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- Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
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Re: Conlang Random Thread
Only monosyllabic morphemes and no inflection Honestly, I think it is unrealistic. Even Chinese has disyllabic morpheme, like 蝴蝶 (which goes back to Middle Chinese) and 马达. While no inflection is doable, I think you mean word modification based on context, and there is no language without derivation.
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:47 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064093
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
ʻAʻole hiki iaʻu ke ʻōlelo i ka mea e loaʻa ana... Sa i'n gallu siarad dim byd... Ní fhéadaim éinní a lobhairt... I ka nitts schwätze... No puc parlar res... I can't speak anything... kendikanipun tiyang ingkang saged ngagem 5 basa. ... とは五つ言辞を話せる人を言う Kata orang yang bisa 5 bahasa Said a person who...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:00 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
Re: Conlang Random Thread
If your aspirates behave like a cluster, I think it should be analyzed as a cluster. In Khmer, it's because the infix -um- would split the phoneme to /C/ and /h/, like t-um-hum If your language disallows cluster like khr or phl (English does), and there can only be a maximum of 2 consonants in the s...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:26 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4705
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- Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I'd romanize it as /ɐ ɑ ɪ ɨ ø̞ ɵ̞/ <a o i y e u>
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 823280
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Why are there parentheses around the "#" in the condition? whoops, that's originally (#,C). But I decided only to drop /i/ and /u/ at that environment. i e o > zero / C_# happened first, sometime around 600 AD perhaps. E.g. bonum bonī 'good (masc. acc.sg. and nom.pl.) > (with [ɔn] > [õn])...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4705
- Views: 2065329
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 823280
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
is a i u > 0 \ C_(#) realistic? I know that Japanese do drop /i/ and /u/ on similar environments. Also: Is it realistic that I consider all coda consonants not as single mora by themselves. but as a part of preceeding mora. Because I want to have a mora based tone language, but more like Navajo one,...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:54 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4705
- Views: 2065329
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
/ɢʁ/ is not really my favorite sound, though I admit it's interesting both because it stands out so much from the rest and because it shows somewhat of a parallel to the development of uvular R from /r/-like sounds in Europe. There is also similar development in Lampung and Anak Dalam. Similar deve...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Remarks on the English definite article
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1840
Re: Remarks on the English definite article
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I think that fixing someone's grammar is actually an exception to the rule, though.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:54 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064093
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Ketika kami punya anjing, saya jalan-jalan jauh lebih sering. I think that the second phrase should be "saya jauh lebih sering jalan-jalan". despite what the dictionary may say, I think "sering" is actually an auxiliary verb, not adverbs. Alternatively, you can nominalize the wo...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:12 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064093
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
僕は問題がある。どの言語は誰も話せますか?
I have a question. What language does anyone can speak?
(As you can see, I need help in both Japanese and English)
I have a question. What language does anyone can speak?
(As you can see, I need help in both Japanese and English)
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Development of numeral system
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3647
Re: Development of numeral system
It seems that the Chinese financial digit is based on homophony. 捌 is a variant character of 朳 that means to break open. It's a homophone of 八 even in Middle Chinese. 玖 means a black gemstone that is poorer than jade. It's also pronounced as 九 in Middle Chinese. 壹, 貳, 肆, 陸, and 拾 are also homophones...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I don’t know about how he would learn the language, but you may be interested in the curious case of Narcisse Pelletier . He was abandoned on the Cape York Peninsula in Australia and was found by the Uutaalnganu tribe. He learnt their language and belief system readily, and to such an extent that h...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sindarin Discussion Thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3351
Re: Sindarin Discussion Thread
I think that this should be in https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20. If it's restricted to conlang one made, then probably we should expand this thread to any popular conlang.
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I have a character named Kaahtkw'eid (which is actually an adopted name after he is teleported). For some reason, he is teleported to a plane (it's originally called Sakha, but I am going to change the name). People there are never exposed to Kaahtkw'eid's language. There is no schooling at any kind...
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Not in my dialect (words with different meanings)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 34775
Re: Not in my dialect (words with different meanings)
It reminds me of the joke about the difference between Indonesian language and Malaysian language (which despite the name, it's actually 2 dialects of the same language, Malay). Percuma berbual 30 minit Malaysian: Free talking for 30 minutes (about talking on telephone) Indonesian: It's futile to bo...
- Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
Re: Conlang Random Thread
http://fiatlingua.org/2017/03/
Why is David Peterson embarassed with the conlang. It seems fine, if not a bit too SAE.
Why is David Peterson embarassed with the conlang. It seems fine, if not a bit too SAE.
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853230
Re: Conlang Random Thread
A VP can also be a sentence fragment that answers a question: "What did you do today?" "Made a conlang." Does the behaviour of my relative/anaphoric infix <ess> indicate the presence of a VP? I can use it to omit the subject in following sentences leaving just the syntactic obje...