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- Fri Apr 07, 2017 3:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5752
Re: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
The wonder of a solar eclipse is that, the night before when the sky was dark, you were seeing for example, the summer stars (because at that point, you were facing away from the Sun and looking at the stars for example to the galactic west of the Sun. A few hours later, as the planet rotates and t...
- Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Paulácki /pʌˈl̪ä́t͡skʲi/ Nasals: /m/ /mʲ/ /n̪/ /ɲ̟/ /ŋ/ m mj n nj ng (except before "slender" vowels) m' m n' n ng' (before "slender" vowels) Stops: /p/ /pʲ/ /b/ /bʲ/ /t̪/ /tʲ/ /t̪ʰ/ /d̪/ /dʲ/ /kʲ/ /gʲ/ /q/ /ɢ/ p pj b bj t tj th d dj kj gj k g (except before "slender" vowels) p' p b' b t' t th d' d...
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: North Germanic in Ireland and Scotland
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11226
Re: North Germanic in Ireland and Scotland
Bonus points for initial consonant mutations!
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 154323
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Posthumous /p@Ust.'hju:.m@s/
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 4:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Can you please clarify what you mean by these two sentences?ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:Only palatal(ised) and not having a palatal(ised) corresponding phonemes can appear before /i/, only other can appear before /ɘ/. Dental non-sibilants and uvulars correspond to palatoalveolars and prevelars, respectively.
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 5:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Diego: your last vowel, ɒ̈ , is that meant to be low back rounded vowel with centralised diacritic? Just checking I have it right.
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 4:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
/pʌˈl̪ä́t͡skʲi/ Consonants: Nasals: /m/ /mʲ/ /n̪/ /ɲ̟/ /ŋ/. The distinction is neutralised in syllable coda, where they elide, nasalising the preceding vowel. If the next word begins with a vowel, the nasal undergoes liaison. Stops: /p/ /pʲ/ /b/ /bʲ/ /t̪/ /tʲ/ /t̪ʰ/ /d̪/ /dʲ/ /kʲ/ /gʲ/ /q/ /ɢ/. Voi...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
An as-of-yet unnamed conlang /n ɲ/ /t̪ t͡s t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k/ /θ s ʃ ç~x~h/ /l̪ j w/ /r/ /i y u e ø ɤ o æ ɑ/ - Front-back vowel harmony with /i/ patterning neutrally - [h] appears syllable initially or intervocalically, [x] after a back vowel, and [ç] after a front vowel - Consonant gemination is contrasti...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 112699
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Shocked to see there are no linguistics terms on this list! What about calque and gloss? There must be more...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17539
Re: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
In other news: I'm thinking about adding a 'silent e' rule. b) introduce an etymologically-mostly-justified silent e: varcweðe ech, grąve ech , etc. b) has the advantage of morphological simplicity, but it's an additional orthographic rule to learn. It makes it look a bit more English; on the other...
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 112699
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Sorry, should have realised that needed the IPA. Now edited in. It's the same as "seized".Pole, the wrote:How is that pronounced? /saist/? /seist/? /sist/?seised – the state of having a completed title to (i.e. being the owner of) land.
- Sat Mar 18, 2017 3:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 112699
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Plenty of quaint monosyllabic technical terms in Scots law. blench – the most common form of feudal tenure in the system's latter centuries, under which no or a nominal feuduty was payable. croft – a small agricultural holding in northern or western Scotland to which the Crofting Acts apply. Determi...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Single-phoneme "and"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6583
Re: Single-phoneme "and"
Scandinavian languages have /O/ for "and". Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic spell it <og>, and Swedish spells it <och>.
Anyone know of a language with a single consonant phoneme for "and"? Say /m/ or /n/?
Anyone know of a language with a single consonant phoneme for "and"? Say /m/ or /n/?
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:14 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Naming a Fantasy World
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7449
Re: Naming a Fantasy World
I'm a little disappointed more fantasy writers don't follow Tolkien's lead and call their world "earth." More proper names always strike me as being in contrast to something else (like Dragon Age's Thedas or The Elder Scrolls' Nirn*, for example), which isn't exactly a concept that would be familia...
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Knit Tie's /pʰ~f~p p β/ ph p b /t̪ʰ~t̪s̪~t̪ t̪ ð/ tc c dh /tʰ~t~tʃ t d~r~ð/ th t d /ʈ ʈʰ~ʂ~ʈ ɖ~ɻ/ tr thr dr /kʰ~k k ɣ q~ʔ/ kh k g q (or ' for /ʔ/ in Arabic loanwords) /m n̪~n n ɳ ɲ ŋ/ m dn n nr ny ng /f v s̪ z̪ ʃ ʂ h/ f v s z sh sr h /tʃ dʒ/ ch j /(r) l~ɺ ʁ̞~h ɭ~ɺ̢ ʎ~lj j w/ r l hr lr ly y w /mp mb...
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 4:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17539
Re: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
So I haven't posted since, apparently, 2012, but I wanted to come back on and say how much I'm enjoying Øynduyska. I've been trying to get the beginnings of a Norse-descended conlang sorted out in my head for some time so it's good to see a Germanic conlang by someone who really knows their stuff. (...
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Legolasean's:
/a ɛ e i/ <a è é i>
/ɒ ɔ o u/ <å o ó u>
/ə ɨ/ <e y>
/ã ɛ̃ ẽ ĩ/ <Vn>, <Vm> before labials
/ɒ̃ ɔ̃ õ ũ/ Ditto
diphthongs:
/aɪ̯ ɛɪ̯/ <ai ei>
/aʊ̯ ɛʊ̯/ <au eu>
/aɨː aəː/ <ay ae>
/a ɛ e i/ <a è é i>
/ɒ ɔ o u/ <å o ó u>
/ə ɨ/ <e y>
/ã ɛ̃ ẽ ĩ/ <Vn>, <Vm> before labials
/ɒ̃ ɔ̃ õ ũ/ Ditto
diphthongs:
/aɪ̯ ɛɪ̯/ <ai ei>
/aʊ̯ ɛʊ̯/ <au eu>
/aɨː aəː/ <ay ae>
- Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Does Yng's language have a name?
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: French prenominal adjectives
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3586
Re: French prenominal adjectives
No, I don't think there's logic behind it. They are largely short, common words denoting fairly basic concepts (small, big, good, bad, young, old). If it's a slightly uncommon or longer word, or a colour, it probably goes afterwards. Yes: it's tantalising close to being logical! Some adjectives hav...
- Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Questions about conlangs in history.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6432
Re: Questions about conlangs in history.
125 down, anywhere between 75 and 375 to go.Elector Dark wrote:Two to five hundred years is I assume a good enough gap in time.treegod wrote:At what point might a conlang like Esperanto become a natlang?
- Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:17 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: French prenominal adjectives
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3586
French prenominal adjectives
Is there any logic to which French adjectives appear before the noun and which after? I was probably taught it in school at some point, but I can't remember. If there is some kind of rule I thought it might be worth putting something similar in a conlang.
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:14 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Zukish I think this one suits Cyrillic quite well. /m n/ <м н> /p t ts ʧ k ʔ/ <п т ц ч к Ӏ*> /b d dz ʤ g/ <б д ѕ џ г> /f θ s (ɬ) (ʃ) x h/ <ф ѳ с љ ш х h> /v ð z (ɮ) (ʒ)/ <в ђ з лӂ ж> /w l ɹ j/ <ў л р ј/й**> *not written word-initially **<j> in onset before <и ы ъ ә ӣ ы̄ ъ̄ ә̄>, <й> in coda, /ja je ...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Quazian Thought I'd be a bit wacky with this one. Semi-inspired by various Germanic Romanisations. /p t ʧ k/ <p t c k> /b d ʤ/ <b d g> /m n ŋ/ <m n ŋ> /s ɬ ʃ ç x h/ <s l ß j ȝ h> /ts/ <z> /w l j/ <ƿ r y> /i y ʉ u/ <i u v w> /e ø o/ <é œ o> /ɛ ʌ ɔ/ <e a å> /a ɑ/ <æ á> /kl sl pj kj sj pw tw ʧw kw sw ...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
/p (b) t d ʈ ɖ k ɡ q ɢ/ <π (μπ) τ δ ρτ ρδ κ γ Ϟ γϞ> /ʰs s ʰʂ ʂ/ <῾θ θ ῾σ σ> /ʋ ɦ ʋ j ɦ j ɰ ɦ ɰ/ <β ῾β ι ἱ Ϝ ῾Ϝ> /ʝ ʝ: ɣ ɣ: ɦ/ <ξ ξξ χ χχ ῾> /m̊ m m: n̊ n n: ɳ̊ ɳ ɳ:/ <῾μ μ μμ ῾ν ν νν ῥν ρν ρνν> /ɬ ɬ: ɮ ɮ:/ <῾λ ῾λλ ζ ζζ> /r r: ɽ ɽ:/ <ρ ρρ ῤ ῤῤ> /l l: ɭ ɭ:/ <λ λλ ρλ ρλλ> /i ɨ ɨ: ʉ ʉ: u/ <ει ι ῖ υ ῦ ου...
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 854603
Re: Romanization challenge thread
I'm a little baffled at how many RomCs we've had with a language that has /ɬ/ and no /l/, where everyone has suggested <lh>, <hl> or <ł> instead of just <l>.