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- 29 Jan 2019 18:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: ŗahrih raçnann
- Replies: 5
- Views: 140
Re: ŗahrih raçnann
This is a very strange consonantal inventory. I'm aiming for strange for the prime language, and then shifting toward less strange as it evolves. Part of it is out of sheer curiosity regarding what will come out on the other side of the process. What jumps out as weird: ejectives with no correspond...
- 29 Jan 2019 17:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: ŗahrih raçnann
- Replies: 5
- Views: 140
Re: ŗahrih raçnann
Verbs suck. A lot. And I apparently suck at making a system for them. Verbs Given that this society's people exist solely to perform functions for their deity overlords, there is no perception of linear time, thus no tense use for verbs other than inference from the context of the speaker/listener. ...
- 29 Jan 2019 16:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: ŗahrih raçnann
- Replies: 5
- Views: 140
Re: ŗahrih raçnann
Morphology Nominal Inflection Collective Singulative Grammatical Gender I need help here. Initially, I was thinking of breaking grammatical gender into four classes (inanimate things, animate things, godly things, and everything else). Each case would be marked as shown below. But given how the lan...
- 29 Jan 2019 16:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: ŗahrih raçnann
- Replies: 5
- Views: 140
ŗahrih raçnann
I'm still new at designing conlangs and hope I can get some help from those with much more experience and knowledge on the subject. I'm designing a prime language that I can use as a starting point for developing a language family. The idea is that the language begins deliberately designed by the de...
- 14 May 2018 21:51
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Numerology and Numerical Superstitions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1177
Re: Numerology and Numerical Superstitions
I intend to include numerology, but haven't gotten there yet. In research I'm doing on the Anglo-Saxon culture to inform development of conculture, I saw that they focused on multiples of 3.
- 14 May 2018 21:49
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: why is it that in many fantasy stories, humans are the focus?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 10055
Re: why is it that in many fantasy stories, humans are the focus?
Others have touched upon it, but I think the primary reason is simplicity. Rather than diverging from the story one wants to tell in order to fill in enormous knowledge holes on the reader's end, focusing on humans allows the author to focus on storytelling while maintaining momentum. Also, while a ...
- 14 May 2018 19:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Language evolution for long-lived people
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1222
Re: Language evolution for long-lived people
Thank you everyone for your responses. I apologize for not posting before now; I'm just now able to get back to the boards. The information provided presents a lot to consider. I appreciate the different perspectives that present interesting story telling directions. I think given the strong religio...
- 09 May 2018 02:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Language evolution for long-lived people
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1222
Language evolution for long-lived people
Assuming a group of people who live significantly longer than the average human (say, several hundred years at least), would the language spoken by that group evolve comparatively slower or at the same rate?
- 03 May 2018 16:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
As for "foreign" sounds, they would replace it with similarly-sounding native sounds, as all other languages. Would any "new" sounds develop relative to the two parent languages? I don't think so, I heard that the phonemes are often roughly the intersection of the substrata, e.g. it is going to be ...
- 03 May 2018 16:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
So in determining the superstrate and substrate parent languages, I want to explain my thought process to get feedback from the community. The creole is a result of two disparate groups (racially and ethnically) being more or less forced to join into a common society. The first group is not human, b...
- 01 May 2018 21:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
From the article, it appears that the sonority hierarchy influences consonant clusters, to the point of deleting some sounds that violate the hierarchy (e.g. speak > piki). So, perhaps the new creole phonotactics would take on the following form: Parent Language 1 (C)(C)V(C)(n)/(r)/(s) Parent Langua...
- 01 May 2018 21:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
So I found this article regarding creole syllabic structure. I'm reading it over and seeing what I can glean from it that may help determine the new phonotactics for this creole.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/14ff/5 ... 62734d.pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/14ff/5 ... 62734d.pdf
- 20 Apr 2018 13:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
Thank you for the information, Vlürch. I'm going to change Parent Language 2 so that instead of /ɵ/ it has an /e/. That will help resolve the issue of /ɵ/ and /ə/; besides, I think it would be nice for the creole to have /e/ as a phoneme. So the new phonology removes /kx/, /ʍ/, /x/, /ɵ/, /ə/. It ret...
- 20 Apr 2018 00:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
Creoles often have a simplified phonology which is the intersection of the mother tongues of the speakers, and a reduced amount of roots(but that does not mean they have a smaller lexicon. Hmmm. Well, I'll need to go back to the phonology I determined earlier and pair down the number of phonemes (a...
- 20 Apr 2018 00:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
Parent Language 1 Plosives p, b, t, d, k, g Nasal m, n, (ŋ) flaps r, (r̥) Fricatives v, s, (z), h, ɦ Approximants j, l, w, ʍ aspirations p, t, k Vowels i, u, o, ɛ, a Diphthongs yi, ei, eu, oi, ai, au Parent Language 2 Plosives p, b, ʈ, ɖ, k Nasal n Fricatives s, z, ʒ, x, ɣ Approximants ɹ, l Affrica...
- 12 Apr 2018 13:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Re: Need help with developing creole
Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the information. I'll post up the phonologies for all three soon and see the community can check my work.
- 10 Apr 2018 23:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Need help with developing creole
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1462
Need help with developing creole
I've limited knowledge of linguistics, but am trying to learn more. Hopefully this is one way to do so. I'm trying to develop a creole derived from two rather different languages. The concept is that political exiles flee to a land and through intermarriage with locals and an armed uprising, their d...