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- 09 Apr 2018 13:02
- 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
While thinking about the uses of moods in my IE. conlang I tried to look at how different moods and tenses are used in different IE. natlangs. Since my native language (Croatian) is comparatively poor in that regard, I've never completely understood some of the ways different moods and tenses are us...
- 30 Mar 2018 15:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1035702
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
This is a phonology I came up with this week: consonants: /p t s k b d z g m n ŋ/ <p t s k b d z g m n ng> vowels: /i u ə a əi̯ əu̯ ai̯ au̯/ <i u ä a äi äu ai au> syllable structure: (C)V(C) Morpheme-internally, only the following clusters are allowed: /mp nt ŋk mb nd ŋg tk sk dg zg/ <mp nt ngk mb n...
- 22 Feb 2018 13:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317732
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is there any chance that the Slavic patronymics in -ov, etc are a direct loan of Greek masculine genitive -ou, which is also a patronymic? I couldnt find info on the etymology of the Russian sufx paradigm. I know rhat the gk is from pie. A cognate, more like. I am not entirely sure and couldn't fin...
- 21 Feb 2018 17:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317732
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So, my question is this: How did the phonemic distinction between two rhotic consonants found in many Iberian Romance languages arise? Well it kind of exists in Italian as well as [r] is more often than not pronounced as /ɾ/ while [rː] remains pronounced as /rː/. Iberian languages originally contra...
- 18 Feb 2018 12:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Suppose my proto-language has agent markers -a and -an and patient markers -eo and -igu: How easy would it be for just -a and -an to replace -eo and -igu and as such now mark both agent and patient, without undergoing phonological change? What is the morphosyntactic alignment of your language? I ca...
- 14 Feb 2018 13:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
- Replies: 2876
- Views: 446947
Re: Yay or Nay?
I say b/c; keep it on as a habitual , with the later possibility of having it become the unmarked present, maybe even losing the IE present altogether (and if you think this is far-fetched, trust me it's nothing compared to what's gone on in Algonquian). Now that's an interesting suggestion! I have...
- 13 Feb 2018 16:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
- Replies: 2876
- Views: 446947
Re: Yay or Nay?
I say b/c; keep it on as a habitual , with the later possibility of having it become the unmarked present, maybe even losing the IE present altogether (and if you think this is far-fetched, trust me it's nothing compared to what's gone on in Algonquian). Now that's an interesting suggestion! I have...
- 13 Feb 2018 13:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
- Replies: 2876
- Views: 446947
Re: Yay or Nay?
So, I am making an Indo-European descendant. I am preserving the Pie. aorist and innovating a new perfect. I can't decide what to do with the Pie. perfect, though. Should I a) merge it with the aorist, b) merge it with the present, or c) keep it distinct, with the possibility of later loosing it wit...
- 13 Feb 2018 12:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2043857
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
2. How does a masculine/feminine gender distinction arise? I know it is believed to come from animate vs. inanimate, with the animate class splitting into masculine and feminine and inanimate becomes "neuter." Some languages go further and end up doing away with the neuter. To my knowledg...
- 12 Feb 2018 23:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2043857
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
2. How does a masculine/feminine gender distinction arise? I know it is believed to come from animate vs. inanimate, with the animate class splitting into masculine and feminine and inanimate becomes "neuter." Some languages go further and end up doing away with the neuter. To my knowledg...
- 27 Jan 2018 11:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Esseintial Núta Blog
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5122
Re: The Esseintial Núta Blog
I like your conlangs a lot - there's something appealing in a minimalistic phoneme inventory coupled with complex phonotactic rules. I don't know why, but it just seems "artistic" to me, like a painting carefully constructed from a small colour palette. There's also not many polysynthetic ...
- 30 Dec 2017 12:38
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317732
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The Wikipedia article on Pali has a detailed account of consonant cluster simplification. There is also this article https://www.academia.edu/379001/Syllable-_and_word-related_developments_in_earlier_Indo-Iranian on Indo-Iranian syllable structure in general. I know it's not exactly what you asked f...
- 10 Dec 2017 16:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Pelsodian, a Hungarian romlang
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4937
Re: Pelsodian, a Hungarian romlang
It does seem to depend on font, but generally, all fonts distinguish cedilla on ç, ş and comma below on other letters. If you want consistency, I suggest using diacritics for either set of sounds, and digraphs for the other.
- 10 Dec 2017 15:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2757
Re: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
Here's the complete phonology and diachronics for the first phase of my conlang: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b9N7h7aU0Wur4dfI5DGOTdzNcvUhCHDA It seems that uploading the file to Google Drive has somewhat ruined it's layout, but I don't know how to fix it. If anyone does know, I'd be happy if y...
- 03 Dec 2017 14:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2043857
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Quick question regarding the diachronics of South a Slavic. When would Serbo-Croatian have separated from OCS? I’m asking because the Gotski were conquered by South Slavs by the 9th Century and they continued to be the ruling class until the 15th Century. The situation is meant to be similar to Nor...
- 02 Dec 2017 18:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2757
Re: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant. EDIT: heavily edited for readability.
Diachronics time! [:D] First, a taste of what the endpoint is: a particularly divergent dialect spoken in modern times, spoken a couple of centuries after the dialect from the last post. All examples will be in IPA because I haven't decided it's orthography yet. 1. SKETCH OF THE LANGUAGE NOUNS: [ˈmu...
- 25 Nov 2017 16:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2757
Re: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
Where is this language spoken? Most likely on a conworld, whose geography is currently a work in progress. It started as a silly story I wrote as a teenager and I am trying to make it more serious now. If spoken on Earth, it would probably be located somewhere in the Carpathians since it is a satem...
- 21 Nov 2017 19:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2757
Re: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
Does this language preserve laryngeals? Are the fricatives descended from them? I'm interested in seeing the diachronics in gen eral, and if you're interested ,the phonology you used as a starting point from PIE itself. Also, regArding the two x's.... Some mobile browsers merge those two, so I had ...
- 21 Nov 2017 18:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2757
Zekoslav's conlang attempt thread - Indo-European descendant
I have decided to create a fictional branch of Indo-European, currently nameless, with three main languages, for now named language A, B and C, and their ancestor, Proto-ABC (I suck at making up names). Each language has a detailed history, with an old-, middle- and new- phase, describing language c...
- 18 Nov 2017 14:10
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424460
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Hello, I'm Zekoslav. I've been interested in languages (both conlangs and natlangs - I actually study linguistics [;)] ) for a long time, but only recently I managed to come up with something worth sharing. Usually I make a posteriori languages, because I can't for the love of all that is holy ever ...