Together, we can make either no language or every language.Titus Flavius wrote: ↑07 May 2022 01:03 I tend to avoid isolating languages. Most of my languages have full voicing contrasts, many have voiced fricatives, and I like vowel systems with atypical rounding (front rounded or back unrounded vowels).
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- 07 May 2022 04:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlanging Features you Avoid
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Re: Conlanging Features you Avoid
- 07 May 2022 04:43
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Lehola Galaxy Megathread
- Replies: 53
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Re: Lehola Galaxy Megathread
[..] Besides, I don't know if you know this, but I'm Jewish myself[...] I did not! That does reassure me about your intent. Not that I had assumed the worst of you, but in a lot of fantasy-related spaces I find myself grateful when I've been cautious; hopefully you understand. btw, I'll see your La...
- 06 May 2022 19:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Lehola Galaxy Megathread
- Replies: 53
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Re: Lehola Galaxy Megathread
[...] The biwis will often abduct commoners from the mammalogue species on the other planet I mentioned, and biwis drink bodily fluids of other sapients and non-sapient animals. The biwis will have an agreement and a partnership with the ruling class, and will work with them, clandestinely, to oppr...
- 06 May 2022 16:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlanging Features you Avoid
- Replies: 150
- Views: 31098
Re: Conlanging Features you Avoid
I tend to avoid agglutinative or fusional languages. Most of my languages don't have full voicing contrasts, none have voiced fricatives, and I don't often use vowel systems with atypical rounding (front rounded or back unrounded vowels). As for what I do tend towards, I often find myself making lan...
- 04 May 2022 21:40
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Has anyone ever reinvented something for a conworld? (ex: numerical system, religion, music composition, etc)
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Re: Has anyone ever reinvented something for a conworld? (ex: numerical system, religion, music composition, etc)
For my conworld, I've been working on what musical traditions they have. One of my cultures has a series of non-octave-repeating scales with simple structures, designed for vocal melody. The simplest such scale is made of an alternating series of 7/6 and 14/13 just intervals, since human voices tend...
- 04 May 2022 21:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
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Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Every word, including nouns, would be inflected for tense? I meant verb, not word. Silly me. That is another interesting idea, though, nouns declining for tense - maybe the subject could take tense instead of the verb? Then the object (and thus sentence) would automatically have the same tense as t...
- 04 May 2022 20:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
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Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
That's exactly what I meant, just didn't know the term, so thank you!Creyeditor wrote: ↑04 May 2022 19:26 [...] sounds a bit like an auxiliary verb with extra steps[...]
- 04 May 2022 20:24
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Odd glossing game v2
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16108
Re: Odd glossing game v2
Enkelten wurd för a bluumpot aptaanj. /ɛnˈkʰɛltʰɛn ʋuɽt fœɽ a ˈpluɑ̯mpʰɔtʰ apʰˈtʰɑɲ/ en~kelten wu<r>d fö-r a bluum-pot a<pt>aanj IMP~fall PL<AN> 2-AN NEG LAT.PL-INAN rock<INAN> Close translation: All of you must fall not onto rocks (but somewhere else). Loose translation: Don't fall on the rocks, e...
- 04 May 2022 17:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
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Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
I've been thinking of a system where (like several Asian languages I think) every noun is preceded by a classifier noun such as "person", "animal", etc. Hopefully unlike those languages, while the noun root never declines, the classifier can be inflected for number, case, etc. Yo...
- 03 May 2022 19:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What languages influence your conlangs?
- Replies: 129
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Re: What languages influence your conlangs?
My first "real"* conlang, Nyosangeyish, was inspired by Turkish and Malay. My current one**, 'aadachi, has aesthetic and grammatical influences from Bengali, Portuguese, and various languages of the southeast US (primarily Cherokee, since it has a lot of documentation). I'm also playing wi...
- 09 Apr 2022 23:24
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Knowing when I'm done making grammar
- Replies: 9
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Knowing when I'm done making grammar
Hey everyone! I'm working on my first conlang. I've made a phonology I'm pretty happy with, and I'm working on "reconstructing" the historical sound changes now, but I'm a little overwhelmed by the next steps: syntax and morphology. With phonology, I basically know what I need (consonants,...