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- 27 Jan 2017 07:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Is Naturalistic Conlanging a Coherent Idea?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4608
Is Naturalistic Conlanging a Coherent Idea?
(I apologize in advanced for the rambling on several different points, some of which are contradictory, but all can potentially lead to the same conclusion.) Well, the whole idea behind "naturalistic conlanging" is that conlanging is an art form. The problem with that is that any idea of &...
- 12 Jan 2017 10:09
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340977
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Do satellite-framed and verb-framed languages correlate with head-marking vs. dependent-marking? It seems that most languages with applicatives, derivational or inflectional prefixes in general (undo, outrun, etc. in English), and verb particles (whether Northern European-style or like in many "...
- 14 Dec 2016 22:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2090004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
All the languages. Mostly somewhere in-between though because that's where most of the fun stuff happens. There's only so much you can do with Turkish and German.LinguoFranco wrote:Do you prefer agglutinative or fusional languages?
- 14 Dec 2016 09:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang with a bunch of phonemes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2188
Re: Conlang with a bunch of phonemes
This looks like an awesome language so far, but I would hardly call it a Ubykh...Linguifex wrote:Because every conworld needs a Ubykh.
- 12 Oct 2016 17:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2090004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If it is possible to do in a non-Arabic/Semitic language, then no. I would just go light on the Arabic stuff if I didn't want my language to be a clone of Arabic. @Frislander Ergativity doesn't make you not need a passive, since it's about the subject, not semantic roles. Ergativity isn't really a c...
- 11 Oct 2016 08:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2090004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've always thought of (modifier) "what" and "quel" as determiners, rather than adjectives. For example, in both English and French, nouns modified by adjectives can also take articles (e.g. the old car, la vieille voiture). But a noun modified by "what" or "quel&...
Re: Alaian
This is cool. Why are you not going to be conlanging though? Well, you said "probably", so that's not an "I solemnly swear to never conlang again".
- 06 Oct 2016 00:11
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Joining affixes to words, and word endings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3390
Re: Joining affixes to words, and word endings
Yes. Regular morphophonological processes, even quite baroque ones, are not only possible but pretty common in agglutination (although usually it's not quite Navajo-level).
- 19 Aug 2016 07:00
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Sciency planet stuff
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5605
Re: Sciency planet stuff
didn't you once mention that this was taking place in a hollowed-out world/asteroid/other place? that means somebody took the time to make it hollow, and to put struts and concrete or whatever to ensure it won't collapse. No, I think you have me confused with someone else. But anyways, even if I ma...
- 19 Aug 2016 03:05
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Sciency planet stuff
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5605
Re: Sciency planet stuff
Well, it was just supposed to be questions about how to do stuff. I don't really know much about geography or astrophysics or whatever I need to know. The different color planets are supposed to be how they look from the ground to humans (like Mars is the "red planet", I want to have some ...
- 18 Aug 2016 22:36
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340977
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Why is it that English has the /eɪ/ diphtong yet we have the /ɛ/ vowel and not /e/? Well, I consider English to have /e/ and /ɛ/, since [eɪ] never contrasts with [eː]. /e/ also seems to have a decent number of allophones besides [eɪ] but always including something like [e] or [ɛ]. The same is true ...
- 18 Aug 2016 22:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Sciency planet stuff
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5605
Sciency planet stuff
As far as sciency planet stuff goes, I'm rather lost. I know what Kön' is supposed to look like but not what would cause it to look that way. I'm also not sure if certain things are realistic, like having a planet considerably bigger than Earth (well, at least a couple times bigger) or having the mo...
- 18 Aug 2016 09:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8475
Re: Conlang Areal Tests
Naturalistic conlangs are relex [es] of natural languages, My understanding of the term "relex" is a little more stringent than that. Yes. Which natlang is Tz'reichs a relex of? I made up a lot of the grammatical constructions, pragmatics, and semantics myself rather than taking them from...
- 18 Aug 2016 06:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1667001
Re: What did you accomplish today?
- I made more words (although not many) excellent! (can we see?) Well, I put a lot of the words in the CWS dictionary, and that's public. - started working on how the lang is going to be named (which is a bit more complicated than how langs are named in English, mostly because you say "the lan...
- 18 Aug 2016 04:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8475
Re: Conlang Areal Tests
Someone in a chatroom posted a link though, not from ZBB, so that context wasn't there. They just said "hey there's this SAE test from ZBB" and everyone did it.. But once you got to the thread and looked at it and saw that the title of the thread explicitly labelled it a phonology thread,...
- 18 Aug 2016 00:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8475
Re: Conlang Areal Tests
I think the point originally was that it was in phonology that people were being cliché-edly SAE, ergo the test. Yes, even the name of the thread in question is " How to design a non-European phonology ". Why would anyone expect it to be about anything but phonology is beyond me. Someone ...
- 18 Aug 2016 00:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang mini-ideas
- Replies: 232
- Views: 34187
Re: Interesting Ideas
An agglutinating Germanic language? That would be cool.Ælfwine wrote:I really want to do an agglutinating Norse-Greenlandic language, but I am already working on two other Germanic conlangs.
-A language derived from Old Frankish but with the sound changes (and probably grammatical changes) of French.
- 17 Aug 2016 10:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Areal Tests
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8475
Conlang Areal Tests
Someone on ZBB made a "SAE Test". I was quite excited to take it so I could put down all the internally-headed relative clauses and locational comparatives and such in my language that I thought were so cool, after all, I'm sure it would be non-SAE enough that ZBB people wouldn't make fun ...
- 17 Aug 2016 10:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1667001
Re: What did you accomplish today?
- I made more words (although not many) - made a collective (there's probably going to be more than one form of collective even if one's not productive, since that somehow seems normal) - started working on how the lang is going to be named (which is a bit more complicated than how langs are named i...
- 17 Aug 2016 08:43
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340977
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it possible for a language to be tense- and mood-prominent? Tense- and mood-prominent languages seemed to be characterized pretty oppositely from the snippets I read in that one book but it doesn't seem like it's impossible to me for a language to prominently mark both. Then again, it tends to be...