Working on my naming languages (thread title was edited)

[Raphael]

"Hundred-hundred-hundred places" is a nice term, but surely in a marked register, right?

The speakers of Proto-1 had a relatively egalitarian culture with small groups, relatively little specialization, and no writing, formal education, or complex media, so there weren't as many opportunities for different registers to develop as in a more modern language. And they were mostly concerned with places at relatively short distances from their homes - opportunities to talk about the world as a whole arouse mostly in the context of telling and retelling their myths and stories, and on those occasions, they used rather exalted registers (to the extent that they had them) anyway.

But I plan to shorten the term more and more in the descended languages (if I ever get around to working on the descended languages).

[Xwtek]

To be honest, at the moment I don't know yet what a verbal slot table is.

It is a table that describes how to order an affix. Like

-3	-2	-1	0
Person	Number	TAM	Root

I'm not sure that I really understand what you mean.

Just mark either of them. Either you can have definite article, topic prominent word order, or proximate-obviate word order.

[Raphael]

To be honest, at the moment I don't know yet what a verbal slot table is.

It is a table that describes how to order an affix. Like

-3	-2	-1	0
Person	Number	TAM	Root

Thank you, I'll try to do that.

I'm not sure that I really understand what you mean.

Just mark either of them. Either you can have definite article, topic prominent word order, or proximate-obviate word order.

Ok, I'll try to work on that.

[Raphael]

To be honest, at the moment I don't know yet what a verbal slot table is.

It is a table that describes how to order an affix. Like

-3	-2	-1	0
Person	Number	TAM	Root

Thank you, I'll try to do that.

Update: Done!

[Raphael]

Two more Proto-languages, though with a lot fewer words than Proto-1, are up:

https://guessishouldputthisupsomewhere. ... d-proto-3/

[Xwtek]

Please put the link to here in your blog.

[Raphael]

Done.

[Das Public Viewing]

Looks pretty cool! I do still wonder why Proto-3 only has the one long vowel, but I think it's neat you have a pretty-much unified orthography for pretty much all or the proto-langs. Also, I spotted a thing:

<æ> is pronounced as a standard English <a> when reciting the alphabet.

	Front	Central	Back
High	i í		u ú
Close	é		o ô
Low	æ	a â

“æ” is pronounced as the diphthong /eɪ/"
...

	Front	Central	Back
High	i í		u ú
Close	é		o óh
Low	æ	a á

Oops, I might've caused this one; sorry. I misread your post as referring to "short" a, which is /æ/ in IPA, so I never changed it. I'm 90% sure you wouldn't put /eɪ̯/ there. However, where it would actually go in the chart, I don't know; usually, I see diphthongs separated out from the rest of the vowels. If this is the equivalent to long /o/, it might also be interesting to see the difference in outcome if the unstressed vowel is longer or shorter than the stressed variant. (also in general, very cool idea of tying stress to vowels)

Otherwise, I'm curious to see the eventual derivations!

[Raphael]

Thank you! I've fixed the /eɪ/ issue. I have three more a priori simple languages to go - one protolang and two standalone modern languages - before I can start on sound changes. But thankfully, these three languages all have very small vocabularies, so it shouldn't take too long.

[Raphael]

And here are the last three, very rudimentary, a priori naming languages:

https://guessishouldputthisupsomewhere. ... c3-and-d6/

Now on to sound changes!

[Raphael]

Sort-of status update: I hit a wall as soon as I tried to start working on sound changes, and I haven't gotten any farther yet. However, in an attempt to help my inspiration, I've given all my characters "provisional" names - that is, names in the proto-languages from which the modern languages that are theoretically supposed to provide their "actual" names are descended.

[Raphael]

A thread about the conhistory for which I was trying to do all this is here:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=527