... No, it doesn't - but then neither does English! Most languages, I think, share scripts. Swahili used to be written in a variety of the Arabic alphabet, but...
R A Brown
ray@...
Mar 1, 2009 9:17 am
158154
... Mine is a whole family tree of different languages. Participants can branch off ANY existing step and start a new sub-family of languages. I called the...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Mar 1, 2009 11:13 am
158155
... What about a "grammar mutation relay" where phonology gets only minor alterations for the most part and mutations apply mostly to the grammar? That's kind...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Mar 1, 2009 11:15 am
158156
... Indeed, in fact, it's reasonably common for a language to use just those three vowels. More common than the vast array English has, but less common than...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Mar 1, 2009 12:53 pm
158157
... I thought Dutch used no diacritics. I pretty sure Malagasy is written without any diacritics as well, and sample texts in _Teach Yourself Xhosa_ show no...
Ph.D.
phil@...
Mar 1, 2009 1:58 pm
158158
2009/3/1 Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> ... (Latin Letter Small Capital R)! It'd be tough trying to think up a distinctive upper-case for that. ...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Mar 1, 2009 2:11 pm
158159
2009/3/1 Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> ... Is that Berber? I remember the Wikipedia article talking about how a five-consonant word is rendered...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Mar 1, 2009 2:15 pm
158160
... Dutch uses very few diacritics, it's most common in loanwords (not unlike English) and occasionally to disambiguate sounds (though it seems to become more...
Ina van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Mar 1, 2009 2:31 pm
158161
... Also, the tilde started out as a small superscript N since Spanish <ñ> grew out <nn> (as [J] grew out of [n:]). ... Yes, it was. But I think Ray is...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 1, 2009 2:57 pm
158162
It could also be Nuxálk. It's wikipedia article gives an example word that has 13 phonemes, all of which are obstruents....
Kelvin Jackson
kechpaja@...
Mar 1, 2009 3:20 pm
158163
... The most common might be een vs. één (éen?) - an vs. one. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 1, 2009 3:43 pm
158164
This discussion about the English passive with GET rather than BE reminds me of E-Prime, a dialect of English inspired by Count Alfred Korzybski's "General...
John H. Chalmers
jhchalmers@...
Mar 1, 2009 3:44 pm
158165
... Yep. ... Yes indeed. ... When the French printers started using the Greek accents in the 16th century, they were aware only of the Byzantine (and modern...
R A Brown
ray@...
Mar 1, 2009 4:50 pm
158166
... Incidentally it does exist since small capital R is used as a distinct letter, although Unicode calls the capital U+01A6 LATIN LETTER YR Ʀ. ...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2009 5:24 pm
158167
... Seconded. While I can read IPA it's a pain to type. (I'm working on a BXS keymap for vim though! :-) /BP...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2009 5:27 pm
158168
... No it originated in the Visigothic z. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla#Use_of_the_cedilla_with_the_letter_C> <http://wiki.frath.net/Cedilla> The...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 1, 2009 5:34 pm
158169
My name is Bruno, I'm from Brazil, and I'm creating a conlang called Montreal. The name of the language was a temporary name to be used only until I make a...
Bruno Barcelos
bruno.barcelos.alves@...
Mar 1, 2009 7:46 pm
158170
... Why are you creating a conlang? I'm not saying that creating a conlang is a bad thing; it's just that conlangs are often personal projects satisfying...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 1, 2009 8:00 pm
158171
... één/Eén (É does not exist in Dutch) vs een/Een....
Ina van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Mar 1, 2009 9:07 pm
158172
Thanks for answering... I'll tell you why I want to create a language: I love languages and when I started reading The Lord of The Rings, I was inspired by...
Bruno Barcelos
bruno.barcelos.alves@...
Mar 1, 2009 10:21 pm
158173
The impression I am getting is that you want other people to make a language for you. There are conlang projects involving multiple people. It's perfectly fine...
Chris Wright
dhasenan@...
Mar 1, 2009 11:03 pm
158174
Words in a conlang aren't just arbitrary sets of letters, they should have a style to them, and in many cases they will be built with the conlang's word ...
Linvi Charles
linvi.charles@...
Mar 1, 2009 11:44 pm
158175
... From this sample, it looks like it's a fairly simple one-for-one replacement for English (I'm assuming Keo = Today, ik = is, y = a, etc.). If that's the...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
Mar 2, 2009 12:55 am
158176
Bruno, In my (admittedly limited) experience, conlangs don't spring fully-formed from your head. So if you want to have a rich, original artlang (like Tolkien...
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Mar 2, 2009 1:53 am
158177
... I tried coming up with a "spelling reform" for English that was an abjad made of Latin letters. Stressed vowels were written in full but unstressed ones...
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Mar 2, 2009 3:25 am
158178
... I recall being taught this in elementary school. The rule was that if the word ended in a silent "e", drop the "e" and add "ed" or "ing". If the word ended...
Ph.D.
phil@...
Mar 2, 2009 5:56 am
158179
... Presumably you only learned that for monosyllabic words? Because for longer words, the rule works in the UK (travel -> travelled, travelling) but not in...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 2, 2009 6:33 am
158180
... Or perhaps just a "mutation relay"? :-P - Sai...
Sai Emrys
saizai@...
Mar 2, 2009 6:39 am
158181
... *grows a tentacle*...
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Mar 2, 2009 6:48 am
158182
... This would have been about second grade, age seven, so we probably would have been dealing with monosyllabic words. I think the rule for longer words was...
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