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- Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Affix combination in polysynthetic langs
- Replies: 6
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Re: Affix combination in polysynthetic langs
Wow, those allomorphs can be even more non-intuitive than I thought. Mithun's "Languages of Native North America" either doesn't highlight how crazy they get, or I missed the examples.
- Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Affix combination in polysynthetic langs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3254
Re: Affix combination in polysynthetic langs
Thanks CatDoom, that exactly what I needed. It was feeling like I was making some sort of kitchensink-newb-lang because of the craziness of the rules, but that really is the only way to explain these changes, and they really are that non-intuitive.
- Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Affix combination in polysynthetic langs
- Replies: 6
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Affix combination in polysynthetic langs
So, looking at Navajo, Koyukon, and similarly complex polysythetic langs, a lot of the affixes combine together in crazy ways. You might have any number of changes, from metathesis to suppletion. It looks like you sort of have to define some morphophonological rules (like metathesis), but in other p...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Five-point tactile alphabet for input/output
- Replies: 17
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Re: Five-point tactile alphabet for input/output
Very cool, but won't work. When you hold your fingers stuff to hit the thumb button, your other fingers will activate the other buttons.
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
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Re: Lexicon Building
Taalen:
veus: ni-IN. deficiency, lack (< -veu- to lack, miss < *VIV lack)
Next:
locust, grasshopper
veus: ni-IN. deficiency, lack (< -veu- to lack, miss < *VIV lack)
Next:
locust, grasshopper
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 794538
Re: Lexicon Building
Next:
forgetful, brain dead, not providing what's supposed to be provided
forgetful, brain dead, not providing what's supposed to be provided
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
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Re: Lexicon Building
Taalen:
shu'n /Su.n=/ na-IN. star
(Water class (incohesive) animate noun)
Next:
cup, mug, glass, dish for drinking from
shu'n /Su.n=/ na-IN. star
(Water class (incohesive) animate noun)
Next:
cup, mug, glass, dish for drinking from
- Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 794538
Re: Lexicon Building
Taalen:
pyyva /ˈpʌ̃ːˌβa/ to emit; to eject spores (external origin: < puffball, internal: <*PYV, eject, puff out in a cloud; smolder)
pyuse /ˈpʌ̃.uˌse/ incense
Next:
resin, gum, pine sap
pyyva /ˈpʌ̃ːˌβa/ to emit; to eject spores (external origin: < puffball, internal: <*PYV, eject, puff out in a cloud; smolder)
pyuse /ˈpʌ̃.uˌse/ incense
Next:
resin, gum, pine sap
- Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
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Re: Lexicon Building
Taalen: dytse /'dʌ̃.t͡se/: counter-clockwise, lit. against the shadow, < dam 'shadow' < *DAP + vatse, -uts 'against' < *VATs 'face' This is a stative verb (i.e. an adjective) which can be turned into a motion verb with standard valency/argument-changing processes. I just haven't quite figured out wh...
- Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:14 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 794538
Re: Lexicon Building
Taalen:
latse: spray of flowers, bouquet.
la'te: flower cluster or umbel (e.g. lilac, queen anne's lace)
jyse /jʌ̃.se/: bloom, single flower
Next:
to fart, pass gas, expel wind
latse: spray of flowers, bouquet.
la'te: flower cluster or umbel (e.g. lilac, queen anne's lace)
jyse /jʌ̃.se/: bloom, single flower
Next:
to fart, pass gas, expel wind
- Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 794538
Re: Lexicon Building
Finally! I made my way through all the past posts here, helping to build my root dictionary, and now I feel like I can contribute. Taalen: reise /'rej.se/ intuit, sense, feel (< *REJ, senses, especially magical) reisas : NA-IN. intuition, ESP. The noun is animate, as are most mental or emotional pro...
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 11:22 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
I think I understand you then, Izo. There are lots of things that are close, almost like what you want, but not EXACTLY what you want. Like, I'd really like to see a complete list of ALL PIE roots, but there will never be such a thing (and don't get me started on Pokorny).
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
One problem with uz-translations - a bunch of links are dead.
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
I already own that book. Not the comprehensive grammar I was hoping for, but...
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
Woot! Thanks guys!
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
I'm not necessarily opposed to getting a Cherokee or Lakhota grammar online - I just haven't found one. I haven't found a Finnish grammar online, either. I'm also looking for something fairly detailed - those 400 page type monsters, as opposed to the 100 pg. grammar summaries.
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:14 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
Proto-Uralic
Cherokee
Lakhota
Finnish
My own grammar of my own language
I know some of these are out there. But these are the ones I want to see and cant get for various reasons.
Cherokee
Lakhota
Finnish
My own grammar of my own language
I know some of these are out there. But these are the ones I want to see and cant get for various reasons.
- Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Which grammar would you like to see most?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9987
Re: Which grammar would you like to see most?
Oh, and I would see grammars of some Tolkienan tongues. Sindarin, Khuzdul and Adûnaic would be awesome. As it would be Westron, specially the Hobbit dialects of the North Farthing, Buckland and the Bree Land. And a Grammar of Primitve Elvish - Old Sindarin - Sindarin would be kickass. You mean, thi...
- Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Post Your Conlang's Inspiration
- Replies: 112
- Views: 54563
Re: Post your conlang's inspiration
Taalen was inspired by Old Irish, Cherokee, and Lakhota grammatically, and by Cherokee, Finnish, and Qenya phonetically.
- Sun May 29, 2011 5:39 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Revamping Calara
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3122
Re: Revamping Calara
My conworld is basically set in a world with something like thales, except on land instead of in the sea. The people live in the trees, with occasional foraging/hunting below. I haven't had any problem coming up with culture / civilization. Is it the sea that makes it difficult? I'm not sure how tho...
- Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:43 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 357486
D'oh! I still mess up on gradation sometimes. Well, rather more often than sometimes, but... :) But that's the dictionary form of the word, a loan-word on top of it. :? If there's somewhere in there where gradation may apply at any time, I will probably pick the wrong form. I know about closed syll...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 357486
Rakkauden anarkkia - Antti Tuisku (Yes, it's Finnish twink-pop. ew. :) ) [nitpick]Anarkia is with one K.[/nitpick] I liked that one song, Me istutettiin yhdessä puu, or some such. I was really surprised to know that it's sung by Antti Tuisku, I couldn't believe that song is sung by a guy! D'oh! I s...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 357486
I listen to a LOT of non-English music (it's my preferred genre, and my playlists are created based on language family - Scandinavian, French, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, etc.)). So what the LAST song I listened to is difficult to say. Some faves: Rakkauden anarkkia - Antti Tuisku (Yes, it's Finn...
- Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:34 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 287571
- Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:43 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 287571
Celestine, I'm sorry to say that trying to post the details on Proto-Celtic to Irish is an immense task. Celtic studies (my Masters) is complex, dense, and still essentially an old boys' network of classic philology. In addition to general dense and obscure writing that most texts contain, the sound...