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- 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?
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:58 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Philip Newton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2577
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:44 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Uyse Grammar up!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18838
- 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).
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).
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:07 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
- Replies: 352
- Views: 91556
Ooh, very nicely.Curlyjimsam wrote:Presenting Çetázó's descendant: Šetâmol
- 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.
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:39 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
- Replies: 352
- Views: 91556
- 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
edit_2: They have: for those who haven't been watching the Cursed Relay thread
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:17 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Conlang Diachronics Relay II (now with schedule!)
- Replies: 352
- Views: 91556
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...