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by 4pq1injbok
Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:51 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881093

Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)

Surely a language of fifteen words shouldn't waste one of them on an autonym?
by 4pq1injbok
Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:03 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
Replies: 428
Views: 137086

Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)

I've finally made an AkanaWiki article about my daughterlang. There's a short reference grammar and a ~400-word lexicon available. Mm, that goes down smoothly phonologically. Some picky nits: - you don't have /iu ui/ in the diphthongs inventory, but they show up a lot - if in the person agreement t...
by 4pq1injbok
Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:21 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
Replies: 428
Views: 137086

Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)

Could you show us your comparative table, dunomapuka? Once we have a table, realigning cognate sets or rooting out borrowings or noticing affixal material that should be removed or ... are interesting things we can collaborate / work independently on; but there's no fun gained (for me) by having to ...
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:09 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881093

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

... so the next ~100 words added to Proto-Lukpanic should probably include more intervocalic voiceless stops, more /s/, and fewer non-centering diphthongs. Also, I'd expect many PL stems ending in /p b/ to alternate with /t d/ or /k g/ in suffixed forms, and stems ending in /l/ to alternate with /n...
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:18 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881093

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

We don't have a "present" for Akana. A roughly "modern" tech level might be reached around 2500-3000 YP, but apart from a few obsolete remarks in the earliest grammars, history has not been described past the invention of printing in 1289 YP. Also, it's been proposed that technological progress mig...
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:19 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881093

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Glad to hear that there's broader enthusiasm for giving a talk on Akana at LCC4.

We're beginning to assemble the schedule now, so it'd be handy to have some sort of actual talk proposal soon, sent to conference@conlang.org.
by 4pq1injbok
Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:07 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: PIE Numeralia
Replies: 34
Views: 9236

Not making any particular point here, just a data point about numeral replacement: I was reading about the Anatolian numerals recently. We don't even know most of the Hittite numbers, since they were written logographically, but we do know the roots for 2, 3, 4, and 7. Three of these are the familia...
by 4pq1injbok
Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:27 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Uyse Grammar up!
Replies: 47
Views: 18838

Some fair points. And I was mentally contrasting Uyseʔ to a Chinese lang without tones when I remarked it was restrictive; mildly surprising to see the numbers go the other way. But yeah, I was making a statistical point. While you certainly could fit 9450 monosyllables in there (modulo phonotactics...
by 4pq1injbok
Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:58 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Philip Newton
Replies: 2
Views: 2577

He's still active on the CONLANG list, fwiw.
by 4pq1injbok
Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:44 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Uyse Grammar up!
Replies: 47
Views: 18838

For a language with such a restrictive root shape, Uyseʔ seems to have an insanely small number of homophones. I count only two sets (pwan, tsun), and both of them are in parts of the lexicon where the alphabetisation has gone wonky, i.e. are plausible mistakes...
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

Merneha looks awesome. I also notice it's crept closer to Kibülʌiṅ in certain ways.

Anyway, Kibülʌiṅ should be regarded as done too. All I really expect to do from here in is make additions to the lexicon (and perhaps examples).
by 4pq1injbok
Thu Nov 19, 2009 9:36 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

As for the Peninsular team, I think it will be best to rearrange things a bit so that those who have actually been creating a language are retroactively called "Round I", and the others are redistributed accordingly. Apart from the number of the round, not much would change though. If Vortex, Nebul...
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:44 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

As for applicatives and voice: One of the possible development ideas was to have it turn into a kind of multi-trigger system (which I had a brief discussion with TomHChappel about in a thread earlier this year) - the applicative prefixes alter the semantic role of the direct object, whereas the voi...
by 4pq1injbok
Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:39 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

I was just thinking about the way I'm hacking away at my Proto-Peninsular daughter and meanwhile so are (or have been) two other folks, and I haven't been talking to them at all: and presumably (unless the other two did better) we're going to end up with three languages which are more or less indepe...
by 4pq1injbok
Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:07 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

Curlyjimsam wrote:Presenting Çetázó's descendant: Šetâmol
Ooh, very nicely.
by 4pq1injbok
Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:34 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

FWIW, I'm nowhere near done or anything, but anyone who wants to watch the current state of my yet-unnamed Proto-Peninsular descendant as I write it up can look here.
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:39 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

If roninbodhisattva's stepping out leaves an opening in round II on the Peninsular side, I could step into it -- that way I'd get to use my sound changes from Proto-Peninsular.
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:18 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

All of Zhen Lin's language sketches have gone down with Geocities. Hopefully they're soon to reappear somewhere else...?

edit_2: They have: for those who haven't been watching the Cursed Relay thread
by 4pq1injbok
Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:28 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

This is cheating wrt the relay :( but I was reading the Proto-Peninsular description again a few days ago and as I was walking later that day I found myself formulating a set of sound changes from it (EDIT: here ). I don't want to develop it any further if it would be competing for space that someon...
by 4pq1injbok
Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:40 am
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

On a different note, how is AhH coming? I liked it. I haven't really touched it for a year (though, huh, apparently at some point I wrote up the sound changes and never linked it in). Hopefully all this will get me back into the Akana mindset and I'll pick it up again, or at least finally render th...
by 4pq1injbok
Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:20 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

Cool. Peninsular's fine by me, I was leaning towards it anyhow. Zhen Lin (or others): how canonical are the "selected cognate sets" in the Proto-Peninsular History and context section? If I read things right there're no daughters described right now, so I'd guess some of these forms represent change...
by 4pq1injbok
Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:17 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
Replies: 352
Views: 91556

Count me in, as long as I can go later than mid-October.

... hm, by those standards, I never did finish Ājat he-Heloun, did I? Maybe this'll put me in the mood to wrap that up as well...
by 4pq1injbok
Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:39 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881093

Much to respond to, as ever. Zhen Lin: will the sound changes to revised Ayāsthi be available anytime soon? Also, when do you imagine the epenthesis of <ı> happened? There is one more map I know of, the one of Rathedān opening the old Adāta grammar . It's an excellent idea to put some conworlding be...
by 4pq1injbok
Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:24 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Knowledge of Almea's shape
Replies: 25
Views: 8925

I often wonder how flat-Earthers would explain equatorial circumnavigation of the planet, other than denying it ever happens or has happened. You can still go around in all manner of big circles on a flat Earth... though I guess circumnavigators would have to constantly be turning inward while they...
by 4pq1injbok
Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:33 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881093

What's to stop you, in turn, from positing that such extra words were lost from your language's line of descent? It harms you not in the slightest that someone may do this, unless you're worried about people making similar additions to your own langauge down the road (in which case, simply decline ...