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- Mon Feb 11, 2019 5:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Salvian Thread: Hieroglyphs
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22318
Re: Salvian Thread: Family and Phonology
The second, the Hapālausun, linked the languages of the Five--representing what would become the prestige dialects of the five regions of the Salvian Peninsula--together and made it so that all parties who spoke those languages and understood the contract would understand the other--and their desce...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:47 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Pretistelen Mega-Project
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3936
Re: Pretistelen Mega-Project
I like this, but wow are the verbs highly inflected - Ancient Greek but worse! Very well set out too. I wonder if the necessitive mood is ripe for merger with the subjunctive if the only difference is vowel length?
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:22 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs
- Replies: 584
- Views: 519522
Re: If natlangs were conlangs
Also they do a terrible job at making their characters actually distinct from each other, like in one of the phonemic systems has sa, chi and ki be distinguished from each other by being mirror-images or plus an extra stroke, and in the other their shi and tsu syllables are only distinguished by th...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: ZBB Census 2018
- Replies: 89
- Views: 132764
Re: ZBB Census 2018
Basics Username: evmdbm Birthplace: Hexham, England Place of residence: Leeds Identity Gender: Male Measurements Age and date of birth: 43 Languages (including level of fluency!) Native language(s): English Other languages: French, German, Spanish, Latin (intermediate); Russian, Japanese (beginners)...
- Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Telpahké: the thread - Verbal Morphology
- Replies: 76
- Views: 75207
Re: Telpahké: the thread - Transitivity and voice assignment
I think I have this - just about, although since it's alien to every language I've ever learnt I'm not sure. I'm also not sure unergative and unaccusative help as terms. If it needs to be consciously done, surely it's ergative (work is being done, unergative suggests the opposite) but that is nabbed...
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Why do some conquerors replace the language and some not?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7084
Re: Why do some conquerors replace the language and some not?
Not much to add, but there's a very good book called Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler if you want to know more, explaining what makes a "prestige" language.
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:23 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The most difficult things about conlanging
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15213
Re: The most difficult things about conlanging
If you do words as you need them or just a few at a time it must be easier.
I think it'll be the syntax and working out idiomatic constructions that aren't just copies of English or French or whatever
I think it'll be the syntax and working out idiomatic constructions that aren't just copies of English or French or whatever
- Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Would YOUR concountry join the European Union?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11178
Re: Would YOUR concountry join the European Union?
Maybe Since I'm positing a world with technology 2-300 years in advance of our own and on the verge of making the Alcubierre drive work (yes I know... but screw Einstein) the EU would get more out of the arrangement, but I suspect a global confederation is just round the corner. The main powers are ...
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 6:40 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Martian con-economics: Water as currency
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8985
Re: Martian con-economics: Water as currency
So you'd probably be importing services and exporting manufacturing? Raw materials would be relatively available, and you could be extremely polluting (because who cares), whereas with a small population and very high living costs, anything based on human labour is going to be expensive. Although o...
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tehemne mythology (meet the áhash!)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 25088
Re: Tehemne mythology (now with more drama)
Is the moral "Don't fuck up?"
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:06 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Telpahké: the thread - Verbal Morphology
- Replies: 76
- Views: 75207
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The Yonutian Language Family (Scratchpad, I guess?)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4493
Re: The Yonutian Language Family (Scratchpad, I guess?)
[ When an agent is lower on the animacy hierarchy than the patient, ergative marking of the agent is disallowed. In this scenario, special "inverse constructions" are employed, based on the topicality of the agent. If the agent is topical, the A=T (Agent=Topic) inverse construction is used...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Telpahké: the thread - Verbal Morphology
- Replies: 76
- Views: 75207
Re: Telpahké: the thread - Personal Pronouns
This really is my unattainable counsel of perfection! Having said that.... In the first and second persons, the personal pronouns of Telpahké are complex. As well as marking case and number, they grammaticalise several distinctions not found elsewhere in the language: politeness, gender and (in the ...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Advice on Sound Changes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4787
Re: Advice on Sound Changes
I guess the Nakhese would probably just assume trempa was feminine and decline it Acc trempu, Dat trempu, Gen trempem (or trempe once the -m is dropped) in the singular. I think my main concern once I started mucking around with the SCA was to create something naturalistic. As it stands there are no...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 7:20 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Advice on Sound Changes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4787
Advice on Sound Changes
If you have an inflected ur-conlang and you want to bring it on a few hundred years, do you guys just take the base citation version of a noun (say the nominative singular) and apply the sound changes you choose to that or do you apply the sound changes to all the different forms of the noun of whic...
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Telpahké: the thread - Verbal Morphology
- Replies: 76
- Views: 75207
Re: Telpahké: the thread - Nominal Morphology
Ah. All clear now. At some later point in a later post you'll have to tell us how topicalisation works then.
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Telpahké: the thread - Verbal Morphology
- Replies: 76
- Views: 75207
Re: Telpahké: the thread - Nominal Morphology
aruné would be accusative case, yes, so I concede the verb might not mark the number of accusative objects in accusative aligned sentences, but the verb might mark the number of the absolutive subject in those sentences. I think that runs up against the problem that if third party sentences are erga...
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Telpahké: the thread - Verbal Morphology
- Replies: 76
- Views: 75207
Re: Telpahké: the thread - Nominal Morphology
Supposing this psychotic break from reality were to continue and you saw a rat eating the coconuts; duly concerned, you might turn to your companions and say "kóreθ ehkaná in arunmá", informing them that a rat is eating the coconuts. They would again correct you to arún, as number is alre...
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:07 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 428
- Views: 384672
Re: Lexicon Building
Vedreki:
khem: canvas
inöqanun: to shelter
kheminöq canvas roof = tent
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khem: canvas
inöqanun: to shelter
kheminöq canvas roof = tent
Next: Television
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:58 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 428
- Views: 384672
Re: Lexicon Building
vedreki: dralnim (draleq = to hang; nim = leaf)
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