Zompist Bboard Again

Sorry to briefly hijack the thread... That's really interesting about noun incorporation, bbbosborne and Zaarin, I'll have to look into that more, it's really relevant to some things I'm trying to work out. Marianne Mithun has some excellent writings on polysynthesis, noun incorporation, and variou...

nominal morphology nouns can be indefinite or definite, with one of 3 genders: animate, inanimate, abstract. gender is assigned semantically the pronominal inflections seen in verbal morphology have singular, dual, and plural forms. other nouns can have a trial number suffix. articles are particles...

Now this is something Consonants m n̻ k͡p g͡b q͡p ɢ͡b p b t̻ d̻ t͡s̻ d͡z̻ k g kʷ q ɢ θ ð s̻ z̻ h l̻ w Vowels i u e o ɑ Syllable Structure (C1)V(C2) C1: a consonant V: a vowel C2: a sonorant other than /l̻/; i.e. one of /m n̻ h w/ Allophony Nasals [m n̻] persistently become nasals and assimilate in ...

morphosyntax there are 3 genders: animate, inanimate, and abstract verbs change according to these genders and transitivity verb gender is determined by the subject's gender eskabaskan is also a split-ergative language: animates receive nom/acc alignment, and sentences have SVO order abstracts and ...

yes, there is an example in the ALC:
Gii-bi-mdaaswi-shi-niizhdaabaan'gizwag
past-come-ten-and-two-be.carload-3p
they came in 12 carloads

hello everyone eskabaskan is my conlang that draws from a lot of eskimo-aleut and athabaskan languages verb derivation verbs have a choice of an oblique argument intransitive verbs intransitive verbs have a 4-slot derivation template (referred to as the stem): I PREVERB - II ACTION - III OBJECT/QUAL...

ok thanks guys

no really can someone please tell me what a scratchpad is

missals wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:43 pm I would think you could get P' from sP extremely simply, just by sP > hP > PP > P'

I mean, I think hP > PP is plausible. It could go hP > ʔP > PP, and that would be plausible for sure, right?

yea, PP is literally ʔP.

itajja na jiraaci ki mutaañi titaika, hau wai miwwa itajja be.possible DS words DET fall broken, 1s TOP NEG.IMPRF be.possible The language might break, I won't sapi, onyu cafa'ukutyon aandalo bonaandama'aba. PM be word-PL-that.PL life conlanger-POSS Now that is the life of a conlanger.

what is a scratchpad??

gaps in plosives are most likely to be voiceless labials (as said above, in arabic) or voiced velars (finnish) or even uvulars.

/ⁿzˤᴺɢiᴺɢ/ [nˤzˤɢiᴺq] z'xix /p pˤ t tˤ tʃ tʃˤ k q ʔ/ p p' t t' c c' k q ʔ /ᵐb ᵐbˤ ⁿd ⁿdˤ ⁿdʒ ⁿdʒˤ ᵑg ᴺɢ/ b b' d d' j j' g x /f fˤ s sˤ ʃ x h/ f f' s s' š h h' /ⁿz ⁿzˤ ᵑɣ ᴺʁ/ z z' ɣ y /m mˤ n nˤ/ m m' n n' /r rˤ l lˤ/ r r' l l' geminated consonants are doubled /i u e o ɛ ɔ æ ɑ/ i u e o ê ô æ a /aɪ aʊ...

/ãwlisjãw/ ãwlisjãw /p b t d k g/ p b t d k g /ʈ͡ʂ ɖ͡ʐ/ c jj /f v s z ʂ ʐ χ ʁ h ɦ/ f v s z sh zh kh r h hh /m n/ m n /l j w/ l j w /i u e ə o a/ i u e y o a /ej oj aj ew ow aw/ ej oj aj ew ow aw /ĩ ũ ẽ õ ã/ ĩ ũ ẽ õ ã /ẽj õj ãj ẽw õw ãw/ ẽj õj ãj ẽw õw ãw /otʁuː ajət ĩ ʁej/ | /leːt sĩ fẽws/ otruu ajy...

Risla wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:30 am Ojibwe has an abundance of excessively long agreement affixes.

some of those are made from 2-3 other morphemes tho, such as theme or inverse-markings, and plus the endings are polypersonal.

Remember that passive voice transitive is only used to make requests! :D Do we actually hear any spoken Cardassian? I only recall personal/place names and names of specific items like ramok sauce, kanar, etc. nah I used the memory beta wiki for cardassian, but the small tidbits of items/names that ...

Zaarin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:47 pm Bajor's 26-hour day was one of the little details I appreciated about DS9. Shame that the Bajoran language was just gibberish.

i've been drafting star trek languages occasionally based on what's "spoken" in the episodes. cardassian and dominionese are in the works

pretty decent; i'd add a /k/ but that's just personal perference.
one thing i'd like to know: can you hear the difference between /e/ and /eɪ/?

/p b t d c ɟ k g/ p b t d c j k g /f s ɕ x/ f s š x /m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ñ ŋ /l ʎ r j/ l ʎ r y /a ɛ ʌ ɔ e ə o i ɨ u/ a ɛ ë ɔ ə o i ɨ u /a aˑ aː/ a a. a: /aʰ aʔ/ ah a' /¹a ²a ³a ⁴a/ á aa aaa aaaa (tone 1 ë gets a double acute accent) Tones: 1 - high 2 - short pharyngealized high rising-falling 3 - long high...

Ars Lande wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:15 pm /g/ without /k/ is unusual as well.

Uhhh he has a /k/...?