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by Omzinesý
13 Feb 2024 08:32
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347753

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

In what kind of vowel inventories does /ʉ/ (close central rounded vowel) appear? Wikipedia has a very short list. I'm not sure what sort of answer you're looking for. What does "what kind of" mean? What are the options? In terms of individual languages, the obvious example is (many/most d...
by Omzinesý
12 Feb 2024 23:32
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347753

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

In what kind of vowel inventories does /ʉ/ (close central rounded vowel) appear?
Wikipedia has a very short list.
by Omzinesý
12 Feb 2024 10:55
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5601

Re: SBäk e Dlor

The venitive prefix jo- could actually be added to nouns expressing 'there is'.

Jomas 'There is a house.' ~ 'There are houses.'

The problem is just how to add adjectives to the verby phrase. Does anybody know how polysynthetic languages do that?
by Omzinesý
11 Feb 2024 21:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Replies: 28
Views: 1177

Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?

Dlor has a definite article s-. It is used of object that are mentioned or hinted to earlier in the discourse or that are language-externally known. It is not used of generic entities. I don't know how words like Sun behave. I'm planing that associated motion markers also introduce new entities into...
by Omzinesý
10 Feb 2024 20:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5601

Re: SBäk e Dlor

Applicatives Applicatives are formed by adding the preposition of the NP that is to be promoted before the verb. Néeb tlee lu s-lûrud. live SG1 in DEF-town 'I live in the town.' Lú-neeb s-lûrud na tlee. APPL-live DEF-town ERG SG1 Use Applicatives are hardly ever used in 'normal' sentences. Their mai...
by Omzinesý
10 Feb 2024 19:32
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5601

Re: SBäk e Dlor

On the directional prefixes 1) When the verb is a motion verb, say, 'to run', they mean 'to arrive running' and 'to leave running'. They thus make the verb telic while the original verb is atelic 'to be running'. 2) When the verb is not a motion verb, say, to 'to sing', they mean 'arrive and then si...
by Omzinesý
10 Feb 2024 01:08
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Altlang Ideas Discussion
Replies: 101
Views: 26843

Re: Altlang Ideas Discussion

A Finnic lang where inessive and illative merge as well as adessive and allative. maja 'house' Iness maja-s <= maja-ssa Illat maja-s <= maja-sse (at least Estonian has this) Elat maja-st <= maja-sta Adess maja-l <= maja-lla Allat maja-l <= maja-lle(k) Abl maja-lt <= maja-lta If goal and location cas...
by Omzinesý
10 Feb 2024 00:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
Replies: 196
Views: 86736

Re: Omzinian Scrap thread

I could make a new version of this project https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7572 making it West-Romance rather than South-Romance. It has two cases, Nominative and Obloque (Everythig-else-case). SG.NOM /amixos/ SG.OBL /amixo/ PL /amixi/ Nominative has the -s only if the word is animate. I have s...
by Omzinesý
09 Feb 2024 10:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347753

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

There was a conlang genarator that was able to generate relatively nice sketches.
What was its adress?
by Omzinesý
08 Feb 2024 20:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5601

Re: SBäk e Dlor

The fun thing in Dlor are denominal verbs where the derivational affix is one of the normal deverbal affixes. Prepositions could also do (1) lwi s-mas inside DEF-house 'inside the house' (2) lwimas 'to be inside (the) house' Fonologically, the only difference is that in (1) the stress lies on the se...
by Omzinesý
07 Feb 2024 15:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 735
Views: 207369

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I wrote two pages to my Dlor grammar. As usual, I added things to many places there, copula constructions, habeo constructions, diphthongs, proclitics or nouns ...
by Omzinesý
05 Feb 2024 23:58
Forum: Translations
Topic: Selkups
Replies: 3
Views: 290

Selkups

This paragraph from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkup_people has many interesting passive-like constructions. During the Soviet period, the Selkups were forced to adopt a settled lifestyle and their traditional culture witnessed a severe decline. The Selkups have been facing cultural ...
by Omzinesý
05 Feb 2024 23:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: SBäk e Dlor
Replies: 70
Views: 5601

Re: SBäk e Dlor

Maybe prepositions could sometimes derive deniminal verbs too. Ba tëel ma tlee. be letter with sg1 'I have a letter.' Mä-teel tlee have-letter sg1 'I have a letter.' Mäteel has its accent on the first syllable while ma tëel 'with a letter' has its accent on the second word. As said before, prepositi...
by Omzinesý
05 Feb 2024 22:33
Forum: Translations
Topic: What will not kill you makes you stronger.
Replies: 64
Views: 31446

Re: What will not kill you makes you stronger.

I don't agree at all with the saying but it is a good sentence for testing nominalizations. :con: Dlor: [q͡χɪ'nä̰mɔsɛʔ'lɛbän] Kri nâ-mo-sek le-ban. NEG NMLZ.A-CAUS.weight-be.dead CAUS.giving-be.strong 'What does not press you dead makes you strong by increasing something.' Na is the ergative preposi...
by Omzinesý
05 Feb 2024 19:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Pyøza
Replies: 19
Views: 1550

Re: Pyøza

Subject markers

-s SG1
-x SG2
-Ø 3
-xen PL1
-xl PL2

Object markers
-in SG1
-up SG2
-t 3 class I (animate)
-l 3 class II
-ru 3 classs III
-n 3 class IV
by Omzinesý
04 Feb 2024 03:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347753

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

The trouble is, I really like -g, especially how weird and cludgy it is after stops or consonant clusters. So I'm thinking of reintroducing it in these environments via analogy. Which option sounds best? 1. Have it be reintroduced by analogy, regardless of the new consonant cluster rules. 2. Have i...
by Omzinesý
02 Feb 2024 01:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Pyøza
Replies: 19
Views: 1550

Re: Pyøza

Agreement markers of verbs could have a split alignment. Agreement slot 1: all A and animate S (this is a simple paradigm sg1, sg2, pl1, pl2, 3 = zero) Agreement slot 2: all O and inanimate S (this slot also has noun class marking) Archi noun classes are interesting https://www.researchgate.net/publ...
by Omzinesý
01 Feb 2024 09:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347753

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

So, on the page for Polysynthesis, Wikipedia lists two types of polysynthetic languages: affixal and compositional. How accurate is this? Is there any overlap between the two in natlangs? Read "A structural typology of polysynthesis' Johanna Mattissen, available on internet. I found it illumin...
by Omzinesý
29 Jan 2024 21:11
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155489

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

And hey, thinking of re-vamping Ai too: /b d k/ /s h/ /i y u ɛ œ ɔ a/ b d k → [β l ʕ] / V_V h → [x] / _œ With proto-Tariku *i̝ u̝ i u ɛ ɔ a → */i y e u ɛ ɔ a/ then a Landais Occitan-style shift */e/ → /œ/: *kdiCV → /di/ "banana" *tuCV → /ky/ "penis" *pidi → /hœdœ/ "skin&quo...
by Omzinesý
29 Jan 2024 21:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Swâŋ (East-Asian monosyllabic lang with clicks)
Replies: 16
Views: 1623

Re: Basic Swâŋ phrases

Visions1 wrote: 29 Jan 2024 11:18 I need to add a lot more to make the valency work. Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Do you want to have ambitransitives or causative auxiliaries or some prepositions for new arguments?