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And a follow up question, how does Icelandic handle foreign names in media? If, for example, a non-Icelandic name should appear in the dative, but it doesn't fit into a pre-existing declension paradigm, how would it appear? Is the name modified to fit Icelandic nominal morphology, or is some other ...

I have never heard of such behavior... These are just my musings but I suppose its because a language's core arguments/grammatic relations are always to some degree tied to theta role. The subject always tends towards agent-like things or patient-like things, depending on weather the language is nom...

For the record, my conworld Calara has no magic.

Nae's conworld, described here https://sites.google.com/site/naeddyr/, has a different set of laws of physics than ours and is incredibly well done. One of my faves.

Nae, if you're still around – how is the Steamopera going? Any progress?

It is indeed a hole in the system that you can only use foreign names if one of the parents is foreign. People debate this all the time, hotly, whether name regulation is a viable thing in the 21st century. I don't have so much of a problem with it, but I think half-Icelandic children should be able...

BGMan wrote:isolating (too boring)

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Icelandic and English both have it. I know a text on it in Icelandic...

Say "hmm". That's a voiceless m followed by a voiced one. Practice until you can say it without the trailing voiced m. When you master that, repeat for other nasals.

I get a special kick out of Elkarîl and Kebreni. Out of the Eastern languages I like Ismaîn and Cuêzi the most.

Thought you guys might enjoy this:

http://planetplanet.net/2014/05/23/buil ... -together/

Bump.

There are only 320,000 of us Icelanders and although there is some immigration (about 50 people a year), we seem to have survived relatively well without too much inbreeding for the past 1100 odd years. We do have one indigenous genetic disease called Hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy that af...

If its OK, I'd like to claim C-10 for some water-lovin' golems.

The Drilldown suggests "Almean humans, for reasons rooted in their biology, are very attached to the water, and rarely live where they do not have daily access to water for bathing". The Verdurians solve this with the galináe. How do other nations do this?

Just as a tease, I want to say that this is the most detailed grammar I have ever (been part of) writ(ten/ing) in my life and I'm incredibly proud to have been a part of it. I can't wait to be able to show it publicly sometime later this year once the reconstruction relay is done. It will be very fu...

On a related note, I just want to point out that a lot of languages actually have an adversion to "affricate"-like clusters. Icelandic has s, and t, but ts is not a valid cluster in roots (though it does occur through morphology).

Thanks for checking in! Reminds me I need to post my updated Avrelang grammar.

Cedh

Nice. One little thing: imperatives are finite, not non-finite. They can head independent clauses, whereas infinitives are deranked and thus non-finite.

Yeah, nowadays I *start* with syntax more or less. Syntax affects prosody which affects phonology.

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Do you think Verdurians (or others) may take up serious archeology at some point?

In Icelandic only stressed vowels can be long, so klæði has long æ /'klæ:ðı/ but afklæða has short æ /'afklæða/. I think Faroese is the same although I'm not sure.

I'm pretty sure this is a very old variation in Germanic languages. Icelandic þú becomes - ðu (or - du or - tu ) when cliticized and pronouns þeir, þær, þau, það etc. all become voiced intervocalically. Icelandic is only marginally analyzed as even having phonemic distinction between /þ/ and /ð/. Th...

I'm just seeing this now. Glad this sparked some discussion! I myself question if the five categories are all. I find the names a bit confusing and I can never remember which is which with achievements and accomplishments. Perhaps getting rid of those five categories is better and to simply use [±te...

Astraios wrote:

vec wrote:Faroese: Afklæða ['aʋkʰlεaja]

I think.

I don't think glide insertion happens between æ and a but I might be wrong. It also depends on whether Faroese makes the æ long or not. Icelandic doesn't.