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- 13 Feb 2024 08:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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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...
- 12 Feb 2024 23:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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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.
Wikipedia has a very short list.
- 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?
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?
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
What was its adress?
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
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
-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
- 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...
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 29 Jan 2024 21:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Swâŋ (East-Asian monosyllabic lang with clicks)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1623