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 on: December 20, 2016, 06:37:01 am 
Started by LLR - Last post by evergreen
Do we want to have gendered nouns/adjectives?

Maybe some kind of noun classes that aren't tied to gender?

That seems a good idea

Based on the words we have so far, I think the three options should be "-is" nominatives,  "-ez" nominatives, and "-in" nominatives

How should those decline, then?

Tbh, imo, "-is" and "-ez" are far too similar sounding to really support different sets of inflections over a longer period.

are they though? remember also that final "-is" would be a stressed syllable and final "-ez" would be an unstressed syllable

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 on: December 19, 2016, 02:31:38 pm 
Started by LLR - Last post by LLR
Do we want to have gendered nouns/adjectives?

Maybe some kind of noun classes that aren't tied to gender?

That seems a good idea

Based on the words we have so far, I think the three options should be "-is" nominatives,  "-ez" nominatives, and "-in" nominatives

How should those decline, then?

Tbh, imo, "-is" and "-ez" are far too similar sounding to really support different sets of inflections over a longer period. What you could have though is the nominative ending's grade of voicing influencing case inflections, so, idk, have a nominative in "-ez" turn the genitive (?) ending "-x" into "-g" or "-r" or whatever we would agree upon as a voiced equivalent to "x" (since the obvious option "ɣ" doesn't exist here).

Good idea. Perhaps the third ending could be "-ar" or "-ad"?

 13 
 on: December 19, 2016, 02:30:25 pm 
Started by LLR - Last post by LLR
Phonological inventory looks fine to me, don't you think though that all three of /b v w/ might be a bit much? Very few languages other than English have all three, and if our language is spoken, I'd assume most dialects would simplify to two or even just one forms ( just /β/ and /w/ for example).

Secondly, for the romanisation, why not take "x" for the sh-sound and "c" (or "ch") for the ch-sound? X for sh is common in many natural languages (Catalan, some South American Indian languages...), while I have never seen c for sh, tbh.

I actually think the "C" as sh and "TC" as ch makes sense... I also like having a letter for the hard h sound. But I agree that dialects would prove one of b, v, and w unnecessary. Which do y'all want to cut?

 14 
 on: December 19, 2016, 11:30:52 am 
Started by 3D X 31 - Last post by LLR
Stuff still going on here, people?

Name: Cranberry
Location: The deep dark valleys of the Eastern Alps
Interests: Politics (duh), languages (duh), mathematics, overall typically nerdy stuff
Languages I speak: German, English, Italian, Tyrolean dialect, basics of Spanish and Icelandic
Pet peeve: anything Iceland (or any cold, remote island in the polar regions basically, but still Ísland best í heimi)
Birthday: 4 June

We'll, were not super active right now, but over winter break it should pick up again. I'll go over your comments when I get home, by the way

 15 
 on: December 19, 2016, 11:03:27 am 
Started by LLR - Last post by Cranberry
Do we want to have gendered nouns/adjectives?

Maybe some kind of noun classes that aren't tied to gender?

That seems a good idea

Based on the words we have so far, I think the three options should be "-is" nominatives,  "-ez" nominatives, and "-in" nominatives

How should those decline, then?

Tbh, imo, "-is" and "-ez" are far too similar sounding to really support different sets of inflections over a longer period. What you could have though is the nominative ending's grade of voicing influencing case inflections, so, idk, have a nominative in "-ez" turn the genitive (?) ending "-x" into "-g" or "-r" or whatever we would agree upon as a voiced equivalent to "x" (since the obvious option "ɣ" doesn't exist here).

 16 
 on: December 19, 2016, 10:50:02 am 
Started by LLR - Last post by Cranberry
Phonological inventory looks fine to me, don't you think though that all three of /b v w/ might be a bit much? Very few languages other than English have all three, and if our language is spoken, I'd assume most dialects would simplify to two or even just one forms ( just /β/ and /w/ for example).

Secondly, for the romanisation, why not take "x" for the sh-sound and "c" (or "ch") for the ch-sound? X for sh is common in many natural languages (Catalan, some South American Indian languages...), while I have never seen c for sh, tbh.

 17 
 on: December 19, 2016, 10:40:36 am 
Started by 3D X 31 - Last post by Cranberry
Stuff still going on here, people?

Name: Cranberry
Location: The deep dark valleys of the Eastern Alps
Interests: Politics (duh), languages (duh), mathematics, overall typically nerdy stuff
Languages I speak: German, English, Italian, Tyrolean dialect, basics of Spanish and Icelandic
Pet peeve: anything Iceland (or any cold, remote island in the polar regions basically, but still Ísland best í heimi)
Birthday: 4 June

 18 
 on: December 19, 2016, 10:30:35 am 
Started by LLR - Last post by Cranberry
Diphthong, aõ to be precise.

 19 
 on: December 18, 2016, 12:58:23 pm 
Started by LLR - Last post by LLR
Do we want to have gendered nouns/adjectives?

Maybe some kind of noun classes that aren't tied to gender?

That seems a good idea

Based on the words we have so far, I think the three options should be "-is" nominatives,  "-ez" nominatives, and "-in" nominatives

How should those decline, then?

 20 
 on: December 18, 2016, 12:33:45 pm 
Started by LLR - Last post by Figueira
Do we want to have gendered nouns/adjectives?

Maybe some kind of noun classes that aren't tied to gender?

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