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- 20 Feb 2024 18:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I know you did not mean that. I was hoping that the two descriptions are extensionally the same even if they are intensionally different.
- 20 Feb 2024 16:37
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Sound Changes Game v2
- Replies: 2046
- Views: 230292
Re: Sound Changes Game v2
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[ˌʕunʊnˈd͡ðiˌɛ:ˈrɛə̯] > [ˌʕuwnʊwnˈd͡ðiˌɛ:jˈrɛə̯]
[ˌʕunʊnˈd͡ðiˌɛ:ˈrɛə̯] > [ˌʕuwnʊwnˈd͡ðiˌɛ:jˈrɛə̯]
- 20 Feb 2024 15:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347686
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Just to clarify: your idea is to lose vowel length but keep the synchronic latin stress rule leading to many (diachronic) stress shifts, right? Sounds naturalistic but I would frame it slightly different. You lose vowel length, keep stress positions (so in a way 'lose' the synchronic stress rule) an...
- 19 Feb 2024 21:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155452
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
[...] /p t ts k/ /f s x/ /m n/ /v~w l/ [...] ps px tf tx tsf tsx kf ks (fs) fx sf sx (xf) (xs) ml (nv) vl (lv) I like the /pn kn/ cluster. I should maybe add them (and also /fn/) and allophonically devoice nasals in there. And maybe [f] is really an allophone of /v/ (or [v] of /f/) at least in clus...
- 19 Feb 2024 20:47
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Twin Aster (Man in Space’s conworld megathread)
- Replies: 142
- Views: 98992
Re: Twin Aster (Man in Space’s conworld megathread)
I like the Africanist-typewriter style.
- 19 Feb 2024 17:40
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Does this make sense?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 249
Re: Does this make sense?
Can you just say that -ra and -re are case markers (e.g. nominative and accusative) and the noun phrase before the verb is the topic? The noun phrase after the verb would be the focus. I think this would match your sentences with your translations. Non-overt categories (as your topic position) can b...
- 19 Feb 2024 17:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5307
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #16: Music-wise, there is a gradient continuum on The Continent from the 3/4 time signature, downbeat music, with 12 notes to a octave, and prominent Shengs in the area north of the Great Mountains to the pentatonic, polyrhythmic, drum and string-heavy music in the southern parts....
- 18 Feb 2024 23:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347686
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
That depends on a lot of factors. Acoustically, [ʊ] and [o] are very close, so they are likely to merge. But this doesn't mean that this is the most likely in all contexts. If /ʊ/ and /ɔ/ share some other phonetic property (e.g. being short (as in German) or having a retracted tongue root (as in som...
- 18 Feb 2024 09:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347686
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Isn't Korean like this?
- 18 Feb 2024 00:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 207281
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Which reminds me of a thought I had recently: v-drop. Some languages can drop arguments if they can be inferred from the context, a v-drop language drops the verb/predicate whenever possible. Yasa tano _. I food _ 'I (eat) the food.' Yasa _ lada ko suka. I _ in the bed 'I (sleep) in the bed.' I gues...
- 17 Feb 2024 13:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 207281
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Closest thing I can think of right now is German varieties that fuse prepositions with articles. zu-m Haus to-the.DAT.N house 'to the house' zu-nem Haus to-a.DAT.N house 'to a house' So you need to specify definiteness on the preposition in principle. Well, unless you have a demonstrative/strong art...
- 15 Feb 2024 22:36
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5307
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Not at all. All people have 'the spark' but the spark can only rise back through the heavenly spheres back to the main deity at the time of death if the person has accumulated enough knowledge in their lifetime. Folk religion assumes that each sphere has a specific deity that quizzes you on your kno...
- 14 Feb 2024 22:23
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5307
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #15: The main religion of the Wizard Republic is similar to Gnosticism *here on Earth* in that humans possess a divine 'spark' of knowledge that was seperated from the highest deity by mistake. It is different, however, that there is no secret knowledge; instead knowledge is activ...
- 14 Feb 2024 22:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
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Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Not trying to go full philosophical here, but couldn't you say that a singular entity contrast with other potential but non-existent entities if the same kind? I was thinking of stuff like "There is only one god and his name is X", which implies that any claim that something with name Y is...
- 12 Feb 2024 09:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1177
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Omlueuet has an indedinite article but not a definite one. Kobardon has inflectional suffixes on nouns that express number and definiteness.
- 10 Feb 2024 21:38
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5307
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #14:
Ginkgo are one of the most common and most diverses clades of (wild or cultivated) trees on Fredauon.
Ginkgo are one of the most common and most diverses clades of (wild or cultivated) trees on Fredauon.
- 10 Feb 2024 13:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347686
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Just concerning the "obstruent influence tone without bearing it"-question. Depressor consonant is a good key word. Onset obstruents can synchronically and phonetically influence tone because they require a certain state of the glottis for their voicing value which restricts the possible r...
- 09 Feb 2024 16:02
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5307
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Well, flying wouldn't work that way. Three problems You would need to know what to change in order to make a flying human. You would want to use your legs and arms less to get lighter bones but more in order to get more muscles. Provided you find a solution, you would still need to rely on random mu...
- 09 Feb 2024 15:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347686
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
[ka˥.na˥] [ka˩.na˩] [ka.na] Those are the underlying tone melodies for each of them. The third one, however, can be rising, falling or low depending on the adjacent morphemes. That suggests that you have marked H and L tones, and then a separate unmarked tone. Which is perfectly naturalistic. I see...
- 09 Feb 2024 08:43
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 99
- Views: 5307
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
Fredauon Fun Fact #13: Evolution on Fredauon is Lamarckian in the following restricted sense: characteristics gradually acquired by use or disuse of certain body parts are inheritable. This is because cells inside organs that are used more frequently or less frequently change their internal buildin...