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- Fri Dec 08, 2017 3:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Ces Cuath scratchpad
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2192
Re: Ces Cuath scratchpad
Syllable structure, revised Still playing with the sound changes that derive this lang from the protolang of the family. Here's a revised version of the syllable structure. An onset can be: empty, for vowel-initial syllables any single consonant any NC cluster, where C is a consonant and N is a nas...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:41 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Ces Cuath scratchpad
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2192
Re: Ces Cuath scratchpad
Ah, yeah, could have been clearer about that. What I'm imagining is homorganic nasal-plus-C clusters, not "any nasal plus any C." So that includes same secondary articulation, and clusters always match for secondary articulation. My current thinking is that vowels' quality will only depend on their ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Ces Cuath scratchpad
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2192
Ces Cuath scratchpad
My main lang wanted a friend to borrow words from. Gonna bash some ideas together here. The vowel inventory is small and essentially vertical, with a three-way height distinction. The low vowel is IPA ja (spelled ia ) after a palatalized consonant, and IPA a (spelled a ) elsewhere. The mid vowel is ...
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Borrowing of noun class markers between languages
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3105
Re: Borrowing of noun class markers between languages
Anecdotally, I seem to remember a story about Swahili (?) borrowing Arabic kitaab "book" as kitabu, plural vitabu, where ki-/vi- is one of their regular noun class markers.
- Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Thoughts on nasals and sound changes in Nyango
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1932
Re: Thoughts on nasals and sound changes in Nyango
(I don't really have any idea if this is a realistic rate for those sound changes to happen at, but this sounds fascinating and I'd love to see where it goes.)
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Nēa thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2960
Re: Nēa thread
Yeah, it's LaTeX. Custom page layout using the memoir documentclass, Minion Pro for body text and Linux Biolinum for titles and IPA.
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:47 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Nēa thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2960
Re: Nēa thread
Now with a bit of inflectional morphology. It's sort of bizarro-Maya, with all hierarchical agreement all the time and some fun hairy interactions between affix shape and clitic placement.
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Risha Cuhbi grammar
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9403
Re: Risha Cuhbi grammar
(omg "retroflices" is lovely)
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
- Replies: 65
- Views: 17737
Re: Øynduyska - A Germanic Language
Oh dang, I like this a lot!
I'd be curious to know what the (internal or external) story is with <bh> and <bhv>.
I'd be curious to know what the (internal or external) story is with <bh> and <bhv>.
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 11:39 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Nēa thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2960
Re: Nēa thread
Can word-initial glottal-stop be distinguished from word-initial vowels? It looks like it can, but are there minimal pairs? Yup! I mean, I don't think I've got any minimal pairs in my lexicon yet ( ọ́mo 'wash' and ‘ọ́lo 'say' are close) but I do intend to. Are there any allophonic differences betwe...
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 6:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Nēa thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2960
Nēa thread
Looks like I've been gone for most of 7 years now (holy shit!) but I figured I'd poke my head in and share the link to a new conlang project I've started to post. It's just a phonology sketch so far. Tiny consonant inventory, minimal segmental allophony, and a tone system I'm pretty proud of: tone e...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:18 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Either, neither, nor and too
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2882
Re: Either, neither, nor and too
(Also — I'm pretty sure we said "me either" in Michigan when I was growing up in the 80s. Since then I switched to "me neither" at some point, and now I share the intuition that "me either" sounds 'incorrect'. So I'm guessing that the either/neither distinction is also carrying some sociolinguistic ...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Either, neither, nor and too
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2882
Re: Either, neither, nor and too
The interesting question here is not "Why is I neither ungrammatical?" — it's "Why are nor I and not I acceptable to some people?" The general pattern is for "I" to be ungrammatical in this sort of verbless answer. * I [n]either. * I too. * Also, I. * And I. * Even I. * Only I. etc... But I'm not su...
- Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Bouba-Kiki Effect - Language universal? Synesthesia?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2528
Re: The Bouba-Kiki Effect - Language universal? Synesthesia?
But you can easily come up with explanations having to do with MOA and sonority and labials being associated with round things, which is all perfectly sensible sound symbolism. They're also making use of the front-vowels-are-for-small-things thing, and I don't know what "ou" is here, but it's almos...
- Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:45 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: South Eresian (with a bit of grammar!)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 13356
Re: South Eresian (just phonology for now, rather unorganize
Why hello there, Mesoamerican Linguistic Area!
(This looks good. And, yeah, the allophony writeup was nice and clear to me. Post more when you've got it!)
(This looks good. And, yeah, the allophony writeup was nice and clear to me. Post more when you've got it!)
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language revival
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3804
I think one relevant factor in the success of Hebrew is that members of the Zionist movement were already deeply committed to "intentional culture." Some of them were observant Jews; many of the rest were hardcore commune-startin' socialists. Either way they were used to living outside the mainstrea...
- Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:23 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315017
A whole slew of texts in Eastern Algonquian languages, if you're into that sort of thing.
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: My MSc thesis: Semi-natural language processing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2436
Sounds like a cool project. As for your questions: it might help if you had a specific domain in mind. It wouldn't have to be a terribly complicated one. I mean, one of the classic examples of the rule-based AI you're talking about is Winograd's SHRDLU, and there the domain was a little toy world wi...
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:00 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Spelling standards and European history and whatnot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5111
So in a discussion I ran across elsewhere, some folks were claiming that Japanese orthography has an unusual amount of variation for such a widely-written modern language. Apparently there's a lot of disagreement as to what parts of a word should be written in kanji and what parts should be spelled ...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Spelling standards and European history and whatnot
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5111
Spelling standards and European history and whatnot
I've been thinking about the way English was spelled in the early modern era — 16th-18th centuries, maybe? It seems like there was a lot of orthographic variation, lots and lots of inconsistency in how you spell a given word. And it wasn't just a matter of illiteracy, or isolation between groups of ...
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:07 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: [Updated 6/18] Proto-Deithas grammar pdf (you better look)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13644
No, it's true — as much as I love LaTeX, its default page layout and its built-in fonts are ugly as sin. so can I make my own format template, define fonts, and whatnot ? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: You probably don't want to do most of this stuff yourself. The thing to do is to take advantage ...
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:25 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: [Updated 6/18] Proto-Deithas grammar pdf (you better look)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13644
- Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: [Updated 6/18] Proto-Deithas grammar pdf (you better look)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13644
- Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:52 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: [Updated 6/18] Proto-Deithas grammar pdf (you better look)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13644
- Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:56 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Diachronics of demonstratives
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12415
You know, I'll sometimes start a sentence fragment with a relative pronoun. (Which is admittedly a pretty colloquial thing to do, but I still do it.) And you could imagine that relative pronoun turning into a demonstrative over time. (After which, these parenthetical comments would stop sounding lik...