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- Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pazmat
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15921
Re: Pazmat
(Please correct me, if I am wrong somewhere.) So, for intransitive verbs: · the case A (so-called nominative) is used as a subject with, say, type I · the case B (sc. absolutive) is used as a subject with, say, type II And, for transitive verbs: · the case A is also an agent for transitive verbs (bo...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pazmat
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15921
Re: Pazmat
Wir thiya. [1.SG.ERG see-INFIN] "I am seen" I is patient here (it undergoes the action; except if the construction is valid only for the verb to see and not the default passive construction). Ergative is not a case of patient. Gjmcri vanzja. [woman-ABS cook-PST-3.SGF] "The woman cooked." The same. ...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pazmat
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15921
Re: Pazmat
Okay, Chagen, crap. Shit, you really need, fuck, to read your posts, Jesus, before you send them, perkele. --- But seriously, that's nothing personal. Everyone makes mistakes. You miswrote several things, so we weren't able to understand them properly. If you were paying more attention, there wouldn...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:41 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Question - Languages with inconsistent spelling systems?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 15735
Re: Question - Languages with inconsistent spelling systems?
And sometimes it remains unmarked: wir, lesen &c.German orthography. Sometimes vowel + ‹h› for long vowel, sometimes double vowel and sometimes other digraphs, such as ‹ie› for long /i/.
Also, final /o:/ is written as ‹ow› in some names.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:58 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other langs
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8532
Re: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other lang
Similarly, in Polish it's indyk / indor.And in Turkish, it's a hindi.
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 323101
Re: Creativity of the day
And now I regret I have no blog.
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499712
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Feles: I'll echo Drydic's comments about labiodental stops and nasals. Also the transcription of <fd ft fz fs fn> for dentals is really weird and not at all intuitive. Unless this is meant as a transcription of the native writing system and looks that way for historical reasons, my feeling would be...
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: 24-hour speedlanging challenge
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9592
Re: 24-hour speedlanging challenge
Some stuff I made for the original challenge: Phonology /m n p t ʔ ɸ h ɾ/ <m n p t * f h r> /i e ɛ a u o ɔ/ <i e è a u o ò> (C)V(h) Stress on the first closed syllable, when none in a word, then initial. Allophony and orthography /i e ɛ/ have epenthetic [j] syllable initially, written <y> /u o ɔ/ ha...
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499712
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
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/a ɛ ɔ e o i u/
<a ae ao e o i u>
/ai̯ au̯ ei̯ eu̯ oi̯ ou̯/
<ai au ei eu oi ou>
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499712
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Some simplish phonemies:
a. Telan 15+5
/m n/
/p t c k/
/b d g/
/s ç h/
/w l j/
/a e i o u/
b. Telan 13+4
/m n ŋ/
/p t c k/
/s ç h/
/w l j/
/e a i u/
c. *unnamed non-SAE*
/m n ŋ/
/t k q ʔ/
/b d/
/s h/
/w l j/
/a ɔ i u/
a. Telan 15+5
/m n/
/p t c k/
/b d g/
/s ç h/
/w l j/
/a e i o u/
b. Telan 13+4
/m n ŋ/
/p t c k/
/s ç h/
/w l j/
/e a i u/
c. *unnamed non-SAE*
/m n ŋ/
/t k q ʔ/
/b d/
/s h/
/w l j/
/a ɔ i u/
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 40740
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Ki con lamu, cel pe tade, cel pe maxo tade, 1SG here be, place REL PAST, place REL born PAST ki con cadal tade i con exo dede. 1SG here educate PAST and here decide stay Semu tade waxel node i hoxo ha-con, can PAST ride out and far from-here go tomu-cu ki dede wide cak pe dede. but despite-that 1SG...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 613673
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Which of these would be the most likely to happen?
a. /sp st sk/ into aspirates, later fricatives
or
b. /p t k/ into aspirates, later fricatives; /sp st sk/ into plain /p t k/
It may also be combined with /b bʰ/ > /b v/ vs. /v b/, giving even more possibilites.
a. /sp st sk/ into aspirates, later fricatives
or
b. /p t k/ into aspirates, later fricatives; /sp st sk/ into plain /p t k/
It may also be combined with /b bʰ/ > /b v/ vs. /v b/, giving even more possibilites.
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 166732
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Emyt 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] 2. Phonemic voicing [half mark if voicing is only part of the distinction] 3. Two and only two parallel series of phonemes at each POA...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:15 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: 24-hour speedlanging challenge
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9592
Re: 24-hour speedlanging challenge
I may be next.
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census
- Replies: 356
- Views: 72058
Re: ZBB Census
Hi to all!
Age bracket: 15-20
Gender: Male
Nationality: Polish
State/Province/Other Subdivision: Wielkopolskie
Occupation: Student
Native Language: Polish
Secondary Languages: English, learning French
Religion: Christian (Catholical)
Handedness: Right
Age bracket: 15-20
Gender: Male
Nationality: Polish
State/Province/Other Subdivision: Wielkopolskie
Occupation: Student
Native Language: Polish
Secondary Languages: English, learning French
Religion: Christian (Catholical)
Handedness: Right