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- 06 Aug 2021 02:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Rambling about a somewhat routine classical language
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1214
Re: Rambling about a somewhat routine classical language
There is so much stuff in the message that it's a bit hard to read. And you are talking about complex things without explaining its parts, but so conlangs develop. Yeah; I will take this into account in any future posting. If the consonant inventory lacked /p/ or /g/, would it be more interesting o...
- 31 Jul 2021 05:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Rambling about a somewhat routine classical language
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1214
Rambling about a somewhat routine classical language
Preface I have hitherto dedicated my efforts to a language called Dhaujai. Over the past year, I sought to combine Japanese and Romantic grammatical patterns, which lead to wild variations in head directionality, morphology, and syntax in general. In short, the latter is a mess and I am done with it...
- 07 Sep 2020 00:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What languages influence your conlangs?
- Replies: 129
- Views: 26069
Re: What languages influence your conlangs?
The new Moonshine has again moved away from my original goals so long ago, but I'd say that unlike Poswa it retains a strong European influence in both its phonology and grammar, though I'm only just now working out the basics of the grammar as I've uprooted everything I came up with when I was you...
- 06 Sep 2020 07:46
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Italiano | Italian Conversation Thread
- Replies: 46
- Views: 60933
Re: Italiano | Italian Conversation Thread
Penso che è molto possibile che tu sei l'unico italiano chi è ancora attivo nel forum, però certo questo non vuol dire che non ci sono altre persone che possono parlare con te 🙂 E' proprio così. Per esempio, anch'io parlo italiano, ma non ho niente da dire. La mia risposta, però, ha svelato che tal...
- 13 Aug 2019 18:45
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656730
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
... even if the planet ends up a hothouse I hope it could still be suitable for civilization. I suppose it could lead to cool sounding architecture. If you're inclined toward engineering you could handle their drainage systems. But for all I know your world is inhabited by nomadic sapient turtles w...
- 13 Aug 2019 18:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: British Romance Language Collablang
- Replies: 522
- Views: 156508
Re: British Romance Language Collablang
200: e
201: a
202: a
201: a
202: a
- 12 Aug 2019 22:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656730
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What effect on climate would the distribution of the continents have? There's land at both poles, which means no circumpolar currents and no stormy bands of low pressure: water from mid latitudes will regularly mix with water from high latitudes. On the other hand, there's water all around the equa...
- 19 Apr 2019 07:05
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Kilimanjaro
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6922
Re: Kilimanjaro
Ɖaujai, (very susceptible to later editing) I'm sorry I'm using colors but I really suck at making the code display thing. Davìrr yĭn kai sĭse sĭmbedìyĭn ve Kilimanjàru kai rollme ve Tandzania esse . stand.PL upright ART.FEM.INANIM peak snow-white GEN Kilimanjaro ART.FEM.INANIM savanna GEN Tanzania ...
- 13 Apr 2019 23:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CHirpie, a musical conlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2836
Re: Chirpie, a musical conlang
Generally, words of similar meaning have similar sounds, as with "mother," "sister" and "grandmother." "Mother" is "do-re," "sister" is "do-re" with double notes, and "grandmother" is "do-re" with triples. Sim...
Re: Kvíaros
I like this language. I'm not brave enough to even think about ergative alignment. Is it going to be a big literary standard in this world?
- 09 Apr 2019 08:54
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Don't talk to me or my son ever again!
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13867
Re: Don't talk to me or my son ever again!
for my conlang Ðaujai: Je bneiye keni aifenne jade sikke se za ziya taiü. [d͡ʒɛ 'bne.jɛ 'kɛ.ni ai.'fɛn.nɛ 'd͡ʒɑ.dɛ 'sik.kɛ zɑ 'zi.jɑ 'tɑi.u] je bneiye keni aifenne jade sikke se za ziya taiü. not talk-IMP once_again never neither to.1.MASC. to ART.ACC.MASC.ANIM. son my. Ðaujai's conjunctions tend to...
- 09 Apr 2019 07:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325652
Re: False cognates
This is a little off topic, but I was going to suggest :ita: cane and the on'yomi of :jpn: 犬, (けん, ken), but the wiktionary entry for the ultimate Proto-Sino-Tibetan ancestor of ken doesn't seem to rule that connection out. Of course, I am no scholar of Chinese linguistics. That article, if anyone ...
- 09 Apr 2019 07:06
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Palatalization(?) help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3367
Re: Palatalization(?) help
Thank you both for your help. As for [g], for now I'm going to have an unconditional shift to [ɣ]. This, in turn, will drop altogether word initially, become [j] elsewhere, and develop into [ʒ] when lenited left of [i:] and [ i ], the latter transforming into modern [ɪ]. The only issue I could think...
- 04 Apr 2019 21:18
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Palatalization(?) help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3367
Palatalization(?) help
I want my conlang to have palatalization in front of /i/ and /ɪ/, but in the voiced stops only (and the ones that are not labial, because, yeah). Like: /di/ > /d͡ʒi/ and /gi/ > /ʒi/. So first off, I can't really find any examples of languages that do this without doing the same thing in the voiceles...
- 01 Apr 2019 11:05
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Conworlders' religious influences on conworlds
- Replies: 201
- Views: 152133
Re: Conworlders' religious influences on conworlds
Obviously, you can find symbols, iconography, motifs and narratives that are familiar from Christianity or Buddhism. But rather, the greater influence is upon the underlying conception & nature of the invented world. And, of course, this influence can perhaps best be observed in the lives and e...
- 01 Apr 2019 07:28
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 946
- Views: 262813
Re: You
Alias(es) : Zhan - [ʒɑn]; Nmmàli - [nm̩ 'mɑ li]. That's a syllabic m folks. I don't know if you can see the tick. I sure can't. Location : the yoonaited states of əmurica Date of birth : 2000 Gender : male Occupation : Student Interests : Phonoaesthetics. Just aesthetics in general. I'm not sure......