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by MIGUELbM
17 Oct 2015 15:36
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How to design your own script
Replies: 88
Views: 102163

Re: How to design your own script

I have not figured out how to do right-to-left fonts, but apparently you just overlay your font over arabic or hebrew letters. I did it, didn't work. The problem with right-left or top-bottom fonts is not really the font itself, but the software on which you write with the font, if the software doe...
by MIGUELbM
17 Oct 2015 04:00
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How to design your own script
Replies: 88
Views: 102163

Re: How to design your own script

I have not figured out how to do right-to-left fonts, but apparently you just overlay your font over arabic or hebrew letters. I did it, didn't work. The problem with right-left or top-bottom fonts is not really the font itself, but the software on which you write with the font, if the software doe...
by MIGUELbM
17 Oct 2015 00:14
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How to design your own script
Replies: 88
Views: 102163

Re: How to design your own script

Could someone include in this thread how to make a font for their script? All I can do with mine now is write it (and often badly) with a calligraphy pen. I don't actually have all the letters designed anyways though. That's a complicated and often tedious process. First you need to familiarize you...
by MIGUELbM
16 Oct 2015 16:59
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How to design your own script
Replies: 88
Views: 102163

Re: How to design your own script

I made a pdf version, do you mind if I share it? it's properly attributed to you of course.
by MIGUELbM
04 Aug 2014 21:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253910

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

It looks pretty nifty! Shouldn't the language name be written. As Rīagi, though, given your example? Have you considered having the two geminating/length marks be one descenders instead of being in-line? @Ahzoh: Yeah, I did not have an issue with that at all. I immediately saw they were diacritics ...
by MIGUELbM
04 Aug 2014 20:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253910

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

First version of the script for Riagi inspired by javanese and (very) loosely built upon the Rongorongo inscriptions

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by MIGUELbM
04 Aug 2014 20:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I have a doubt, should I consider the word "tomorrow" in "The sun will shine tomorrow" an adverb or a noun? Normally I would say an adverb but Riagi has a case for time, so I'm not sure what to do. If I treat it like an adverb then the case will become pretty much unused, but if...
by MIGUELbM
03 Aug 2014 04:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I have a doubt, should I consider the word "tomorrow" in "The sun will shine tomorrow" an adverb or a noun? Normally I would say an adverb but Riagi has a case for time, so I'm not sure what to do. If I treat it like an adverb then the case will become pretty much unused, but if ...
by MIGUELbM
02 Aug 2014 05:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
Replies: 2876
Views: 446999

Re: Yay or Nay?

What do you think of 'Reference markers'? Reference markers are verb-like copulas that can take an object and a referenced argument as their subject for the purpose of building subordinate clauses. But unlike verbs, they cannot be conjugated and their word structure is strictly VO with the subject i...
by MIGUELbM
02 Aug 2014 01:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631762

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Finished glossing 50 of the 218 syntax testing sentences for Riagi
http://linguifex.com/wiki/Riagi/Sample_sentences
by MIGUELbM
01 Aug 2014 20:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

How do you write the syntax for your conlangs? I find that most conlangs around either have a VERY simple syntax description or none at all.
by MIGUELbM
28 Jul 2014 20:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Riagi
Replies: 7
Views: 2020

Re: Riagi

DesEsseintes wrote:I like this language. I would love to see a sample text as the aesthetic looks promising.
That might take a while, I have a general idea of how the syntax works, but I have basically no lexicon yet
by MIGUELbM
28 Jul 2014 05:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Riagi
Replies: 7
Views: 2020

Re: Riagi

I like it. Like a slightly off-set Finno-Ugric language... ...but one question: What is the story with <s v>? Really, the only thing that "stands out" for explanation, IMO. Well, I'm nowhere near a linguist, but when I was researching Polynesian languages I noticed that Hawaiian has free ...
by MIGUELbM
27 Jul 2014 19:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Riagi
Replies: 7
Views: 2020

Riagi

Hey, I've been working on my conlang Riagi and would like some feedback
Everything I've got so far can be found on linguifex
by MIGUELbM
26 Jul 2014 05:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

loglorn wrote:Isn't one of the requisites to be considered a 'noun class' or a 'gender' system is to have something agree with it?
Yeah, that's the issue, I think that I'll just skip it. I can always make another language with a gender system as complex as I want.
by MIGUELbM
26 Jul 2014 04:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

When do you think it's a good idea to have genders in languages? For all I know, Riagi, my conlang, has no agreement between parts of speech, would a gender system have any purpose there? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any examples of gender systems having a real "purpose" in a ...
by MIGUELbM
26 Jul 2014 03:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

When do you think it's a good idea to have genders in languages?
For all I know, Riagi, my conlang, has no agreement between parts of speech, would a gender system have any purpose there?
by MIGUELbM
24 Jul 2014 22:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Are switch reference systems usable for nesting prepositions? No, I don't see how what are usually called switch-reference marking systems would be useful for nesting adpositions. But your method of nesting adpositions looks neat and cool (or whatever); maybe it shouldn't be called a switch-referen...
by MIGUELbM
24 Jul 2014 22:01
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Non-finite verbs
Replies: 7
Views: 2386

Re: Non-finite verbs

Wow, really great and clear answer, Thank you very much :D
by MIGUELbM
24 Jul 2014 17:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2044059

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Are switch reference systems usable for nesting prepositions? For example: INDF -tree- ABS be on.top DEF -house- NOM and- SAME be next.to DEF -river- NOM The house is on top of a tree next to the sea Where a non-canonical SR marker states that what is next to the sea is the tree (object), not the ho...