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- 01 Dec 2019 17:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've go this consonant inventory and phonotactics. I'm very much happy with it and it's pretty fleshed out both synchronically and diachronically. However, the inspiration to find out which vowels go with it just doesn't strike. Can you help me? What vowels do you think would suite this? If it's of ...
- 01 Dec 2019 12:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Grammar derivation questions
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Re: Grammar derivation questions
For verbs, existing verbal forms may be renewed over and over again in a sort of cycle. I've seen it stated that future forms are very liable to be replaced by new forms of modal or aspectual origin, and there is a very common shift of perfect aspect to past tense (googling "aoristic drift"...
- 21 Nov 2019 09:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
There could be a situation, after syncope, that vowels are lengthened before some coda consonants, but not before others, resulting in CV.CV.CV́ > CVC.CV́ or CVːC.CV́ > CV́C.CV or CV́ːC.CV. The relevant consonants could then merge, making this distinction unpredictable. If you want to have both penu...
- 21 Nov 2019 09:11
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
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Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
I actually prefer your original derivation to my partially incorrect guess. And I'll pass this turn. Have no more interesting words to post.
- 20 Nov 2019 09:36
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
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Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Nine hours in the morning? haoḍḍamanzanment "hour-of-morning-ly" is a very creative, very synthetic for a romance language, way to say "in the morning"!
- 20 Nov 2019 09:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'd love to help, but I can't accurately picture your conlang's syllable structure. Is it underlyingly CVC or CV with a coda consonant allowed word-finally? Where does stress fall if there are no long vowels in the word? In an underlyingly CVC structure I see no reason why CāC.Ca(C) and Cā.Ca.Ca(C) ...
- 20 Nov 2019 09:24
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
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Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Is naf from novem and haor from hora? If that's true, the manzan part of haoḍḍamanzanment might be from maneanus?
- 18 Nov 2019 14:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Chechen or some related Caucasian language which has phonemic long consonants in both onsets and codas, specifically has long /t͡sː/ with a long [s ] rather than a long [t]. Croatian /tt͡s/ and /dt͡s/ are realised as [t͡s] with a long [t], while /ts/ and /ds/ are realised as [t͡s] with a long [s ], ...
- 17 Nov 2019 18:42
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Origin of some English orthography inconsistencies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1416
Re: Origin of some English orthography inconsistencies
Re: Old English <ēaw> sometimes giving Middle English <ew> and sometimes Middle English <aw>. Could that be due to analogical processes withing Old English itself? Ringe deals with it in his book on history of English, but I only vaguely remember the details. Basically Proto-Germanic *au (tautosylla...
- 16 Nov 2019 15:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'd choose [Vʴː]. Quality modifiers before quantity modifiers.yangfiretiger121 wrote: ↑16 Nov 2019 13:36 Are rhotacized long monophthongs better transcribed as [Vːʴ] or [Vʴː]?
- 15 Nov 2019 09:48
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492692
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
I thought, if Ibero-Romance can derive their "arrive" from "fold", and French from "shore", then I can derive mine from "swim to".
- 14 Nov 2019 20:15
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
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Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Very, very close, but no... "to approach" doesn't quite get to the same point as "sânar".
- 14 Nov 2019 15:25
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492692
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Haha, I just meant that as a hint to which prefix it was! Nothing to do with marriage... it's meaning is similar to one of the basic meanings of adno in Latin itself.
- 14 Nov 2019 10:34
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
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Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Good verb , bad prefix . Hint: Italian [akˈkaːsa].
- 13 Nov 2019 14:32
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
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Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
After weeks of perfectionistic procrastination, I finally got enough inspiration to start properly working on my climatically controversial conworld. And no, it's not climate, it's tectonics! https://i.postimg.cc/pT3BScQL/New-World-Map.png Yellow: outline of continental shelf, Red: divergent boundar...
- 10 Nov 2019 16:39
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492692
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Very, very close!
- 08 Nov 2019 10:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
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Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I think this is attested in Vedic. Unlike other oblique cases, the locative singular had full grade instead of zero grade and was accented on the last syllable of the stem, and this is true whether it ends in -i or in -Ø. Sadly, Wiktionary has no Vedic (only Classical Sanskrit) declension of "s...
- 08 Nov 2019 09:33
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
- Replies: 2334
- Views: 492692
Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs
No. The original verb is quite short.
- 07 Nov 2019 18:29
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How to make a Celtic lostlang?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3106
Re: How to make a Celtic lostlang?
To be fair, the apocope can't be dated precisely and most sources put it in the 6th century. As for Wiktionary/Wikipedia having a Proto-Brythonic without apocope even if all Brythonic languages share it, that's probably due to a strict definition of Proto-Something (undifferentiated common ancestor ...
- 07 Nov 2019 18:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
A video by Biblaridion talks about this in some depth. The fact that multiple languages turned some kind of perfect marker into an evidential was surprising to me (I thought the situation in Bulgarian and Macedonian was due to Turkish influence, but Turkish seems to have done the same by itself... ...