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Another thing I'd like to mention is that languages are often inconsistent on whether they're head-initial or head-final. For example, let's look at English and Classical Latin and compare them. English: - head-final in adjective + noun word order - head-final in adverb + adjective word order - head...

1. Head-Initial languages. I get that adjectives comes after the noun. Sort off like they do in English pronouns (I want SOMEONE NICE). BUT, what about compound nouns? Because I assumed they worked they same as in English, that is, a SCHOOL BOY is a kind of boy, and not a kind of school. But the mo...

On the contrary, "bimonthly" isn't very ambiguous at all because "bi-" means "two" and "monthly" means "every month." Thus, we get "very two/other month(s)" for "bimonthly." If we want "every other week" to be concise, ...

[...] [...] I'd say that /kr gr/ are likely to become /ʀ̥ ʀ/ if /pr br/ become /ʙ̥ ʙ/. However, you can then have /ʀ̥ ʀ/ > /χ ʁ/ > /x ɣ/ unconditionally without affecting /ʙ̥ ʙ/. Regarding linguistic bilabial trills, here is an interesting post from someone on the ZBB: I will say that I do not beli...

مرگ بر برف
marg bar barf
DOWN WITH SNOW

There has been zero snow here in Vancouver so far, and I'm more than happy with this.

There is quite a bit of variety in terms of the possible physical states of matter, but more than half of them require extreme cold or heat and/or extreme pressure. In everyday Earth conditions however, four basic or classical types can be identified: * solid ("earth") * liquid ("wate...

Before I continue this post, I shall remind readers that I unfortunately conflate "structural terms" and "functional terms", the latter being more acceptable amongst linguists (but idc because it's much simpler for me to describe my conlang from its perspectives and principles)....

Why not 50,000? Kankonian has over 45,000 already, and I'm still too young to become president of the United States. My Kankonian grammar now comes out at 150 pages as a Corel WordPerfect document! I have to ask: perhaps you're a bit of a funny person, but why do you say your conlang has more than ...

Certainly, Quenya is not an exolang, but you said griuskant would get "passive nouns, possessive verbs, imperative prepositions, passive intransitives, active modals etc." Isn't this something that would never happen in a human natlang, or am I up for an ANADEW surprise here? Uh, I'm bili...

GoshDiggityDangit wrote: ↑03 Dec 2019 08:16Don’t you get me thinking about making another Poly-Lang.

lol I think this is the first time I see "poly-lang" meaning "Polynesian conlang". I've seen "polylang" before, but meaning "polysynthetic conlang".

Today I learned that that French "on" derives from the nominative meaning 'man' while "homme" derives from the accusative. Thus "on" has a very similar history to Germanic "man". I had thought it was related to "un" and similar to English "one&...

This thread reminds me, something I've always found fun is that the practice of blackening teeth with a layer of lacquer in order to protect them into old age was historically found in Japan, Micronesia, parts of the Philippines, parts of the Chinese mainland close to the Philippines (the practice i...

Ursus > ours /uʁs/ is definitely an exception, cf. cursus 'flow' > cours /kuʁ/ 'path; flow', morsus 'bitten thing, animal' > mors /mɔʁ/ 'horse bit'. It's still an animate though. It reminds me of the similar Spanish retention of the nominative serpēns > sierpe 'snake' (as a doublet of the much more...

If there is a Yahoo Group you'd like to download but are not able to with that tool, let me know. I like to download these Yahoo Groups : 1. Dene-Caucasian Languages & Linguistics (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Dene_Caucasian/info) 2. Theudiskon (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Theudi...

Japanese nani 'what?'
Inuktitut nani 'where?'

So, as Zekoslav doesn't want to suggest a word, how about this from not-a-real-Romlang, just a thought experiment I had that hasn't got any actual history or anything attached (yet, at least): ogajaitar /ogadZajtar/ Judging by the -ar ending, I imagine this is either an -āre infinitive or an adject...

Which Yahoo Groups are you trying to download? When you say you can't download "Auxlang and Conlang group messages", what are you talking about? Are these the CONLANG and AUXLANG mailing lists, served by Brown University? These are mailing services served by computers at that university, a...

Are rhotacized long monophthongs better transcribed as [Vːʴ] or [Vʴː]? I'd choose [Vʴː]. Quality modifiers before quantity modifiers. It's always pretty awkward though. This works well for vowels, but for affricate consonants it gets trickier, e.g. Italian razzo 'rocket' and ragazzo 'boy' [ˈradzːo ...

Did this happen at some point for English? 800 > 1300 > 1700 > 2000 <ow> /ou/ > /u:/ > /au/ > /au/ (as in <now>) <ow> /ɔu/ > /o:/ > /ou/ > /əʉ/, or /ɞu/ in North America (as in <low>) <aw> /au/ > /ɒo/ > /ɔ:/ > /o:/, or /ɒ:~a:/ in North America No. More like: 800 > 1300 > 1700 > 2000 ** ow [aʊ] ** [...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑12 Nov 2019 19:55Ontena Gadsup

I... I-... I don't even.

I HAVE BEEN LIVING A LIE