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- Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "English is a Scandinavian language?"
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9051
Re: "English is a Scandinavian language?"
English is a West Germanic language. It shares the traits that define that grouping. It's been influenced by Norse, French, and maybe Brittonic, but it's West Germanic.
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages with mood but not aspect or tense?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6086
Re: Languages with mood but not aspect or tense?
English has a subjunctive, it's just morphosyntactically marked, not pure affixal morphology. There's no reason to say that English doesn't have a subjunctive because it's marked by auxilliary verbs or periphrastic constructions. The emphasis on affixal morphology alone is a holdover from Greco-Lati...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages with mood but not aspect or tense?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6086
Re: Languages with mood but not aspect or tense?
There's only one anomaly, and it's not even a separate form: the construction "(if) I were". But this is better explained as an odd quirk of 'to be' (one of several) rather than a different verb form that suddenly appears on the thousands of other verbs in English. Or even as a curious literary ret...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Helo! My name is P. Rabbit Yenkov. I come from the year 2176
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7781
Re: Helo! My name is P. Rabbit Yenkov. I come from the year
How does the "future" English and Russian differ from ours?
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lots of cultures, one language
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2773
Re: Lots of cultures, one language
A possible alternative is to simply say that there's some universal language a la English, and simply not talk about the other languages except to mention that they exist. Easier to justify this compared to an actual literal one language.
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Natlangs that look like conlangs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7001
Re: Natlangs that look like conlangs
The voiced aspirate and ejectives are said to be mixed-voice, at least phonetically -- they start out as a normal voiced consonant, then devoice in the middle before the release.Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:Wait, Taa has voiced ejectives? I thought those were impossible.
Thus: [dtʰ, dtsʼ].
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Categorizing Etihus
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6756
Re: Categorizing Etihus
Yeah, and I can sell directional ethernet cables to audiophiles for ten thousand dollars and say it all works.Sew'Kyetuh wrote:All I do is explain how the conlang works.
Does't actually mean it works that way.
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 11:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18111
Re: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
Similar to the /sC/ and /Cr/ examples given above for Spanish and Thai, Sanskrit voiceless aspirates originate in sequences of PIE stops and pharyngeals. This is the reason for PIE's strange stop system.
- Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Winged Clothing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6103
Re: Winged Clothing
Assuming a low amount of technology, clothing shaped for a specific person would be pretty expensive.Salmoneus wrote:So why not have them wear them-shaped clothing?
Which would be realistic, actually.
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Ithkuil music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2407
Ithkuil music
John Quijada has released the first song from his Ithkuil prog rock album, with vocals from David J. Peterson. and it's actually good music
Additionally, an article from Fiat Lingua on composing the lyrics.
Additionally, an article from Fiat Lingua on composing the lyrics.
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:23 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Orisiyan Language
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4887
Re: The Orisiyan Language
Regardless of the conlang, I praise you for not doing the fucking "a as in father" bullshit and actually learning IPA.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:02 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Flying Battle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4382
Re: Flying Battle
Hmm. Perhaps it would be better to study 20th and 21st century battle for this, where personal armor is virtually useless, rather than ancient battle.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 7:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Flying Battle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4382
Re: Flying Battle
Assuming materials are similar to Earth, though, any stiff armor would reduce flexibility.
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 11:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Flying Battle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4382
Re: Flying Battle
Armor and weaponry would be very light. Probably made of plant or leather equivalents rather that metal.
On the other hand, I could imagine warriors who sacrifice flying in favor of armor, thus making themselves immune to comparatively weak fliers.
On the other hand, I could imagine warriors who sacrifice flying in favor of armor, thus making themselves immune to comparatively weak fliers.
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Relative frequency of /oi/ vs /eu/
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3431
Re: Relative frequency of /oi/ vs /eu/
My (likely wrong) intuition is that diphthongs that go from back → front are more common and stable than front → back. So [au] is more common than [æu]. Is one of these sources simply wrong, or are both changes attested (perhaps in different contexts, such as sequences within a root vs. sequences de...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The 200,000 Year English Project
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3056
Re: The 200,000 Year English Project
After ~6000 years and beyond, Future English will be pretty much unconnected to Modern English. It's more complicated when you try adding in societal and technological changes. What if immortality/eternal youth causes language change to accelerate? What if Modern English remains a standard language ...
Re: Eteodãole
To be precise, the form of the word is Cuêzi, but it's not analyzable. There are a number of such terms. The ancient explanation is that they were remembered from the previous era of civilization, but this is unlikely. ...and in the Doylist explanation, it's a retained word from proto-Almea where I...
- Wed May 13, 2015 4:03 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language revival revisited
- Replies: 68
- Views: 14676
Re: Language revival revisited
...Yiuel Raumbesrairc wrote: (Not that Japanese is anywhere near endangered status, but the number of Japanese people going for an English education is on the rise. That was enough of a warning sign for me to leave.)
???
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:21 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: A Japanese based conlang
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10332
Re: A Japanese based conlang
/wo/ exists in foreign loans in Modern Japanese.
- Wed Sep 17, 2014 6:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ridiculously small phonemic differences thread
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10396
Re: Ridiculously small phonemic differences thread
Commonly used in Sinitic linguistics to indicate a low central vowel. [ä] in IPA proper.Pole, the wrote:What is [ᴀ]?Seirios wrote:In my Mandarin speech (and my family's), /ar/ > [ᴀˤʴ] while /air//anr/ > [ɐɻ].
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 11:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ridiculously small phonemic differences thread
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10396
Re: Ridiculously small phonemic differences thread
diphthongized, and no, I've only heard anecdotally of English dialects that maintain(ed) a difference between eː and eɪ. I doubt they still exist. Generally they are heard as equivalent, although it's a marker of various regional accents. Well, my (Indian) English contrasts /eɪ/ and /eː/ -- but onl...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:09 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Phonoaesthetics
- Replies: 66
- Views: 21882
Re: Phonoaesthetics
Latin /gn/ was pronounced [ŋn], even word-initially, but no Romance language has changed it to [ŋ]. Would be a good addition to a romlang.
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Fun solutions to conworlding problems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1770
Re: Fun solutions to conworlding problems
It sounds interesting, though I'm not sure that the advantages of the ring shape make up for the disadvantages of the structure (i.e., as far as I know it would have to be built from materials stronger than anything known to science). It seems like it would be more practical to build a swarm of sma...
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Fun solutions to conworlding problems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1770
Fun solutions to conworlding problems
This thread is for sharing clever, elegant, fun, or interesting solutions to problems you've faced while conworlding -- things you wanted to include, but where you did something clever to make it so. If it made you chuffed to have created such a thing, put it here. I'll use my own conculture as an e...
Re: Dheknami
It's out, holy shit!