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- 21 May 2024 17:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 77
- Views: 6719
Re: SBäk e Dlor
Maybe I could solve the problem of relative clauses with absolute constructions. Everything can be a relative clause.
- 18 May 2024 01:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Minimal phonology Finnic
- Replies: 11
- Views: 347
Re: Minimal phonology Finnic
Why does sottatak have a geminated t?Eivuhekoi wrote: ↑16 May 2024 12:06Code: Select all
*soutadak soutaa sõudma sottatak *vottadak ottaa võtma hottadak
Hottadak has a d which you excluded.
Re: Xiwook
I think I'll abandon the Algonquian four-way transitivity/gender marking. Animate definite object marker on verbs could be like the definiteness marker on nouns. -' after a vowel -' before a final resonant -a after an obstruent sy' 'does it/him/her/them' sy'n 'to do it/him/her/them' -n could be the ...
Re: Xiwook
The morpheme -ko, I termed Volitional, derives from a word that means (more or less) 'to want'. (I have to think how it affects person paradigms. Are the volitional paradigms more adjective-like?) When it combines with Realis form, it expresses votionality. syko 'willingly does'. When it combines w...
- 15 May 2024 19:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 209
- Views: 89645
Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
Did I already mention my idea of a Finnic language with this vowel inventory. i ɨ u e o ä Length is contrastive. Starting from Finnish-ish y i u ø e o æ ɑ Short y, ø -> ɨ Long ø: -> ɨ: Long y: -> yi (as in Estonian), put interpreted as /ui/ Long ɑ: in non-initial syllables -> ɨ Genitive -n lengthen...
Re: Xiwook
First very tentative attempt for verb morphology The obligatory (inflectional) suffixes are 1) politeness 2) mood 3) volitionality 4) person They can still change. New members can also still join the paradigms. Now the three first ones, which I'm going to handle now, are bimary. 1) politeness Polite...
- 12 May 2024 10:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
- Replies: 209
- Views: 89645
- 10 May 2024 21:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164073
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
i i: ɨ ɨ: u u:
e e: o o:
æ: ä ɒ:
e e: o o:
æ: ä ɒ:
- 08 May 2024 07:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1770
- Views: 372642
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm (re)making Dlor conjunctions.
Is there a theory/list of some kind of semantic primes of possible conjunctions?
Is there a theory/list of some kind of semantic primes of possible conjunctions?
- 07 May 2024 20:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 911
- Views: 216425
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
How about crossing marked nominative alignment with split ergativity? Let's say the split is based on animacy. Animate subjects and inanimate objects of transitive verbs would be marked with the direct (?) case. Wece-sung tuba-sung diku. woman-DIR stone-DIR admire. The woman admires the stone. Both...
- 06 May 2024 08:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164073
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
*b *d *g *p *t *k *s *h *w *j *m *n *k is palatised before front vowels *b *d *g do not contrast with their voiceless counterparts initially and sometimes alternate with them in inflection. They are reflexed as nasals or approximants in all known descendants. *i *u *e *o *a Any vowel can be long ma...
- 06 May 2024 08:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Teka: New Romance conlang
- Replies: 74
- Views: 9004
Re: Teka: New Romance conlang
Damn how cruel the critique has been. Why can't people just be quiet if they think someone's project is nonsense.
- 06 May 2024 08:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164073
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
A lang that tries to be easy but still interesting, some inspiration from the Indonesian language. p t k b d g s h z ɦ m n ŋ l ɹ j w i ɨ u e o ä Syllable structure (C 1 )(C 2 )V(C 3 ) C 1 Any consonant but C 2 C 2 A semivowel ɹ j w C 3 {l n} Allophony and constraints /i/ cannot follow labials. Velar...
Re: Xiwook
I could leap to adjectives for a while when the verbs are ripening. Adjectives agree the gender-number and case of their head. The gender-numbers are Animate (or common), Inanimate (or neuter), and Plural (or collective). The markers of gender-numbers are Anim. -Ø or -k Inanim -t Plural -il This is ...
- 02 May 2024 19:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: What have you been reading lately? (linguistic ed.)
- Replies: 57
- Views: 83932
Re: What have you been reading lately? (linguistic ed.)
I found a blog about Proto-Algonquian https://miidashgeget.wordpress.com/2022 ... ian-verbs/
- 01 May 2024 09:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164073
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Something inspired by Finnic languages Stressed syllables (primary stress on the first syllable and secondary stress on every odd syllable) y i ɨ u ø e o æ ɑ (They can also lengthen.) Unstressed syllables (every even) y~u i~ɨ æ~ɑ (Cannot lengthen.) The allophone is chosen based on backness of the pr...
- 28 Apr 2024 15:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164073
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Something inspired by Mongolic. p t tˠ t͡ɕ t͡ʃˠ k b d dˠ d͡ʑ d͡ʒˠ m n nˠ ŋ s sˠ ɕ ʃˠ h~ɣ ɬ ɬˠ l lˠ j Velarization is contrastive before front vowels. Postalveolar-palatal affricates and sibilants also contrast before back vowels. Clusters of two consonants could appear frequently. Maybe Georgian-sty...
- 28 Apr 2024 09:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum [comments encouraged!]
- Replies: 149
- Views: 7854
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Telicity is only marked on transitive verbs. The following table describes the affixes used for different forms. You could be interested in control vs. noncontrol forms in some native American languages. One emphasizes the subject +agentive +volitional but maybe failed One emphasizes the object +co...
- 28 Apr 2024 09:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164073