Bàsupan
Ka laqūn ashunuvotu yīnos.
DEF.MASC true soul-FEM.NOM.SING reveal-PRES.REFL.3RD.SING
Appearances can be deceiving
This sentence directly translates as "The true soul doesn't reveal itself".
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- 22 Mar 2018 23:19
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Appearances can be deceiving
- Replies: 7
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- 22 Mar 2018 16:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Theoretically, you could even have prenasalised preaspirated stops, but that's getting kinda ridiculous since AFAIK no language has those (and there are no results on Google for ʰⁿt, ⁿʰt, etc. or "prenasalised preaspirated", etc.) and they'd most likely simply be clusters of /h/ and a pre...
- 22 Mar 2018 04:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In my conlang Manchi, stops have a five way distinction. Voiceless, voiced, voiceless aspirated, breathy voice stops, and prenasalised stops. How realistic is this, and what should i change?
- 21 Mar 2018 18:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Itasaq- my go at a triconsonantal conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2298
Re: Itasaq- my go at a triconsonantal conlang
I think quite a lot of people assume tri-consonantal systems must function the same way as in Semitic languages, but I don't see why Carson's idea here can't work. I actually quite like the idea of having strong/weak stems with prefixes being applied to the weak stem. Ok, that makes sense. As an as...
- 21 Mar 2018 16:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Itasaq- my go at a triconsonantal conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2298
Re: Itasaq- my go at a triconsonantal conlang
What does this "inflected' form do? I should have clarified. The inflected form takes other case prefixes. I just haven't figured out what those will be yet. Let's say genitive is ū-, then to form that you would use the inflected stem form to make ūCāCCa I.E the same word used before would be ...
- 21 Mar 2018 16:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Itasaq- my go at a triconsonantal conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2298
Re: Itasaq- my go at a triconsonantal conlang
What does this "inflected' form do?CarsonDaConlanger wrote: ↑21 Mar 2018 14:52 Most roots are triconsonantal, and nouns have two base forms:
Absolutive: CaCaC
Inflected: CāCCa
- 21 Mar 2018 03:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1631549
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I've completely redone Bàsupan noun forms, and am doing the same with verbs. I've also decided to have adjectives instead of using verbs.
- 20 Mar 2018 21:09
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Triconsonantal roots: how?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12285
Re: Triconsonantal roots: how?
In addition to what sangi said above, derived word forms can also be repurposed as roots. t-n-p “Computerize” > Untapiva “Hack”. This is repurposed as a quadrilateral root “ t-n-p-b , which can be used to to derive "Hacker”, with Imtunpav being the result. (Usually the -va in "Hack" w...
- 20 Mar 2018 18:07
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Triconsonantal roots: how?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12285
Re: Triconsonantal roots: how?
This should help, http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=44883.
- 18 Mar 2018 20:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2043822
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is word order encoding causativity attested/naturalistic? Even further, what can be encoded by word order(besides voice)?
- 18 Mar 2018 20:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8238
Re: Conlang Areal Tests
I put Bàsupan through these tests, and the results I got were a bit interesting. Bàsupan is 9.5% European, 25% Siberian, 10% West African, and 10% east Asian. (According to the points I got, I only did the grammar tests).
- 17 Mar 2018 23:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8238
Re: Conlang Areal Tests
I didn't notice that, thanks for pointing that out!
- 17 Mar 2018 22:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8238
Re: Conlang Areal Tests
Does anyone know where I can find that SAE grammar test? I can't seem to find it.
- 08 Mar 2018 03:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1631549
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I have finally sorted out Bàsupan's TAM system and case marking, which took much longer than it should have, Goɂǎngkθadov's derivational morphology has been worked out(for the most part), i've been experimenting with naming systems in some of my conlangs, and two of my conlangs finally have names.
- 08 Mar 2018 03:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Linguistic purism in conlangs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6808
Re: Linguistic purism in conlangs
The Bàsups are accommodating of loanwords, but as they live in a desert only inhabited by them, they don't have many. The Stellars weren't particularly fond of loanwords, and would often derive new words from compounding instead. The Äshollkollvois are particularly against loanwords, having gone thr...
- 06 Mar 2018 21:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: American English Derived Collablang!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 17263
Re: American English Derived Collablang!
F. All of the above.
- 06 Mar 2018 20:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: American English Derived Collablang!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 17263
Re: American English Derived Collablang!
American English becomes a separate language.
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Which "American" english?
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Which "American" english?
Re: Crazylang
I've gotten some work done on the verbs, and am working on noun case.
- 06 Mar 2018 02:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317705
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Fusional languages encode multiple meanings in grammatical morphemes, -kio could be present tense, imperfect aspect, conditional mood. Agglutinating languages separate these into multiple morphemes.ThatAnalysisGuy wrote: ↑06 Mar 2018 01:58 What are the differences between a fusional and an agglutinative language?