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by Cedh
Sun May 21, 2017 2:43 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Originally the idea was to add Category:Articles only to "finished" articles, in order to have a quick way to access what's canon. Since most of the wiki content has become fairly stable by now, and Special:AllPages can now visually distinguish between redirects and full pages, it's probably true th...
by Cedh
Thu May 18, 2017 12:19 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Frislander wrote:The original proto-NT grammar PDF link is now broken, and would rather the "more updated" version to be in a more accessible file format, preferably PDF.
Fixed.
by Cedh
Mon May 15, 2017 3:28 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Suggestion: we put the descendants of Proto-Muyan on the western penninsula, across the channel from where Rrób Tè Jĕhnò is on this map (see below). We posit that they had a formerly wider distribution further to the east, but that they were pushed back by Rompian speakers. [...] This arrangement g...
by Cedh
Sun May 14, 2017 4:05 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

About the Three Waves Theory: what is the current consensus on Ultimundic? And if Proto-Isles is not Ultimundic, then what languages are being referred to? In my opinion, Proto-Isles is Ultimundic. The alternative theory was put forward by Basilius at a time when no other language on Tuysáfa had be...
by Cedh
Sat May 06, 2017 5:52 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613866

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

Suppose syllable-initial obstruents can optionally be followed by /ʔ/ or /h/. If /Zʔ Zh/, where Z is a voiced obstruent, develop into a slack-stiff contrast /Z̬ Z̥/, then: Is it plausible for /Z/ not followed by /ʔ h/ to devoice? What can I do with /S Sʔ Sh/ (where S is a voiceless obstruent) besid...
by Cedh
Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:01 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
Replies: 469
Views: 135570

Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?

I discovered Audrey Fall recently, an instrumental post-rock band from Latvia.
by Cedh
Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:12 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to convince an ENG teacher that there aren't 6 Tenses
Replies: 48
Views: 11218

Re: How to convince an ENG teacher that there aren't 6 Tense

Looking at it from the outside, as a non-native speaker: Could it be that this is one of the questions that can't be answered anymore for more than a few varieties of English at the same time? After all, details of semantics and pragmatics tend to change the quickest when dialects diverge...
by Cedh
Thu Mar 30, 2017 1:13 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
Replies: 190
Views: 93250

Re: Bizarre Sound Changes

According to Mortensen, [ʔ] cannot have been an intermediate in Huishu because there was an independent coda /ʔ/ which was not affected by the change. He argues that the sequence was > [i̥ u̥] > [iç ux(ʷ)] > [icʰ ukʰ]; i.e. via vowel devoicing and fricatives, with the last step helped by the fact th...
by Cedh
Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:17 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
Replies: 190
Views: 93250

Re: Bizarre Sound Changes

A similar change is also attested in Huishu (Tangkhul, Sino-Tibetan), where *i *u in word-final open syllables became /ik uk/ [icʰ ukʰ]. Source: David R. Mortensen (2004), The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels in Huishu , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Societ...
by Cedh
Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:32 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

That hasn't been worked out in detail yet, I believe. Let's see: - By 0 YP, the Katapaki are probably the most advanced civilization in Tuysáfa in many regards. However, thedukeofnuke writes about "the lack of a real writing system" in their culture. - Deraighaw is said to be attested in a native wr...
by Cedh
Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:36 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Crosspost from the CBB because some of you may be interested in what I've just posted in that forum's conlang conversation thread, using Buruya Nzaysa: Vat dîyivavælet. Cîyivalai yecidiys palitínacfaun vit palanurvetan yireyʻi. [vɐt diˌɕiːvaˈvœlət | ˌkiɕiˈvaːlaɪ̯ ʃəˈkida̯iːs paliˈtiːnˌakaʊ̯n vɪ‿ˈpal...
by Cedh
Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:24 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Protolang Reconstruction Challenge (Akana)
Replies: 23
Views: 13663

Re: Protolang Reconstruction Challenge (Akana)

The protolanguage for this family is an actual conlang with grammar and lexicon, and it did serve as the basis for diachronically deriving all the daughterlanguages. It has been kept secret for the exact purpose of being reconstructed, and one of the major incentives of this game is to see to what e...
by Cedh
Fri Feb 24, 2017 3:29 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Protolang Reconstruction Challenge (Akana)
Replies: 23
Views: 13663

Re: Protolang Reconstruction Challenge (Akana)

There has been some interest in a challenge like this one over on the Conlang Mailing List, so I'm bumping this once again. Also, it's been almost exactly five years since the protolanguage for this family was finished and work on the daughterlanguages began, so... All the relevant information is up...
by Cedh
Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:58 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: "of hers a doll"
Replies: 10
Views: 4049

Re: "of hers a doll"

на човека къщата of man-DEF house-DEF the house of the man ~ the man his house Some colloquial varieties of German have something similar: dem Mann sein Haus DEF.DAT.MASC:SG man 3SG:MASC.POSS.NEUT:SG house to.the man his house It also works with pronominal possessors, but a bit differently: der ihr...
by Cedh
Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:18 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Is there a wordlist of Proto-Habeo floating around? All I see on the wiki is the Proto-Xoronic lexicon. I realized that the Anheshnalaks, over the course of their eastward migrations, could intersect and even live alongside speakers of Habeo languages. From them the Anheshnalaks would learn stories...
by Cedh
Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:01 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Munutuni: The Ugly Language
Replies: 34
Views: 10224

Re: Munutuni: The Ugly Language

Ha. This actually looks like a language I might like. Even the name caught my eye, until I realized where it came from. I am interested to see the grammar, since your least favorite features seem to line up a lot with my favorites. Then this should be very interesting indeed. I was kind of hoping s...
by Cedh
Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:24 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Looks great now! There are only a few very minor things I'd still like to suggest. Feel free to accept or dismiss any of these suggestions as you see fit: - I'm still not fully happy with the fact that the three characters E, Æ, and UƏ are derived from verbs, and thus from rather complex original id...
by Cedh
Tue Jan 17, 2017 6:49 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

-What if /b d g s š/ are written as variants of /p t k h w/ when they result from consonant mutation? Think Gaelic. Certainly a possibility. I like that idea a lot too. We could use turned or mirrored versions of the base letters (as with S~Z), the base letters plus a diacritic, or alternative syll...
by Cedh
Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:48 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

On another note, I've been working on a new Lukpanic dialect, for which the phonology is now public: O Ayōndui , spoken on the Yōndui islands off the southwestern corner of the Lukpanic Coast. The dialect is fairly innovative phonologically and exhibits several unique developments (e.g. palatalisati...
by Cedh
Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:42 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Nice! It looks a lot more historically plausible now. That said, a couple of glyph etymologies may still need additional work (see below), and there's also a more general point: I'm strongly in favor of having the Fáralo alphabet containing more glyphs than strictly necessary - firstly because that'...
by Cedh
Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

The most important part of my ideas can be summed up somewhat like this: - The Ndak syllabary was at one point planned to be somewhat defective, but it was never decided in what way exactly. Ideas included (a) no voicing distinction, (b) no prenasalisation distinction, (c) no labialisation distincti...
by Cedh
Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:23 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Yes, it looks nice! Good work! How would it have developed in-world though? If I understand correctly, the sound values are based directly on the Fáralo words for the concepts represented by the original Oryziform logograms? Because if that's the case, the Fáralo scribes that created this alphabet w...
by Cedh
Wed Dec 28, 2016 4:47 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Replies: 2538
Views: 881048

Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")

Hi dendana, welcome to Akana! I'm very pleased to see someone working on a descendant of my own language, and I like what you have so far. If you have any questions regarding the grammar of Buruya Nzaysa, don't hesitate to ask me! A couple of comments: It will be situated in the river valley north o...
by Cedh
Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:32 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Chadic Languages [resource request]
Replies: 3
Views: 2272

Re: Chadic Languages [resource request]

Gravina, R. 2014: The phonology of Proto-Central Chadic (PhD dissertation, University of Leiden)
by Cedh
Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:32 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Minimizing the noun-verb distinction? [split from Random Thread]
Replies: 67
Views: 20636

Re: Random Thread

I'm sure there's a language somewhere which does handle it's kinship system with a set of verbs like that described above, but I need to look further into that. Certain languages of Arnhem Land have "kinship verbs" - "X is mother to me;" "I am brother to Y" etc. They are interesting for several rea...