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by Sequor
27 Apr 2020 21:25
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: The Great Vowel Shift & Vocalism in Romance languages
Replies: 33
Views: 8200

Re: Apparently Old Prussian underwent the Great Vowel Shift

Notice the alteration between /ɛ/ and /e/! That's I think what you're talking about, and why I was specific in referencing Campidanese, and not Logudorese or Nugorese I'm afraid that, no, that's still not the allophonic vowel length we were talking about. We were talking about the (allophonic) leng...
by Sequor
27 Apr 2020 20:12
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431730

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

Basically, without warning, one morning the host had shut the entire site down due to there being too much on it (iirc they got suspiscious of the amount of files, but I don't remember the details...). So me and Ossicone had to go into sudden crisis mode and had to start deleting content in order f...
by Sequor
27 Apr 2020 04:20
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431730

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

While the old posts were down, I remembered an old thread I had made -- I think it was titled "Let's do lipograms", in whose OP I had posted a composition without using A, E, I, O, nor U. It had the word "hyphy" in it -- if you search for that you may be able to find it. I could...
by Sequor
27 Apr 2020 01:18
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431730

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

Or, to summarise the basic sentiment here: "fuck off, don't even think about posting here". Great, every thread has to complete a form saying which of the small number of distinct, clearly-defined Permissable Essential Purposes it will be fulfilling, and must then carry its papers, proper...
by Sequor
27 Apr 2020 01:08
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Romance tidbits
Replies: 37
Views: 8811

Re: Romance tidbits

The first one which came to my mind was the present tense of doloir / douloir . There are probably more. I don't think this would help anyway, as the development of /u̯elC/, /u̯eu̯C/ is a an entire rabbit-hole of problems I haven't yet looked into the matter well (published research, data) to fix t...
by Sequor
26 Apr 2020 21:57
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431730

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

• Personal threads for practicing a certain language. → Threads should be titled <[Username] – [Language]>; e.g. Aszev – Français. • Question threads for a specific language. → Threads should be titled <[Language] Question Thread: Questions about [Language]>, where the second part is in the languag...
by Sequor
26 Apr 2020 21:40
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: The Great Vowel Shift & Vocalism in Romance languages
Replies: 33
Views: 8200

Re: Apparently Old Prussian underwent the Great Vowel Shift

Notice the alteration between /ɛ/ and /e/! That's I think what you're talking about, and why I was specific in referencing Campidanese, and not Logudorese or Nugorese I'm afraid that, no, that's still not the allophonic vowel length we were talking about. We were talking about the (allophonic) leng...
by Sequor
25 Apr 2020 23:25
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: The Great Vowel Shift & Vocalism in Romance languages
Replies: 33
Views: 8200

Re: Apparently Old Prussian underwent the Great Vowel Shift

Probably the most curious part of the change is /aː/ > /ɛː/. Other than in English, this is attested in Ancient Greek, Ingvaeonic* and Gallo-Romance, but it seems that /aː/ generally prefers to move in the direction of /ɔː/. This happened in Proto-Germanic, Middle English, various descendants of Ol...
by Sequor
24 Apr 2020 00:44
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1108
Views: 282250

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

According to Buck, the nominative singular of n-stem nouns in Oscan is -uf/f. I don't see how this can be. I get that in Sabellic, there was a change of -ns to -f, but in order for this to make sense, this change would've had to occur before Szemerenyi's law and I thought that occurred at the PIE l...
by Sequor
23 Apr 2020 16:25
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275137

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Various languages Sutra vs. :hrv: <sutra> "tommorow" Maybe I'm missing some meaning of the former, since it's not defined, but I don't really see how these are either false friends or unfortunate coincidences? This is definitely a false friend, what leads you to say it isn't? False friend...
by Sequor
22 Apr 2020 23:05
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275137

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

:esp: Sueco "Swede" and zueco "clog" Both pronounced exactly the same outside of Spain and I could see people thinking they're related since Sweden is home to träskor Hmm, zueco pretty clearly comes from Latin soccus , so I wonder why the initial consonant fronted. It's just an ...
by Sequor
22 Apr 2020 07:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: ŗahrih raçnann
Replies: 10
Views: 2055

Re: ŗahrih raçnann

Would the aforementioned affixes change as well based on the sound change, so that they become -elm and -ikt, or would they change based upon the respective root to which they are attached during the language's evolution? If the latter, how would the language maintain a system for declension? Langu...
by Sequor
21 Apr 2020 20:44
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Some questions about part of speech
Replies: 6
Views: 2318

Re: Some questions about part of speech

Yeah, but judging by wyl118's previous questions about basic morphophonology like assimilation, it sounds like he might be taking an undergraduate linguistics course. Maybe he's actually in a computer science graduate program and just needs to take a couple linguistics courses alongside, or somethin...
by Sequor
21 Apr 2020 05:03
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How to make an exolang without being kitchen sinky
Replies: 17
Views: 5685

Re: How to make an exolang without being kitchen sinky

Apart from Pabappa's comment, which I agree with, I think all of that is fine.

Heck, if you posted it as a challenge I would make a sketch of a conlang with it. :p
by Sequor
19 Apr 2020 23:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155293

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Language: Naalath Phonemic inventory and spelling /p~ɸ b~β t~θ d~ð k~x g~ɣ/ <p(h) b(h) t(h) d(h) k(h) g(h)> /m n ʃ h w r~ɾ l j/ <m n sh h w r l j> /ɪ ə a ʊ/ <i e a u> /i: e: a: o: u:/ <ii ei aa ou uu> /ɪw aw əj aj ʊj/ <iw aw ey ay uy> The plosive allophones of the first row are used in the onset of ...
by Sequor
14 Apr 2020 18:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Notation of retracted allophones
Replies: 3
Views: 599

Re: Notation of retracted allophones

Well, how much retraction is there really? Option A implies less retraction for /i e/ than Option B. That's what it comes down to. Also, regarding your pharyngealized phones, you should use [ɑ̝] (with a "raised" diacritic) for an [ɑ] that is pronounced a bit higher towards [ʌ], not "[...
by Sequor
12 Apr 2020 22:45
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Romance tidbits
Replies: 37
Views: 8811

Re: Romance tidbits

BTW I just corrected my previous post on French rounded vowels, after receiving feedback elsewhere. Besides improving clarity a bit and adding more comments about the writing system, I had a mistake: early Old French /ɛlC/ actually evolves to /(j)awC/, then /awC/, then /oC/, e.g. Classical Latin bel...
by Sequor
10 Apr 2020 21:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347323

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

(1) Ich kann nicht sprechen. 1SG can.1SG NEG speak-INF "It is not the case that I can speak" (2) Ich kann nicht sprechen. 1SG can.1SG NEG speak-INF "It is the case that I can refrain from speaking." These sentences sound the same (except maybe for intonation). And stress too? 1)...
by Sequor
10 Apr 2020 20:50
Forum: Games
Topic: Guess the Word in Romlangs
Replies: 2334
Views: 492477

Re: Guess the Word in Romlangs

Does s- descend from dis-, or for that matter dē-ex > [des] > [​s]? Or the prefix sē- of separation? Or sīc? Is the stem derived from vās 'utensil'? What does the dot under <ṛ> represent, perhaps retroflexion? Does -òt descend from 3PL -ant, or for that matter 3PL -Vnt, probably -unt? Is this too ma...
by Sequor
08 Apr 2020 21:16
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1108
Views: 282250

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

That's interesting, because in AmE, I don't think /t/ is flapped across word boundaries, but /d/ is. I was talking about American English there; Xephyr is from South Dakota. I've met some people here who sometimes or often pronounce /t/ + a vowel-initial word as [Vt̚ʔV], e.g. "cat island"...