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Ercunic: Cách doin est ñath rí onct saval caint balcáché onct *rechtáché. [kaːx donʲ est ɲaθ rʲiː onkt saval kantʲ balkaːxeː onkt rextaːxeː] (*although I'm not sure what root "rights" comes from in your example, *yāno-?) Sweet. ^_^ I think he has it coming from yāno- "true, just, correct" + -ter, a...

Here's a little list of what I've found about Gaulish so far. Available on the interwebz: Václav Blažek (2008): " Gaulish Language " ( Graeco-Latina Brunensia , vol. 57, pp.37-65) - he's also written one on Celtiberian David Stifter (2008) " IV. Gaulish " (one of a series of notes to go along with a...

What are the other phonological developments? According to the entry for Proto-Celtic in John Koch's "Celtic Culture: a Historical Encyclopedia", at least the following: Consonants: PIE palato-velar ḱ, ǵ and velar k, g :> Proto-Celtic velar k, g PIE g w :> PC b PIE's voiced aspirated plosives :> de...

I thought I would bump this back up again -- it looks interesting. I've usually got an idea for a Celtic conlang buzzing around in my head, with only limited success in getting it crystallised in a semi-coherent manner. In fact, not just Gaulish, but any references to materials about Celtic diachron...

I got what was meant and appreciated it just the same.

Nope, that's not me! I've heard of that language before but never seen it.

I'm the guy that does primarily Celtic conlangs but occasionally dabble in a priori stuff as well. Like this.

Then I shall have to keep working on it since it's proving popular.
I'll try not to get into to much of an Earth-language-ish pattern with the grammar, but being from Earth myself that's going to be tricky to do...

Glad that you like it. :) Yeah, I can imagine that learning about dinosaur physiology can be pretty difficult, especially when you are relying on the fossil record to inform your knowledge about how their vocal tracks worked. I suppose by studying bird vocal tract physiology, you're sort of already ...

Hi all, I'm currently splitting my conlanging efforts between two projects, one being another Celtic conlang, and one being this. At the moment, it is not a lot more than a phonology, though a broad, basic idea about the grammar is forming in my head.... Eti is a language spoken by a species of sent...

Precisely. And I do remember someone aaaaages ago posting maps of a conworld that were basically those of the Earth from the Carboniferous (or something), so I didn't know if this was a reincarnation of that or a different project completely.

Different project completely. Okay.

This might have been asked (ages) before -- or maybe I'm confusing you with someone else -- but isn't that map one of the Earth in a previous geological age? Permian/Triassic, maybe?

it was a very useful text to have plonked in front of me as I'm currently writing about Old English and language contact for university You're welcome. :) Have a look at the Emonds paper if you haven't already, as that goes into greater detail about the Danelaw, and basically includes the rest of t...

I'm sure this has been spoken about on here before, in the dim-and-distant past (rather like the Basque monks), but I thought I would post about it anyway. Within the last few days, an article appeared in the University of Oslo's online newsletter Apollon , claiming that two researchers have conclud...

This document is sexy.... especially the map!

Loxian , from Enya's Amarantine a few years ago - details on it probably haven't been released for copyright reasons, or some such. What's on Wikipedia is essentially all there is. :/ I had a really good grammar PDF on Nivkh a few months ago, but I think I must have deleted it when clearing out my ...

one thing that bothers me is that this line: bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station. is very ungrammatical imd. Is it the serialized "go" that's the grammatical issue for you? At least in my dialect, they're all ungrammatical to me - I understand what people mean when they use...

Well the thing is if you don't have a syntactic pivot and thus are able to drop any context obvious argument, co-reference becomes ambiguous: "The man beats the dog and leaves." In English, this means that the man leaves. In ergative language, this will often (but not necessarily) mean that the dog...

Very nice! I'm always impressed when someone shows relationships between genealogically related languages like this ("word A comes from Proto-language * a ", and so on). :) I know it's a draft copy, though, so I hope you don't mind my little nitpick: On page 20 (similar to Rik's picking-up of your 5...

Pthag wrote:This is Britain. We have good cheddar cheese.

Seconded. We also like writing in simple, punchy sentences.

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James0289 wrote:Note -- all spelling mistakes are my own!

There's a comma in the site's url, causing a "web page not found" error.

Fixed!

Didn't some people used to think it was pear-shaped (or am I just making that up?)? There was an episode of QI a long time ago -- an excellent programme if you haven't heard of it; it stands for Quite Interesting -- that said something about this. I'll try to look for it on YouTube. EDIT: Just remem...

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Herr Mors wrote:

cromulant wrote:with teeth that bite and claws that shred.

Where did this come from?

"Beware the Jub-Jub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

Sounds a bit like Jabberwocky!

I know, I know: "The jaws that bite, the claws that catch"

The first few words are rather Brythonic-looking... --- genetic kin --- Father das Mother mamm Older Brother brod altra Older Sister hwer altra Younger Brother brod yéinkra Younger Sister hwer yéinkra Son mab Daughter kenydh --- fictive kin --- Husband gur Wife kwrég Godfather sordhas (lit. "care-fa...

I'd just like to point out I'm jealous of all who speak Welsh and Cornish to a certain extent. I can only make the simplest of sentences (the most useful being "Dw i ddim yn deall" and "Ny wonn konvedhes"!) so to see people having a full conversation in them is really good to see! If only I had the ...