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- 09 Sep 2012 20:26
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
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Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Doesn't anybody really know a language that uses a VERB to emphasize clauses, except English "do"? I'm confused. Do you mean an auxilliary/helping verb, VSO\VOS, or something like inverted interrogative order? Could you give an example sentence? English is the only language I know having ...
- 09 Sep 2012 13:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Finnic Glottal Stops and Gemination [Split Thread]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2101
Re: Finnic Glottal Stops and Gemination [Split Thread]
Back to the original topic, Seto marks a sound as indefinite as stöd with the letter <q>.
You probably know more about Seto. Good that it got clear.
About supposing, no, I'm not gonna philosifize.
You probably know more about Seto. Good that it got clear.
About supposing, no, I'm not gonna philosifize.
- 09 Sep 2012 13:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317798
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Doesn't anybody really know a language that uses a VERB to emphasize clauses, except English "do"?
- 09 Sep 2012 13:12
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317798
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Tonal languages have tones, no stresses. That may or may not be a statistical likelihood, but it's definitely not absolutely true. There is at least one living natural language with tone, and stress, and syllable-weight, in which tone is sensitive to both weight and stress. Light unstressed syllabl...
- 08 Sep 2012 17:42
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Suomen kielen keskusteluketju | Finnish Conversation Thread
- Replies: 177
- Views: 146605
Re: suomi
Kiitti! Tein taas uuden synkronisen havainnon kielen muutoksesta. On aina kiva huomata joku juttu, ja sitten pokkana väitää, että se on yleistymässä suomessa. Kysymyssana "miksi" spesialisoituu tarkoittamaan vain syytä: Miksi teit sen? - Koska tuntui siltä. Kun taas kysymyssana "miksi...
- 08 Sep 2012 17:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Finnic Glottal Stops and Gemination [Split Thread]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2101
Re: Ny dansk ortografi
Seto (South Estonian) uses <q> for final gemination. Source? All I've ever heard is that it's used for /?/, which historically corresponds to the Finnish gemination phenomenon. Let's say it's the glottal stop then, but isn't the Finnish final gemination a glottal stop if we are forced to idenfy an ...
- 08 Sep 2012 17:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317798
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does anyone know languages that lack stress or were it doesn't matter where you put the stress? Georgian is a good example too. Of course it has intonation but no stress. Tonal languages have tones, no stresses. In some languages like Latin, stressing is based on heavy syllables, so the stress has ...
- 08 Sep 2012 17:25
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317798
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
English is the only language I know having 'do' (or any corresponding verb) as a marker of an emphasised expression. 'I DO know him' expression How common is that? What other languages do that? I don't know about verbs like "Do", but many langues just use an adverb or something similer in...
- 08 Sep 2012 12:26
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Finnic Glottal Stops and Gemination [Split Thread]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2101
Finnic Glottal Stops and Gemination [Split Thread]
Jeg versøker ikke skrive dansk, lol.
Seto (South Estonian) uses <q> for final gemination.
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Xonen: Split from Ny dansk ortografi.
Seto (South Estonian) uses <q> for final gemination.
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Xonen: Split from Ny dansk ortografi.
- 08 Sep 2012 11:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317798
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
English is the only language I know having 'do' (or any corresponding verb) as a marker of an emphasised expression.
'I DO know him' expression
How common is that?
What other languages do that?
'I DO know him' expression
How common is that?
What other languages do that?
- 04 Sep 2012 11:13
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Rkuom culture
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2156
Re: Rkuom culture
Could the Tree Cats mate with normal domestic cats? Maybe - maybe not. Their relationship is very similar to that of humans and simpamzees. A human could maybe have a descendant with simpanzee, but it's considered unmoral. Similarly the Tree Cats consider domestic cats as animals. Some people do ha...
- 04 Sep 2012 10:58
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Rkuom culture
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2156
Re: Rkuom culture
You have a great imagination. Very rich. I like the whole idea of you culture - especially the two tribes. And the tribe of the tree-cats! Thank you! I like it, too. 1. Why is the lifespan of the humans so short? If they live at the early Iron Ages I think that could be a good guess of the lifespan...
- 02 Sep 2012 17:56
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1362
- Views: 358673
Re: Other Creativity
Not as numismatic as Vampireshark's awesomenesses, but here goes Ladies and Gents, I give you... The Stabberstill NOT a pet of humans, though the Graevelorum like them. This lynx-sized descendant of rodents (nutria or brown rat, or some lab-hybrid gone wrong) is one of the typical pedators/opportun...
- 02 Sep 2012 16:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Rkuom culture
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2156
Rkuom culture
I thought to make an AMA of my new conculture Rkuom, but then I began to ask myself and already wrote some pages. This can be an AMA if somebody finds something to ask about, of course I'm happy for feedback. If you are busy, you can well skip boring parts and go back to the Tree Cats, which is the ...
- 02 Sep 2012 16:13
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1004270
Re: Language practice thread
Jag använder alltid för komplicede ordföljd i svenska. Jag gör det också i finska ock mina texter är lätta att känna för SOV -strukturen, men där vet jag när det bara är ett inslag av min stil. I svenska kan det ofta vara konstigt, fast det inte vore fel. I always use too complicated word orders in ...
- 02 Sep 2012 11:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1035748
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Why is <c> better for /ts/ than <z>?Esmelthien wrote:(with /t͡s/ <c>)Omzinesý wrote: /t͡s/ <z>
- 02 Sep 2012 11:18
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: What theme does your conworld have?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13311
Re: What theme does your conworld have?
My Rkuom world is mostly iron age that is fantasy. Magic appears but it's more like a religion or mystics, the shaman field. So it's possible to interprete the world without anything supernatural. People are half hunters half farmers. All conworlds must however have an interesting "what if"...
- 01 Sep 2012 11:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1035748
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
/p pʰ t tʲ tʰ k kʲ kʰ/ <b p d dy t g gy g> /t͡s/ <ts> I like that. It's simple but complicated simultanously. Why don't you try to find simple romanizations for all consonants. For example /p pʰ t tʲ tʰ k kʲ kʰ/ <b, p, d, t, c, g, q, k> /t͡s/ <z> The wowels should have some allophony.
- 29 Aug 2012 22:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2043929
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Do you mean that you need new categories for the lang or are you just wondering how to describe it well?thaen wrote:I need ideas for what more to put in my Verbs section of the Zendorian guide. I've already got TAM, deverbal affixes, and polarity affixes. What now?
- 29 Aug 2012 13:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1035748
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Why is /h/ marked with <g> ang /a/ with <h>.2-4 wrote:/m n/ ‹m n›
/p t k b d/ ‹p t k b d›
/s z h/ ‹s z g›
/l j w r/ ‹l j v r›
/i iː u uː/ ‹y ŷ w ŵ›
/a aː/ ‹h ĥ›