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- 28 Apr 2024 13:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Hi'im conlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1433
Re: Hi'im conlang
It has no setting, it is purely philosophical language; but I can make setting for this conlang if you want. Ah, I had thought it was the language of some science fiction setting, due to the example sentence calling the world a simulation (which I thought might also have something to do with The Ma...
- 26 Apr 2024 11:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 158
- Views: 109822
Re: Surprising cognates
This. Also known as "Souriquois".Arayaz wrote: ↑26 Apr 2024 00:08The what???VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 23:34 The intermediate language was of course some form of the Basque-Algonquian Pidgin.
Re: Daas
Are you referring to having /ʂ/ but no other retroflexes (other than, potentially, your rhotic)? That's not that weird either; Techomonic, for example, a language I worked on with WeepingElf and some others here on the CBB, had that. There are natlangs filling that bill, such as Tocharian, and some...
- 22 Apr 2024 16:57
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 293
- Views: 34825
Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
Nice drawing. Not the kind of stuff I'd put on a book cover or such, but it gets the concept across well.
- 19 Apr 2024 15:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1758
- Views: 368724
- 11 Apr 2024 17:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 123
- Views: 28167
Re: Thinking machine
Yinrih long ago abandoned the idea of cybernetics in favor of wearable tech. There are just too many risks associated with body modification to justify it except where a severe disability is being corrected, and even then it's considered a last resort. The biggest risk is obsolescence, planned or o...
- 09 Apr 2024 15:36
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 293
- Views: 34825
Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
Wouldn't the ring render space travel difficult? Our concerns about space debris seem puny in comparison.
- 19 Mar 2024 20:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 128
- Views: 6246
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
I want to attempt another a posteriori diachronic language, after the failures of Techomonic and Goidheug. I'm not quite sure exactly what I'll do, though. I know that I want to go off of something that's well-reconstructed. I'm definitely not going to work from Proto-Indo-European (we know how wel...
- 15 Mar 2024 17:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2038
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
This looks quite interesting; I always have a soft spot for languages with /p/ as a gap (as opposed to /g/ or other common stops.) What's the deal with these nominalized verbs? --------- On the Mark Rosenfelder stuff, I'm always appreciative of his work. Verdurian may be a Euroclone, but it's a sel...
- 14 Mar 2024 22:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2038
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
I'd say the conversation was more as follows, though: Mark Rosenfelder misused several terms regarding ergativity when he wrote his Old Skourene grammar and some other resources, and that misuse misinformed future conlangers, including Arayaz. Also, his conlangs are overrated and mediocre, Verduria...
- 14 Mar 2024 14:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2038
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
To be fair, one has to consider two things. 1. Almea started as a setting for a Dungeons & Dragons game when Mark Rosenfelder was in high school. This shows in a number of points, you can even recognize the D&D playable races: elcari are essentially Dwarves, flaids are essentially Halflings,...
- 13 Mar 2024 19:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2038
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...
- 13 Mar 2024 16:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2038
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...
- 12 Mar 2024 17:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2038
Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG. Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers.
- 12 Mar 2024 14:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2102
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
I don't have much to contribute here, but as it happens, I have just finished reading Michael Adams (ed.), From Elvish to Klingon , which is mostly of course about conlangs, but also contains a chapter about language revitalization which addresses just the issues discussed here, such as the question...
- 10 Mar 2024 17:32
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
- Replies: 113
- Views: 10067
Re: Fredauon Fun Facts
There is a theory that the tradition of Dwarves in European folklore is rooted in just that kind of miners.
- 27 Feb 2024 14:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1758
- Views: 368724
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Yes. Some Uralic languages (such as Nents, Nganasan, Khanty and Mansi) show object agreement only in number, while subject agreement is, as in all Uralic languages, in person and number. There is no gender in these languages.
- 27 Feb 2024 14:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Project Stubby-Holder
- Replies: 6
- Views: 599
Re: Project Stubby-Holder
Oh, I thought retroflexes were typical of Australian languages, and that there were hardly any without them. But hey, I am not an Australianist, and know only little about those languages.
- 25 Feb 2024 18:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
- Replies: 5
- Views: 399
Re: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
Yes, I am of course not the first to conjecture a conlang. That makes more sense than the assumption that it is encrypted Latin (or whatever known language), given how puerile the ciphers of those times were - it would probably have been broken long ago. Yet, I wouldn't expect a particularly sophist...
- 25 Feb 2024 13:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
- Replies: 5
- Views: 399
A note on the Voynich Manuscript
I have spent some thoughts on the Voynich Manuscript (VMS) which I wish to share with you. I think I need not tell you what the VMS is, should you have not heard of it yet, see Wikipedia . Nobody has managed to decipher it yet. The many illustrations in the VMS give a hint at the content matter, whi...