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- 06 Feb 2018 08:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New Weekly Indo European Collablang
- Replies: 182
- Views: 35643
Re: New Weekly Indo European Collablang
11. a 12. a 13. c (m̩ > um, otherwise C̩ > aC) 14. c 15. a I have nothing to add to the X's. It's wonderful to see our sound changes applied and tested. I think we should try to interpret our changes to PIE quite literally as long as it makes sense. Most of us are knowledgable enough about PIE to wo...
- 04 Feb 2018 21:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New Weekly Indo European Collablang
- Replies: 182
- Views: 35643
Re: New Weekly Indo European Collablang
5. c (ḱ ḱʰ ǵ > ɕ t͡ɕ j)
6. a
7. b
8. c (pronouns only)
9. c (vo1dwalk3r's suggestion
10. a
6. a
7. b
8. c (pronouns only)
9. c (vo1dwalk3r's suggestion
10. a
- 04 Oct 2017 22:29
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Do noun cases tend to fall out with time?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5907
Re: Do noun cases tend to fall out with time?
Nominative, vocative, accusative, instrumental, dative and genitive seems like a perfectly good case inventory to me. Cases often drop put. PIE had eight, but even today there are Indo-European languages which retain all of them. Specificity, definiteness and animacy all correlate positively to the ...
- 18 Jun 2017 18:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Fun with nasal vowels!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1796
Re: Fun with nasal vowels!
There's always vowel harmony, that is nasal vowel harmony. Beware that you don't need to make all vowels in a word nasal. You could for example have nasality that spreads from the vowel to the right and is blocked by /k/ and /g/. In general, it seems like nasal vowels become more mid-low as time pas...
Re: Ó leí
Well, it seems to work. /b p t d g t/ b p t d g t Presumably this should be /b p t d g k/ b p t d g k The syllable structure seems to need some work unless you want to allow words like "Lsiq". Maybe you do. The "possible" is not a case if it goes on verbs. That would probably be ...
- 03 May 2017 18:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kusa, an analytic language
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1665
Re: Kusa, an analytic language
I wouldn't worry about the inventory's size. Mandarin is analytic and has just as many consonants. Hawaii is isolating like there's neither tomorrow nor affixes and has among the smallest inventories of any language. But please get to the phonotactics soon, it will make both the inventory and vovabu...
- 30 Apr 2017 20:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Speedlanging weekend V: 22th April
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5140
Re: Speedlanging weekend V: 22th April
As the minor bitch I am, I've tried to almost break the rules, but without going all the way. This might seem hopelessly unfinished for being submitted this late. Working name: Xenjeiñ Phonology: i ɛ ʊ ɔ /m mˀ n nˀ ŋ/ <m m' n n' ñ> /p ʰp t ʰt tʼ k ʰk kʼ/ <p hp p' t ht t' k hk k'> /k͡p k͡ʰp/ <kp khp>...
- 22 Jun 2016 02:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What Sounds Good in a Language?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3443
Re: What Sounds Good in a Language?
From what I've seen, conlangers seem to like the sound of lateral fricatives and have much stronger opinions about consonants than vowels. https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/46hsju/what_are_some_of_your_favorite_phonemes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/27zqi8/whats_your_favorite_...
- 19 Jun 2016 15:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A really interesting bit of my conlang
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1379
Re: A really interesting bit of my conlang
I believe that what your suffix <-(e)fs> does is totally naturalistic but it is no plural. I blame Pirahã for believing that. Pirahã has dulled me.
Stop being wrong.OTheB wrote: The language uses a base 12 counting system [...]. A fifth is 0.24...
- 05 Jun 2016 23:43
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How did you learn the IPA?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5354
Re: How did you learn the IPA?
If I'm not mistaken, the sub-reddit really likes this cool thing:
http://www.internationalphoneticalphabe ... th-sounds/
As for me, it was mostly wikipedia. A lot of it, like months.
http://www.internationalphoneticalphabe ... th-sounds/
As for me, it was mostly wikipedia. A lot of it, like months.
- 04 Jun 2016 19:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building [2011–2019]
- Replies: 4357
- Views: 580526
Re: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building
v. To throw oneself forward (if that is "somewhat basic").DesEsseintes wrote: Next: wáátsewe
verb or noun, but somewhat basic
Next: nũter [ˈnʊ̃.tɛɾ]
adjective
- 04 Jun 2016 19:12
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Creating Conculture from a Conlang
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7247
Re: Creating Conculture from a Conlang
Well, there is the possibility that ejectives arise more frequently in mountainous landscapes, but that's controversial. One would expect people there living a different lifestyle to those in valleys and the like. Some have postulated that implosives, too, arise more frequently under certain conditi...
- 04 Jun 2016 17:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2052847
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Through a quick search through SAPHON, I found Waiwai which supposedly has /m ɸ/ but no bilabial plosives. In fact, it does not have any other bilabials at all. Kabyle also seems like a contender but it is hard to be sure though due to allophony. I also found several languages which had /ⁿb m ɸ/ and...
- 02 Jun 2016 01:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2052847
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I hope this is the best place to find out about this idea I got the other day. Would it be feasible for a language lacking any present copula to get one from the past tense of "become", or even better, from the present perfect? I would imagine such a copula to act more like Spanish's "...
- 20 Apr 2016 02:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ideas for a lang
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3178
Re: Ideas for a lang
Are any of these the right amount of silly? Circumpositional adjective : An adjective is made of two parts, one coming before the noun and the other after it. Transitive verb location marking : If the subject and the object of a transitive verb were not on roughly the same place, the verb takes a ma...
- 31 Mar 2016 16:49
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: When is a conlang too clunky?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2834
Re: When is a conlang too clunky?
Please consider Japanese: :jpn: 私が自分の庭をあるいて行きました Watashi ga jibun no niwa wo aruite ikimashita. :con: Wila lõs jaq tlozh ten jaôtwo :jpn:私はかのじょを見ていませんでした. Watashi wa kanojo wo mite imasendeshita. :con: Lõs jaq naq shian ja zan shian wi naq lân As one can see here, it is possible for a natlang to be ...
Re: Riluetmon
Woe us!, who have gone so long without further info on Riluetmon. I shouldn't let this continue! Welcome back everybody. We have some nouns to do. Nouns Nouns in Riluetmon do not have gender or classes, but they do decline according to their case, number, definiteness and "specificity". A ...
- 04 Dec 2015 12:46
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 946
- Views: 266072
Re: You
Have a pet douche-canoe, I mean cat. Have Aspergers Syndrome. It's like not being able to express emotions, communicate in person, or deal with sudden change. Is gay, sorry ladies. And single too, sorry fellas. I'm more concerned about how he suddenly started referring to himself in the third perso...
- 23 Nov 2015 01:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Help me develop the City
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3708
Re: Help me develop the City
Um... well, that was some unique setting. I thought my space chinchillas, spontaneously created floating handles and one hundred and umpteen ways of faster-than-light-travel were weird. [...]Streets bend around to let a newborn park develop.[...] Is there any soil beneath the pavement? How does it g...
Re: Riluetmon
A young scribe is standing in the middle of the vast forest that just barely lies outside the city he was born in. He was chosen for the task of documenting this purported language of the glade Let's have a story! Example sentences. Don't forget to tell us about these elusive folk who speak this la...