Zompist Bboard Again

So Haleza Grise wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:06 pm What are the inflectional categories? I notice that nouns have person markers - does that reflect possession?

I should have specified that --yes, it's possession.

It seems like there's an open niche for a thread like this at the moment, so here it is: post any bits and pieces, however small, or conlanging work that you've accomplished today (or yesterday, or this week, or whatever). As for myself, I've been trying to work out the noun paradigms for what I'm t...

Does anyone have know any articles on affix order universals? This is something I've been trying to find for a long time because I read something about it at one point and haven't been able to find any more information since. IIRC languages almost universally have aspect marking closer to the root t...

Our data comes from space telescopes. Do you know specifics about what directions they are pointed at? All I know is that, both in radio and optical astronomy, the northern hemisphere is significantly better surveyed than the southern hemisphere. This is partly for practical reasons (most of the so...

PS. Regarding the first point, I don't think people are complaining that aliens aren't here yet. The main problem is that we don't see gigantic artificial structures anywhere in the universe. (Edit: Also, there are no transmissions.) Yes, I think people are putting undue focus on alien "conque...

oh this is a challenge now, I see... Write English in the current orthography, then replace each latin later with it's tackiest faux-Cyrillic equivalent: <a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z> become <д в с ԁ е ғ ҁ н і j к Ӏ м и ф р ѻ я ѕ т ц ѵ ш ж у Ꙁ>. Now transliterate back to lati...

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Does anyone know if Japanese uranai 'fortune telling' or sarasaranai 'not at all' undergo the colloquial reduction of ranai > nnai?

/p b t d tʃ dʒ k g/ ⟨pp b tt d xx c kk g⟩ /f v s z θ ð ʃ ʒ h/ ⟨p bh ce de t dh x ch k⟩ /w l r j/ ⟨gu l r gi⟩ /m n ŋ/ ⟨m n nn⟩ /i ɪ u ʊ eɪ oʊ ɛ ɔ æ ɑ ʌ ə aɪ aʊ oɪ/ <ii i uu u ee oo e o a aa qq q z v f> zbh gaatt q nuu guqqn and itce iibhqn guqrce! pqnii dhat ceqqm guqrdde akkxqlii kqqm vtt riidqbql.

English /p b t d tʃ dʒ k g/ <p b t d c j k g> /f v s z θ ð ʃ ʒ h/ <f~ff f'~f s~ss s'~s z~zz z'~z x~xx x'~x h> /w l r j/ <w' l r j'> /m n ŋ/ <m n n'> /i ɪ u ʊ eɪ oʊ ɛ ɔ æ ɑ ʌ ə aɪ aʊ oɪ/ <i y u w ey ow e o ea oa v q ay aw oy> + contrastive stress <V'> Where graphemes appear in pairs, the second is us...

Nuiq tuq tuiqeai eiq teiihe nu, uaq eiq iuqeqne keiqreiq uq kunrunk eiq ne? [nɯjʔ tʰɯʔ tʰɯjʔə̯aj əjʔ tʰəj.iɦə nɯ | ɰaʔ əjʔ iɰʔəʔnə kʰəjʔɾəjʔ ɯʔ kʰɯnᵈɾɯnk əjʔ nə] I'm pretty sure what you mean, but could you give a translation of your conlang? "My new (joke) language, a gender-neutral version o...

Unnamed conlang v. 2: Root-initials: /p t tʃ k/ <p t c k> /s ʃ h/ <s sy h> /l ʎ/ <l ly> /m n ɲ/ <m n ny> Root-medials: /p t tʃ tɬ cʎ̥˔ k/ <p t c tl cl k> /pʰ tʰ tʃʰ kʰ/ <ph th ch tlh clh kh> /p' t' tʃ' k'/ <p' t' c' k'> /b d dʒ dɮ ɟʎ̞ g/ <b d j dl jl g> /bʱ dʱ dʒʱ gʱ/ <bh dh jh gh> /ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ/ <b' d'...

As a nebulously pseudo-Eastern-European language: /pʰ p ⁿb tʰ t ⁿd tsʰ ts ⁿdz tʃʰ tʃ ⁿdʒ kʰ k ⁿg/ <p b mb t d nd c z nz cs j nj k g ng> /s ɬ ʃ h/ <sz ł s h> /v l z ʒ ɣ/ <v l z zs gh> /r/ <r> /m n ŋ/ <m n gn> /ʔ/ <q> Medials: /w/ <w> /a e ø ə o i y u/ <a e ö ë o i ü u> (uvularized, epiglottalized) <V...

Contrived example: - Proto-Shit Germanic *tapak, *tamak, *tapaŋ, *tapar, *tamar, *tap - Shit German tapx, tamk, takŋ, tapx, tamx, tap - Shit Danish tapp, tãkk, tãpp, tarp, tarm, taːp - Shit Icelandic tahp, tahk, tahk, taps, tams, tap - Shit Frisian tawk, tamʔ, tawŋ, tawr, taːm, taːp - Shit English ...

French isn't like Latin any more! Right, I just meant the way vowel loss would interact with the metrical structure would be very French-esque, and maybe result in a similar looking outcome. This seems like mostly vowel loss in initial syllables. Are you saying to do the same thing in reverse (star...

Hmm, so you want e.g. /panaɾ/ → /panɾ/? That doesn’t sound at all likely to me… it would end up with your language gaining a lot of strange consonant clusters. Strange clusters are basically the intention. But Richard W reminded me that this did basically happen in French (but the weird clusters wh...

I vaguely feel like I've asked this before? But I can't find it anywhere so who knows. Is there an attested case of a language (possibly over the course of multiple changes) deleting all vowels in word-final syllables? If the Index Diachronica is to be trusted, this is very common, e.g. in Abenaki,...

A collection of linguistics and language themed youtube channels. In English, I've been watching Simon Roper and Jackson Crawford . Roper isn't a linguist, but his videos are all quite good and clearly well-researched. I know less about the subject matter of Crawford's channel (Old Norse), but they ...

I vaguely feel like I've asked this before? But I can't find it anywhere so who knows. Is there an attested case of a language (possibly over the course of multiple changes) deleting all vowels in word-final syllables?