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- Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Temporal semantics, e.g. "last time"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3900
Temporal semantics, e.g. "last time"
(Tried to search, not sure how to get results.) I want to try "generating" a proto-language from some primitive idioms, and I want those idioms to be derived from the cultural ontology of the speakers. More specifically, I'm wondering how temporal semantics get affected by cosmological views. I've h...
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1299284
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Ich habe festgestellt, dass ich Netflix mit deutschen Untertiteln schauen kann. Jetzt so schaue ich "Narcos," die Hälfte davon auf Spanisch ist. (Ich verstehe nur ein bisschen Spanisch, und nur, weil ich in Amerika wohne.) Dabei habe ich einige deutsche Idiomen erkennt. Sie ist eine ausgezeichnete ...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 7:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1299284
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Minä olen Suomessa. Mikä nyt? I am in Finland. What now? Sauf! Juo. Drink. Jak będzie "masło szałwiowe" po Tlingitsku? Hoe zeg je "salieboter" in Tlingit? How does one say "sage butter" in Tlingit? Ich habe keine Ahnung, aber ich glaube, dass "gwáta" "Butter" bedeutet. Tlingit hat keine labiale Kon...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 3:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1299284
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Nochmal versuche ich eine Fremdsprache zu lernen, dieses mal Tlingit. In zwei Wochen fliege ich nach Juneau, eine Immersion-Programm in einem Grundschule zu sehen, weil ich eine Lehrerin in der Stadt kenne. Es gibt einen tollen YouTube-Kanal von der Universität von Alaska in Juneau, wohin es viele ...
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1299284
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Das habe ich nicht jetzt gelesen, aber ich hoffe, dass eines tages werde ich motiviert genug, das Buch auf Deutsch zu lesen. Ich habe Nietzsche auch nicht auf Deutsch gelesen, und darauf bin ich mit mir böse. Einmal versuchte ich Goethe zu lesen, aber mir war es archaisch und schwer. Sitä en ole vi...
- Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1299284
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Minulla on töitä kesälle, mutta minun täytyy vanhemmillani asua.
I have work for the summer, but I'll have to live with my parents.
I have work for the summer, but I'll have to live with my parents.
- Sat Apr 18, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 266044
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Is it spoken on the island of New Guinea?
- Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 266044
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Kurdish?
- Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1299284
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Voinko liittyä mukaan? Haluan oppia puhumaan paremmin suomea, ja tämä näytää tavalta, joka voin huomata, mitä en vielä tiedä.
Can I join in? I want to learn to speak better Finnish, and this looks like a way I can figure out what I still don't know.
Can I join in? I want to learn to speak better Finnish, and this looks like a way I can figure out what I still don't know.
- Mon Dec 29, 2014 6:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 725517
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I want to make a daughter language to Proto-Germanic, and I want to do something with the labiovelars. Is it plausible to have them become palatals along the lines of kʷ > t͡ʃ, gʷ > d͡ʒ, xʷ > ʃ ?
- Thu Dec 04, 2014 5:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 725517
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Could I have a chain shift like /th/ > /t/ > /d/ > /l/ > /o/ ?
- Mon May 19, 2014 9:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 725517
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Could I have Vn > Ṽə word-finally? I have a three-vowel system I want to expand and a lot of word-final nasals.
- Sun May 18, 2014 9:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Attempt at an isolating language
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2343
Re: Attempt at an isolating language
Hurrah, attention. Sure, I'll elaborate on the copula. I'll have a verb "to exist" which can address the two existential cases. sran ki ox exist "Oxen exist." qun sran ki hli DIST:A ox exist NEG "That ox (that you're thinking of) doesn't exist." For the locative cases, I'll use a locative particle t...
- Sun May 18, 2014 3:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Attempt at an isolating language
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2343
Attempt at an isolating language
Tentatively named Qan Hlais ("this speak"). Well, I am going to need more than a few naming languages for a roleplaying setting I've adopted as a forever-work-in-progress, and I'd like some names to have a sort of SE Asian feel to them. Naturally, I'm now battling verbs in a language explicitly crea...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Proto-Dravidian Resources?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1081
Re: Proto-Dravidian Resources?
Okay, I managed to get my hands on a copy. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Proto-Dravidian Resources?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1081
Proto-Dravidian Resources?
Hello, I've been interested in Proto-Dravidian and the development of its daughter languages, but I can't seem to find anything about the reconstructed language. Clearly work has been done in the area, but Google has failed me in finding any free resources. Specifically, I'd like a list of etyma and...