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- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Did Latin go extinct, or did it become the various Romance language? And if it's the former, how many other languages should be counted as extinct, despite having surviving modern varieties? Lol, I was about to write almost the exact same when reading abahot's post :). For me, the answer would be t...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064194
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
But do we measure diversity by the "stock" or by the language? Is an area less diverse when it's languages have diverged, say, 4000 years ago but there's 100 languages now, than the same area that has 10 languages that diverged over 6000 years ago? Good point. Of course, 100 languages div...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064194
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I am no expert on this, but I did spend some thought on the linguistic diversity of prehistoric Europe. In precolonial North America, which is perhaps best comparable to Mesolithic Europe, linguistic diversity (which is perhaps better measured in number of stocks , by which I mean language families ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 15028974
Re: Venting thread
By now, I see this in a cooler way. There are problems with the job, but there may be a way to solve them. On Tuesday, I have a meeting with my superior and my social advisor, and perhaps we'll find a way to carry on. I want to keep this job, and I am very confident that my superior wants to keep m...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 15028974
Re: Venting thread
That really does suck. By now, I see this in a cooler way. There are problems with the job, but there may be a way to solve them. On Tuesday, I have a meeting with my superior and my social advisor, and perhaps we'll find a way to carry on. I want to keep this job, and I am very confident that my s...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084100
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
All that being said, what are people's thoughts on the stop system of PIE? Personally, I think it's likely that the glottalic viewpoint was true at some point in pre-Proto-Indo-European history (which would account for things like the absence of *b), but then evolved into the traditionally reconstr...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084100
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
In my personal opinion, the "typological universals" are distributions of various stop consonants does not really have as much bearing on PIE phonology as people tend to assume. Such "universals" are found to be false all the time (like Northwest Mekeo and the idea of all langua...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 15028974
Re: Venting thread
My new job, barely started, has already turned sour. The archive I have been asked to took after has turned out to be a terrible mess which requires years of work that goes far beyond my qualification. I am simply the wrong man for it. Ugh, that sucks. That really does suck. By now, I see this in a...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:10 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 15028974
Re: Venting thread
My new job, barely started, has already turned sour. The archive I have been asked to took after has turned out to be a terrible mess which requires years of work that goes far beyond my qualification. I am simply the wrong man for it.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 394091
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Yes. This language has always reminded me of Hungarian, and its Romance neighbour Telemor of Rumanian.doctor shark wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:21 am Indeed. I was more inspired by Hungarian than anything when I first came up with Ilian... uh, almost fourteen years ago? (I feel old.)
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 88
- Views: 70064
Re: Resources Thread
I would like to share a project of mine: palasimi . It's a website with graphs of colexified concepts, similar to those in CLICS and A Conlanger's Thesaurus. It doesn't quite have as much linguistic information as CLICS, but every concept in palasimi is annotated with a short description, which I h...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 15028974
Re: Venting thread
My condolences, too.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064194
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
But we do-- we can see the Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and other families taking over huge territories over recorded history, and what we know of those areas from say 5000 years ago is that there were more families there. Where Europe is now almost entirely IE, and the Middle East is almost entire...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: German Politics Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6895
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 394091
Re: What have you accomplished today?
The bottom line is Verdurian, right?
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 394091
Re: What have you accomplished today?
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2852416
Re: Conlang Random Thread
[ɑ] and [ɒ] - two vowels that were dangerously close to each other Didn't they have their cannonical values then? Because if so, it's just a rounding distinction? (And since in NAE [ɒ] > [ɑ], I would guess neither of them is unstable in and of itself?) Well, it's anyone's guess. There are reasons t...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2852416
Re: Conlang Random Thread
And also PIE */e/. I'd say that *e was [æ], *a was [ɑ] and *o was [ɒ] at least in Early PIE, though they may have drifted towards more "canonical" qualities later. But that would make a vowel system with all low vowels, which is ridiculous. Only if you insist on there being a system with ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2852416
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Splitting /ə/ info [ə] and [a] sounds like a good idea to me; a system without any low vowels seems unstable IMO (despite the reconstructions of PIE with /e/ and /o/). PIE /o/ was probably low. And also PIE */e/. I'd say that *e was [æ], *a was [ɑ] and *o was [ɒ] at least in Early PIE, though they ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almeomusica
- Replies: 142
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