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- Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:47 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
Woah, I'm popular all of a sudden! I think I said the consonant assimilation thing without having actually come up with its rules, but I'm doing that now. Fortunately, they're all the same as Liturgical Gothic: - final - b , - v and - d devoice to - f , - f , and - th , respectively, in the preterit...
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18069
Re: How do you pronounce "Wikipedia"?
Someone bitched me out for having instead of [@] for the second vowel and I got curious. whut i'm genuinely surprised not more people have [wɪki] there, and at the amount of people who have [wɪkɪ] or [wɪkə]... I suppose it's because it's part of a compound though (it's thrown my own judgement into ...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:04 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356966
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12774
Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries
I went to private schools in the United States. At the school I went to from pre-kindergarten to grade 8 (ages 4 to 14), we started Spanish in lower school (grades 1-5, ages 6-11) grade 4 (ages 9-10), but for grades 4 and 5 it was a joke. We mostly sang songs and learned random nouns. I think we did...
- Sun May 29, 2011 6:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356966
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
"On" — Whiskyn's
- Sun May 29, 2011 5:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 793765
Re: Lexicon Building
Valsadrian: atsopat : lame Boringly, derived from Italian azzoppato "made lame". A periphrase, dudira fit (literally "to be broken", but implying the permanence of the state of broken-ness) is also used (slightly differently). One might say pèġa bor atsopat "he is lame" or müara chidus ( am pèġaca )...
- Fri May 27, 2011 8:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356966
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
"Mon amie la rose" — Françoise Hardy
- Sat May 14, 2011 10:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356966
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
"Aftur Heim" — Sjonni Brink
- Sat May 14, 2011 2:47 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
I'm going to throw out a bunch of tables and go from there. Strong Verb Ablaut inf. prt.sg. prt.pl. ps.prt. ex. class I -i- -ie- -e- -e- a bita "bite": a bita, biet, beto, betana class II -o- -ue- -o- -o- a txoha "lead": a txoha, a txueh, txoho, txohana class III -e- -a- -o- -o- a vertha "become": a...
- Fri May 13, 2011 9:07 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356966
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
"E Horo" — Mary Jane Lamond
- Wed May 11, 2011 7:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15720
Re: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
å heite , being a weak verb It always seemed to me like an odd word to me, having a weak present tense and a strong past tense (even though a weak conjugation for this tense is allowed in Nynorsk too). It's cognate to Gothic háitan , which is a class VII strong verb, the reduplicated preterites. Th...
- Sat May 07, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
Verbal Morphology: Introduction [/size] I'm going to start with an overview of the Gothic verb, then talk about how the Hispanic Gothic verb differs from the Gothic verb. The Gothic verb inflects for three finite moods (indicative, optative, and imperative), two non-finite moods (infinitive, partic...
- Sun May 01, 2011 12:33 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356966
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
"Kanninima Neele" — Anwar (Malayalam)
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ancient Greek Questions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4028
Re: Ancient Greek Questions
Excellent, thanks! You're welcome! One other question on personal endings– the present second & third singular. According to the book on historical linguistics I'm reading, they at one point both had the form ει, and the sigma in the second was restored on analogy with the second & third aorist. Ho...
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ancient Greek Questions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4028
Re: Ancient Greek Questions
Firstly, why is it that the aorist and future tend to share a stem, from which the present differs (obviously excluding sigmatic 1st aorists and the corresponding futures), for example, γίγνομαι versus γνήσομαι & ἐγενόμην, ἀποθνῄσκω versus ἀποθανέομαι & ἀπέθανον, or μανθάνω versus μαθήσομαι & ἔμαθο...
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Greek ethnonyms in English
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1946
Re: Greek ethnonyms in English
I think English mostly just uses the -(a)n suffix, as someone from Sparta is a Spartan, from Athens an Athenian, and presumably someone from Stag(e)ira would be Stag(e)iran. There is an English word "sybarite" but it's acquired a meaning more along the lines of "hedonist", so that would probably be...
- Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:37 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
Adjectival morphology is pretty straightforward. A very few adjectives follow nominal inflection patterns ( mambo "ready", e.g., is u-stem), but most adjectives follow a separate pattern, given below. There are two sets of adjectival endings: "weak" and "strong". All adjectives in predicates (e.g. "...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642422
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Herodotus.Drydic Guy wrote:HE DOES NOT SAY BEKOSXephyr wrote:A mysterious, unknown language he's been spontaneously talking in since as long as he could speak?
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Well, Phrygian of course.
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- Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:03 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
Masculine and neuter jo-stems. They're not actually all that complicated. Their singular ending (both masculine and neuter) is -i ; the masculine plural is -as , the neuter plural -a . However, the plural forms will diphthongize the vowel in the previous syllable, adding -/i/, if they can. Examples:...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:23 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
Time for some morphology. Specifically: nominal morphology, which is fairly easy — just those pesky jo-stems. Nouns! They're great. They're also a lot less complex than Gothic nouns were. As in proto-Romance, the genitive and dative were subsumed by the accusative as a prepositional object case and ...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:59 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Re: Hispanic Gothic
Oh god this is badass. Why <y>? Does, for example, /J/ contrast with /nj/? And why just <q> instead of <qu>? <q> is a holdover from Gothic — qoppa is used for /k_w/. At present I don't think /J/ contrasts with /nj/ except across morpheme boundaries; I can't think of a contrastive example offhand, b...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:14 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Hispanic Gothic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14193
Hispanic Gothic
The idea for a conlang derived from Gothic has been in my mind since I first started studying Gothic. Inspired by Ill Bethisad's ill-detailed Vissi and my class on the history and culture of medieval Spain this semester, I went with Spain as a setting. Its existence is predicated on the Visigoths' d...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census
- Replies: 356
- Views: 72689
Re: ZBB Census
Age bracket: 18-24 Gender: male Nationality: New England State/Province/Other Subdivision: home is Massachusetts, school is Connecticut Occupation: student Sexual Orientation: homosexual Status: single Native Language: English Secondary Languages: [by rough level of competence] French, Spanish, Gree...
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:07 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642422
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
[quote="linguoboy, in "The Welsh Copula","]Any time I hear rydw I'm like "OH NOES! Cymraeg Byw claims another victim from beyond the grave!"[/quote]
Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed this reaction.
Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed this reaction.
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137413
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
À l'écoute : "Comin' Back Soon (Bereft Man's Song)" — Crash Test Dummies Reading: I am just now taking a break from my Greek homework, which tonight is finishing off the Lattimore translation of the Odyssey . Other books I am in the middle of: Liechtenstein: A Modern History (David Beattie), Le Souf...