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854
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...
Älvard J. te Kraam...
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Aug 18, 2004
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855
... Just out of curiosity... how many other "more enthusiastic" Jameldists are there, apart from myself? :-) Thomas (who just programmed himself a custom...
tursachan2000
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Aug 18, 2004
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1. voiceless plosives > voiceless fricatives ([p],[t],[k], [kw] > [f], [T],[x],[xw]) voiced plosives > voiceless plosive ([b], [d], [g], [gw] > [p], [t], [k],...
habarakhe4
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Aug 20, 2004
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857
... <snip> diphthongs monophthongize, lowering midvowels [ai] > [e] [au] > [o] [e] > [&] [o] > [A] grammatical suffixation of prepositions 4. vowel harmony ...
habarakhe4
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Aug 23, 2004
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858
(forwarded from Conculture, as it contains some cool Gothic links) ... That's cool! ... Partially. Apart from the problems mentioned by others (namely, the ...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Aug 26, 2004
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859
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...
Frank Verhoft
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Sep 9, 2004
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860
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...
Älvard J. te Kraam...
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Sep 10, 2004
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861
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...
habarakhe4
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Sep 19, 2004
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862
... SC? -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/...
Anton Sherwood
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Sep 19, 2004
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863
... 'Tis an erratum carried over from a previous sentence....
habarakhe4
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Sep 19, 2004
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864
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 ...
daniel prohaska
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Sep 19, 2004
9:28 pm
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... 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...
Isaac A. Penzev
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Sep 20, 2004
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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 ...
Benct Philip Jonsson
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Sep 20, 2004
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867
... Influence from some Native American lgs, eh? -- Y....
Isaac A. Penzev
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Sep 21, 2004
8:01 am
868
... Yes, Iroquoian languages generally lack labial obstruents, but most of them have /u~/ which is phonetically [m=]. Strange world! /BP 8^) -- B.Philip...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Sep 21, 2004
8:11 pm
869
... her creoles, such as the interdentals [T] and [D] and umlaut plurals, at least = as a back vs. front contrast. Icelandic has the most peculiar...
habarakhe4
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Sep 22, 2004
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870
... Yep yep. But AFAIK a thousand years ago it was essentially read as it was written ;) Yitzik...
Isaac A. Penzev
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Sep 23, 2004
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871
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...
Desmond
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Sep 26, 2004
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872
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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873
... 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...
Christian Thalmann
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Sep 26, 2004
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874
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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875
... 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...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Sep 27, 2004
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876
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...
Desmond
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Sep 30, 2004
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877
I still haven't found a suitable evolution for Vinlandsk that doesn't turn it into English, German, or Dutch....
habarakhe4
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Oct 3, 2004
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878
... 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 ...
Daniel Prohaska
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Oct 3, 2004
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879
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
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880
... 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...
Isaac A. Penzev
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Oct 4, 2004
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881
... 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 ...
Bernard van Dulmen Kr...
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Oct 4, 2004
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882
... What does de gekste mean? I think that a quasi-English development ([sky:] > [ski:] > [skei] 'cloud') would be acceptable fr Vinlandisk in FI, since...
habarakhe4
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Oct 4, 2004
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883
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...
Älvard J. te Kraam...
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