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- 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...
- 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".
- 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).
- 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
- 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...
- 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").
Specifically, consistently and with large numbers (i.e. not in compound words like "fourteen").
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 640105
- 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
Post doesn't exist. What happened?
- 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...
- 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.