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by cedh
09 Mar 2020 21:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 735
Views: 207475

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I've just discovered that in a new language I've been working on for some time, the verb stem for "sail, navigate" will have the shape marīn- , which looks like it's a real world reference but which is in fact derived (almost) regularly from the proto-form *mhari-hiçn- "go with the Oc...
by cedh
26 Feb 2020 21:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 735
Views: 207475

Re: What did you accomplish today?

DesEsseintes wrote: 26 Feb 2020 17:40
kiwikami wrote: 26 Feb 2020 07:04 cool Alál stuff
I agree, this is very cool!
by cedh
21 Feb 2020 08:39
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Other Creativity
Replies: 1362
Views: 358854

Re: Other Creativity

Ossicone wrote: 20 Feb 2020 22:13 Check out my dnd map

https://i.imgur.com/rjnLGiK.png
Nice. (Except that the river near Ull looks a bit strange, it seems to go uphill in the first half of its course...)
by cedh
20 Dec 2019 10:07
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Famous CBB Quotes Thread
Replies: 140
Views: 113460

Re: Famous CBB Quotes Thread

just would rather start 12/29 or 12/30 than 12/28) (Also it took me unbearably long to decypher your dates) Understandable. Rather than the 29th or 30th of December, alynnidalar could just as easily have been asking to go on the 12th day of the 29th or 30th month. We damn Americans insist on having...
by cedh
16 Oct 2019 09:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044194

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

Is it at all possible that a language currently spoken in Europe could lack the phoneme /j/ except in the case of loanwords? I'm having a hard time finding any languages which lack the sound. It's more than possible due to being an accurate description of German, which has /ʝ/ rather than /j/ nativ...
by cedh
14 Oct 2019 11:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044194

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

Quick notation question: I'm working on a language that uses a lot of reduplication, which is glossed with a tilde according to the Leipzig Glossing Rules, e.g. kekearu CV~ kearo-u EMPH~big -FG 'very big' The language also has several morphemes that condition nasality on a preceding or following vow...
by cedh
10 Oct 2019 12:00
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 751
Views: 455877

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

I had some contact with the term "Bildkultur" during my studies at university, and it tends to mean something like "(the historical development of) the cultural practice of depicting certain things/topics/issues/... in pictorial arts (including paintings, drawings, photography, and po...
by cedh
25 Aug 2019 23:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: British Romance Language Collablang
Replies: 522
Views: 156399

Re: British Romance Language Collablang

218) a
219) c: /ɪ ʊ ə ɛ ɔ æ/ > [ɪ ʊ ɐ ɛ ɔ ɑ]
220) c: /iː uː eː oː ɑː/ > [eɪ̯ oʊ̯ ɛː ɔː ɑː] after /ʁ/, and [ɪə̯ uə̯ eɐ̯ oɐ̯ ɑː] before /ʁ/
221) a
by cedh
02 Aug 2019 19:53
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Replies: 60
Views: 25269

Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics

[...]For example, they often are or contain so-called "harmonic clusters" consisting of two obstruents, the first of them labial or coronal, and the second velar or uvular, which behave as a single segment in various situations. Can the same consonant clusters also be used "as non-ha...
by cedh
29 Jul 2019 21:33
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Replies: 60
Views: 25269

Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics

One of the most interesting languages worldwide with regard to phonotactics IMO is Georgian. It has very complex consonant clusters, especially in syllable onsets (and especially word-initially), as in /prt͡skvna/ ‘to peel’, /mt͡s’vrtneli/ ‘trainer’, or /brt’χ’eli/ ‘flat’. It also allows quite compl...
by cedh
19 Jul 2019 08:51
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044194

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

Any ideas how infixes arise? I know analogised metathesis is one way, but I wanted to find a way for vowel infixing. For a vowel infix between two consonants, epenthesis based on phonotactic restrictions (e.g. breaking up difficult clusters) or prosodic considerations (e.g. to prevent two stressed ...
by cedh
18 Jul 2019 14:10
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317999

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

Are there other natlangs that have different forms of adjectives depending on whether they're used attributively or predicatively? I'm sure I know examples, I just can't think of any right now. Are they always a few irregular forms (like English my vs. mine and lone vs. alone) or are there any lang...
by cedh
10 Jul 2019 15:29
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Different Way of Doing Adpositions - help request
Replies: 24
Views: 11653

Re: Different Way of Doing Adpositions - help request

You might want to look into serial verb constructions ; specifically, at the way some languages use serialized "coverbs" in order to express positional and directional meanings. Two good introductions are "The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistic generali...
by cedh
14 Jun 2019 19:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Silvish
Replies: 244
Views: 75816

Re: Silvish

You're welcome!
by cedh
12 Jun 2019 18:32
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Silvish
Replies: 244
Views: 75816

Re: Silvish

So, if I understand it correctly: - a stressed penult will always be followed by a syllable with an unstressed short vowel - an unstressed penult will always be followed by a stressed final syllable - a final syllable with a long vowel will always be stressed If the above is true, I would suggest th...
by cedh
09 Jun 2019 12:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Silvish
Replies: 244
Views: 75816

Re: Silvish

Can you give a few example words with unstressed long vowels in the penult? Maybe you can find a rule for when these occur...
by cedh
21 May 2019 14:20
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317999

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

Here's an elaborate explanation (in German). The main points, summarized in English: The simple past has its main use as a narrative past tense , especially in the written language. Reading/hearing a text that uses this form feels kind of like watching a film, where events are reported without rega...
by cedh
02 May 2019 16:57
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317999

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

In Germanic languages apart from English, do participles ever get used in clauses like particularly in the classical IE languages? eg. :eng: Having entered the city/upon entering the city, we proceeded to look for the king. :lat: Civitatem ingressi, regni inquirere processimus. German can do this: ...
by cedh
23 Apr 2019 00:46
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044194

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

Yes. (Although your system is a bit unusual in that you are marking inverse voice on the unexpected agent rather than on the verb, which makes it superficially look a bit like a kind of "pseudo-ergative" case with a slightly odd distribution.)
by cedh
11 Apr 2019 09:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155591

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

I agree with sangi39 that the lack of /tsʼ tɬʼ/ is fairly unusual in such an inventory, but given your relatively simple syllable structure, this lack is easy to explain with diachronics: Suppose an earlier stage of the language had no glottalized consonants, with only /p t k ʔ/ as voiceless stops, ...