Hi, I updated the alphabet of Pandunia. As you know, I'm an advocate of the IPA, but I reckoned that it will be easier for me and others to keep it ASCII...
... Niin. En pidä y:stä puolivokaalin merkkinä. Tietysti olen tottunut näkemään y:tä puolivokaalina monessa kielessä, ja se olisi aivan sopiva siihen...
Terve. I was looking through Pandunia-English word list and was wondering about the origin of some words. Is "pada" from the Russian "padat'"? I agree that...
... Yes it is. It is impossible to find widely international words for basic ideas like that, so I just pick a nice word from some large language. ... I still...
... Sitä en täysin ymmärrä. Do you mean that if schwa is not included in the vowels list, then it may not be used? Muistaakseni minä...
... Something was funny about the letters in your message. But I think what Risto is saying is that there are no rules dealing with it. I think he recognizes...
... The number codes stand for ä (a with two dots). ... Jens is right. Some people will add some extra vowel if words are too difficult for them. It's not...
... Yeah, that's the problem. It is known everywhere but it's too complex. So I have an idea, maybe crazy (any idea may seem crazy at first): let's take...
... too ... people just ... Yes, epenthesis happens. Each language seems to have its own sound to use too. Japanese seem to favor [M] while us anglophones...
... I'm guessing it's from Chinese or Korean. There is a word like it in Japanese, which is "han". The word is commonly used for a group, and it's interesting...
... It's correct, but in addition the word is also based on Chinese word "ban" (first tone), which means a group of people. I was thinking to use it as the...
I checked the plural marking of dozens of languages, and I find no universal (or widespread) pattern for it. The most regular system I found is in Quechua (and...
... "ban" ... (we), ... word ... and it ... Mandarin, so ... Rick Harrison used "men" for plural pronouns in Dunia: http://www.langmaker.com/outpost/dunia.htm ...
By the way, in Hindi there is 'gan' which means "group, multitude". I'm bearing it in mind for a long time but have not used it anywhere yet. Also, "men" could...
... I agree about the sound. Also perhaps some English speakers would associate "mi-men" with "my men", which would be bad. There's one thing that I hate about...
... I liked the suggestion made by "etherman23" on Worldlang ML: mi/ti/ta. Despite the 3 words are not ideally differenciated, they obey a logical system: m =...
Sellamat prients! Udiviteljno chto Dmitry ne mne zadal ètot vopros! "Ban" is a very widespread root, of IE origin, maybe from Nostratic, but it owes its...
... This is really one of the joys of working with language. I don't know if it can be definitely shown that "ban" and "bwana" are etymologically related, as ...
... Florent, it's not a bad idea. For the moment, I have adopted mi/yu/ta, which is good in that the three words are easy to distinguish, but bad in that it is...
... Those pronouns sound nice in my opinion too. Two of them also are identical with Nostratic pronouns, namely "mi" and "ti", if that's worth anything. -- ...
... Of course, "yu" fits better in your system. But in Pandunia, pronouns are associated with possessive "ke", so "tu, ti, yu" are all posssible choices. -- ...
salam Perhaps some of you remember my idea for the logo for Pandunia (and earlier for Pangaja). Someone with a better artistic eye than me has created same...
... (and ... has ... in the ... YouTube ... hosted by ... opportunity ... I think it's a good idea to have some type of logo or banner (I've done so for...
Hi, I have sometimes claimed that Pandunia has free word order. I'm not sure is it entirely true. Pandunia has freer word order than some other languages, but...
... I'm not exactly sure, but I think there is some principle that you are following (and that I follow in NP as well). It's something like "proximity" but ...
... Exactly! I call it pairing, but proximity is a good word too. I believe that it is universal. Speech is sequential. When we speak, words come out one after...
... By the way, referring to the discussion that is currently taking place in Auxlang, the fact that the "proximity principle" is universal is very important...
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