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- Sat Jun 02, 2018 2:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461646
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
It is my sincere wish that the most knowledgeable people in this thread decide to bundle their forces and create a podcast on PIE. It would be blissful.
- Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:55 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44825
Re: Classical Composers
But honestly, I've always loved this ) This would scare the living hell out of Proletarian Musicians. I love it. I'm not sure what you mean? [snap] I'd like to see your citation there, but in general you are correct. Although attitudes changed over time, the RAPM was initially vehemently opposed to...
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 867160
Re: Romanization challenge thread
It's stupid, but it works - inverse Cyrillic for Moroccan Arabic: /p b t tˤ d dˤ k g q ʔ/ <п б т тъ д дъ к ґ къ 0~ъ> /f v fˤ s sˤ z zˤ ʃ ʒ χ ʁ ħ ʕ h/ <ф в фъ с съ з зъ ш ж х г хъ гъ ґъ> /m mˤ n l lˤ ɾ ɾˤ j w/ <м мъ н л лъ р ръ й ў> /a i u ə/ <я и ю е> /ˤa ˤi ˤu ˤə/ <а ы у э> Why <ґ> for /g/ and <г>...
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:54 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44825
Re: Classical Composers
This would scare the living hell out of Proletarian Musicians. I love it.Salmoneus wrote:But honestly, I've always loved this)
- Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: the most main points of Dama language
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7495
Re: the most main points of Dama language
If anything, Dama is raw and uncut mentalese instead of that Cro Magnon-blabber.mèþru wrote:Basque is really just corrupted Dama.
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: the most main points of Dama language
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7495
Re: the most main points of Dama language
Tell me more, minimalist-senpai.Dama Diwan wrote:And all that wisdom in the etymology of all the 262 morphemes...
- Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Tutorial: Making a Realistic Triconsonantal Language (beta)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 35052
Re: Tutorial: Making a Realistic Triconsonantal Language (be
I second this in full. Tiramisu did a wonderful job in explaining something and making it seem easy at the same time.Pogostick Man wrote:Any update on this? I'd love to see Part II.
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630314
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Voiceless vowels almost always occur adjacent to voiceless consonants, and that's what conditions them, not the absence of stress, status as an epenthetic vowel or similar. So instead of turning the glottal stop into a voiced velar fricative (*kaɣʲ.ka), a voiceless one (*kaxʲ.ka) might cause the fo...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630314
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
For quite some time now I have been fidgeting with coda glottal stops in my language. These arise mainly from coda plosives in the proto-language, but I decided they should be simplified even more. So lets hypothesize a word *katkat (possibly a reduplicated action verb). This became *kaʔ.kah, but I ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 4:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461646
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: European languages before Indo-European
- Replies: 812
- Views: 199897
Re: European languages before Indo-European
Very sorry to go back to quite the ancient post, but I'd like to chip in on this: It is unknown when the first languages were spoken in Europe, depending on to which degree Homo heidelbergensis or Homo neanderthalensis had language (they probably did have some kind of language, but perhaps less soph...
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:37 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Brahmic Scripts
- Replies: 93
- Views: 29602
Re: Brahmic Scripts
I can already see myself smuggly sipping coffee from my MTGA mug.hwhatting wrote:(And I would buy that.)dhok wrote:MAKE TOCHARIA GREAT AGAIN.
- Sun Sep 10, 2017 3:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words you've learned recently
- Replies: 248
- Views: 83609
Re: Words you've learned recently
Maybe to anglophones, but I'd dare to say that the comic appeal of 'Bob' is more universal.Vijay wrote:"Dick" is an inherently amusing name.
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 12:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 363685
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
Apparently clusters of ejective consonants go quite well with reggae: Reggaeon - Yalioni
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:39 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The glebst of Gleb
- Replies: 187
- Views: 67662
Re: The glebst of Gleb
Absolutely beautiful. It is like Gleb generated a deeply sorrowful siren's song inside its digital lair.Pogostick Man wrote:The vowel system of seed 2113634539 (online version):
ŋʲ̩ ŋ̩ˤ̟ ŋ̩ ŋ̩ˤ ŋ̩ʷ ŋ̩ʷˤ
i ɪ̈ˤ ɯ ʊ̜ˤ u ʊˤ
a ã aˤ ãˤ ɒ ɒ̃ ɒˤ ɒ̃ˤ
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:30 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
- Replies: 112
- Views: 55503
Re: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
By the way, Frislander, I'd be interested in having a closer look at Sóttem. The combination of word-initial geminates and tripartite marking sounds quite appealing.
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
- Replies: 112
- Views: 55503
Re: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
Since people are reviving this old-ass thread anyway, I might just as well give my cent+cent. My one and only conlang Sataw is not really an a posteriori conlang in the sense that it is mechanically derived from a proto-language. I'd rather call it an Austronesian-informed conlang. More specifically...
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 2:13 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Clicks in Berber
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10088
Re: Clicks in Berber
Having lived in Morocco (Fes-Meknes province) and heard Tamazight spoken on a frequent basis First off, that's pretty cool. Did you have a chance to study the language in more detail? I heard words that sounded like they had clicks on the first listen, which, on closer inspection, are heavy consona...
- Sun Jun 18, 2017 4:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Clicks in Berber
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10088
Re: Clicks in Berber
Where do you live? A location would help to put context to this. This was in Brussels. Naturally, there's quite some native speakers Berber varieties living in the city. Well the first click is likely a bilabial, possibly labialised (so /ʘʷ/), while I guess the second one may be dental /ǀ/ (the "en...
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 10:39 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The glebst of Gleb
- Replies: 187
- Views: 67662
Re: The glebst of Gleb
Pogostick Man wrote:As far as I'm aware, gleb cannot do that.
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- Sat Jun 17, 2017 10:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Risha Cuhbi grammar
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9384
Re: Risha Cuhbi grammar
If the language description is only halfway as rich and authentic as the Risha Cubhi texts it's worth to have a thorough look at.
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Clicks in Berber
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10088
Clicks in Berber
Dear fellow conlangers, Yesterday I was commuting back from work on the bus. Right next to me was a couple, husband and wife so I expect, Maghrebi-looking. They were having a heated argument on which I tried to eavesdrop. There were the odd French words here and there which I could make out, but the...
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:01 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Formosan orthography
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2061
Re: Formosan orthography
Thanks a bunch!
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Formosan orthography
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2061
Formosan orthography
Hi all, In several grammars of Formosan aboriginal languages, a common orthography is employed. This standardized orthography was instated in 2005 by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Council of Indigineous Peoples (CIP). Unfortunately, I can not for the life of me find a document de...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Short stories in Risha Cuhbi
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12373
Re: Short stories in Risha Cuhbi
I hate to revive a seemingly dead thread, but all this is just awesome and continues to be an inspiration to me.