Here's a basic dialogue in Capraian. For those without incredibly long memories, this is my Mediterranean Germanic conlang project. It's Germanic, but it's not...
I thought the point of Folksprak was to make a simple Inter-Germanic language. I just took a look at the Folksprak PDF uploaded last month and it seems to be...
Hi, thanks for your comments. First off let me state that there is no "official" version of Folksprak yet, and that grammar is my own creation (albeit with...
I've been just observing for a while, because I like a posteriori conlangs. I've creating a Romantic conlang, but lately, I've been itching to try to make a...
... Welcome! ... That's true. But, if you really want to go for a historically plausible romlang, you should base it on Vulgar instead of Classical Latin. And...
... Indeed. My first association was Occitan, but we're clearly in the same region. In a way, it looks Romance as well as Germanic. A wonderful language,...
Looks Fascinating. Is "cytz" from PG *haitan. If so, how is the "c" pronounced? The word for beer, "olyty" appears to be cognate with English "ale" and Scandy...
... Thanks, Jan, for your comments! Capraian doesn't look very Germanic at all, I realise, but then the orthography was worked out by Corsican monks (or ...
... Looks Fascinating. Is "cytz" from PG *haitan. If so, how is the "c" pronounced? << Yes, that's where it's from. PG /h/ > OCap /k/, which before front...
Hi! rjtran (< Frigoterrana) is the name of my new Vulgar Latin based romlang with Icelandic flavour. The initial web pages contain mainly the first version...
theiling@...
Apr 3, 2006 5:06 pm
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... I like the f > change, but shouldn't you have p > f (e.g. in PORTA) as well? NB /p/ was *very rare* in Germanic due to the rarity of *b in PIE. In fact...
... I haven't got a chance to look at it right now, but I'm sure I'll be very interested once I can! ... Scandinavians don't have lax vowels as allophones of...
... Wow, this is what one would call: an Umlaut system from hell! ;) Congratulations! I know nothing at all about Icelandic, but I like the overall look of...
... It differs between lects, but mostly not, apart from [@] as unstressed allophone of /e/ in Danish and some Norwegian. Lax vowels do occur for short vowels...
Hi! ... I thought about it but currently decided against it, since I wanted a minimal amount of constructed sound changes. The few I have are mainly for...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 12:37 pm
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Hi! ... And scaringly, the tables do look like Icelandic at first sight... (At least to me.) BTW, a-umlaut is not implemented yet. But it's quite rare,...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 12:42 pm
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... As a quick aside, this makes sense to me. Latin /p/ survived in historical loans, so, /yes/ a Germanicized Romance seems likely to keep /p/, too. Cheers, ...
... I misspoke there, I meant "lax vowels as allophones of short ones", or alternatively, "So Scandinavians don't have [I] as the pronunciation of (short) /i/,...
I think we may partly have misunderstood each other, yes, but mostly I omitted to state clearly two facts which I took for granted: (1) that [I] occurs long...
... But don't you end up without any [f] in the lang? A Germanic lang with no [f] is decidedly more weird than a Germanic lang without /p/. -- /BP 8^)> -- ...
Hi! ... Well, with the exception of loans, yes. :-) ... But it's a hybrid conlang, so it's not only Germanic. This is then the effect of being a romlang. And...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 2:45 pm
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... As another quick aside :) I'm less sure about the f > change that functions to strip the language of /f/. OK, an early Germanicky language ought to...
Hi! ... Oh, sure. E.g. /pt/ = [ft] in ModIS (and I think also ON). Moreover, early /f/ merged with /v/ in many positions and some are pronounced [f] now...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 4:19 pm
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... I think people rarely consider the sound system of other languages when they mishear unfamiliar vowels :) But having only one vowel quality in that general...
... No, but one may consider the sound system of other languages lest one mispronounce them, and mightn't those that make one confusion be better of than those...
Hi! The first full version about verb morphology in my Latin-Icelandic conlang has been uploaded: http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s17/ (Click on 'Verbs, verbs,...
theiling@...
Apr 23, 2006 4:16 pm
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Sllir, can anyone tell me what happens with a voiced fricative resulting from Verner's Law when it occurs after a nasal? My hunch is that [mB nD NG] were...
... I found # *anti̯ó- (germ. *andja-) in got. andeis, # anord. endir, as. endi, ags. ende m., # ahd.anti, enti m. und n., nhd. Ende; Which answers the...
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