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- Sun Dec 27, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
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Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
Over the course of the "Ifsumé" period, the language would not, of course, remain static. We start with the following inventory: (Note: Some curly brackets used because putting i in square ones seems to be triggering lots of italicisation.) Nasal: /m n (ɴ)/ "m, n, n" Notes: [ɴ] a...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 10:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
Very good of you to fix it.
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
I have also produced a thing about verbs that goes into more depth. I'm not sure if making PDFs or typing out changes and things more directly is the better approach, however I'm finding things easier to structure in documents like this, however, and the fonts to which I have access can make all tho...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:48 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1210
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Re: Happy things thread!
Sometimes, doing nothing is positively glorious.
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027991
Re: Venting thread that is tentatively once again all-inclusive
Send him some virtual hugs from an Internet stranger. Perhaps the relationship can be salvaged at some point in the future, but should he not choose to pursue that route (and I wouldn't blame him — sometimes, you have to let people go), peace will come with time, though it will probably hurt a great...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
Trying to compile everything into a comprehensible format, I have a list of "lemmas" (I might be using the word overliberally) here, updated to match the revised sound changes.
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
this may have been done to distinguish between real plants and portrayals of them (this is culturally significant). I'd like to know more about this. :o Flowers (and a few other natural motifs) are extremely prevalent in the associated traditional art, though the distinction between "sa" ...
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Classical Saarvian Scratchpad
- Replies: 51
- Views: 26006
Re: Yet-Unnamed Language Scratchpad
Oh, well. Maybe post a few (and also give the language a name)?
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Some notes on Laqar
- Replies: 70
- Views: 32047
Re: Some notes on Laqar
. I do not really know even where to start to rework its morphology, and to be honest, I like its complexity, even though it is only realistic that it would be reanalyzed in later forms. Complexity can be resilient in some cases (I understand Welsh to be extremely fond of it); Spanish comes to mind...
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Classical Saarvian Scratchpad
- Replies: 51
- Views: 26006
Re: Yet-Unnamed Language Scratchpad
Do you have complicated, messy naturalistic etymologies for any of this? I love it when an inflection or a lemma has a story to tell if we only know where to look.
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:47 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2441
- Views: 1481784
Re: Conlang fluency thread
爾往人
Tomyori to!
[t̪o̞ᵝ.mᶣi̯ó̞ˑ.ɽɪ̀ t̪ó̞ᵝ]
You, too!
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
I haven't quite gotten my thoughts and notes into a form tidy enough to move on, but, given some discoveries I've made since the start, I've updated the initial post (all the original text is still there, simply some of it with strikethrough), and included a document for what I think might be more p...
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 10:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 447361
Re: English questions
Perhaps, but I was going on what I could see.
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:30 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1210
- Views: 716278
Re: Happy things thread!
Also Happy Christmas.
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:08 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 451206
Re: Random Thread
Years ago, I read somewhere that the Ukrainian folk song the tune is based on is so old that some believe it to be of prehistoric origin. That is very cool! I would have loved to post this over in the "What are you reading, watching, and listening to"-thread, but unfortunately, I couldn't...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 5:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2441
- Views: 1481784
Re: Conlang fluency thread
Unoa erahumen! Welcome! (lit. we receive you) Bal ngen sali nii nduy ndil nii daw! Nisiwe phikhel tlii tlaquf tii tlii: /bal ᵑɡən ˈsali niː ⁿduj ⁿdil niː daw ‖ niˈsiwə ˈpʰikʰəl t͡ɬiː ˈt͡ɬaʔuf tiː t͡ɬiː 1s POSS hope COP CMPZ 2s COP good! 2s=have pickle IND.PL accompany tea IND.PL I hope you are well...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Classical Saarvian Scratchpad
- Replies: 51
- Views: 26006
Re: Yet-Unnamed Language Scratchpad
The phonology isn't terribly interesting, but that's ok. The main divergences from the IPA are /b d g/ which are [β ð ɣ], except when immediately before a voiceless stop, in which case they devoice to [ɸ θ x]. The [ɸ] produced by this merges with original /f/ [ɸ]. I do find myself rather unsure of ...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Flintstoning and Jetsoning in Conworlding
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9189
Re: Flintstoning and Jetsoning in Conworlding
Most modern readers wouldn't catch this, but on the subject you're actually looking for — Ann Radcliffe likes to put fashionable things from her own time, like landscape-viewing and drinking coffee, into Continental Europe in the centuries that preceded here (one scene from Mysteries of Udolpho sho...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Tinasan, Ineshîmé, and other fantasy-Japonic curiosities
- Replies: 84
- Views: 61187
Re: A little dabbling in Japonic
Let us talk of verbs, those very wonderful things. I love a complex verbal paradigm, this being another reason I wanted a Japonic language. I am especially fond of the Classical Japanese shimo nidan conjugation, which has but one surviving member in the modern language, 得る「うる」 uru , (classically a m...