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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
Heck, if you posted it as a challenge I would make a sketch of a conlang with it. :p
- 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 ...
- 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 "[...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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"...