Just an invitation to join my new jameld-announce mailing list. I'll be using it to notify members of changes to my site (mainly Jameld-related, but the Plexus...
... Just out of curiosity... how many other "more enthusiastic" Jameldists are there, apart from myself? :-) Thomas (who just programmed himself a custom...
(forwarded from Conculture, as it contains some cool Gothic links) ... That's cool! ... Partially. Apart from the problems mentioned by others (namely, the ...
Hi all, I just started a group on "Nederlands NT2", Dutch as a Second Language: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nederlands_nt2/ "This is a forum for anybody...
Now here's a thing: how does one handle plurals of abbreviations? Here's an example: I bought 3 CDs and a couple of old LPs. Plurals in Jameld depend on the...
In my FI universe, Vinland (ultimately New England and Canada's maritime provinces) and SC recieves settlers in the 13th century from Greenland, Iceland, and...
Hi, There's one striking feature about colonial varieties and that is that the phonology of the first wave of settlement seems to be disproportionately ...
... I 'm not a specialist in creyols, but I would expect that the new lg would have sounds that might be found in most of the contributing lgs. Your idea seems...
Vķnlenzka in *my* ATL Lucus is a creole based on 10th century Norse and native languages. It is stratified with Acro-, Meso- and Basilects. The acrolect is ...
... Yes, Iroquoian languages generally lack labial obstruents, but most of them have /u~/ which is phonetically [m=]. Strange world! /BP 8^) -- B.Philip...
Hi all, Could anyone please verify the potential vowel system of my new pet? My new conlang is an isolate natural language with a significant influx of...
Hi! ... Comparing it to the German and with some experience with its vowel ... very feasible ... very feasible ... Probably e: <-> E (Also see that [I] is very...
Henrik Theiling
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Sep 26, 2004 2:12 pm
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... There's some German bias showing in your recommendations... Italian and Ancient Greek, for example, have /E:/ vs /e/ and /O:/ vs /o/. It took a heated...
Hi! ... Hmm, yes, of course. :-) I said that at the beginning. :-) I see that it would be feasible in principle to just do it the other way around, because in...
Henrik Theiling
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Sep 26, 2004 5:04 pm
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... Actually the (Attic[*]) Greek case was more like two distinct heights of mid long vowels /E:/ |H| and /e:/ |EI| and one short sound |E| which probably was...
Thanks guys for the verification! At this stage, I'll stick to the verified vowel system suggested by Henrick. The consonant system of my isolate (supposed to...
... I'd start with Old Icelandic. Add very little Inuit influence, then look into the typology and phonology of the old Native American languages of ...
Hello! Hallo! Hej! I've been following this list for some time now and now that I finally finished my own auxlang, I wanted to tell you about it. I've already ...
Pascal A. Kramm
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Oct 4, 2004 4:44 am
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... hmm. Familiar feeling. One of the strongest reasons that made me to abandon Ešelenglisc project: whatever sound shift I applied, in result it sounded like...
... That's odd; it seems more logic that it would turn in some kind of Danish or Norwegian (Nynorsk), since it were Norsemen that discovered Vinland. The ...
... What does de gekste mean? I think that a quasi-English development ([sky:] > [ski:] > [skei] 'cloud') would be acceptable fr Vinlandisk in FI, since...
First, apologies for crossposting, but this is applicable to both the germaniconlang and romconlang lists. I'm looking for a bit of guidance. Capraian is my...