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Ossicone wrote:Yeah! I finally started databasing up my lexicons like I've wanted to do for years now.

Did you read this?

Several East Asian languages have a word spelled or romanized something like <ai> and pronounced something like /ai/ that means "love", e.g. Mandarin 愛/爱 ài [aɪ̯˥˩], Japanese 愛 ai [ái], and Korean 애정 aejeong [ɛd͡ʑʌ̹ŋ] (Korean /ɛ/ was originally a diphthong /ai̯/). Japanese 愛 ai is a so-ca...

I heard she has made a conlang for some of her books. Simply: What is its name? Which book/world it was made for? Is there any information on it? PS. I'm wasting a thread for that but I think it's allowed. The answers are well known enough: you are most likely refering to Kesh. I believe it's appea...

No, there are languages with more long than short vowels. Sanskrit, for instance, has /a i u a: e: i: o: u: ai au/ (and syllabic /r/).

...the sighn language is not an actual language though... It's not like sign language in the US is different in sytax or vocabulary to english. It's just a different way of conveying the same language. Wrong. You are thinking of finger spelling. Sign languages are actual languages with their own gr...

Perhaps -ий/-ый could be considered the false cognate, then. Well, it only occurs in the masculine nominative singular - but since that happens to be the citation form, someone comparing dictionaries of Arabic and Russian without actually knowing anything about either language or linguistics could ...

Would you mind adding glosses? Because without them, it is hard to tell which word is which, and where the affixes go.

Hard to say from such a sample, but would say that these are different languages, clearly related to each other, but probably not easily mutually intelligible.

Does anyone remember natlangs with the diachronic change k → t ? It would be great to find a natlang that had it as a direct change, but I would also be interest in langs where it happened with intermediate stages. I know Hawaiian had k > t in most dialects. Dunno about the other way around. Hawaii...

G64 wrote: disco "I learn" disco

I've been told about a school in England where the words AUDIO VIDEO DISCO are written above the door.

One question you might want to answer is how the literacy developed. In Iceland, it was imported. Inventing literacy from nothing is much more difficult than learning it from someone. For reference, on our planet, it only happened about three to five times. (Sumeria, China, Maya) All of which were ...

As Elemtilas has observed, my main conlang, Old Albic, is the language of a nation of "Elves" that aren't like Tolkien's Elves but are actually just humans, though with a culture that shows some similarities to modern fantasy elves. The language does owe something to Tolkien's Quendian lan...

I've added the GUTS to FrathWiki, and developed an idea of the dialects of Sinjenrin.

Do you know about the prequel? Arcaicam Esperantom (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcaicam_Esperantom) Reminds me: when Geoff Eddy wrote about diachronic conlanging (on a web page which is now sadly gone) that it got him "lots of conlanging fun of the sort you just can't get from Esperanto&q...

Nice - a lostlang in Germany! You may want to join the League of Lost Languages.

I see this claim (that Hurro-Urartian and NE Caucasian languages are typologically similar) all the time, but I never see any examples and I honestly fail to see the similarities, but maybe I'm missing something. Or are we talking about the superficial similarities (the ergative case, SOV word orde...

Population genetics do point to a Mesopotamian origin of at least some Caucasian people, especially the speakers of Northeast Caucasian, so chances are that there is some relationship between them and some languages of the Ancient Near East, but we'll probably never know for sure. Shared vocabulary...

My current main conlang family is part a priori, part a posteriori. I did make a romlang of the "bogolang" type years ago, but I now feel that it wasn't very good, and I have grown out of that thing since then. Good, plausible Romance altlangs are not easy to make; this one , though, looks...

I have written an overview of the indigenous families of the Caucasus. An interesting bunch those are!

atman wrote:And where is the pronunciation?

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