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I'm trying to find out a replacement pun in Finnish but those latinisms are not that common. There are some folk etymologies like Kaukasia -> kauk-Aasia 'far Asia' (people often lengthen the a) but no place is named Kaukafrikka. This counts as a replacement pun, I think. Junamaatti is a thing, an au...

It was a joke, but I think it would be a backformation.

I always wonder why unimportant isn't just portant.

"J'aime tellement l'Allemagne que je préfère qu'il y en ait deux!"

'I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.'

I checked Mapudungun, and it seems that it actually does not have secondary stress, but research is difficult cos the language is dying. Basque stressing seems to depend on dialect, but those two apparently do have secondary stress. The data are incomplete as best. Digging deeper could be a good su...

I wanna make a lang with the stress on the second syllable. According to WALS 16 languages of 220 have it. South America: Mapudungun, Aroana Nirth America: Stoney, Dakota, Paiute (Southern), Pomo (Eastern) Europe: Basque (Bidasoa Valley), Basque (Oñati) New Guinea: Tolai, Siroi Australia: Arrernte ...

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882 days! Quite much conlanging.

Visions1 wrote: ↑09 Apr 2024 05:57 Maybe reorganize what you have and compile it into a PDF? That would make for not only organization, but the beginnings of a proper ref. grammar.

I do have one but, you know, you don't write it from the beginning to the end. There are many holes too. It's far from publishable.

An unnamed lang Vowels (The inventory happens to be like that of Pashto.) i u <i u> e ə o <ai e au> æ ɒ <a o> Diphthongs ei~æi, eu~æu, oi~ɒi, ou~ɒu <ei, eu, oi, ou> (The first component can thus be closed or mid.) The stress always lies on the second syllable. - ə only appears in unstressed syllable...

Verb morphology This post will not be the final or complete description. Dnor morphology is extremely simple. The root is CV(C) and all but one prefixes are CV-. The Middle voice prefix is just s-. Compounding does not happen and all verbs have thus just one root. The verb template is -4/-3 Middle ...

I have modality obligatorily marked on the verb, and I have three basic moods: actual/realis [REAL], potential/irrealis [IRR], and counterfactual [CONTF]. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what verb should be marked irrealis and which should be marked as counterfactual when it comes to if-th...

I wanna make a lang with the stress on the second syllable. According to WALS 16 languages of 220 have it. South America: Mapudungun, Aroana Nirth America: Stoney, Dakota, Paiute (Southern), Pomo (Eastern) Europe: Basque (Bidasoa Valley), Basque (Oñati) New Guinea: Tolai, Siroi Australia: Arrernte (...

I think I'll change the forms that used to be locatives to associatives and have a new locative form -n, which can affect the stem sporadically. The paradigm of words ending in non-obstruents. han 'donkey' case word ending NOM INDEF han - NOM DEF ha'n <'> ASS INDEF hantsi -si ASS DEF hanta -ta LOC I...

Is the semantic distinction between the two basicly that of tense in modern Tsayyākan? Or aspect? Or is there something to do with orientation/alignment still? It will probably have become mostly a tense distinction, augmented by various copula-like verbs. Perhaps subordinate clauses still use some...

Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...

There is a polypersonal agreement. sg1O sg2O 3O pl1O pl2O sg1S - -ne -i - -yol sg2S -ho - -la -se - 3S -lan -li -∅ -fa -kjul pl1S - - -ta - -kar pl2S -hon - -ti -hor - If there is no object, the third person object form is used. Is there no pl3S or pl3O? Third person agreement does not distinguish ...

Verb pattern preverb - incorporated noun - root - mood - person Preverb is something that is called lexical affix. As I said in the other thread, they are still a bit mystery to me. Incorporated nouns are reduced somehow. Verb roots are usually monosyllabic and CVC [n, l, r] . They are something bet...

Arayaz wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024 19:10 Nice. I love /eu/.

Can no voiced obstruents occur between vowels? Or is it only certain ones that cannot (and thus cannot be geminated)?

Voiced obstruents /b v d z ɟ g/ occur in VC[r, n, l]_V, nowhere else. This imitates things in Quenya.

Karhionza is my newest project. I guess it will not last long but who cares. It is an attempt to combine a Tolkien style phonology with a non-Tolkien morphosyntax. p f t s c k h b v d z ɟ g m n (ŋ) l r w j i u e o ä Maximal syllable structure is: CVR, where R is {l r n}. The second line of consonant...

Nouns have personal prefixes Person prefixes are simple k(a)- SG1 c(a)- SG2 s(a)- SG3 hu- PL1 cu- PL2 su- PL3 When combined with the definite form, they express possessor. When combined with the indefinite form, they express copular subject. c-lakk SG2-person 'You are a person.' Adjectives are also ...