly in other places as part of the increasing head marking-ness of the language as it evolves.) The scope of vowel harmony is extremely language specific. Harmony can be either progressive or regressive (or both) and may a...
- 26 May 2020 05:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How likely is it for prefixed subject/object clitics to not interact with vowel harmony Not very, I think, but certainly it's not unheard of to have affixes that ignore harmony. Hungarian has the suffix -kor , which ignores vowel harmony, thus: egykor "at one" kettőkor "at two" ...
- 26 May 2020 01:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How likely is a verbal system with just perfective and imperfective where some verbal roots are inherently perfective and need an affix to make them imperfective? (I know this existed in PIE but is it attested elsewhere?) Assuming the default unmarked aspect is imperfective. Likewise, would a syste...
Auitluo
I took a break from conlanging for a while due to work and a little bit of depression, but I'm back baby! And today I bring you my latest conlang: Auitluo. Here are a few basics: Split ergative alignment (inanimate nouns are ergative) Slightly agglutinative but mostly analytical inflection SOV Adje...
- 09 Nov 2019 07:38
- 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
How naturalistic is it for a language to have an auxiliary (derived from a verb meaning do) that takes person/maybe tense (its an agglutinative language so the two are completely separate) that comes after a serial verb construction? It would replace person/tense on the meaning verbs in the construc...
- 13 May 2019 16:05
- 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
Speaking of which, how do langs with no tense and only aspect convey a generic past tense? Do they use perfective aspect? Wouldn't that just make it a tense anyways? For example how would they say "John fought the snake?" Langs without tenses don't convey tenses because they don't need to...
- 10 May 2019 18:04
- 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
Using perfective is a common strategy, but that doesn't make it a past tense; it's just that most of the time an event considered without internal structure takes place in the past. Any event in the present is ongoing to some extent, and while the future is a possibility, it's just less likely than...