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ARTICLES Articles developed sometime in the 11th century, and are used basically the same as they are in English, except that they, of course, inflect for case and number ─ and also gender. The indefinite article derives from Latin ūnus "one." By the 11th century, the forms of that numera...

Let's take a look at some nouns. *piscis "fish" Becomes /'piʃ/ by 500. As a third-declension masculine noun in Latin, its declension is then: SG PL NOM piʃ piʃē ACC piʃæm piʃē DAT piʃī piʃib GEN piʃ piʃum In 1600, with the declension simplified, we have: SG PL NOM piʃ piʃī GEN piʃ piʃum St...

DV82LECM wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 21:28

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 05:16

DV82LECM wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 04:37 I wouldn't consider /-s/ "fusional,"

It marks two different categories on one morpheme, so it's fusional.

Spanish /-í/ is my favorite example. It is 1st person AND past tense. That's fusional.

And -s is 3rd person singular AND present tense. That's fusional.

/hk/ my beloved

All in all, this looks really nice. Excited to see more.

Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 15:48 Is superplural a numerus that means something like "more", as in "more groceries"?

No. A superplural means, roughly, "a lot of." "More" is a comparative.

Also, that was your 4,444th post!

lsd wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 08:44 3SDL rating:
difficulty 1
exoticism 5
average rate 3

I'd give it a 0 for production and 6 for understanding, no?

thethief3 wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 05:50 *-s is clearly two seperate morphemes

That's quite a hot take. (Also, why the asterisk?)

Oh, and as for a name: Latin lingua boreae "northern language" becomes /'ləi̯ŋɡa 'fɔrɛː/, which I might just shorten to /'fɔrɛː/, spelled Fore or possibly Foree . I'm not sure what I'll do about length in the writing. Is there any particular reason for the name being derived from boreæ (n...

Was that Latin descendant "just a sketch", or are you going to develop it a lot? As with anything, I hope to follow it to its natural conclusion. Whether I achieve that is the question. [hr] Latin has a seven-case system with a nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, locative,...

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑10 Jun 2024 03:06

1. Man in Space: Taara → Common Caber
2. Flavia: Taara → Abaniscen
3. Arayaz: Abaniscen → ?

Should it not be

1. Man in Space: Taara → Common Caber
2. Flavia: Common Caber → Abaniscen
3. Arayaz: Abaniscen → ?

?

I have an idea for a language developing from Latin but going with much contact with English. The language had diverged from Classical Latin by the 2nd to 3rd century CE. Early vowel shift ɛ > æ Monophthongization ai au > aː Palatalization k ɡ > tʃ dʒ / [_[i, j], [i, j]_] sk > ʃ Loss of coda s s > ∅...

[not sure why this post was made? it's a duplicate of the one below.]

lurker wrote: ↑29 Nov 2024 19:01 Prayer rings are intended both as meditation aids and fidget toys, with very low friction between the inner gear and outer ring, the gear can spin for a surprisingly long time. Younger pups are often given a prayer ring to fidget with during long liturgies.

Brilliant.

Either way works, but I'd generally suggest tentatively settling on something early on.

I'm still your average scrapper and wannabe-filler, but I think I have a bit of circumnavigator in me too.

I was trying to write up a thing on the evolution of Ancient Nal'e into the modern Valinic languages, but LaTeX was being annoying about certain unicode characters (even though I compiled in XeTeX), so I'll have to write it up the old-fashioned way (on here). Forthcoming (perchance ─ I still have to...

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑28 Nov 2024 16:45 Can only certain types of words be stressed?

I believe this is in fact the case in the majority of stress languages.

I want to increase the prominence of vibrato in this music, since it sounds great. As such, I will switch up the case forms somewhat. This also means that I can't use it for pluralization. So pluralization will now just be full reduplication, which has the added benefit of creating repetition (most ...

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑27 Nov 2024 09:33 Bear in mind that Karajá exists and distinguishes all of /ɨ̘ ɨ ɘ ə a/

Ah yeah, Karajá. I felt like there was something like that, just couldn't put my finger on it.

Impressive to distinguish that many monophthongs, especially the central ones. /e ɘ ɵ o ɛ ɜ ɞ ɔ/ seems rather unrealistic ─ do you know of a natlang precedent?

(In any case, there's no need to experiment. An empty quote notifies the user nevertheless, as long as a user id is provided.)