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by CaesarVincens
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 ...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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 ...
by CaesarVincens
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.
by CaesarVincens
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"?
by CaesarVincens
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).
by CaesarVincens
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!
by CaesarVincens
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).
by CaesarVincens
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).
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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 ...
by CaesarVincens
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?
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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]
by CaesarVincens
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 /tjji'tjeso/
Suntic kagigi /kaˈɣiɣi/ :> Hrindarat /ka'ɣjeɣe/
Suntic tasagumsu /tasaˈɣumsu/ :> Hrindarat /tasa'ɣonso/
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:53 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Dheknami
Replies: 51
Views: 26566

Re: Dheknami

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:The top of the page says © 2010 by Mark Rosenfelder. Shouldn't that be 2014?
Not if he wrote it in 2010 (as his blog indicates).

Also, I noticed that the female names lose bolding after the first name.
by CaesarVincens
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...
by CaesarVincens
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/