Anton, Yeah. How do you think this person wrote this in Adunaic? Here is the link: http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/arwenlament.html And here it is pasted: Ûrîn...
Being impatient and all, I've skipped finishing Ancient Føtisk and doing Old and Middle Føtisk before getting to the orthography of Modern Føtisk, though...
... Argh! You've been withholding those for ages! I'm beginning to suspect that you'll never write them down, so as not to spoil the reputation of reductio...
... It all depends (or used to depend) on the availability and price of founts of type. Caxton and the early English printers used type imported from the Low...
... Well... The thing is, my mind is not entirely made up on how to do everything. And, though it's so very tempting to do MnF before OF because I get to...
... I'd say it's nothing unconventional for a minority language to have a conservative orthography. ... Yes, that sounds convincing. ... Either that, or...
... Did their isolation not encourage them to make their own types? ... Oh, yes please! The ligatures I mentioned before---ae, oe, ue with dots above and ao...
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Jan van Steenbergen wrote: ... Well, I was thinking more along the availability and price of fonts, wouldn't a minority language be less...
... And sorry to be a bother, but a gj ligature (simply a connexion from the top of the g to the j in a nice-looking way) would be nice too. Not overly...
... [snip] ... The book is early 20th century, the type is probably 19th century. The switch to Antikva was made mid 19th century in Sweden, but considerably...
Hello, all, Some of you know me from conculture and conlang; that said, down to business. I'm working on a Gothic daughter conlang, and I have at my disposal ...
... <http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_wright_about.html>. ... I now realise that I got the glossary from you! Crazy. Thanks for the weblink!...
... Actually, not 'technically' in this world at all. I'm just developping it to use in a story I'm working on...though placing it here's not a bad idea...
I've now uploaded a file representing the pronunciation as shown in Wright's Gothic Grammar (as far as I can tell). Please visit the following weblink and...
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What's/'re the origins of the North Germanic postponed articles (-en and -et)? And is the -s/-st from _sik_, 'self'? (And is it reflexive, as I thought and...
Hello, ... Demonstratives. "Pre-runic, or I'll eat my cap and gown" (c). ... Yes. There are also theories that these forms are partly from suffixed sér as...
... There is _slåss_ 'fight oneanother' from _slå_ 'beat, hit, pound', which however also has a normal passive _slås_ with a single _s_. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip...
... It's a reduced form of the demonstrative ON _hin_ (neuter _hit_). Minus the leading "h", -in and -it were the clitic forms in ON. (Source: The Germanic ...
Does anyone know of ancient Germanic units of measurement, specifically of distance? I'm intrigued to know if there was an alternative system to yards and...
Hello everybody! I have decided I would like to join Ill Bethisad to work with the Baltic and Finnic languages. Who should I contact? I have some ideas. The...
Hi! I'm 15 years old and I'm planning on working on two Germanic- style languages that will be derived from my own proto-language. As soon as some books from...
... That seems indeed a rather polite thing for me to do as well... My name is Bernard van Dulmen Krumpelman. I study Dutch language and literature in the...
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... Welcome, both! To Bernard: I skimmed through your pages, and discovered your Adzhatian language. What a surprise; I would never have suspected that my...
I tried to send these two before from the wrong sender address (guess which!:) I'm resending them in a single cover with apologies to those that get it double!...