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Re: Conlang Random Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:03 am
by bradrn
foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:27 pm
You can't really approximate sound changes onto different language families to much. How would you approximate processes like umlaut. You can't start with a mostly monosyllabic language and end up with Torres-Banks style metaphony or approximate englishes process of final syllable reduction with an already monosyllabic language.
Old Chinese wasn’t monosyllabic, though.
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:30 am
by keenir
foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:27 pm
You can't really approximate sound changes onto different language families to much.
You can if you're making a bogolang...I think one of the more famous examples of this is Wenydyk(sp).
How would you approximate processes like umlaut.
i thought Old/Middle English had umlauts.
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:43 am
by jal
keenir wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:30 ami thought Old/Middle English had umlauts.
Yes, but Old Chinese hadn't. I think the point is that the phonological processes that caused it in English can't happen in Old Chinese for lack of suitable environments.
JAL