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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
though even here, there are cases where an element in some place names correlate with a salient feature of the named sites, such as *hal- in the names of some ancient Central European salt production sites which therefore probably meant 'salt' in whichever language it came from. Actually, no seriou...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 394191
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Good! I've always loved conlang families.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: RPG thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2590
Re: RPG thread
I am currently working on a universal RPG system called OURS . Of course, we have GURPS, which has been my favourite RPG system for many years, and OURS owes quite something to it, but I found some things I could improve and simplify, and moreover, I wanted something that could be included freely in...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2028
Re: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
We do actually have a North Germanic conlang with Old English influence - check out the Conlang Fluency Thread. Yes - Yorkish. Has anyone done something the other way around i.e. Old English with substantial Old Norse influence? Would be nice to see such a conlang! English as we know it already has...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2028
Re: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
Short answer: Nobody knows, as usual with such alternative histories. Longer answer: This may result in Old English gradually being replaced by a North Germanic language with a strong Old English substratum influence, which manifests in a large number of loanwords from Old English, perhaps including...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1707
Re: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
I travelled to southern Germany for the 1999 eclipse. I stayed with an uncle of mine who lived in the totality strip, but unfortunately the weather did not play ball - it was heavily clouded and raining. Later, I witnessed a partial eclipse where I observed what Travis B. has described. It was bizar...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The problem of "finding the right word"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3001
Re: The problem of "finding the right word"?
I know this all too well, which is a reason why I prefer doing a posteriori conlangs. Of course, the a-posteriori-ness has to make sense within the fictional setting: a language of Bronze Age Britain, for instance, may be (indeed, is IMHO likely to be) Indo-European, but an exolang is not.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Well, etymology is always guesswork and speculation as there is no sure way knowing where the word actually comes from, though when there is a word in a clearly related language that matches nicely in terms of the known sound correspondences, one can be quite certain that it is cognate. Beyond that,...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064311
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Hallo conlangers! I wish to share with you a thought of mine about how the High German sound shift came into being. This shift, which loosely resembles a second run of Grimm's Law but is actually quite different in detail, is generally considered to have originated in the south, in the area roughly ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716804
Re: Happy things thread!
I have a nice new computer!
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Settler colonialism in action
- Replies: 183
- Views: 5894
Re: Settler colonialism in action
Concurred in all points.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The frequently cited paper by Haak et al. from 2015, while not saying which language the Yamnaya people spoke, effectively sets a terminus post quem for PIE about 3000 BC, which speaks against Renfrew's Anatolian hypothesis. What regards the "Caucasian substratum", my idea that it actually...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
they were contributed by the AA language of the Transcaucasians. By the what ‽ Geneticists have found out that the Yamanya people who probably spoke PIE emerged from the mixture of two populations, one related to the probable speakers of Proto-Uralic, the other from south of the Caucasus. My idea i...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 909
- Views: 1084155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
I can't give you references since my PC has died and I am on my phone now, but the Nostraticist literature is full of such comparisons between IE and Afroasiatic. I may be mistaken, but I think I recall hearing it from somewhere rather more reputable - akin to the comparisons of PIE and AA words fo...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 450247
Re: English questions
It actually happened in some German dialects.Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:21 pm I could well imagine German [ç] and [ʃ] merging; a similar change seems to have happened at some point in Middle English.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2064311
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I think it is from the medieval tradition of the journeymanship where a bachelor would travel from town to town to work and improve his skills.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:24 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4706
Re: "Experiencer"
Grammars written by conlangers are usually easier to understand than grammars written by academic linguists because of just that: the conlangers have no background in theoretical linguistics and therefore use simpler terminology (though they sometimes misuse terminology). Rather, I suspect the more...