Zompist Bboard Again

By the way, whats up with yo 2 ? Do we believe that there really was a labialized version of /yo/? That one has been tough for me to accept. I don't know but I've seen similar reconstructions for some sounds in Middle Chinese while looking up things about that. I'm assuming in the case of reconstru...

The contents page on the Google preview lists "Summary of the main regular phonemic changes between Old Japanese and conservative Modern Japanese" in the appendix. That sounds good. More reason for me to buy this or at least find a free online source, if possible. Thanks I have the book, ...

Does anyone have a reference to the assumed order of sound changes from Old Japanese to current times? If not, OJ to any later stage of would be extremely helpful, as long as they have at least a general idea of when the changes occurred. IIRC A History of the Japanese Language by Bjarke Frellesvig...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:09 am Well, a lot of this stuff is easy to find, but as you say it's scattered about. I have a few articles on this topic that I can summarize if I find the time.

I'd appreciate it but no rush

Does anyone have a reference to the assumed order of sound changes from Old Japanese to current times? If not, OJ to any later stage of would be extremely helpful, as long as they have at least a general idea of when the changes occurred. I've found a few mentions of when specific sound changes have...

Brown is also a zero derivation verb.

Since it's similar on tumblr regarding likes, likes in response to bad news are sometimes called sympathy likes: You might not have anything specific to say, but you want the poster to know you have seen their update and are there if talking would help

For the purposes of sound changes, is /ɨ/ more likely to pattern with front or back vowels?

Thanks to this thread, I'm going to verb numbers in my Cat Conlang. Also, tangentially appropriate since it's either related or borrows heavily from Middle Chinese

... As far as EMC and OJ are concerned, I assume you're talking about the exact realizations of the lost vowels of Japanese and the controversial rimes of Chinese? In many cases I think it won't matter. For example, Korean borrowed some i as a. That tells us nothing about Chinese, but a lot about K...

This question might not be applicable to so many conlangers, but I'd like to see any answers I might get. When deriving a conlang from a proto-language reconstruction (like for a bogolang or similar), do you tend to choose the reconstruction that is easiest to use/work with, or the one that is consi...

I also think it is weird. I'd probably say "Just over half".

There are plenty of animals that, in non-English languages, are named without referring to another animal, but that might refer to another animal in English. I don't see why their English names should be privileged above their names in other languages. As long as you don't make it the same thing as ...

I might have to take Japanese's particle system and turn it into a case system of sorts for my cat conlang. Lets see how that goes.

I honestly hadn't heard of Robin Hobb ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not that that says anything about how famous or not she is

Thanks. I don't think I remember seeing about rotational vowel shifts but they make sense as a type of chain shift. Good to know.

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I'm certain I've asked this or something similar on some board. But it always seems I will research something for a while on my own and not find what I need, and as soon as someone answers my question on a board even just to say they aren't sure, I find something relevant. So here's to hoping that h...

One of the best book series, let alone books, that I've ever read SPECIFICALLY in regards to world building broke a lot of these "rules" so even if I weren't convinced this was self-restricting, unimaginative bull without that, I certainly do with that bit of proof. Just because YOU (or th...

America has an idea of American food, but we generally don't know which foods are regional until we move away and can't get them anymore, unless they've been heavily marketed as a regional thing (crabs and Old Bay in Maryland, lobsters in coastal New England...) As a kid I didn't know that brats we...