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- 12 Mar 2024 20:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
This sounds unusual but not impossible. One way to think of it would be that voicing is contrastive and breathy voice is just an allophonic process that applies to voiced stops before vowels, which is still unusual but maybe not as unusual. IMHO, it would be easier to say that vowels are contrastive...
- 12 Mar 2024 09:03
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #28: The Northern Islands of the shore of the Wizard Republic have remained politically independent for most of their history. After the Great War and especially in the Era of Reconciliation they have exerted a notable cultural influence on the Wizard Republic. They are also well-...
- 11 Mar 2024 15:24
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #27: Writing evolved several times independently on Fredauon. One family includes the Ancient cuneiform scripts and the Abjad/Abigudas used around the Great Mountains, e.g. by the Wizards. Independent families includes the logographic/syllabic blackletter runes around Bólks, the c...
- 10 Mar 2024 19:53
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Which was of course my inspiration for the deconstruction/reconstruction.
- 10 Mar 2024 13:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
True, these dwarves are not bearded, just short. But malnoutrition and lack of sunlight will make them look different from regular people. Maybe dirt from underground labour will also make them look older.
- 10 Mar 2024 10:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #26: The Pang-speaking Dark Elves are a group that split from the Elves after the Great War. Post-traumatic stress disorder caused several violent crimes which lead to the expulsion of many veterans, who later formed the Dark Elves. The Dark Elves have a complex culture that inclu...
- 09 Mar 2024 17:46
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #25
The so-called Dwarves are victims of forced child labour working in the mines of the southern Great Mountains in order to provide the Wizard Republic with precious metals Outsiders -unaware of the facts- consider them an ethnic group.
The so-called Dwarves are victims of forced child labour working in the mines of the southern Great Mountains in order to provide the Wizard Republic with precious metals Outsiders -unaware of the facts- consider them an ethnic group.
- 08 Mar 2024 15:00
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #24: The highest decision making institution of the Elves is the general gathering. Everyone is welcome to attend and to speak at the gathering (before the Great War only heads of treehouseholds could attend). Decisions are generally reached by consensus, postponed, or delgated to...
- 08 Mar 2024 08:56
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: If anyone knowing the nature of good and evil...
- Replies: 7
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Re: If anyone knowing the nature of good and evil...
It showed up in the Teach & Learn subforum for me yesterday. It doesn't today. Weird
- 07 Mar 2024 19:59
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5304
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
So you were thinking of dragon flellyfishes? Great idea but I think there won't be any fire-breathing creatures on Fredauon. There will be Flying Dragons though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_%28lizard%29?wprov=sfla1 Oh, and water dragons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_dragon?wpr...
- 07 Mar 2024 18:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Oooh, that's a great idea. Let a large number of flellyfish float over to your enemies castle/base camp and then light them with a burning arrow/bullet?
- 07 Mar 2024 17:48
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Why do cows not explode?
Maybe it should be something akin to hot nitrogen instead of hot air? Or hot airvwithout anything akin to oxygen?
This reminds me of an element on Fredauon: phlogiston. Maybe that could help?
Maybe it should be something akin to hot nitrogen instead of hot air? Or hot airvwithout anything akin to oxygen?
This reminds me of an element on Fredauon: phlogiston. Maybe that could help?
- 06 Mar 2024 15:47
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #23: Floating Jellyfish (or Flellyfish) are another peculiar part of Fredauon fauna. Their digestion produces a mixture that includes hot air and methane (provided by bacteria) in a enlarged gastric pocket, which allows them to float into the air and prey on small bats, flying fis...
- 05 Mar 2024 17:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 562
Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
I like the three melody inventory. It gives a nice pitch-accent like touch.
- 05 Mar 2024 17:11
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
I got the idea from tvtropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ ... geMorality.
- 03 Mar 2024 23:43
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
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Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #22: At the height of the Space Age on Fredauon, the following space-faring species/civilizations are known: the humans from Fredauon, the Beep (also known as The Green), short three-eyed humanoids who use their skin for photosynthesis and live on a planet in a neighbouring solar ...
- 03 Mar 2024 11:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 562
Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
Nice tone section. I think the melody mapping and the melody inventory is very naturalistic. I also like the low raising at the word level and the word-final low boundary tone. I was wondering if similar stuff happens across word boundaries or at the end of a phrase. Your tone dissimilations are a b...
- 03 Mar 2024 01:19
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5304
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #21: A curious part of Fredauon fauna are the so-called land sponges, a species of sponge that resembles certain fungi in their outer appearance. They occur in areas that have both high humidity as well as lots of wind. They consist of several sticky interconnected tube-like struc...
- 02 Mar 2024 14:41
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5304
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Both, I would say.
- 01 Mar 2024 07:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1675
- Views: 347326
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I don't think it's actually all that common for polysynthetic languages to have noun classes; they're characteristic of dependent-marking languages, while polysynthetic languages tend to be strongly head-marking. But as Bininj-gun-Wok shows, it's still possible. But Bantu languages have noun classe...