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- 08 Sep 2022 17:48
- 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 have the following phoneme inventory (inspired by Ket): t k q b d f s h m n l r j y i u ø e o ä ({t k q b d f s h})({m n l r j}){y i u ø e o ä}({s h N}) What morpho-phonological alternations could appear between the consonant phonemes? There is no palatalization, which is the usual suspect for mo...
- 02 Sep 2022 22:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325536
Re: False cognates
Hebrew דֶּרֶךְ dérekh 'road'
Russian доро́га 'road'
Mandarin 道路 dàolù 'road'
Russian доро́га 'road'
Mandarin 道路 dàolù 'road'
- 27 Aug 2022 04:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
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Re: False cognates
Korean 많이 'a lot', pronounced [mani]
English many
English many
- 26 Aug 2022 22:48
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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- 26 Aug 2022 22:46
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: AMA on Indonesian
- Replies: 68
- Views: 27125
Re: AMA on Indonesian
I can also attest people ask questions in similar ways, with a similar intonation pattern, in Spanish. ¿Así que vas a...? 'So you're going to...?' Although I assume the most interesting part is that this is the standard way of asking things in Papua Indonesian, lacking interrogative pronouns/adverbs...
- 25 Aug 2022 09:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Probably irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but given that ablative forms were lost for the most part in the Romance languages, isn't it much simpler to derive the gerund from the accusative form -andum rather than the dative/ablative form? I don't see why Latin couldn't retain the -ndō ending, ...
- 24 Aug 2022 17:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I was reading something on tone circles in South America and started to wonder if there could be vowel circles or consonant circles. So in a tone circle, tones alternate in some context in a circular fashion. T1 becomes T2, T2 becomes T3, T3 becomes T4, T4 becomes T5 and T5 becomes T1. A vowel exam...
- 24 Aug 2022 17:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
No I didn't mean that. My understanding is that -ndo is the phonological descendant of both Latin converb -ndo (which still was part of the paradigm of the verbal noun called gerund, at least morphologically) and Latin participle -nte. Correct me if -ndo was spread to adnominal functions long after...
- 24 Aug 2022 15:56
- 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 English and Spanish participles and converbs are identical. In Spanish the two merged because of sound changes and are distinct historically. I think you meant to say that in English they were distinct but then merged (Old English -ende ~ -inde versus -ung ~ -ing). In Spanish it's just the Latin...
- 07 Aug 2022 00:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325536
Re: False cognates
English corner (a borrowing from Anglo-Norman / Old French, derived from Latin cornū 'horn')
Sanskrit कोण koṇa- 'corner' (a borrowing from Dravidian)
Sanskrit कोण koṇa- 'corner' (a borrowing from Dravidian)
- 02 Aug 2022 14:30
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A paper I wrote on Farsi Ezafe
- Replies: 4
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Re: A paper I wrote on Farsi Ezafe
I wonder, does the ezafe Pure Morphological Suffix -e ever co-occur with the indefinite Phrasal Suffix -i? Say, something like ketab-e-(j)i Maryam, 'a book of Maryam's'. If this is ungrammatical, how are 'Maryam's book' (in which book has a definite reference) and 'a book of Maryam's' distinguished...
- 29 Jul 2022 23:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: have you found a plausible way to explain something unusual?
- Replies: 6
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Re: have you found a plausible way to explain something unusual?
I don't think I ever do really unusual things, so I've never been asked or felt the need to explain something diachronically. :mrgreen: That said, maybe my standards for something to qualify as "unusual" are quite high? I once had a conlang where I had verbs hold regressive stress (as far ...
- 26 Jul 2022 00:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325536
Re: False cognates
English mirror < Old French mireor (literally "watcher") Arabic مرآة mirʔā 'mirror' (formed with the mi- instrument prefix and the root r-ʔ-y, cf. the verb رأى raʔā 'to see') Although French Wiktionary informs me that at least one etymologist (Antoine-Paulin Pihan) thinks the French word ...
- 22 Jul 2022 09:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
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Re: What did you accomplish today?
This is my favourite recurrent thread. I don't do conlanging anymore so I never have anything to post, but it's still inspiring for me to get things done in my natlang studies.
- 18 Jul 2022 15:47
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282802
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Sorry, it was really late when I posted the question so I kinda misworded it and what I meant by context. I meant that there's no context of establishing a second-person plural object, not sentences just floating in a void. A second-person plural object may well have been referred to earlier and wo...
- 18 Jul 2022 10:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282802
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Sorry for the incredibly stupid question(s), but... I'm trying to learn Spanish again, now more than just to understand a little but to be able to use it myself in a grammatically correct way, and... If the accusative of ustedes is just los / las depending on gender (and can be suffixed to the verb...
- 06 Jul 2022 16:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347822
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
One thing I used for Proto-Skawlas (which has a similar ablaut system) was inpsired by something that Nortaneous had posted, I think, over on the ZBB about a South American language(?) where individual morphemes could be "stressed" or "unstressed" and this then affected the stre...
- 05 Jul 2022 19:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
- Replies: 1180
- Views: 253934
Re: Con-Script Development Centre
I should just start calling you hieroglyph man in space. Good work, as per usual...
- 04 Jul 2022 18:24
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: a question about internally headed relative clauses
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1363
Re: a question about internally headed relative clauses
Hold up there! It's perfectly possible to construct apparently internally-headed relative clauses (IHRCs) with relative pronouns in them (modifying or in apposition to the head). Some people claim that Greek has them. And although the IHRC contains no gap, it's possible for the matrix to have a gap...
- 28 Jun 2022 21:08
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A note on urban population thresholds
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18342
Re: A note on urban population thresholds
Very interesting text with all those comparisons! Just wanted to share this graph about ancient and late antique Rome I saw someone share elsewhere: https://i.imgur.com/VKqTCVW.jpg Source: Twine, Kevin. 1992. "The City in Decline: Rome in Late Antiquity". Middle States Geographer, vol. 25....