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- 31 Jan 2019 19:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An r-Turkic conlang in eastern Hungary/Transylvania?
- Replies: 24
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Re: An r-Turkic conlang in eastern Hungary/Transylvania?
I'm not sure how come Hungarian orthography uses <s sz> for /S s/; presently I use <cy sy zy> for /tS S Z/ as in Hungarian historical spelling used in names, and <cz> for /ts/ as in Hungarian before 1920; <dy> is used instead of <gy>. Long vowels are indicated by doubling, as it was sometimes in Hu...
- 31 Jan 2019 17:43
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: How NOT to Conworld.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 87186
Re: How NOT to Conworld.
The weird thing with Tolkienesque races in fantasy is they're actually almost never "Tolkienesque", being rather "DnD-esque" instead; that is, the dwarves and elves in most generic high fantasy media are derived (intentionally or not) from the pop-culture image of the respective ...
- 31 Jan 2019 15:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: An r-Turkic conlang in eastern Hungary/Transylvania?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3545
Re: An r-Turkic conlang in eastern Hungary/Transylvania?
This is entirely subjective and probably informed by unconscious stereotypes, but I always find it odd when Czech-style diacritics are applied in the orthographic systems of non-Slavic (or non-Baltic) languages. It's a rather elegant and economic system, but it just doesn't "click" for me ...
- 27 Jan 2019 12:26
- 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
Bulgarian has predominantly fusional⁄flective verbal system and marks definiteness on nominals and determiners in agglutinative-fusional fashion, while demonstrating otherwise rather analytic syntax.
- 26 Oct 2018 17:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Frislander's IE-lang scratchpad
- Replies: 42
- Views: 23888
Re: Frislander's IE-lang scratchpad
Yep, plus the overall aesthetics the resulting phonology and phonotactics has.Frislander wrote: ↑24 Oct 2018 17:41 I think they're referring in particular to the collapse of the stop system and the new fricatives.
- 21 Oct 2018 19:25
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317770
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm working on a conlang, but I need some natlang examples for a certain feature. I plan on have palatals, particularly the /ɲ/, occurring in the coda position. Honestly, I have a hard time pronouncing it when it follows an onset consonant. Do you have any natlang recordings of such a thing being s...
- 21 Oct 2018 05:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Frislander's IE-lang scratchpad
- Replies: 42
- Views: 23888
Re: Frislander's IE-lang scratchpad
Interesting. It does look vaguely Tocharian-like, which is something I don't remember seeing done in conlangs before.
You mention that the speakers of this language were (possibly) situated somewhere near the Urals; have they been in contact with Finno-Ugric peoples?
You mention that the speakers of this language were (possibly) situated somewhere near the Urals; have they been in contact with Finno-Ugric peoples?
- 21 Oct 2018 04:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317770
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does anybody know whether a Phoenician word for "cat" is attested somewhere (given the paucity of the sources, I suppose not)?
- 10 Oct 2018 14:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317770
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Speaking of proto-Germanic what is the origin of the -t in the neuter definite articles in Icelandic eitt, Swedish ett, etc? Apparently it's even the origin of the t in German's etwas so it seems to be something that predates Old Norse. Uncertain, as far as I know. It has been compared to the first...
- 10 Oct 2018 01:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317770
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Could anyone link me to a resource on Proto Norse and/or Proto Germanic language? I need phonology, grammar and lexicon if they're available. Stuff that is easy to find on the internet in English: Winfred P. Lehmann, A Grammar of Proto-Germanic ; Don Ringe, A History of English, vol. 1: From Proto-...
- 09 Oct 2018 14:56
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317770
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I read an Wikipedia article on Old High German declension. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_High_German_declension#The_-a_declension Does anybody know what the alternate forms (?) tages (-as), tage (-a) etc. are? orthographic differences, dialectal differences, a real sub-declension? The latter en...
- 09 Oct 2018 14:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Words to mean Friend
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9135
Re: Words to mean Friend
If there be a connection to the PIE homonyms *dʰrewgʰ- (deceive, mislead) and *dʰrewgʰ- (support, retain), it might be thru 'holding fast': When one lies, one holds fast to a story that is untrue or deceptive, as if it were the truth. When one is a friend, one holds fast to the side/aide of their c...
- 07 Oct 2018 14:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Words to mean Friend
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9135
Re: Words to mean Friend
Although the common neutral one, draugas, has its own root, I think. Balto-Slavic *dråugås must have meant something like "brother-in-arms" initially, if related to Proto-Germanic *druhtiz 'host, troop'. Alternatively, if the Slavic adjectival meaning of "other, another" is basa...
- 25 Sep 2018 21:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Jäzik Panúski
- Replies: 52
- Views: 15797
Re: Jezik Panoski
A small note about positional palatalisation: in South Slavic it correlates with the distinction of yers' reflexes - in Bulgarian (sans part of the Western dialects) and Macedonian, the two reflexes are different (front and back respectively) and there is palatalisation in position before front vowe...
- 22 Sep 2018 19:32
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Grammatical cases derivation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7898
Re: Grammatical cases derivation
All solid advice here. I'd like to add that if you work straight from the reconstructed PIE declension paradigms, you'll inevitably end up with some syncretism in the case endings (e. g., nominative plurals indistinguishable from genitive singulars in many of the declension classes) - it's kind of b...
- 22 Sep 2018 01:30
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325344
Re: False cognates
You reckon búdh comes from búana? Where does the -dh come from, then? Not the same place as the fricative in bóthla, because that's the PIE -tlom instrument suffix. You think it's a -ithó abstract noun with the -i- mysteriously vanishing, maybe? I quoted the form *būþō ~*bōþōn after V. Orel's Handb...
- 21 Sep 2018 21:39
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325344
Re: False cognates
And bothy (small house) isn't related to... well OK, I can't find a modern reflex that sounds like it, but it's somehow not related to Germanic *bo:thla (house). Isn't bothy (together with booth ) from Old Norse búð (< PG *būþō ~*bōþōn )? If this is the case, then both bothy and bold, bottle (and t...