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Dw i'n ddi-waith yn swyddogol. Mae gen i fwy amser i ddysgu Cymraeg ac i adeiladu fy iaith wedi'i adeiladu! Dw i'n dechrau fy swydd newydd ym mis Ionawr. I am officially unemployed. I have more time to learn Welsh and build my conlang! I start my new job in January. 你是做什麽專業的啊？新公司也是同樣的行業嗎？ nǐ shì zu...

Sindarin Y sounds like /y/, which he borrowed from French <y> is /i j/ in /french. /y/ is <u>. No one said otherwise. You did. No I said that Tolkien borrowed /y/ from French. I didn't say that French writes /y/ as <y>. And this is known because the IPA didn't exist in Tolkien's day and he simply d...

Dw i'n ddi-waith yn swyddogol. Mae gen i fwy amser i ddysgu Cymraeg ac i adeiladu fy iaith wedi'i adeiladu! Dw i'n dechrau fy swydd newydd ym mis Ionawr.

I am officially unemployed. I have more time to learn Welsh and build my conlang! I start my new job in January.

mèþru wrote:<y> is /i j/ in /french. /y/ is <u>.

No one said otherwise.

Some from Quebric: Similar to English words a I, me birth heart con grain i the mast food menú small mé question particle my your nan end sel one tin to dip Similar to Welsh words ag with , by (as in done by someone ) caran friend dalon door e she, her gan the numeral 0; none ; no ; negator gleren b...

So was it a conscious decision to make a fluttery sounding language have such a brutish looking orthography? Half the words look like Klingon to me. For me, it's the opposite. It looks just like a stereotypical elvish fantasy conlang, one that has an appealing orthography but actually sounds boring...

din wrote:next: to fix, to repair

Quebric: quodië /kwɔdjɛ/ to fix, to repair

Next: comfortable

din wrote:next: to dip

Quebric: tin /tɪn/ to dip.

Next: to translate.

Next: obsession Quebric: chweren /xwɛrɛn/ obsession (masc. noun). Is one of few words where a verb has been derived from a noun: - chwerenioth /xwɛrɛnjɔθ/ to obsess (verb-noun). In the older language you'd have to say "An obsession is on me for X", which is still valid, but a verb, chwerenioth , ha...

Xerossu: if we want to say "next one" about a list of objects, people queue, or something like that, I can see some different way : iki hixi eina literally : here add one. so idea is "next" or, natarum meaning : new object in "monitored" group , and as verb "to focus on another unexamined object of...

The Cornish numbers can be found here with links to all the Celtic languages, even the extinct Cumbric and older forms of Welsh and Irish.

Yng wrote:what typos

Doesn't matter, I fixed it.

Whimemsz wrote:

Nesescosac wrote:just gonna drop this here

Thank you! I knew I'd seen a paper on this but could not for the life of me remember where.

It's probably a very good paper, but it has a few typos in within the first three pages

I retract that. I misread it due to being an over-tired fuckwit.

I can't find any sign of the English sheep-counting numbers of Brythonic origins in the file. But are these any more notable than numbers in any non-standard dialect of English/Anglic variety/whatever indigenous to Britain? So far, all there is there is English and Scots (and that too apparently on...

Why are there !s everywhere? The ! shows that the change is poorly or not at all attested in extant examples of Tolkien's writing, but Salo included them based off what he analysed in the history of Sindarin. Whether he's right or wrong to make these assumptions is up to the individual, but this is...

I guess in the conlanging world the most famous example of consonant mutations would be Tolkien's Sindarin, which according to David Salo are: Soft mutation t > d p > b k > g d > ð b > v g > (disappears) m > v nd > n mb > m ɬ > l (Salo incorrectly analyses Sindarin 'lh' as /hl/ and not /ɬ/) r̥ > r s...

HerljosScheindorf wrote:Next:
to reload a gun

The word for reload would be the same as refill:

Quebric: casglíned /kasglinɛd/ to refill
- cas- prefix, corresponding to English re-
- glíned verbal-noun to fill

NEXT: career

Another point is that the numbers labelled as common, std written under Breton are actually the modern Cornish numbers which don't even appear.

Since that paper was published (in 1924) scholarly opinion has moved far away from the Goidelic survival hypothesis. What do you mean by 'Goidelic survival hypothesis'? It sounds like a theory that some areas had remained Q-Celtic, rather than being Q-Celtic because of an invasion from Ireland. I'm...

I feel like just a voiced/voiceless is unlikely to be the consonant mutation. Welsh for example has a radical (base) form (e.g. /p t k b d g/), a soft form (e.g. /b d g v ð ∅/), a nasal form (e.g. /m̥ n̥ ŋ̊ m n ŋ/) and an aspirate form (e.g. /f θ x/). Generally, I would say that for a consonant mut...

Under Welsh there is listed a set for "Cardiganshire". After doing some asking around these are simply Irish numbers written using Welsh orthography and they're not used in Cardiganshire. They were used there around the 17C by Irish workers but everyone there today use the Welsh un - deg. Have you ...

Soap wrote:next: poison (ivy), that which causes itching

Quebric: gedhen retych /gɛðɛn rɛtəx/ poison ivy.
- gedhen ivy (feminine noun)
- gretych poison (masculine noun)

Next: to assassinate

Under Welsh there is listed a set for "Cardiganshire". After doing some asking around these are simply Irish numbers written using Welsh orthography and they're not used in Cardiganshire. They were used there around the 17C by Irish workers but everyone there today use the Welsh un - deg.

Welsh also has the forms dwy, tair and pedair for two, three and four, as well as deng for ten. I don't know if you want to include these.

The Welsh dialect survey (Cardiff, 2000) is actually a book I own and llyfr is one of the words it covers, so I had a gander. According to this, the distribution is: Monosyllabic /ɬᵻvr/ in the North-West and North-East. Bisyllabic /ɬᵻvr̩/ in the Midlands. Bisyllabic /ɬəvɪr̩/ (mostly in Ceredigion) ...