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by Salmoneus
08 Nov 2015 19:49
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Diachronic Conlanging open world
Replies: 1016
Views: 167881

Re: Diachronic Conlanging open world

I'm more concerned about the fact that one group will probably extirpate the other eventually. Unless they have a "shelter" island, a group will likely be extirpated. Why on earth would that happen? For example, South Andaman Island (a bit over 1,000 sq km) was traditionally inhabited by ...
by Salmoneus
08 Nov 2015 16:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)
Replies: 3
Views: 502

Re: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)

I'll skip reduplication since I posted an earlier draft not long ago. -------------- Noun Phrases The noun phrase, in addition to the noun itself, may comprise particles, adjectives, quantifiers, counters, numerals, ostensives, attributes, motifs, possessive structures, and appositives. In addition,...
by Salmoneus
08 Nov 2015 12:53
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Is simplicity King? Artlang/Celtic Conlang project questions
Replies: 50
Views: 7262

Re: Is simplicity King? Artlang/Celtic Conlang project quest

...you're going to steal someone else's work, change a few things, add in a bunch of words from real languages, and pass it off as your own?

Are you at least going to ask their permission?
by Salmoneus
06 Nov 2015 22:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)
Replies: 3
Views: 502

Re: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)

Nominal Affixation Common (and proper) nouns in Rawàng Ata may take any of eight case suffixes, and one number suffix, as well as two non-possessive prefixes. Bound nouns further take one of a number of possessive prefixes, which will be covered in the chapter on possession. Case Suffixes Rawàng Ata...
by Salmoneus
06 Nov 2015 22:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)
Replies: 3
Views: 502

Re: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)

Navigational and Non-Navigational Nouns Navigational and non-navigational nouns are not distinguished in basic syntax, nor overtly in any way. However, the distinction is significant in determining the syntax of semantic expressions. Broadly, navigational nouns are a small number of nouns, typically...
by Salmoneus
06 Nov 2015 22:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)
Replies: 3
Views: 502

Rawàng Ata Nouns and Noun Phrases (rough draft)

Thought I'd share some of what I've been working on. The pdf idea didn't seem to go down very well, so instead I've just copy-pasted (and manually added some more linebreaks). The result is very ugly, but I'd rather spend time continuing with the language than spend too much time manually formatting...
by Salmoneus
06 Nov 2015 02:39
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: Tarquesta Quenya case system is possible!
Replies: 15
Views: 4431

Re: Tarquesta Quenya case system is possible!

Closer to home, I know it's not a huge number of cases, but the general phenomenon can be seen in Gaelic, which has a nominative/accusative, a genitive, a dative, and a vocative. It doesn't seem much of a stretch to me to stick some prepositions onto, say, the dative, and end up with something like ...
by Salmoneus
06 Nov 2015 00:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: ADANEWs
Replies: 15
Views: 3669

Re: ADANEWs

Post your best ADANEWs here. My most recent ADANEW is probably not that impressive. I just noticed once that in English and especially in German people will sometimes end their questions with "or", sometimes without changing the syntax or anything, like "You are going to the store, o...
by Salmoneus
05 Nov 2015 22:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: A Handy Tool for Building Your Dictionary/Lexicon
Replies: 28
Views: 6501

Re: New Tool for Dictionary/Lexicon-Building

What would be useful in a dictionary entry would be a field for etymology (ideally, linked to entries in the dictionary of the proto-lang). And a field for miscellaneous notes.

Although really, what would be useful would be user-defined fields.
by Salmoneus
05 Nov 2015 22:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Which conlangs have >=500 words and >=100 sentences?
Replies: 56
Views: 10994

Re: Which conlangs have >=500 words and >=100 sentences?

No, "will" is a verb as well as a noun. Likewise, "want" is a noun as well as a verb. This is basic English comprehension.
by Salmoneus
04 Nov 2015 20:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253883

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

That is a valid question, but: - can you point me to any scripts that completely lack curves due to being primarily written in stone? Ogham for sure, and Banpo is close. Paleohispanic seems to have numerous curves even if it has a tendency toward straight lines, just like Brahmi and Latin. So that'...
by Salmoneus
04 Nov 2015 14:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253883

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

I drew something that would be considered Proto-Vrkhazhian on stone: http://s16.postimg.org/eteenid05/IMG_20151102_00220.jpg Separate from this, I'm still deciding on punctuation mark designs. Unless the difference between P-Vrkhaz and Vrkhaz is 5 years, the designs seem way too similar (also, is t...
by Salmoneus
29 Oct 2015 23:58
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
Replies: 7086
Views: 1317819

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

Headless relative clauses are not relative pronouns and are not gaps. WALS doesn't talk much about headless relative clauses at all. Gap: The man I saw yesterday was at the store. Relative pronoun: The man, who I saw yesterday , was at the store. Headless: Whoever I saw yesterday was at the store. ...
by Salmoneus
29 Oct 2015 21:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Phonology Awareness Thread
Replies: 4
Views: 703

Re: Phonology Awareness Thread

... final obstruant devoicing is incredibly common.
by Salmoneus
29 Oct 2015 18:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631670

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Well, not today, per se, but recently wrote a chapter on nouns and noun phrases, and now am struggling through pronouns. But actually I came to show off my example sentences, which include: matà kòma kufaluìra dattaki oh, young woman, you did not just kiss a sailor! Tell me that was someone else... ...
by Salmoneus
29 Oct 2015 01:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Logogrammic Conscripts
Replies: 42
Views: 9945

Re: Logogrammic Conscripts

What this means is that native Sumerian speakers could work out what affixes ought to be there, so they didn't bother to write most of them. However, only after Sumerian was being used only as a second language by speakers of Akkadian, who understandably had less proficiency with the language than ...
by Salmoneus
27 Oct 2015 17:54
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random Conworld idea thread
Replies: 486
Views: 179749

Re: Random Conworld idea thread

It's usually pronounced /dImi:n/, in my experience.
by Salmoneus
27 Oct 2015 17:51
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656433

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

Also also, could a single dynasty possibly last 500-600 years? Yes. See: China, Ancient Egypt, Britain(?), Depends on how you define a dynasty. Three major ambiguities: - how does descent normally work in the culture? if it's only strict male-line primogeniture, then it's harder for dynasties to su...
by Salmoneus
27 Oct 2015 02:33
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656433

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

You realize that opal is silica right? The thing they put in your shoes, the package that says "do not eat"? That's opal. ...no, it isn't. Opal is a particular kind of amorphous crystalline hydrated silica. The little packets are filled with silica gel. This is a) not crystalline, and b) ...
by Salmoneus
27 Oct 2015 02:12
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656433

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

OK, how do you guys decide what kind of technology and magic you want to exist in your conworlds, and how to make it make sense? I have this problem where I just like making cultures, but I can't decide on what the actual world they live in is like, other than that it's fantasy because I like thing...