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by Yagia
Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:51 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
Replies: 1352
Views: 221381

Re: Guess the Language, anyone?

I'm pretty sure it is some Albanian (Tosk) dialect spoken outside Albania, like in Greece, Bulgaria or Romania. I recognize some Albanian roots.
Guess: Tosk dialect in Romania, given the diacritics
by Yagia
Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:18 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784316

Re: Lexicon Building

Publipis wrote:next word: reward, dessert, something earned as a prize for hard work
Vayardyio:

séfalido - prize, reward

next:

delicatessen (as in: fine food, delicacy)
by Yagia
Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:25 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784316

Re: Lexicon Building

new word: concept
by Yagia
Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:57 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Of sound symbolism and the word "zigzag"
Replies: 18
Views: 4454

Re: Of sound symbolism and the word "zigzag"

Dutch as far as I can think of, prefers an i - a opposition: (like 'zigzag', which is not only German but also Dutch) tiktak (like a clockwork) bimbam (like churchbells 'ding dong') kriskras (= criss-cross) flikflak (some gymnstic/acrobatic exercise) Me thinks what we have here is a variety of the s...
by Yagia
Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:24 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What language is this song in?
Replies: 12
Views: 3266

Re: What language is this song in?

It sounds Greek to me. And since the battle of Lepanto took place in Greek waters, that seems reasonable.
by Yagia
Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:06 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
Replies: 17
Views: 4673

Re: engdutchdeutsch?

To me one of the most intriguing changes is the diphthongisation of high vowels (e.g. PGmc *wīną > Eng. wine , Dut. wijn , Ger. Wein ). Intriguing because intermediate varieties lack it (e.g. Frisian wyn , Low Saxon/Ripuarisch Wien ). Although there are some examples of discontinuous wave propagati...
by Yagia
Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:43 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
Replies: 17
Views: 4673

Re: engdutchdeutsch?

No comparisons to Frisian? My knowledge of Frisian is next to zero :oops: As far as I know Frisian stands closer to English, within 'North Sea Germanic'. To make things worse, some count West Flemish in here too, thus forming a dialect continuum between Denmark and Dunkirk). Linguoboy enlightened m...
by Yagia
Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:13 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
Replies: 17
Views: 4673

Re: engdutchdeutsch?

linguoboy wrote:You might be interested in reading about the wave model of language change if you're not familiar with it already.
Thank you, this has been helpful.
by Yagia
Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:27 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
Replies: 17
Views: 4673

Re: engdutchdeutsch?

Is any language more closely related to either of the other languages? I'm not sure what you're asking here. As a native Dutch speaker, of course I am aware that Dutch and German are closely related and mutual intelligible (to the extent that some Germans apparently think Dutch is in fact a German ...
by Yagia
Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
Replies: 17
Views: 4673

engdutchdeutsch?

Lately I was pondering about in which ways one could arrange German, English and Dutch as to establish cross-linguistic similarities in the lexicon. It occurred to me that you can pair any two out of three in some ways. See the examples below (sorry I found no way to paste a proper table into this p...
by Yagia
Fri May 16, 2014 5:06 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What do you do with a walk?
Replies: 28
Views: 6597

Re: What do you do with a walk?

Dutch equivalents: go for a walk - (een eindje) gaan wandelen (go walking; ' een eindje' would loosely translate as 'for some time / for a short distance') take a shower - een douche nemen (= take a shower), onder de douche gaan (go under the shower), douchen (to shower); but cf. ze staat onder de d...
by Yagia
Sun Mar 23, 2014 3:39 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784316

Re: Lexicon Building

hwhatting wrote: Next: weave
Vayardyio:
ségriara - to weave

next: psychological (please: add etymology / derivation)
by Yagia
Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:34 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726640

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Yé ono éprantésite...

/çe ‘ono eprante’sitə/
not him dis-encourageIMPER2sg

don't discourage him...
by Yagia
Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:47 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Idiomatic expression "And how"?
Replies: 18
Views: 3711

Re: Idiomatic expression "And how"?

Dutch has exactly the same: en hoe!. My wild guess is that this expression originated in German, English and Dutch (and why not Frisian and Scandinavic languages too?) synchronically, or it was copied over the centuries of mutual contact between the Germanic speaking peoples.
by Yagia
Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:30 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: whenever and wherever in other languages
Replies: 37
Views: 9817

Re: whenever and wherever in other languages

Sorry Din, as I wrote my post you were already ahead of me ;)
beste wensen voor 2014
by Yagia
Wed Jan 01, 2014 8:28 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: whenever and wherever in other languages
Replies: 37
Views: 9817

Re: whenever and wherever in other languages

I have been working on some simple original folk stories in a conlang, and I am currently trying to decide what the equivalent of the English -ever series should be. A simple example might be: Wherever he goes, he always has an English breakfast This could be paraphrased as: It doesn't matter where...
by Yagia
Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:02 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: What's wrong with this conlang?
Replies: 23
Views: 5328

Re: What's wrong with this conlang?

@pdusen. I agree with My core vocabulary in my conlang has been with me for years, through different conlangs. Words that I don't like have been gotten rid of. I've been tweaking it for years and I'm getting to really like it. Don't get stuck in this phonology thing. My experience is that figuring o...
by Yagia
Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:12 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: interjections in your conlang
Replies: 4
Views: 1947

Re: interjections in your conlang

I like your phonology :) Quite cool
by Yagia
Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:24 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: interjections in your conlang
Replies: 4
Views: 1947

interjections in your conlang

When your conpeople use language more or less like we do, I'd say they will make abundant use of interjections of all kind. I wonder what interjections you invented for your conlang. Are they onomatopaeic? Culturally, sexually or religiously defined? Would they be dependent on which social class you...
by Yagia
Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:44 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: A Short Lexicon of many Conlangs
Replies: 38
Views: 8385

Re: A Short Lexicon of many Conlangs

So let's talk about the weather! THE WEATHER : E ARINEO What weather will we have? : Séco arinéo li avata? Will it be nice / bad weather?: Né li talo/méo arinéo avata? Will it be hotter / colder ?: Né li déso risa/gréo avata? There’s much wind: Comissa gialvo yésa [ko’missɑ ‘jɑlvo 'çesɑ] The weather...
by Yagia
Tue Jul 23, 2013 4:06 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784316

Re: Lexicon Building

Vayardyio:

vana-toa rétrio

alongside-each other-positionPART PRES

"(to be) put alongside each other"


next:

humid (like the weather here right now, waiting for a thunderstorm to arrive)
by Yagia
Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:48 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726640

Re: Help your conlang fluency

'giaro' , Vayadyio, 'traisido i giaréni mali' [/i ]soprada. Sico atiro a sparyintio sirgara?

giaro, in Vayardyio, means 'man' [litt.: with-spirit sex GEN male GEN]. What relation is there with fucking?
by Yagia
Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:02 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726640

Re: Help your conlang fluency

Crémia yéna illa nia
I.fear no such is

I fear there is none.
by Yagia
Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:50 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499872

Re: Post your conlang's phonology

So here’s to unsurprising phonologies :-D Lightyears ago, I modelled my principal conlang Vayardyio after Spanish and Italian mostly. Later on I wanted it to display some specialties. During the last years it hasn’t changed much. Consonants are: Plosives: p b t d k g Nasals: m, n Trill: r Fricatives...
by Yagia
Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:29 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: "I fok horses"
Replies: 5
Views: 2902

Re: "I fok horses"

check! :wink: