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by Mednij
Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:27 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The Fasimāķu Language
Replies: 0
Views: 8192

The Fasimāķu Language

Hello, all, I've finally finished the conlang I've been working on for almost 3 years. I wrote a grammar (http://is.gd/kFc1sp) which hopefully explains all the features enough for other people to understand. It's supposed to be naturalistic to some extent, so if anything is "weird" or a "noob mistak...
by Mednij
Wed Dec 11, 2013 3:55 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Proto-O and the O Language
Replies: 13
Views: 3757

Re: Proto-O and the O Language

You should make a script for this language with large characters and name it "Big O Notation".
by Mednij
Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:36 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
Replies: 130
Views: 60711

Re: Member Countries and Known Languages

Born in Israel, now live in Toronto, Canada. I have a standard Canadian English accent (with cot-caught merger and all). I also speak Russian (standard dialect) and (somewhat) French (whatever dialect they teach us).
by Mednij
Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:17 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Little-endian Numeral System?
Replies: 14
Views: 3443

Re: Little-endian Numeral System?

Apparently, Malagasy is consistently little-endian: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/ ... agasy.html
by Mednij
Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:52 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Little-endian Numeral System?
Replies: 14
Views: 3443

Re: Little-endian Numeral System?

Are there any natural languages that place the least significant digit first? Specifically, consistently and with large numbers (i.e. not in compound words like "fourteen"). That's not a compound, at least not how you're thinking it is. Fourteen is from 'four-ten' (back in the Germanic days), not f...
by Mednij
Sat Aug 17, 2013 1:00 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Little-endian Numeral System?
Replies: 14
Views: 3443

Little-endian Numeral System?

Are there any natural languages that place the least significant digit first?

Specifically, consistently and with large numbers (i.e. not in compound words like "fourteen").
by Mednij
Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:21 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Mass Noun Crosslinguistic Usage
Replies: 13
Views: 3197

Mass Noun Crosslinguistic Usage

Are there natural languages that have no mass nouns? How about only residual instances of these or of count nouns? Of those languages that use mass nouns in opposition to count nouns, what criteria do they use to determine whether a noun will be count or mass? Are there any such languages with inter...
by Mednij
Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:02 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Fluid Noun Class Categories
Replies: 8
Views: 2408

Re: Fluid Noun Class Categories

In what sense is this noun class morphology as opposed to just a diminutive suffix? Agreement, presumably. There is, as I understand it, a system vaaaaguely like this in some native American languages' classificatory verb stems - I think you can, for example, use the classificatory stem for... I do...
by Mednij
Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:27 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Fluid Noun Class Categories
Replies: 8
Views: 2408

Re: Fluid Noun Class Categories

I think there are a group of related phenomena, that are a bit mixed up in this thread. 1. A noun has can appear in multiple noun classes, and it has (if applicable) the noun class morphology of the noun class it appears in: 1a. A noun appears in multiple noun classes, and the meaning of a certain ...
by Mednij
Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:40 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Fluid Noun Class Categories
Replies: 8
Views: 2408

Fluid Noun Class Categories

I've had the idea to have noun classes with the possibility of one word belonging to a different noun class depending on which quality is stressed. Then it turns out that the Niger-Congo languages beat me to it. For example, Fula forms diminutives and augmentatives by changing the noun class. I deci...
by Mednij
Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 640105

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

[ˈɛks]
by Mednij
Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:46 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: ZBB Conlang Index (check the first post)
Replies: 43
Views: 25775

Re: New ZBB Conlang Index

masako wrote:You're gonna wanna remove that link for Kala.

Here's why.
Post doesn't exist. What happened?
by Mednij
Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:25 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Most Batshit Natlang Competition!
Replies: 203
Views: 50181

Re: The Most Batshit Natlang Competition!

Least insane: Some Oghuz turkic language, like Azeri or Turkish. They're pretty regular grammatically, have little or no exceptions, have a regular orthography, and the phonology is mostly simple (vowel harmony is quite un-insane). Most insane: Sumerian. Not only is the orthography basically a logo...
by Mednij
Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:26 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Palatal Stops
Replies: 37
Views: 7519

Re: Palatal Stops

I always thought that they were the same thing.