... Well, a belated welcome then! ... if ... Yes please, go ahead. It sounds very interesting, and this group could use some pepper in its, eh... back-entry...
Just read Mark Dunn's novel "Ella Minnow Pea", in which the story revolves around the pangram "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." This reminded me...
... This is wonderful! Would it be too much to ask about the etymology of the words? "Grund-", "mackt" and "yïv" I can place, but to the others I'm clueless....
Jan van Steenbergen eskrë » ... In Jameld, neat etymologies are not guaranteed, especially for older words ... "Jex", formerly "jexdäi", etym. unk. ...
... Steenbergen eskrë » ... Indeed. Føtisk, which Uni and work have conspired to prevent me doing anything on in months (damn conspiracies!), considers the...
... Reminds vaguely of "yesterday"... ... Do letters with tïpelpünkte count as separate letters of the alphabet? ... I think it feels cute indeed! ... Yes,...
... If CH is a digraph, is it written as a ligature or as two separate letters (our Dutch "ij" used to be written as one character on the typewriter, and in...
Jan van Steenbergen eskrë » ... Not in Jameld, no. Nor does the fairly-rare g-with-caron. Jameld has 27 letters in its alphabet. ... Job done, then! :) ... ...
... I forgot to finish my sentence, so engrossed in my footnote was I! Here goes: Also, C only occurs in the digraph CH ... and after vowels but before...
... Which means that Jameld has a substrate from an unidentified language isolate, I assume? Yay! :) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@......
... Well, does English (other than perhaps at the Germanic level)? A whole lot of the English words beginning with J seem to have unknown etymologies or to...
<<> > "Fütsi" is a slightly more recent coining (1994), <<> > but still etym. unk. I've <<> > just looked up my record, and the only sources were <<> >...
... Let's see... the Jovian alphabet is the following: a b c d e f g h i j l m n o p r s t u v w x y z ...where w and z are purely orthographic variations of ...
Christian und Dan eskrë » ... <<> > "Fütsi" is a slightly more recent coining (1994), <<> > Looks like I was trying to find a word <<> > that 'felt' cute. ...
BPJ/Melroch eskrë » ... words ... LOL. Could be... I prefer to ascribe the more unfeasibly ugly and bizarre words to the scourge of Ravtaal (for details, see...
... Notes ... Seems fine now. Mysterious. Please do try again... ... Thanks! James PS On the subject of pangrams, do you know any Scandinavian ones? -- -- --...
... Eudora thought the closing parenthesis was part of the URL... A substrate is a language/languages were spoken in an area or by a people before being...
... 8< Many thanks - so a substrate is a relic *underlying* the more obvious aspects of the language? Like the way there are lots of valleys near where I live...
... Interesting! ... I just realised now that the Slavic zolot- (e.g. in Polish zl/oty) could well be related to *g'old :) ... Fascinating... as a Germanic...
... I just discovered that I was passing on old or misunderstood wisdom. Watkins gives a whole bunch of relatives to _gold_, including English _yellow_ and...
Greetings, I've been trying to dabble a little in my still-mostly-theoretical Germanic conlang again. Right now I'm still trying to work out how to mutate my...
... Absolutely; indeed, it's more the rule than the exception that stress and length condition vowel change. Usually long and short vowels mutate quite ...
Tomas te Hélaz eskrë » ... When vowels shift (say, for example, original /a/ becomes /o/ and original /o/ becomes /u/) is it the general rule that all...
... Well, the English Great Vowel Shift affected only long vowels, leaving the short vowels alone; true that even in ME length wasn't the only characteristic ...
A quick browse of _The Germanic Languages_ (König and van der Auwera, the Routledge Language Family series) throws up a profusion of vowel changes to ...
Thanks everyone for all your answers. Here's a concrete example of what I'm strugglig with. The OHG for "house" is /hu:s/. The OHG for "you" (the 2s pronoun)...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
