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- 22 Jan 2024 13:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The rule sounds natural but also maybe a bit complicated formulation-wise. Could you give an inventory of abstract possible and inpossible prosodic forms? Like so (L=light syllable, H=heavy syllable): L H LL LH HL HH ... *HLLL .... LLLL This might help to better judge if it's natural and maybe how ...
- 22 Jan 2024 09:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does this sound like a naturalistic prosody/syllable rule? "If at least one heavy syllable precedes the final syllable, then that heavy syllable cannot be followed by more than one light syllable except if the second light syllable is also the final one" I have a summary of examples of exa...
- 21 Jan 2024 06:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In all kinds of ways: They could dissimilate across one or both dimension, e.g. a high-pitch prefix could trigger an otherwise high-pitch root to become low-pitch. They could assimilate across one or more dimensions, e.g. a high-pitch prefix could cause an otherwise low-pitch root to become high-pi...
- 18 Jan 2024 15:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does this look naturalistic? I'm just not sure there's a good logic case to syncretizing the instrumental and genitive like there is for the dative and genitive. Should note that Vrkhazhian has secundative alignment (D=A=Nom, R=P=Acc, T=Ins), so the instrumental primarily represents the theme or sec...
- 16 Jan 2024 13:24
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Sound Changes Game v2
- Replies: 2062
- Views: 238797
Re: Sound Changes Game v2
<chodnuğu>
[ʈ͡ʂʼɤɖˈɳuːɣu] > [tʃʰô.'núː.ɣù]
[ʈ͡ʂʼɤɖˈɳuːɣu] > [tʃʰô.'núː.ɣù]
- 16 Jan 2024 02:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
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Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Polysemy between voices and nominalizations. Donald mour hom. D bake cake 'Donald baked a cake.' Hom ma-mour sa Donald. cake PASS-bake by D 'The cake was baked by Donald.' Ma-mour la fotah. NMZR-bake be delicious 'The baked one is delicious.' Donald sa-mour D ANTIP-bake 'Donald baked [something].' ...
- 14 Jan 2024 03:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: is it a conlang and a conlanger...
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Re: is it a conlang and a conlanger...
I would actually say that almost all conlangs are not languages, and that there is no level completeness necessary to be a conlang. A conlang with a 2-page grammatical sketch and a dictionary of 200 words is, of course, a conlang. But it is most certainly not a language. A language is not a short g...
- 13 Jan 2024 20:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I go off of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_sh ... hypothesis
And I make a distinction between verbs of caused possession and verbs of caused motion
- 13 Jan 2024 10:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How naturalistic of a system would this be regarding ditransitive verbs? If "X causes Y to go to Z", then indirect alignment (e.g. I-NOM throw a ball-ACC to you-DAT) If "X causes Z to have Y", then secundative alignment (e.g. I-NOM give you-ACC a ball-INS) And my language would, ...
- 08 Jan 2024 20:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: A small thought regarding werewolves: Sherlock Holmes as The Terminator
- Replies: 15
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Re: A small thought regarding werewolves: Sherlock Holmes as The Terminator
Indeed, the whole idea of a 'non-social' animal is kind of questionable. Animals have to come into contact with their own kind in order to mate, and most large animals show at least some period of parental care. And they will regularly encounter members of other species, whether those are rival pre...
- 07 Jan 2024 16:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Does this seem like a plausible/naturalistic case system? (Slashes indicate "singular / plural") Masculine NOM: -im / -āya VOC: -ī / -āya ACC: -is / -īna INS: -in / -īna GEN: -iḫa / -īḫa EQU: -ila / -īla Feminine NOM: -um / -āwa VOC: -ū / -āwa ACC: -us / -ūna INS: -un / -ūna GEN: -uḫa / -ū...
- 02 Jan 2024 20:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
1) Pitch accent: One way to think about weight-sensitive stress is to think of it as stress in a fixed moraic positions. Let's say you stress the third-to-last mora whenever possible. This gives you the following patterns for words with at least three to four moras. cúucu (cû:cu) cúcuu (cúcu:) cuúc...
- 01 Jan 2024 18:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
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Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Guest access to the forums was removed because the forum kept experiencing internal server errors on every page which seemed to be caused by an excessive number of guests.Knox Adjacent wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 13:17 So today's the day I find the ZBB no longer lets you view posts without being a member.
- 01 Jan 2024 18:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Rumor has it that English is the language of snake!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1059
Re: Rumor has it that English is the language of snake!
Ever thought about why English has so many "s" sounds? There are already so many words containing "s", "se", "ce", "ds", "ts" and "tz", and to make it worst, nouns in plural must end with "s", verbs in third person sing...
- 01 Jan 2024 18:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm thinking of adding pitch-accent (combined with stress accent) but I'm not sure how pitch accent should manifest on heavy and superheavy syllables given that my language's stress is placed on the heaviest non-final syllable (unless the final syllable is superheavy) So, I don't know what syllable ...
- 15 Jun 2023 06:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Qarshkī Language/Каршкий/قارشكئ
- Replies: 65
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Re: Qarshkī Language/Каршкий/قارشكئ
- 10 Jun 2023 01:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Qarshkī Language/Каршкий/قارشكئ
- Replies: 65
- Views: 3018
Re: Qarshkī Language/Каршкий/قارشكئ
I feel like the 1900+ people of this micronation do not actually speak this language as it seems to be quite a work in progress. Or, at least, it doesn't sound like it's been organically developed. Neither of us are linguistic experts so please excuse me and my fellow countrymen's inability to expla...
- 26 Dec 2022 16:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it possible to have it so fricatives voice before other voiced obstruents but not before sonorants?
I'm also wondering if only voiceless coronal fricatives could voice intervocalically (but peripheral fricatives do not voice intervocalically)
I'm also wondering if only voiceless coronal fricatives could voice intervocalically (but peripheral fricatives do not voice intervocalically)
- 08 Dec 2022 02:49
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: If you were to write one novel...
- Replies: 41
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Re: If you were to write one novel...
I want to write an epic poem about the founding of the Vrkhazhian Empire, in the Vrkhazhian language.
I also want to write a more traditional fantasy (or create a video game) where the protagonists must stop an otherworldly/supernatural threat.
I also want to write a more traditional fantasy (or create a video game) where the protagonists must stop an otherworldly/supernatural threat.
- 08 Dec 2022 02:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ahusacos, A Fictional Creole
- Replies: 3
- Views: 452
Re: Ahusacos, A Fictional Creole
Do you have the IPA values of the sounds?