The CBB

LinguoFranco wrote: - Fusional morphology and masculine/feminine gender. I have against these things, I just don't think it's that common outside of IE and Afro Asiatic languages.

Literally all of my conlangs have fusional morphology. I guess it's because my native language is fusional.

Also, I think I've sometimes seen Spanish "su majestad" 'Your Majesty' with feminine agreement, in spite of a masculine referent, due to the noun majestad being feminine!?? I'm not quite sure though. No idea about Spanish, but I've already seen Portuguese "Vossa Majestade", whic...

This is not how linguistic gender works in languages that actually have it. There, gender is simply a division of nouns into two categories, with agreement between the noun and other things (usually adjectives, pronouns, sometimes verbs). This makes it easier to tell which word goes with which. In ...

Off the top of my head, I tend to avoid: - Any sounds that I can't easily pronounce, especially glottals; - Sibilants other than [s] and [z]; - Stress-timed languages (the conlang I'm currently working on is stress-timed, but it's the only stress-timed language I've ever made); - The use of any lett...

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑30 Apr 2022 14:44

qwed117 wrote: Is it from one of Vulgar Latin *accapō, *accaptō or *accaptiō?, and if so is it from the first?

None of those I'm afraid.

asciō?

:bra: Portuguese Você sabe por que o amor é cego? Porque a sua mãe te amava mesmo antes de poder te ver. 2SG know.3SG.PRS for what DEF.SG.M love be.3SG.PRS blind | because DEF.SG.F 3SG.POSS.F.SG mother 2SG.OBL love-3SG.PST.IPF even before of be.able.to.INF 2SG.OBL see.INF [voˈse ˈsabi pʊɾ ke w ɐˈmoɾ...

I've tried to do the exercises. How did I do? (1) Kjunšo kjanjan wancai. (2) Wanca kjanjan kjunšoi. (3) Kjanimišan.* (4) Kjanišimjan.* (5) Kjanimjan wancai. (6) Wanca kjanifimjan. (7) Kjanišan kjunšoi. (8) Kjunšo kjanifišan. (9) Kjunši kjanjan wance. (10) Kjunši kjanjawamjan. (11) Kjanamišan. (12) K...

Got it now, thank you very much for the detailed explanation!

"Žweniwa" ("to speak" or "to talk") is a durative action, while "kwonša" (to say) is punctual and telic. You can say something only once and then the action is performed. So what you're saying is that "žweniwa" can only be imperfective and "kwo...

My now abandoned conlangs Lohdan and Adunî were inspired by Romance languages and also by Tolkien's conlangs in general. My newest conlang, Лохдан, is essentially Lohdan and Adunî mixed together with influence from Russian (and a bit from Portuguese too).

Russian Wikipedia says <ȟ> represents [X] in Lakhota.

My main conlang, Lohdan, has phonemic nasal vowels. Some people told me it sounds like French, but I don't really mind that, since I like the sound of French.

Well, personally, I only saw the debate when it was already closed, and besides, I didn't find it very funny, so I wouldn't have participated anyways.

sangi39 wrote: Checking the wiki for the conlang, from what I can tell <c> is /c ~ tɕ/ (<ti> is also pronounced [tɕi], I think?) while <č> is /tʃ/

Got it, thank you.

Could you please explain the difference between <c> and <č>? I've listened to your audio a few times and they sound the same to me.

All4Ɇn wrote: ↑23 Feb 2022 01:59 Given the evolution of Old Portuguese /õ/ into /ãw̃/, why is good bom and not bão?

That's because bom is (usually) pronounced as [bõ] (don't ask me why). However, in some dialects bom is pronounced [bãw̃]. In fact, sometimes bom is spelled as bão to convey that pronounciation.

I ended up writing 10 pages about this conlang, so here's a pdf.

What is <ka'>? <ká> is a relative pronoun roughly equivalent to a combination of English "which", "that" and "who". It can also be used as a conjunction. A better comparison would be with the Portuguese word "que", but I don't know how helpful that is to you....

I'm interested.

SLiV wrote: ↑25 Jan 2022 18:28 Last week I made a little space horror gamejam game called You Will Return.

Very nice game! Took me 87 tries to finish it.