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- Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: A guide for basic vocabulary
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A guide for basic vocabulary
Maybe I did not make it well, but I hope this guide can help. Many new conlangers have problems in determining what words should be the basic words, and many new conlangers can get stunned when seeing a bunch of words in a language, especially nouns. While the diversity of natural languages(and conl...
- Sat Nov 26, 2016 10:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Urban Basanawa
吾能ん作かん無ん物、、、;-;
[ɪk kan mɑ:kən ki:n dɪŋk]
I can make nothing...;-;
吾能ん作かん無ん物、、、;-;
[ɪk kan mɑ:kən ki:n dɪŋk]
I can make nothing...;-;
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 12:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
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- Views: 704660
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I have a rather weird one I want to ask about. s/k/_# Does that seem too far fetched? maybe, although I have heard that some natlangs have some pretty strange sound changes too However, it seems that s > t / _# has happened in some natlangs, and t > k is not unheard of too. Another way: step 1: s >...
- Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: West African - Native American Creole
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6112
Re: West African - Native American Creole
sounds interesting (: maybe you can consider to make one.
- Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:07 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9019
Re: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
Whilst I agree that derivational morphology, high-register terminology and words for new concepts or objects are probably more likely to be borrowed, it is much less true to say that other stuff is 'highly unlikely' to be borrowed. It's true that it's relatively rare for something like pronouns to ...
- Fri Nov 04, 2016 4:48 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9019
Re: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
they are derivational ones rather than inflectional ones, derivational affixes are far more likely to be borrowed than inflectional affixes, and I called inflectional affixes as "grammatical affixes"...sorry for that.mèþru wrote:English borrowed a ton of them from Latin.grammatical affixes
- Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9019
How to make a language with a profound foreign influence
Below are my personal opinions, they can be incorrect. It is well known that there are natural languages that are not creoles or mixed languages with heavy foreign influences, like Japanes and English; however, these languages don't simply borrow words from other languages, even linguistic purism ne...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 1:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 704660
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
it seems that cross-linguistically, high vowels /i/ and /u/ actually often behave in a similar manner?Tropylium wrote: Probably not. Depends on what this "backing" is being exactly — /u/ can sometimes palatalize things (Japonic, Bantu), but things like /o/ definitely cannot.
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
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- Views: 704660
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
is the following sound changes plausible? Stage 1: short: /ɛ ɑ (ə) i u/ long: /ɛ: (ɑ:)/ diphthong: /ɛi ɛu ɑi ɑu/ and probably /ɛ:i ɛ:u/ from Stage 1 to Stage 2: əi əu > i u əH > a: > a(H is an laryngeal consonant) ɛ ɑ > a > ə ɛ: ɛH ɑH > a: > a(H is an laryngeal consonant) ɛi ɑi > ai > əi ɛu ɑu > au ...
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 4:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
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Re: Post your conlang's phonology
This is not a new conlang, but I never introduced it: nasals: /m n ŋ/ plosives: /p b ᵐb t d ⁿd k g ᵑɡ/ fricatives: /f v ᵐv s z ⁿz h/ sonorants: /w r l j/ vowels: /a e i o u/ syllable: (C)V, probably (C)(/j/)V Tones: high, low Sounds like a Swahili dialect minus the palatal/palatoalveolar and non-na...
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 4:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
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Re: Post your conlang's phonology
This is not a new conlang, but I never introduced it:
nasals: /m n ŋ/
plosives: /p b ᵐb t d ⁿd k g ᵑɡ/
fricatives: /f v ᵐv s z ⁿz h/
sonorants: /w r l j/
vowels: /a e i o u/
syllable: (C)V, probably (C)(/j/)V
Tones: high, low
nasals: /m n ŋ/
plosives: /p b ᵐb t d ⁿd k g ᵑɡ/
fricatives: /f v ᵐv s z ⁿz h/
sonorants: /w r l j/
vowels: /a e i o u/
syllable: (C)V, probably (C)(/j/)V
Tones: high, low
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:15 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
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Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Some of you may remember a while back I asked a question in the C&C quickies section about a sci-fantasy gender system, later including a couple of short texts set in the world (a first draft of one is in the quote thread). This language is meant to be spoken in that world. /p t t͡ʃ k ʔ/ <p t c k '...
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
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Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Inspired by Rotokas: voiceless: /p t k/ voiced: /w~b ɾ~d j~g/ vowel: /a e~i o~u/ syllable structure: (C)V ---------------------------------------------------------------- I suggested this for someone else, but it is repealed, at least the consonant system is repealed: nasals: /m n ŋ/ plosives: /p pʰ...
- Mon Oct 31, 2016 5:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
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- Views: 704660
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Stage 1:
short: /a ə i u/
long: /a: e: i: o: u:/
diphthongs: /ai au əi əu/
from Stage 1 to Stage 2:
a > o
ə > e
a: > a
e: > ei
o: > ou
i: > ai
u: > au
ai > oi
əi > ei
əu > eu
au > ou
Stage 2:
/a e i o u/
/ai au ei eu oi ou/
short: /a ə i u/
long: /a: e: i: o: u:/
diphthongs: /ai au əi əu/
from Stage 1 to Stage 2:
a > o
ə > e
a: > a
e: > ei
o: > ou
i: > ai
u: > au
ai > oi
əi > ei
əu > eu
au > ou
Stage 2:
/a e i o u/
/ai au ei eu oi ou/
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 11:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Lonmai Luna: se batais fak dehekai imai pabel-bakon imai alen Lonmai Luna 1.SG decide abolish distinction of possess-kind imai alen Lonmai Luna I decided to abolish the distinction of possessive classes in Lonmai Luna Tsunutsan, tsi ilu husukʰaililenaukalaitak nalipaitsʰu? think-2SG.IMPF-INT | 2SG....
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Lonmai Luna:
se batais fak dehekai imai pabel-bakon imai alen Lonmai Luna
1.SG decide abolish distinction of possess-kind imai alen Lonmai Luna
I decided to abolish the distinction of possessive classes in Lonmai Luna
se batais fak dehekai imai pabel-bakon imai alen Lonmai Luna
1.SG decide abolish distinction of possess-kind imai alen Lonmai Luna
I decided to abolish the distinction of possessive classes in Lonmai Luna
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:36 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Zouþlij. Ne nabbeþ we tou vele welldoune con-crejols Right on. We don't have too many well done con-creoles. ama hakha neshemukum? But do we really need them? Rhiallist ohta nepord si miudan ath? /ˈɹjalːɪst ˈoħta ˈnəpəɹn si ˈmyːðɪn ɛθ/ conlanging to.any.extent fulfill.3s Q desire be.true.3s Does co...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Zouþlij. Ne nabbeþ we tou vele welldoune con-crejols Right on. We don't have too many well done con-creoles. ama hakha neshemukum? But do we really need them? Koulesch: fillaicht, es is mygelich, dasz wir sie bedurfen werden. /fi:llaɪxt ɛs ɪʃ mi:glɪx das ʋɪr si: bdʊrfən ʋɛrdən/ maybek, it is possib...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Zouþlij. Ne nabbeþ we tou vele welldoune con-crejols Right on. We don't have too many well done con-creoles. Koulesch: fillaicht soll ich ouch versuochen, eine vermischspraache zu machen? /fi:llaɪxt sɔl ɪx o:x fərsu:xən e:nə fərmɪʃʃprɑ:xə t͡smaxən/ maybe I should also try to make a Creole language?
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 569195
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Consonants: Nasals: /m n ŋ/ Plosives: /p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g k͡p ɡ͡b/ Affricates: /t͡s t͡sʰ t͡ʃ/ fricatives: /f s ʃ x~h/ sonorants: /ʋ ɾ~r l j/ [h] is the allophoneme of /x/ in syllable initial position; [r] is the allophoneme of /ɾ/ after vowels. Consonants can be geminated, although /ʃ/ and /x/ are...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:56 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Koulesch:
Dasz is guot (:
/das ɪʃ gu:t/
that's good (:
fillaicht bedurfen wir meire Sadjiwan-artige kunstspraache.
/fɪllaɪxt bdʊrfən ʋɪr me:r sadʒɪʋanartigə kʊnʃtʃprɑ:xə/
maybe we need more Sajiwan-like conlangs.
Dasz is guot (:
/das ɪʃ gu:t/
that's good (:
fillaicht bedurfen wir meire Sadjiwan-artige kunstspraache.
/fɪllaɪxt bdʊrfən ʋɪr me:r sadʒɪʋanartigə kʊnʃtʃprɑ:xə/
maybe we need more Sajiwan-like conlangs.
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
I'm not talking about the whole book. The page alone would take me forever! Ah, ray, mi cende. Mi af lok Sajiwan a isi langwic fi ray, kos im sem Inggles fo so, an fi grama swel in ahcip. Wen mi go odatok Di Obit tu Kotanan, o (Ja les oklo) tu Alubetah, mi swel go mek fo eva. Ah, right, I understan...
- Fri Oct 21, 2016 7:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926842
Re: Help your conlang fluency
What's with the fuckin weird orthography? <ei> for /e:/? <ou> for /o:/? <uo> for /u:/? (Oh wait, you are basing this partly on normalized MHG orthography even though in many places you are not preserving MHG diphthongs...) yes, you are right, the Koulesch orthography is from that of MHG, however, K...
- Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
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Re: Help your conlang fluency
Is the gender of a person that important? Im mata wen man tok bo pikl dem. It's important when talking about dicks. kuama nya nihonotla muna It's always important in Japanese. Koulesch: Seir guot [se:r gu:t] very good In d'taat koment maenn ausme Erdenkugel, ouch koment frouen ausme Erdenkugel, mae...
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 926842
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Koulesch : Is s'geslecht fomme laut daslich wichtig? [ɪʃ skʃlɛxt fɔm:ə laʊt daslɪx ʋɪxtɪk] Is the gender of a person that important? Denkst du dass Koulesch mit Houchdeytsch aanlich sieht? [dɛŋkst dʊ das ko:ləʃ mɪt ho:xdɛɪtʃ ɑ:nlɪx si:t] Do you think that Koulesch looks similar to Standard German? ...