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- 29 Oct 2019 16:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Did you mean a chain shift, /l/ > /ɫ/, then /ʎ/ > /l/? That's more than realistic, as well as /ɲ/ > /j/ after the chain shift. Phase 1 happened in Polish, and phase 2 happened in Romanian.
- 28 Oct 2019 09:10
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
- Replies: 58
- Views: 20908
Re: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
However, this would not explain why Emilian also has an /i/ suffix, which certainly comes from Latin /as/ through /ai/. So maybe at some point this sound took two different paths at the same time? Hmm, maybe a similar divergence to the one Italian had, which led Latin -as (first-conjugation second-...
- 25 Oct 2019 16:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tewanian languages - a subfamily of Indo-European
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3585
Re: Tewanian languages - a subfamily of Indo-European
Sound changes from PIE 1. Consonants 1. PIE voiced aspirates become unaspirated and merge with voiced unaspirates. bʰ dʰ ǵʰ gʰ gʷʰ > b d ǵ g gʷ / _ This happens after Lachmann's law, by which voiced unaspirates, but not voiced aspirates, lengthen the preceding vowel when they undergo devoicing. 2. ...
- 25 Oct 2019 10:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317730
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Why are the person personal pronouns in Indo-European suppletive (with the exception of the 2nd singular)? Why *eǵoH as well as *mé ? Are there are any theories out there? Any books on IE that postulate on this? I've just always been curious about it. I think I read in one source (though I can't re...
- 25 Oct 2019 10:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197117
Re: English Orthography Reform
Do you think reforming English spelling to be both accurately etymological (e.g. stone becomes stoan because it derives from Old English stān and the silent e isn't etymological) and regular enough to be able to make out a word's pronunciation from it's spelling (so there's no more things such as be...
- 19 Oct 2019 19:07
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656260
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
This summertime weakening of westerlies can have interesting consequence, such as mediterranean climate expanding to Ireland and England... We basically have that in North America, where even into southwestern Canada the summer is much drier than the winter. Washington & Oregon are remarkably d...
- 19 Oct 2019 15:59
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656260
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
After having read more about wind patterns in hothouse worlds, I've come to the conclusion that they're unknown. There are mutliple contradictory models! Most people agree that tropics expand, while concerning polar circles some suggest that they expand and others that they contract. If expansion is...
- 16 Oct 2019 15:26
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Since I haven't done any proper work on my Romlangs' vocabulary and as a consequence don't have any interesting words (well, I got an idea for one but I'm not sure if I'll stick to it), I'll pass my turn and let you decide who will continue.
- 16 Oct 2019 15:18
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
- 16 Oct 2019 15:00
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Make a race/competition fair? I must admit I'm at loss here. May I get a hint?
- 16 Oct 2019 14:32
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
race? [:D] (that seems to be the original meaning!) [tick] Woo! [:D] "race, competition, contest" is the main semantic range of cursus . OK so 'cors' is supposed to mean "race, competition, contest", and 'pareïr' is more "equalize" than "compare". Maybe it me...
- 16 Oct 2019 13:52
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
race? (that seems to be the original meaning!)
- 16 Oct 2019 13:42
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
- 16 Oct 2019 13:28
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Is it closer to English course in meaning? Like progression or maybe waterway? There is a meaning of "course" quite close to one of cors 's senses, but I wouldn't say it's the primary sense of either. Now I'm just guessing wildly... does it have to do with navigation? "adjust course&...
- 16 Oct 2019 12:03
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Is it closer to English course in meaning? Like progression or maybe waterway?
- 16 Oct 2019 12:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeko-Romance development thread
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7396
Re: Zeko-Romance development thread
Three new ideas: 1. I'm preserving hic , haec , hoc . It will be reinforced with *ECCU < ecce eum and become first an anaphoric pronoun with no spatial deixis, later the definite article. This will have two important consequences: 1. provide a pronominal accusative ending in /n/ instead of the usual...
- 16 Oct 2019 11:48
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Not being a native English speaker may get the best of me since my wording may be inexact... assuming cors still means something like 'way', does it mean "to level a road"? Reminds me of what John the Baptist says in the Gospels but it may have a more physical sense here, ofc.
- 16 Oct 2019 10:07
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Oh, I missed the bit about cursus above. Is the verb derived from a noun? [cross] No, an adjective. Makes sense considering the verb ends in - ir (productive ending for deadjectival verbs in Romance). Am I correct in assuming that it's derived simply by adding - ir , making pare - the stem? If so, ...
- 16 Oct 2019 09:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197117
Re: If English used diacritics
I'd reform English spelling to be consistently and accurately etymological, and use diacritics to take care of various inconsistent shortenings and lengthenings which have, to the horror of Neogrammarians, appeared during the history of English. This happens to be a horribly difficult task and I ad...
- 16 Oct 2019 09:37
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492479
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Oh, I missed the bit about cursus above. Is the verb derived from a noun? [cross] No, an adjective. Makes sense considering the verb ends in - ir (productive ending for deadjectival verbs in Romance). Am I correct in assuming that it's derived simply by adding - ir , making pare - the stem? If so, ...