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- Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexember 2017
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16527
Re: Lexember 2017
Wow, Lexember really hasn't taken off this year, has it.
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6440
Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Yeah, I've seen that but I know some people from Lodz and they speak nothing like what you're describing...ˈd̪ʲɛ.gɔ kɾuˑl̪ wrote:There
- Thu Nov 30, 2017 3:26 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6440
Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
Ok, It'll be long but I'll try to describe it: 1. No "classical" phonemic nasal vowels: Ę and ą are /ɛN/ and /ɔN/ word-internally (N assimilates in POA to the following consonant) and /ɛ(m)/ and /ɔm/ word-finally. 2. /ɛ/ is backed, something like [ɜ] and sometimes it is identical to /ɨ/ ([ɘ]). 3. I...
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6440
Re: How to make a spelling without diacritics?
I don't see how typing alt+s is any slower than typing s-j. It's two characters either way.
- Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Any languages show h > j?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6605
Re: Any languages show h > j?
h > j was reconstructed as a change in the development of some Khoisan languages, IIRC.
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Should I make the lexicon or grammar first?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4519
Re: Should I make the lexicon or grammar first?
I don't think it's possible to make a "good" conlang without iterating between the two. Without a lexicon, you can't really make sentences or check how various affixes react to their respective roots. Without grammar, you have no working derivational morphology and your lexicon can only be very rudi...
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 2:36 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Word Initial Glottal Stop v. Zero
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5153
Re: Word Initial Glottal Stop v. Zero
Iirc languages can phonemically contrast zero-initial with a glottal stop, but that phonetically such a contrast won't be realized utterance-initially. There's no way (again, iirc) to distinguish between the initiation of voicing because of a preceding glottal stop and the initiation of voicing bec...
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14415
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
I found a useful resource: http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/upsid_info.html
They have only a sample of 450 languages but it's a start. There seems to be way more infrequent phonemes than I'd have thought.
They have only a sample of 450 languages but it's a start. There seems to be way more infrequent phonemes than I'd have thought.
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:24 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: An Extended Sound Change Applier
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15005
Re: An Extended Sound Change Applier
I might try to build it. What language/libraries/etc. have you used?bradrn wrote:Unfortunately no, unless someone builds it on a Mac. I'd like to see that happen, though.gestaltist wrote:Any plans for a Mac version?
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:22 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: An Extended Sound Change Applier
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15005
Re: An Extended Sound Change Applier
Any plans for a Mac version?
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:15 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Singing pronunciation in different languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6210
Re: Singing pronunciation in different languages
Actually, singers are trained in Poland to drop nasalization of word-final vowels because it "sounds better" and is an accepted alternative pronunciation anyway. My personal theory with /i/ > [e] is that restricts your voice more. You can generally sing higher if you take [e] over . But it's an unfo...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14415
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Nobody mentioned the whistled sibilants of Shona yet. They don't even have an agreed-upon IPA transliteration.
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:36 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Is Almea still used for RPG?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5767
Is Almea still used for RPG?
I remember reading that Almea was first created as an RPG setting. I wonder if it's still used that way. Obviously, I'm most interested if zompist still plays RPGs, but if anybody here plays in Almea, I would love to hear about it, too. This is mainly just idle curiosity, but I would also like to kn...
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:43 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Creating a continent
- Replies: 58
- Views: 37898
Re: Creating a continent
One thing you might want to take into account if you're shooting for realism, and which I haven't seen suggested yet, is erosion. Two things specifically: 1) glacier advances during the Ice Ages had a huge impact on Earth. If you're planet had an Ice Age, you'd expect the northern part of the contin...
- Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 621777
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
The other stops (/p t k/) are unaffected by all changes bar a set of palatalisations before /i/, most of which merge with that intervocalic ʈʳ (with the latter probably through a medial /ʈʂ. stage) to form a new set of palatal affricates not present in the protolang. My problem was actually more wi...
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 2:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 621777
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I'm back-deriving the proto-inventory for this language , and I have a phoneme /ʈʳ/ and I want it to split and caused a position-based alternation in the daughter language. Does changing it to /t/ word-initially and /t͡ʃ/ otherwise seem sensible? I think this was buried, but my question still stand...
- Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Benefits once an IAL has been established & spread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8814
Re: Benefits once an IAL has been established & spread
A benefit of an established IAL would be an influx of new languages for linguists to study: creoles of IAL with the various local languages for one, and when communities form where the IAL becomes L1, the inevitable diachronic change will mutate them into something new. And then, after a few centuri...
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:54 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: kårroť thread - thread is now closed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5368
Re: kårroť thread - Necroes welcome!
Any specific reason why you're not using an English-friendly romanization for the name of the conworld?
- Sat Feb 13, 2016 7:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2192
Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
Since there have been zero comments in this thread I am going to assume it wasn't interesting enough. I will stop cross-posting here.
If you were reading along, you can find the newer entries in the original thread on the CBB: http://aveneca.com/cbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5247
If you were reading along, you can find the newer entries in the original thread on the CBB: http://aveneca.com/cbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5247
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:52 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311307
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
Yes, there are no situations in which this isn't a smart move. I agree that Linux is a viable solution for a lot of folks, and I used to run Archlinux on my previous laptop, but it's not the right solution for everyone (including me right now).WeepingElf wrote:Switching to Linux is always a smart move.
- Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:56 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2192
Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
A sketch on Tsokkwi religion (The Tsokkwi are my focus culture on golempunk, in case it's not clear.) The Tsokkwi believe there is only one life, and your fate is dependent on how much good you have done in its duration. They stress proactivity and making a change in the world. They worship three g...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:19 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311307
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
Windows apps generally don't work with Linux. Yes, there are wrappers like Wine, but given that you know nothing about Linux and just want it "to work" I would recommend against trying it.
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:10 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Use space swell
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4544
Re: Use space swell
Yeah.Buran wrote:Reddit's /r/keming has plenty of good examples, among them "Bon Ape tit", "Le tItS now", "Faculty o fArts", and "The Wig and PenIs Open for Business".
"Penis mightier than the sword" is a well-established one.
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2192
Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
A few words about the reincarnation process in golempunk. Every living creature has a soul. If no spirit enters a fetus at an early stage, it results in a miscarriage. Some inanimate things (like the wind in the snippet above) also attract spirits but this is more an exception than a rule. When the ...
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2192
Re: Gestaltist's Conworlding Scratchpad
Golempunk story number 2. I sometimes try to remember what I used to be. It comes to me in flashes. A face of a woman, a starry sky; a bout of depression, a jolt of joy; weeping violins, and screams of pain. How do I know what they are? I don't have eyes that could see, I don't have ears that could ...