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Before I continue this post, I shall remind readers that I unfortunately conflate "structural terms" and "functional terms", the latter being more acceptable amongst linguists (but idc because it's much simpler for me to describe my conlang from its perspectives and principles). When I say "passive...

Why not 50,000? Kankonian has over 45,000 already, and I'm still too young to become president of the United States. My Kankonian grammar now comes out at 150 pages as a Corel WordPerfect document! I have to ask: perhaps you're a bit of a funny person, but why do you say your conlang has more than ...

Certainly, Quenya is not an exolang, but you said griuskant would get "passive nouns, possessive verbs, imperative prepositions, passive intransitives, active modals etc." Isn't this something that would never happen in a human natlang, or am I up for an ANADEW surprise here? Uh, I'm bilingual and ...

GoshDiggityDangit wrote: ↑

03 Dec 2019 08:16

Don’t you get me thinking about making another Poly-Lang.

lol I think this is the first time I see "poly-lang" meaning "Polynesian conlang". I've seen "polylang" before, but meaning "polysynthetic conlang".

Today I learned that that French "on" derives from the nominative meaning 'man' while "homme" derives from the accusative. Thus "on" has a very similar history to Germanic "man". I had thought it was related to "un" and similar to English "one". I was very surprised when I read about that years ago...

This thread reminds me, something I've always found fun is that the practice of blackening teeth with a layer of lacquer in order to protect them into old age was historically found in Japan, Micronesia, parts of the Philippines, parts of the Chinese mainland close to the Philippines (the practice i...

Ursus > ours /uʁs/ is definitely an exception, cf. cursus 'flow' > cours /kuʁ/ 'path; flow', morsus 'bitten thing, animal' > mors /mɔʁ/ 'horse bit'. It's still an animate though. It reminds me of the similar Spanish retention of the nominative serpēns > sierpe 'snake' (as a doublet of the much more...

If there is a Yahoo Group you'd like to download but are not able to with that tool, let me know. I like to download these Yahoo Groups : 1. Dene-Caucasian Languages & Linguistics (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Dene_Caucasian/info) 2. Theudiskon (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Theudiskon...

Japanese nani 'what?'
Inuktitut nani 'where?'

So, as Zekoslav doesn't want to suggest a word, how about this from not-a-real-Romlang, just a thought experiment I had that hasn't got any actual history or anything attached (yet, at least): ogajaitar /ogadZajtar/ Judging by the -ar ending, I imagine this is either an -āre infinitive or an adject...

Which Yahoo Groups are you trying to download? When you say you can't download "Auxlang and Conlang group messages", what are you talking about? Are these the CONLANG and AUXLANG mailing lists, served by Brown University? These are mailing services served by computers at that university, and have no...

Are rhotacized long monophthongs better transcribed as [Vːʴ] or [Vʴː]? I'd choose [Vʴː]. Quality modifiers before quantity modifiers. It's always pretty awkward though. This works well for vowels, but for affricate consonants it gets trickier, e.g. Italian razzo 'rocket' and ragazzo 'boy' [ˈradzːo ...

Did this happen at some point for English? 800 > 1300 > 1700 > 2000 <ow> /ou/ > /u:/ > /au/ > /au/ (as in <now>) <ow> /ɔu/ > /o:/ > /ou/ > /əʉ/, or /ɞu/ in North America (as in <low>) <aw> /au/ > /ɒo/ > /ɔ:/ > /o:/, or /ɒ:~a:/ in North America No. More like: 800 > 1300 > 1700 > 2000 ** ow [aʊ] ** [...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑

12 Nov 2019 19:55

Ontena Gadsup

I... I-... I don't even.

I HAVE BEEN LIVING A LIE

Tanni, I... don't know what to say. It's amusing how Sal's posts are going completely over your head, although amusing in a rather bad way. Let's see if I can do any better. If I fail to convey the meanings as well, then I'd advise just giving up... 1. He wrote a thought experiment about a non-linea...

As Pabappa said, this forum is mostly for people who make their own conlangs, who typically don't learn them even then, not people who learn others' conlangs such as Esperanto or Klingon. By the way, although Pabappa mentioned his interest in Láadan to give you an answer more relevant to you, he has...

Is Old/Middle Chinese not occasionally reconstructed with post-initial /j/ that was basically lost everywhere. It's often still there in Mandarin. In fact, this is one of the only two things where Mandarin is more conservative than most other Chinese varieties (the other being the presence of retro...

The Royal Spanish Academy has published the word frequencies of its CREA corpus of modern Spanish (the RAE also has the CORDE, a corpus of historical Spanish, but there's no frequencies for that). The frequencies can be accessed as text files here: http://corpus.rae.es/lfrecuencias.html Since some w...

Thanks! But I don't know how to open LaTex codes [:(] The LaTeX code is a source text. You need to download and install a LaTeX distribution such as MiKTeX . Send me a personel message. I don't think expecting users to install and compile LaTeX sources is reasonable though. [xD] Man, just provide a...

I've often noticed that in English (and other IE languages), the oblique form isn't so much an "object" form as much as it's a "not-subject" form and is the default used in syntactically unclear situations like exclamations or topic-marking. Concerning English I vs. me , and similarly in French je ...