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- Thu Aug 14, 2014 1:10 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Derivation and reduplication interference
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1613
Re: Derivation and reduplication interference
I think it can depend, a quick look at Ancient Greek verbs with reduplicated perfect tense shows prefix-reduplication-stem-personal.ending form. On the other hand, a prefix might be used for the reduplication, it may depend on how transparent the derivation is and what form of reduplication is used ...
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Realization of word-initial prestopped nasal phonemes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2690
Re: Realization of word-initial prestopped nasal phonemes
Phonemic prestopped nasals are fantastically rare. I gave them to a conlang and I'm stumped as to how they'd be realized word-initially - or how any real language that has them, and has them word-initially, realizes them. Arrernte and some close relatives have phonemic prestopped nasals, and appare...
- Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: roto'rala
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3101
Re: roto'rala
So, I started looking up roto'rala's phonology in X-Sampa, and I got a whole lot of nonsense, I am just completely baffled as to how you even thought it was a legitimate representation of phonology at all. I mean, if it was X-Sampa, don't you think it wouldn't be almost all capital letters? That th...
- Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: roto'rala
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3101
Re: roto'rala
SOUNDS P, L, K, S, T, G, N, M, R, W, H, V, Sh, Ch, A, E, I, O, U, Ei, Ai, ' PRONUNCIATION R is slightly trilled A is always long Ei is spoken as “ay” as in “say” Ai is spoken as “eye” ' is a glottal stop IPA or the highway. X-SAMPA isn't too bad (even though I'm only familiar with a few of non-IPA ...
- Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Number of basic etyma in languages
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1539
Re: Number of basic etyma in languages
I suppose if we counts words like "father" and "paternal" as having the same "root", English might fit into this.
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Question for the latinate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1381
Re: Question for the latinate
Or are you looking for the more idiomatic reading of "I behave like my parent"?
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 3:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Glottal-stop-ization
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4273
Re: Glottal-stop-ization
Not to mention that the articulation of /p/ is much more salient for children (look at those lips go!) than for /t/ or /k/ (or any non-labial).
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 3:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 402612
Re: Happy Things Thread
I am getting married today!
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Acquiring numerals
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9249
Re: Acquiring numerals
English 3rd person pronouns have borrowings from Norse. Other function words do get borrowed on occasion if sometimes restricted in context (contra, per, are just two in English).
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Glottal-stop-ization
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4273
Re: Glottal-stop-ization
Austronesian /k/
Realistically, any voiceless stop should have a chance to lose oral closure. Voiced stops I would imagine are less likely to do this because of the voicing.
In my dialect, many final and coda stops are unreleased and so acoustically very similar to a glottal stop (and each other).
Realistically, any voiceless stop should have a chance to lose oral closure. Voiced stops I would imagine are less likely to do this because of the voicing.
In my dialect, many final and coda stops are unreleased and so acoustically very similar to a glottal stop (and each other).
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Regular and Irregular Languages
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9107
Re: Regular and Irregular Languages
You mean umlaut? JAL Not necessarily. I'm not very familiar with it, but I know umlaut is the front of back vowels before front vowels in the word and some strong verbs do have that, but others have an ablaut pattern that is similar to the PIE ablaut (e-o-null), but doesn't derive from a PIE ablaut...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:54 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My first conlang: Proto-vidar
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5909
Re: My first conlang: Proto-vidar
Sure, what I mean by full conjugation is just running a single verb through all of its forms (or all of a set, say active voice or present tense). So for example, in English. I might have the following table for English. sg pl 1st I jump we jump 2nd you jump you jump 3rd he jumps they jump sg pl 1st...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:25 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Regular and Irregular Languages
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9107
Re: Regular and Irregular Languages
For Germanic languages, strong verbs have past tense forms that differ from the "weak" verb past tense forms. This often involves a stem vowel change (left overs of IE ablaut or innovative Germanic ablaut) such as English, sing-sang-sung or German gehen, ging, gegangen. True irregular verbs in a Ger...
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 5:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Diphthongs and R/L in English
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4376
Re: Diphthongs and R/L in English
My dialect is ambivalent to these types of words. So, <file> and <fire> are both one syllable, I think. If I could have 1.5 syllables, I would often put these there. But for me, <hire> and <higher> are not distinguished regularly, but occasionally are different in syllabification. I don't know if th...
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 12:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My first conlang: Proto-vidar
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5909
Re: My first conlang: Proto-vidar
Glad you got your finals done. I hope they went well. Adding on to Kilanie, since this is a proto-language, it's easy enough to go either way. Have two different systems that collapse into one or more (cross-overs of affixes for example). The other way is to have mostly the same set of endings that ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Regular and Irregular Languages
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9107
Re: Regular and Irregular Languages
What's a "regular" language? A language with few exceptions to grammatical rules? Few irregular paradigms? Transparent orthography? Some combination of those?
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:41 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5596
Re: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
Oh about the Genitive, it wasn't supposed to be for pronouns. It was for things that are maybe part of the object(bad description, but I can show you) 'Strings of the piano' would be what I would use for the Genitive Case, not for the pronouns Sure, pronominal possession can occur in a variety of w...
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 573727
Re: Sound Change Game
Salenzian TOZEPE [toʝɛˈʀɛ] Hellenic-esque τοσερε [tosere]
Salenzian ϘYZYTEΣO [t͡ʃuʝucɛˈso] Hellenic-esque ζυσυζεσο [tsusutseso]
Salenzian KOZEPE [koʝɛˈʀɛ] Hellenic-esque κοσερε [kosere]
Salenzian TAΣAPONΘO [tʌsʌʀonθˈo] Hellenic-esque ζαρονσο [tsaronso]
Salenzian ϘYZYTEΣO [t͡ʃuʝucɛˈso] Hellenic-esque ζυσυζεσο [tsusutseso]
Salenzian KOZEPE [koʝɛˈʀɛ] Hellenic-esque κοσερε [kosere]
Salenzian TAΣAPONΘO [tʌsʌʀonθˈo] Hellenic-esque ζαρονσο [tsaronso]
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 573727
Re: Sound Change Game
Suntic tagigi /taˈɣiɣi/ Hrindarat /ta'ɣjeɣe/
Suntic tigitisu /tiɣiˈtisu/ Hrindarat /tjiɣji'tjeso/
Suntic kagigi /kaˈɣiɣi/ Hrindarat /ka'ɣjeɣe/
Suntic tasagumsu /tasaˈɣumsu/ Hrindarat /tasa'ɣonso/
Suntic tigitisu /tiɣiˈtisu/ Hrindarat /tjiɣji'tjeso/
Suntic kagigi /kaˈɣiɣi/ Hrindarat /ka'ɣjeɣe/
Suntic tasagumsu /tasaˈɣumsu/ Hrindarat /tasa'ɣonso/
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:36 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5596
Re: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
Case names are just labels for functions. So based on the functions you've outlined for your cases, I'd say prepositional (I'd call it locative unless it is used for prepositions covering functions not covered by cases such as accompaniment [with] or lack [without]). I'd like to see a declension tab...
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 2:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5596
Re: My first Conlang: Proto-Nevoran
I don't really know. I could never figure it out, how there are stops in multiple categories of letters and stuff like that. I tried it, but it just didn't make any sense to me. I had to use English examples because I had never heard of the IPA. Maybe I'm just a poor amateur who didn't do his resea...
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:08 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Greek?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1640
Re: Greek?
All writers (and older folk) seem to complain that the young'uns don't speak well. They complained in Elizabethan England; they complained in Rome. I'm sure the PIE speakers complained that their children weren't saying the word for hundred right also. So, it's more of whether a Greek/Byzantine Gree...
Re: Dheknami
Not if he wrote it in 2010 (as his blog indicates).Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:The top of the page says © 2010 by Mark Rosenfelder. Shouldn't that be 2014?
Also, I noticed that the female names lose bolding after the first name.
- Wed May 28, 2014 11:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What tools do you use for conlanging?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 14742
Re: What tools do you use for conlanging?
For example, I would like to filter words by their tag, so for example, I can view only words that have the 'color' tag, but the best that excel can do is order a record (row) according to its tag property (column). If an entry has multiple tags, and the 'color' tag isn't first, it won't appear gro...
- Tue May 27, 2014 9:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 573727
Re: Sound Change Game
Salenzian ITIANΘA [itiʌnθˈʌ] Hrindarat /itjansa/
Salenzian KYTANΘA [kucʌnθˈʌ] Hrindarat /kutjansa/
Salenzian KYNΘANΘA [kunθʌnθˈʌ] Hellenic-esque κυνσανσα /kunsansa/
Salenzian ITIANΘA [itiʌnθˈʌ] Hellenic-esque ιτιανσα /itiansa/
Salenzian KYTANΘA [kucʌnθˈʌ] Hrindarat /kutjansa/
Salenzian KYNΘANΘA [kunθʌnθˈʌ] Hellenic-esque κυνσανσα /kunsansa/
Salenzian ITIANΘA [itiʌnθˈʌ] Hellenic-esque ιτιανσα /itiansa/