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- Tue May 01, 2018 4:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Paradigm-arrhea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19424
Re: Paradigm-arrhea
Conjugation for *-hawján- (to move away from someone/thing) in Proto-Skawlas: hiwáni : I move away (from X/you) hiwánkə : We two move away (from X/you) hiwánṇ : We move away (from X/you) hiwámməj : X/you move/s away (from me) hiwámməke : X/you move/s away (from the two of us) hiwánnon : X/you move/s...
- Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:32 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114314
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
If odaxelagnia had a monosyllabic version I'd be saved.
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97770
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
So, I voted to remain during the referendum last year, and a tad annoyed at the result, but I'm still not sure where I stand on it. On the one hand (despite poor to non-existent attempts to make it clear) the referendum was non-binding. On the other hand, the failure of MPs to agree with the views o...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Turning vowel reduction into ablaut
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14040
Re: Turning vowel reduction into ablaut
I worked on something similar a couple of years ago for a (technically not abandoned but ill-worked on) conlang called Proto-Skawlas which eventually led to this and this for the nouns. The diachronics behind the system are spread throughout the rest of the thread, but mostly on the first page, and ...
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97770
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
The 2015 election was bonkers in part because voters didn't seem to understand that they have a first-past-the-post voting system Assuming everyone who voted in the 2011 electoral reform referendum also voted in the 2015 general election, then about 65% of voters in 2015 either did know we have a f...
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:36 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97770
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Isn't unclear at the moment whether the UK can even revoke Article 50 and thus halt its exit from the EU? Talk of reversing it or holding a second referendum are all well and good, but those take time, and unless you're able to simultaneously prepare for a second referendum, discuss the legal possib...
- Mon Aug 29, 2016 2:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The article in Goidelic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1968
Re: The article in Goidelic
Wiktionary wrote:From Proto-Celtic *sindos (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”) or *só (“this”); weak doublet of sin (“this”).
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census 2016
- Replies: 127
- Views: 55850
Re: ZBB Census 2016
Basics Username: Sangi39 Name: Marc Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Lord of the Midnight Striptease (drunkenness and sleep after a Lacuna Coil gig), Spar Jesus (long hair, moustache, beard, work in a Spar shop) and Hubby, by my ex-wife's best friend. Birthplace: Norwich, ...
- Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 209271
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
I don't know to what extent this is linguistic quackery or not, but I follow a Mongolian Metal band called Tenger Cavalry , and I'm forever seeing references to Turks being Mongol descendants or Mongols and Turks being related back to 400AD. You get the same comments turning up a lot with the Tuvan ...
- Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868939
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Kobon //ᵐb ⁿd ʨ ⁿʥ kʰ ᵑɡ/ < b d c j k g > /m n ɲ ŋ/ < m n ń ṇ > /ɸ s h/ < p s h > /r̝ ɭ̆/ < r ḷ > /w l ʎ j/ < w l ĺ y > /i ɨ u e ə o ɑ/ <i ï u e ë o a> Ram mïnëṇ hadame daɡol ɡau ɡï laɡa ńïn u, God Manë mïdeia. God Manë nïpe God aip mïdeia. God Manë nïpe u rë nëp God me. Ram mïnëṇ hainë ɡï la; nëd j...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868939
Re: Romanization challenge thread
/m n ɳ ȵ ŋ ŋm/ < m n nr ny ng gm > /b d ɖ ȡ ɡ ɡb/ < b d dr dy g gb > /p t ʈ ȶ k kp ʔ/ < p t tr ty k kp q > /z ʒ ʁ/ < z zy gh > /s ʃ χ h/ < s sy kh h > /r/ < r > /j w/ < y w > /i u e o a ai au/ < i u e o a ai au > Creaky < Vr > Breathy < Vh > Modal < V > High tone = acute accent Low tone = grave acce...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Unpredictable placename pronunciations
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6099
Re: Unpredictable placename pronunciations
Hmmm... let's have a go: Wrotham /'rɒ.təm/ Meopham /'məʊ.pəm/ Vigo /'vɪ.gə/ Mereworth /'mi:.rəθ/ Trottiscliffe /'trɒts.klɪf/ Capel-le-Ferne /'keɪ.pəl.fən/ Exceat /'ɛk.sɪt/ Beult /bəʊt/ Boughton Malherbe /'bəʊ.tən 'mæ.ləb/ Hougham /'həʊ.wəm/ Lympne /lɪmp/ Hainault /heɪnəʊt/ Steyning /stɛ.nɪŋ/ Checkin...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:49 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631492
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
n > h/V_V - Discussed above in relation to a question from Ahzoh, seems plausible enough h > ŋ - I'm still not sure on this from the last time you asked. Maybe? ʒ > ʃ - Old Spanish > Modern Spanish, if I remember rightly dz dʒ > ts tʃ - The first happened, again, from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish, ...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 5:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631492
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Seems I could have been mistaken. Always good to know
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631492
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
tʲ dʲ > tʃ dʒ - Yep. Polish went down this direction, IIRC, but ended up with /tɕ/ and /dʑ/ instead I guess in many languages [tɕ dʑ] could be mislabeled as [tʃ dʒ]. True, and hasn't that been discussed recently in another thread? rʲ lʲ > ʎ - The latter is very likely (again, Polish). Actually, Pol...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631492
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
tʲ dʲ > tʃ dʒ - Yep. Polish went down this direction, IIRC, but ended up with /tɕ/ and /dʑ/ instead nʲ > ɲ - Again, Polish has this x > h > ŋ - Rhinoglottophilia, maybe, but I'm not sure that's ever affected /h/ ʃ > x - Old Spanish > Modern Spanish ʒ > ʃ - After /ʃ/ > /x/? I would have assumed /ʒ/ >...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English coda 'rhinoglottophilia' revisited
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3060
Re: English coda 'rhinoglottophilia' revisited
Are they, though? At least in my speech both can appear between vowels.Zju wrote:They're in complementary distribution and all.
- Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631492
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Is /θ ð/ > /w/ possible (with or without intermediate steps)? With enough intermediate steps, everything is possible. /θ ð/ > /f v/ is attested, and you could take it from there. I'd assume you could have [ð] > [ɣ] as in Gaelic as well, and then something like [ɣ] > ([ɰ]) > [w] (conditional in Old ...
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 12:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Relationship between language features and writing systems
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2247
Re: Relationship between language features and writing syste
So many people forget Linear B. It kind of sucks for writing Greek, and for a long time people thought it wasn't used to write Greek precisely because of that fact. Syllables are written with missing codas, plosive MOA is unmarked, and clusters are either simplified or written out using multiple syl...
- Mon Dec 28, 2015 7:43 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conscripts
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6983
Re: Conscripts
Syllabary. But have it develop from the logographs...and incorporate a few of the logographs as grammatical morphograms, or something. A syllabary, for a language with syllables like khfräs, ⱨoskh, ⱪwornths, zjmäckt, thröpt, wanth, skiist, zjnett, ⱨaafs, ⱨwett, ⱪapf, dlon, rors... How? That's the w...
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: European languages before Indo-European
- Replies: 812
- Views: 200413
Re: European languages before Indo-European
My wife and daughter had to be in her mother's home country without me when my daughter was learning to form sentences. Because of the make up of my wife's family, my daughter had worked out that she should use Central Thai with men, Northern Thai with women, but English with her Northern Thai moth...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: European languages before Indo-European
- Replies: 812
- Views: 200413
Re: European languages before Indo-European
Not only do most Anatolianists ignore linguistics, they actually believe that the entire field of comparative linguistics is bunk: "On the other hand, most archaeologists have agreed with Renfrew. They see comparative linguistics as unreliable and based on incomplete premises in reconstructing hist...
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Creole languages
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3480
Re: Social justice [was: What to do about the Confederate fl
I can't speak directly to the topic of register in Jamaica, but through a friend from high school and Facebook I do thankfully have access to the speech of someone in their 80s from Jamaica (that friend's grandfather, born and raised in Jamaica) and for the most part, through conversation with that ...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
- Replies: 94
- Views: 39772
Re: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
For my 3con language, how do I diachronically come up with patterns that geminate the final consonant of a root and patterns that geminate the first consonant of a root? Reduplication and syncope could work: Say that every other vowel backwards from the end of a word is deleted, unless that would r...
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 631492
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I can't remember exactly where I was going with this (possibly some sort of "initial mutation" scenario after reading something on Facebook), but does > [β ð ɣ] adjacent to [r] (and possibly [l] and maybe [z]) seem plausible, with remaining as such in all other positions? I might be remembering some...