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- Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 620169
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
In many conlangs I do much like that ... /nh hn/ > /nt/ medially, /t/ initially. I dont have any natlang precedent, its just one of those ideas I had that simpl feels right. Might want to consider retaining /s/~/ns/ for the coronal pair just on the basis that /s/ is more persistent than other fricat...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:39 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 356877
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtjxrf2Vg7g
i wish this was all of the songs n full length and not just a melody
i wish this was all of the songs n full length and not just a melody
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /ç/ vs. /x/ in German
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6424
Re: /ç/ vs. /x/ in German
Oh, it appears that the "kh" pronunciation is for the "English" name Eichmann, which is a bit silly since English, outside of a few dialects, does not havge that sound, but I see the ç now and it's under a separate entry for the German name. I don't see /ˈaɪxˌmɑn/ anywhere on that page, actually. Th...
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /ç/ vs. /x/ in German
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6424
Re: /ç/ vs. /x/ in German
in my experience, dictionary.com has been bad for a very long time. Right now there's a link near the bottom for The Oldest Words in the English Language . Really, guys? Im not even gonna bother clicking to see what they mean by that and at what point does an "oldest English word" become a totally o...
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Non-Biblical religious/spiritual literature
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9634
Re: Non-Biblical religious/spiritual literature
Only thing I can add is Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, which I read about 20 years ago, but still remember in fairly rich detail. It helped me come to my current religious viewpoint of believing in God without believing in (or caring about) the factual accuracy of any particular religio...
- Sun Dec 03, 2017 12:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 453661
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I remember a paper once that said milk tolerance was from nw Iran, and had spread into Europe from the east. I wouldn't call nw Iran the Levant but it provides a explanation for the roundabout passage around the Caspian sea. https://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-1.13471 <------...
- Sat Dec 02, 2017 3:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Kinship: children of cousins?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4527
Re: Kinship: children of cousins?
Wait, can first cousins once removed still be called first cousins (without further qualification)? :o Yes but Ive never heard that. "first cousin" and "cousin once removed" are two different things and its rare that one would need to talk about someone who happens to be both without just mentionin...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ossetian diachronics
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2187
Re: Ossetian diachronics
Something conlangers don't do enough of, I think: contrasts that are relatively unimportant, with low functional load. Thanks, I'll take t hat as a compliment since Khulls has a lot of marginal consonants that arose primariy from clusters . --------- is it possible that hte ejectives appear more of...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Renaming conlangs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6525
Re: Renaming conlangs
I have a conlang named Palli, which is actually now one of my least favorite conlangs, as my tastes were quite different 20 years ago. It has no resemlance to the natlang called Pāli whatsoever, although the climates are fairly similar. I have a minor, backburner conlang called Lamu , which is also ...
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 5:50 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14383
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
amazing that /t d n s l/ are so rare. There must be a reasn, such as tracking only pure /t/ isntead of /tɣ/~/tʲ/ etc, since for sure there are more languages with coronal elementals than that! e.g. even /s/ shows up at only about 45% .
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:00 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do polite verbs develop?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2633
Re: How do polite verbs develop?
all I can say is that there are different kinds of politeness, and some languages mix them together and others keep them apart. e.g. 1) politeness based on status of the speaker and listener in a social hierarchy. If Im of the "one of my ancestors switched to the losing side during a major battle an...
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages with optional person indexing on verbs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2527
Re: Languages with optional person indexing on verbs
I suspect this doesnt happen or is at most highly unstable. If an inflection is optional, that would mean that the null form is meaningful on its own. This would mean that at least one form of the verb likely already uses the null form as standard. Such a setup might turn up in a language undergoing...
- Fri May 27, 2016 1:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Most Logical Word Order
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6124
Re: Most Logical Word Order
Almost 20 yrs ago I decided to use SOV for all my languages. My argument was that it was the best for embedding in serntences with more than one verb, Because in SVO langs, if you have 2 verbs, the only way to do it in one sentence is to make the object of the 1st verb the subj of the 2nd. e.g. "thi...
- Sun May 22, 2016 9:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 315629
Re: The dream thread
At 2 AM or so I was driving home and noticed my cellphone was down to 20% or so, so I plugged it into a car charger I had and then sealed it up in the change compartment so it wouldnt get bumped around. Then my eyesight shut down. I seem to dream about this a lot lately. I dont have any particularly...
- Thu May 19, 2016 12:13 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 315629
Re: The dream thread
Was that all one single interconnected dream? Anyway the first part of it reminds me of that video on YouTube showing a woman "using a cellphone" in 1928: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhA6cxtncgY the video is 1:40, but it really just loops the same ten seconds or so over and over. Supposedly ther...
- Sun May 15, 2016 10:48 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 793617
Re: Lexicon Building
next: feather with alternating colors, i.e. green then white then green then white and so on I dont have a nice way of indicating exactly that, but I think that simply translating it as "striped feather" would work well, since there isn't really any other thing that that could mean. However, that m...
- Sun May 15, 2016 9:24 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 315629
Nanong
I was in some sort of competition in a large university-type building. In one classroom, everyone was seated at big wide-open tables with lots of spacious pullout drawers. I remember doing lots of cleaning, but Im not sure if the competition was about cleaning or if I was just cleaning up because th...
- Sat May 14, 2016 10:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Reversal of writing direction
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5116
Re: Reversal of writing direction
Yeah i think vertical Sanskrit looks better if you take out the overbars. Hmm, Omniglot claims that Batak, Hanuno'o, and Tagbanwa were BTT-LTR, along with this confusing note: Note Tagbanwa is traditionally written in vertical columns running from bottom to top and from left to right, however it is ...
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 2:22 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 793617
Re: Lexicon Building
Next: heavy libqh [libχ] "heavy" (lit. Weighty, from root "l-bqh" having to do with weight, weighing) Nota Bene: in the transcription, the fricative should be the voiceless uvular rather than voiceless velar, but my phone refuses to make the correct symbol so I'll have to edit this later. Next word...
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Out-of-universe sound changes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2081
Re: Out-of-universe sound changes
Sorry this isnt a reply to your question directly, and in fact Im not sure I quite understood it, but, Im curious to see your game(s). Are you talking about online role playing games? Is this for a low-technology future or are there robots and computers all over the place?
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 793617
Re: Lexicon Building
Next: dirk (or any similarly long-bladed dagger) Poswa: pippi sharp, curved dagger or knife. Apparently from a word that originally meant "sharp, curved claw". So, essentially, a pippi is a large single claw. widžop dagger, stabbing tool; sharp stick torn off a tree. Seems to be cognate to džupo "t...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:22 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 793617
Re: Lexicon Building
next: window Dnukta'u: skulintsuku [ˈsku.lin.ˌtsu.ku] "window" (lit. light-gate) Next word: pipe (as in a smoking pipe) Poswa: By itself, bae means "tube, tunnel, pipe". It is rarely used alone, however. A drain pipe is mumbae , a compound of mumbra "drain"(?) + bae , with some sound changes charac...
- Thu Apr 14, 2016 2:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Standard Average You
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12232
Re: Standard Average You
1) I have a very difficult time working with any conlang that has a phonology I don't like. I like labial consonants ("Bamba mumbebap pypembaba." is a sentence in my primary conlang, for example) and the vowel /a/. One might think that using a limited phonology would make sentences in my conlangs mu...
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:10 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 315629
Re: The dream thread
I know Im 80% of this thread now, but I really dont want it to die down. I think I dreamed I was on the ZBB and read that no matter how hard someone tries to make an a priori conlang, certain obvious associations of the author's native language will stick around, such as the word for "cold" beginnin...
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:56 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 315629
Re: The dream thread
: / I dreamt the light in my bedroom wouldnt turn off, and saw that it was loose wires. at first, flipping it to ON turned it off, but this soon stopped ..... it only worked once. then it stayed on. the wires looked like Ethernet wires. i wanted to sleep so i wasnt sure what to do. then a voice abov...