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- Tue May 14, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
sky, siima give, yaalu things (coll.), d'at myriad, yiseka nurture, wohade humankind, gaare have, own, possess, enna good, wot return, eeta die, t'aw Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka ha wohadetafa gaare. give-DAT-HAB-PAT.3.P.INAN sky things myriad COMP nuture-PASS-PAT.3.S.ANIM humankind Ennadinutha ga...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2434
- Views: 1481626
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- new, gani
COP-AGT.3.S.INAN PROX.S.INAN language-POSS.1.S new
This is my new language.
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
Demonstratives:
Note that there are no non-demonstrative independent 3rd person pronouns.
sg. | du. | pl. | |
prox. anim. | da | kit | ki |
prox. inan. | zo | gat | ga |
dist. anim. | dan | katan | kan |
dist. inan. | zon | gotan | gon |
Note that there are no non-demonstrative independent 3rd person pronouns.
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2434
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
equals, copula, ta language variety, fad'a to bore, qham bad, yoh to mean, wanni just, merely, sun Wanniziyetha sun ha qhamaniziye fad'a ha taziye yoh. mean-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES-NEG merely COMP bore-APSS-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES language COMP COP-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES bad Just because a language is boring does n...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
Here are some nominalizers: agent, instrument: after a vowel, add - k and shorten the vowel if long, after a consonant, add - uk patient: after a vowel, add - gyi and shorten the vowel if long, after a consonant, add - yi place, after a vowel, add - hwa and shorten the vowel if long, after a consona...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
Another example:
eat-LOC-AGT.1.S some pizza-GEN moment.ago
I just ate some pizza
- a moment ago: cola
- pizza: ficca
- a moderate amount: aqwa
eat-LOC-AGT.1.S some pizza-GEN moment.ago
I just ate some pizza
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
Here is another example: burn (intr.): ruuh house: q'oma lightning: tik'aa complementizer: ha when (lit. time): fera hit (trans.): gich Ruuhraatac'a q'omahi fera hat gich tik'aa. burn-CAUS-PASS-LOC house-POSS.1+2.P time COMP.GEN hit lightning Our house burned when it was hit by lightning.
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
This language makes heavy use of relational nouns, which are typically also body parts, combined with applicatives. Here are some examples: above (lit hair): niiha top (lit. head): qot front (lit. breast): zet'a middle (lit. stomach): goole back (lit. back): yoxa bottom (lit. buttocks): fakha below ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 446957
Re: English questions
I am in complete agreement here with the above.
- Tue May 14, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
I should note that this language also exhibits fluid-intransitivity for a subset of verbs (i.e. those that are lexically intransitive, as opposed to lexically transitive verbs which must take antipassive or passive marking to reduce their valency).
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
Re: A scratchpad
An example sentence
eat-PAT.3.P.ANIM-INV goat.COLL-ACC herder-GEN tiger
The herder's goats were eaten by the tiger.
- herder: xaala
- goat (collective): nitku
- tiger: saha
- eat: yoori
eat-PAT.3.P.ANIM-INV goat.COLL-ACC herder-GEN tiger
The herder's goats were eaten by the tiger.
- Tue May 14, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A scratchpad
- Replies: 9
- Views: 64
A scratchpad
I figured I would play around some with a conlang that I have not yet named, so here goes. Provisional phonology /m n/ <m n> /b d dz/ <b d j> /ɓ ɗ/ <b' d'> /t ts k q/ <t c k q> /tʰ tsʰ kʰ qʰ/ <th ch kh qh> /tʼ tsʼ kʼ qʼ/ <t' c' k' q'> /f s x χ/ <f s h x> /z ɣ/ <z g> /ɾ l/ <r l> /w j/ <w y> /i ɛ a ɔ ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: War in the Middle East, again
- Replies: 433
- Views: 74438
Re: War in the Middle East, again
As for the other point, about who is indigenous... I think you might be missing the point. This is in direct response to claims that either Jews are white Europeans or Khazars or whatever -- and to claims that there's no such thing as Palestinians, that they're Jordanians or Egyptians or whatnot. O...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 446957
Re: English questions
This seems to actually be an area where my own dialect is syntactically distinct from Standard English, as when approximating Standard English I would never say anything resembling either version of mine, but rather would say: I would have never gotten my system cryptolocked if I had not downloaded...
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
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- Tue May 14, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 731
- Views: 137232
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Calling anyone who is right of social democrats "fascist" really dilutes the meaning of the word and renders it meaningless. Just because one does not agree with all of Biden's foreign policy positions does not make him a "fascist". Likewise, referring to both Biden and Trump as ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 446957
Re: English questions
Other fun in this sort of department are things like: I'd've never've gotten my box cryptolocked if I hadn't've downloaded that "antivirus" program from that site. To me, this feels almost like aspectual agreement! It doesn’t work in my dialect, though: it feels very much like a feature o...
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 446957
Re: English questions
It seems on my examples above that -'ve is no longer equivalent to the expanded have.
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1396
- Views: 446957
Re: English questions
Other fun in this sort of department are things like: I'd've never've gotten my box cryptolocked if I hadn't've downloaded that "antivirus" program from that site. However, it doesn't quite work if expanded: ? I would have never have gotten my box cryptolocked if I had not have downloaded ...