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I have just created a new thread to discuss questions of Celtic historical linguistics like the ones that have come up here.

In this thread about a Celtic conlang project, some questions of Celtic historical linguistics arose for which I am creating this thread. The relevant questions are: 1. What would a modern Continental Celtic language look like? Would it resemble an Insular Celtic language, or not? 2. Which factors c...

Actually, I am relieved reading this. My objection against Arvorec is that despite purporting to be a Continental Celtic language, it looks like an Insular one (though it is otherwise very finely crafted, by someone who ḱnows Celtic very well; and one may concede that it is at least located close e...

Fortunatian was a predominantly VSO language, a feature one could liken to other Q-Celtic languages (such as Old Irish). Does it show other Insular Celtic traits, such as initial mutations, absolute vs.conjunct verb inflection or "conjugated prepositions" as well, or does it avoid these, ...

Fortunatian was a predominantly VSO language, a feature one could liken to other Q-Celtic languages (such as Old Irish). Does it show other Insular Celtic traits, such as initial mutations, absolute vs.conjunct verb inflection or "conjugated prepositions" as well, or does it avoid these, ...

Arayaz wrote: ↑17 May 2024 21:23 Nice. I enjoy Celtic languages, so this is fun! Awaiting more.

Seconded.

A Tonal Anglic Language (Ẹlnk?) Derived from Old English. Probably not spoken on Earth, since the nearest contour-tone languages to the Anglo-Saxons were relatively far, and I don't wanna work out interactions with real languages. So this is more a thought experiment, I suppose, unless I get (or so...

Nice idea; I'd like to see more. Subverting the typology of a natlang by means of plausible changes is fun!

torii vs. Tor 'gate'

thethief3 wrote: ↑15 May 2024 11:43 *m *n *nʲ *ɲ

Are you sure you mean *ɲ, not *ŋ?

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...

Arayaz wrote: ↑26 Apr 2024 00:08

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 23:34 The intermediate language was of course some form of the Basque-Algonquian Pidgin.

The what???

This. Also known as "Souriquois".

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...

Nice drawing. Not the kind of stuff I'd put on a book cover or such, but it gets the concept across well.

thethief3 wrote: ↑19 Apr 2024 06:05 According to somewhere *p is often the most frequent phoneme in languages that have it

In Pabappa's conworld, yes. But not here.

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...

Wouldn't the ring render space travel difficult? Our concerns about space debris seem puny in comparison.

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...

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...

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...