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- Mon May 21, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 897813
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Cedh, once again, your attention to etymological detail is a treasure to behold. Many ideas for the Gezoran substrate to Shtasa and for new ideas about lexemes / semantic change / etc to ponder in Empotle7a with this new knowledge about Gezoro. Brilliant work!
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 11:01 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Relative clauses: cross-linguistic comparison
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13906
Re: Relative clauses: cross-linguistic comparison
I've always recommended to conlangers that they consider four possible relative situations, where the target noun is (1) subject in both clauses: The player who complains about his team will lose. (2) subject in main, object in subclause: The player that Widowmaker shot was too visible. (3) object ...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 897813
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Hi Gwynwth! Welcome to the Akana Project.Is this project still somewhat active? If so could i join, and make a descendant of Proto-Isles?
I've mostly worked in the early Western languages and medieval Huyfarah. If you have any questions about those areas, ask away!
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 806637
Re: Lexicon Building
Empotle7a: susu (etym. onomatopoeia of the rustling branches and leaves)willow
next word: computer virus
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:36 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44683
Re: Classical Composers
Enjoyable reads Sal!
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Renaming conlangs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6709
Re: Renaming conlangs
I fit most of my (non-Akana) conlangs into the planet of Edomor . It owes a great deal of inspiration to our Boardlord's work. I'm embarrassed to admit that I got carried away at one point and Edomor became er a little too inspired. Thankfully, I went to college and studied the Middle East and lingu...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:57 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some big ol' maps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5070
Re: Some big ol' maps
I want to check out the town of Funky and meet those gone cats
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:26 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 185670
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
I can't remember how to say it in Moroccan Arabic, but "She turns the couscous steamer just like her mom" ~~ "Chip off the old block" is one of my favoriter expressions from Morocco
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 897813
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
It's back up for me
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 897813
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Is the Akana wiki down for anyone else?
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:06 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical ultra-conservatism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17499
Re: Lexical ultra-conservatism
@Yng Didn't realize that bunduq was a separate loanword from Persian! That's a nice derivation for 'rifle'. I've only seen mustarjil in the context of trans sex workers in the Gulf countries, but here's a video from Egypt using the word in the sense of 'mannish woman': Nisā2 Mustarjilā t I used muth...
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Clicks in Berber
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10074
Re: Clicks in Berber
COSMIC BRAIN: Clusters in Georgian are actually one consonantjal wrote:Tell that to the Georgians.Arzena wrote:Second, languages with extensive consonant clusters tend to simplify the clusters.
- Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Clicks in Berber
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10074
Re: Clicks in Berber
First off, that's pretty cool. Did you have a chance to study the language in more detail? I studied Tamazight and Tashalhit from the staff at my language center. Most were Tashalhit speakers and my 'courses' consisted of me asking for the names of things and verbs outside of my Arabic courses. Is ...
- Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical ultra-conservatism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 17499
Re: Lexical ultra-conservatism
Modern Standard Arabic has its fair share of lexical conservatives, which gives interesting neologisms from Arabic's triconsonantal derivation patterns. Some from the top of my head: dabbāba 'tank' from dabba 'to crawl' mustarjil 'FTM transgender person' from istarjala 'to seek to be a man' hātif 't...
- Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:05 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Clicks in Berber
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10074
Re: Clicks in Berber
Having lived in Morocco (Fes-Meknes province) and heard Tamazight spoken on a frequent basis, I heard words that sounded like they had clicks on the first listen, which, on closer inspection, are heavy consonant clusters. The most prominent example I can remember is ksksu [ks.ksu] 'couscous' soundin...
- Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:56 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Transition Game
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4450
Re: Sound Transition Game
A to Z
/eː/ > /jiː/ > /ʒiː/ > /ziː/
Next:
orange to silver
/eː/ > /jiː/ > /ʒiː/ > /ziː/
Next:
orange to silver
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 897813
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
I, too, second the idea of Isles peoples invading Kasca from the east. Well, maybe not invade but constitute a persistent and annoying pirating nuisance.
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 4:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425069
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
Interesting... I will have to look out for this because I have felt personally that I'm replacing 'when' with 'where' more often. A grad-student friend of mine independently brought up this topic, too, when she mentioned that the freshmen in her seminar replace the words. Hence, my curiosity in the ...
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:50 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425069
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
English speakers: who's replacing 'when' with 'where'? I feel that 'where' replaces a phrase like 'in which'...
Eg: There are days where you age years, and years where you age days
Eg: There are days where you age years, and years where you age days
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 897813
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Nice sketch.
When does Peilaš get the printing press? Has the date of that invention been canonized yet?
When does Peilaš get the printing press? Has the date of that invention been canonized yet?
- Sat Mar 11, 2017 5:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Single-phoneme "and"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6638
Re: Single-phoneme "and"
Moroccan Arabic's word for 'and', which varies between [o] and .
- Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:15 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Are Classical languages harder?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5201
Re: Are Classical languages harder?
P.S. daughter languages? I thought Arabic linguists say that the Arabic dialects are sister languages of CA. That is my personal hot take on the situation of the Colloquial Arabics vis-a-vis CA and MSA. I am not convinced of the "dialect" argument anymore. After dialogues about language with friend...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Are Classical languages harder?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5201
Re: Are Classical languages harder?
I think they can be harder. I'd say that the difficulty increases the greater the distance from everyday use. So for me, Classical Arabic is not that hard because I use its daughter languages on a near-daily basis and the Classical Language still is used alongside and greatly influences the prose an...
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:36 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gtáisk (PIE Basque)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2606
Re: Gtáisk (PIE Basque)
B a s q u e m o n k s
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8277
Re: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
Another memory, I remember that greengrocers would quote prices to me in French. This would mildly annoy me because after pleasantries and chatting about the produce in Moroccan Arabic, I thought that they thought I couldn't understand prices in French. But I realized after some weeks that they were...