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by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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) ...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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/?
by Ælfwine
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 ...
by Ælfwine
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)
by Ælfwine
17 Aug 2020 21:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 735
Views: 207336

Re: What did you accomplish today?

DesEsseintes wrote: 17 Aug 2020 08:39 Aren’t the Scandinavian definite articles from hinn ← *jainaz, cognate with English yon?

hestur + hinn → hesturinn
etc.
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.
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
23 Jul 2020 05:42
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Metal Thread
Replies: 335
Views: 151608

Re: Metal Thread

I've been listening to a lot of Powerwolf after discovering them a few months ago.

Incense and Iron
by Ælfwine
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?
by Ælfwine
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.
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
11 Feb 2020 08:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Pelsodian Scratchpad
Replies: 10
Views: 4189

Re: Pelsodian Scratchpad

Zythros Jubi wrote: 11 Feb 2020 06:48Are you serious?
Fixed
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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...
by Ælfwine
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 ...