... Good to hear on both counts. :) By the way, I've also got a brace of Indo-European-inspired conlangs, and want to make a more-or-less Indo-Iranian one...
... Briefly saying, yep. ... [skip] Sounds quite promising. I had somewhat similar ideas not long ago, but, as usually, lacked time... ... Nice name. No...
... Hm. looks like _desert_ be ultimately derived from Egyptian, which of course it is not. Would be fun to create a con-setting where it is, though! /BP 8^)>...
... Yeah, I know the similarity there is only coincidental. But I wanted my "non-Egyptians" to have some "desert nomad" vibe about them as well, so the "red...
... Well, I'm all for it. I had been thinking I might fill in some of my conlang's "missing DNA" with ideas from Arabic. The problem is I don't know much...
... "dashrawatu" is more real, but I suppose that after -VC- the feminine marker need not be vocalised, thus maybe sg. "dashratu", du. "dashratju", pl. ...
... Well, sounds good to me. Is there any evident logic to why one variant or another gets used? Otherwise I guess it's just whether I like dashiru or...
... "brace"! Dual number! ... I'm sure the "Iranian" part counts as "Western Asian". And anything East of India probably counts as East Asian. India itself...
... _Lack_, yes! :) Gosh I've called, the dual a case and left out words ... I've not been doing well this past week! ... Thanks -- I'll check those links...
... Also consider shifting the place of articulation, e.g. to fully labial: /ipti/. (I think Greek did /k_w/ --> /t/, for example.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton...
Another possibility is to change the *non* labiovelars. So, for example, one common sound change with CC where the pair are non-identical stops is to...
If you read German the posthumous Avestan (historical) phonology by Karl Hoffmann is worth its salt. I don't understand sometimes how fortunate I am to have ...
... Is this it?: Karl Hoffmann and Bernhard Forssman, _Avestische Laut- und Flexionslehre_ (University of Innsbruck, 1996). My spoken German is virtually dead...
... yep, that's it. There is also a collection called "Compendium linguarum iranicarum" which contains some useful stuff but may be too costy to be worth it....
... For material as technical as grammar, I can usually manage French. :) But, yes, I think I need to start with less costly sources. On the other hand, I...
Hi all, I'm revisiting an Armenian based conlang I started back in 2005 - in fact, I'm giving it a complete overhaul, though much of the original inspiration...
Actually, this is a big help! If you've already had the ideas then I know I'm not pulling oddball things out of the aether! Cheers and thanks! Eamon...
... Well, the fact that _I_ thought of it doesn't prove it isn't oddball nor "pulled out of the aether". But in fact I think your ideas are neither oddball nor...
I just wanted to wish a joyful Pesach to those who are about to celebrate. I doubt I'll be on-line tomorrow, so I'm just a bit early. Perhaps the traditional...
Appologies in advance to those who have recieved or will recieve multiple copies of this e-mail. Quite a number of you are on multiple con-whatsit lists, or...
Can anyone tell me what the Arabic for "The great Western lands" and/or "The Great West" would be? An ArabTeX transliteration, if you know it, would also be...
Appologies to any who reciev more than one copy of this update, but so many of you are on more than one list that I can't keep track of who's where. This...
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