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by Zekoslav
01 Dec 2019 17:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044140

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 ...
by Zekoslav
01 Dec 2019 12:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Grammar derivation questions
Replies: 3
Views: 744

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"...
by Zekoslav
21 Nov 2019 09:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044140

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...
by Zekoslav
21 Nov 2019 09:11
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

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.
by Zekoslav
20 Nov 2019 09:36
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

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"!
by Zekoslav
20 Nov 2019 09:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044140

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) ...
by Zekoslav
20 Nov 2019 09:24
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

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?
by Zekoslav
18 Nov 2019 14:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044140

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 ], ...
by Zekoslav
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...
by Zekoslav
16 Nov 2019 15:13
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044140

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

yangfiretiger121 wrote: 16 Nov 2019 13:36 Are rhotacized long monophthongs better transcribed as [Vːʴ] or [Vʴː]?
I'd choose [Vʴː]. Quality modifiers before quantity modifiers.
by Zekoslav
15 Nov 2019 09:48
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

[tick] [tick] [tick]

I thought, if Ibero-Romance can derive their "arrive" from "fold", and French from "shore", then I can derive mine from "swim to". [xD]
by Zekoslav
14 Nov 2019 20:15
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Very, very close, but no... "to approach" doesn't quite get to the same point as "sânar". [;)]
by Zekoslav
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.
by Zekoslav
14 Nov 2019 10:34
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Good verb [tick], bad prefix [cross]. Hint: Italian [akˈkaːsa].
by Zekoslav
13 Nov 2019 14:32
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656598

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...
by Zekoslav
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!
by Zekoslav
08 Nov 2019 10:01
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317953

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...
by Zekoslav
08 Nov 2019 09:33
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492692

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

No. [cross] The original verb is quite short.
by Zekoslav
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 ...
by Zekoslav
07 Nov 2019 18:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044140

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... ...