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- 19 Jan 2021 11:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4161
Re: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad
Most welcomed! If you're up to it, let's make this project a collab! To be honest this project is merely one of my little 'getaways'; my magnum inceptum --one that will be the source of my pride and spring me out of obscurity (if I may state so without sounding in the slightest way haughty) after a...
- 19 Jan 2021 07:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4161
Re: Modern Danubian Gothic Scratchpad
As many here know I toyed a Crimean Gothic descendant and also briefly considered a gothic language in the Dobruja region with heavy influence from the Balkan Sprachbund (it is still a project I wish to do.) Notably, the definite articles were apprehended much like in Romanian, with -ta (masculine) ...
- 22 Dec 2020 00:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Skaalinska
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3589
Re: Skaalinska
I love north germanic languages as some here know so I find this very cool. As for location, if you want to be conservative but don't want to copy Icelandic, you could place this language perhaps in Finland or further east? It would be peripheral and conservative but not "western." There a...
- 27 Sep 2020 22:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347708
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Excellent, thanks for all the information guys n' gals! I was a bit worried as Wikipedia (fantastic resource I know) tells me that /ç/ is a relatively rare phoneme and contrasts between /ç/, /x/, or /ʝ/ and /ɣ/ even rarer. So far as I'm aware, both these things are true. The palatal area seems part...
- 27 Sep 2020 17:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347708
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Excellent, thanks for all the information guys n' gals! I was a bit worried as Wikipedia (fantastic resource I know) tells me that /ç/ is a relatively rare phoneme and contrasts between /ç/, /x/, or /ʝ/ and /ɣ/ even rarer. Nonetheless, this exact contrast is what my Crimean Gothic reconstruct has, i...
- 27 Sep 2020 07:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347708
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How common is /ç/?
Could it be reasonably contrasted with /x/ and/or /ʝ/?
Could it be reasonably contrasted with /x/ and/or /ʝ/?
- 29 Aug 2020 01:11
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is Irish North Germanic plausible?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2180
Re: Is Irish North Germanic plausible?
I have played around with this idea. Notably, all final vowels reduce to schwa (as in Danish) but not before a palatal/velar split in the consonants (also agreeable, as a lot of consonants become straight up retroflex in many dialects of Scandinavian while others become palatalized) which colorizes ...
- 20 Aug 2020 07:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 47878
Re: Yay or Nay?
I always find <ð> (or <þ> for that matter) in a non Germanic conlang to be a bit odd. Though some languages make it work (i.e. Boral)
- 17 Aug 2020 21:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
- Views: 207336
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Correct, the north germanic article and the article I have used are from different sources. My article is from *sa which through analogy became *þa.DesEsseintes wrote: ↑17 Aug 2020 08:39 Aren’t the Scandinavian definite articles from hinn ← *jainaz, cognate with English yon?
hestur + hinn → hesturinn
etc.
- 17 Aug 2020 04:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
- Views: 207336
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I'm tinkering with a dialect of my old Gothish (Crimean Gothic) conlang, one spoken this time in the Balkans, perhaps corresponding to the rough Dobruja region of Romania. Unlike the former conlang, this language has much stronger influences from the Balkan Sprachbund. Like the North Germanic langua...
- 29 Jul 2020 20:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347708
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it likely to have one word in a set loaned and another word not loaned? For example, I loaned one word from another language meaning "bridegroom" and have another word natively derived meaning "bride." I reckon these type of words are usually not loaned individually, but coun...
- 29 Jul 2020 10:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347708
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it likely to have one word in a set loaned and another word not loaned? For example, I loaned one word from another language meaning "bridegroom" and have another word natively derived meaning "bride." I reckon these type of words are usually not loaned individually, but count...
- 23 Jul 2020 05:42
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Metal Thread
- Replies: 335
- Views: 151608
- 21 Jun 2020 05:13
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The Great Vowel Shift & Vocalism in Romance languages
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8207
Re: The Great Vowel Shift & Vocalism in Romance languages
Also, doesn't Romanian centralize vowels in certain environments?
- 08 Jun 2020 19:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12935
Re: Does anyone else try and actually speak or pronounce their conlang or is it all on paper?
Gothish is all on paper. I suppose if you can speak Dutch or Low German the conlang wouldnt be too hard to pronounce as it shares most of the same sounds (except for /T/). I cant speak either but i wonder if it would be mutually intelligible if i could.
- 11 Feb 2020 08:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
- Views: 207336
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Híí has - despite my violent protestations - gained the grapheme y for a marginally phonemic /j/ and a much more pervasive [j]. This means that Híí now has delightful sequences like mmy nny rry wwy mm’y nn’y rr’y ww’y . I should probably rename the language in light of this. Perhaps sth like Quenya...
- 11 Feb 2020 08:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Pelsodian Scratchpad
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4189
Re: Pelsodian Scratchpad
Fixed
- 10 Feb 2020 20:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Pelsodian Scratchpad
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4189
Re: Pelsodian Scratchpad
Hope this thread is still going, for I do have a question: I have a theory that this change initially began in Pannonia, and spread west after the collapse of the province. This would make sense, as Norman French does not share this change, but many southern French dialects had. I have likewise inc...
- 10 Feb 2020 19:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Jäzik Panúski
- Replies: 52
- Views: 15799
Re: Jäzik Panúski
Interesting source you found. I have my own source, which only confidentially states that the reflex of PS *ǫ was u . Mind telling us what the conclusions are? The article I cited also aims at that conclusion, if by u you are referring to the long one ( ū ). No, I mean the conclusions of the overal...
- 10 Feb 2020 09:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Jäzik Panúski
- Replies: 52
- Views: 15799
Re: Jäzik Panúski
I've read some Rusyn grammar books, among which the Ivan Harajda's grammar (published in 1941 at then Hungary-occupied Ungvar/Uzhhorod in a Rusyn variant) stated that some dialect have a /ø~y/ corresponding to standard Ukrainian /i/ and Russian /o/, coming from Proto-Slavic *o plus a consonant + a ...