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1a. Re: How many conlangers are there in the world? (WAS Re: conlanging
From: MorphemeAddict
1b. Re: How many conlangers are there in the world? (WAS Re: conlanging
From: Mathieu Roy
2a. Re: Consonants in Jarda and Proto-Jardic
From: Jörg Rhiemeier
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1a. Re: How many conlangers are there in the world? (WAS Re: conlanging
Posted by: "MorphemeAddict" [email protected]
Date: Sat Feb 9, 2013 7:53 pm ((PST))
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Arthaey Angosii <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Sai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However, my friend Yonatan Zunger brought up[1] an interesting
> > question: how many conlangers are there, total?
> >
> > So how many of us are there? (And what proportion are queer?)
>
> But the *really* important question is: How many of us are left-handed
> bearded Lithuanians??
>
>
> Not enough.
stevo
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> AA
>
> http://conlang.arthaey.com
>
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1b. Re: How many conlangers are there in the world? (WAS Re: conlanging
Posted by: "Mathieu Roy" [email protected]
Date: Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:47 am ((PST))
I wish there was a dating website for conlanger, haha XD I wish I'll find a
girl who likes conlanging :) anybody interested? hahaha :P
Mathieu
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On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Arthaey Angosii <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Sai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However, my friend Yonatan Zunger brought up[1] an interesting
> > question: how many conlangers are there, total?
> >
> > So how many of us are there? (And what proportion are queer?)
>
> But the *really* important question is: How many of us are left-handed
> bearded Lithuanians??
>
>
> Not enough.
stevo
> --
> AA
>
> http://conlang.arthaey.com
>
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2a. Re: Consonants in Jarda and Proto-Jardic
Posted by: "Jörg Rhiemeier" [email protected]
Date: Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:34 am ((PST))
Hallo conlangers!
On Saturday 09 February 2013 22:47:16 BPJ wrote:
> On 2013-02-09 20:20, Herman Miller wrote:
> [...]
> > It's Tirelat that has /ts/ /dz/ as phonemes. But maybe some Jarda
> > words with /s/ followed by a front vowel like "sül" (married
> > couple) might have come from an original *t that was palatalized.
> >
> > *tilu > *tsilu > *tsülu > *tsül > sül
That makes sense. /t/ becomes /ts/ before /i/ in many languages,
and /ts/ > /s/ is also a very common sound change.
> [...]
> >> Maybe */cl/ > /śl/ etc. or else /cl/ etc. merge with
> >> /tl/ etc. if these exist; cf. English where /tr/, /dr/
> >> are often [tʃɹ], [dʒɹ] or even [ʈʂ], [ɖʐ].
Yes, it happened in some dialects of English. /tr/ > /ʈʂ/ also
happened in one of my conlangs - the Northern Neck dialect of
Old Albic. (The closely allied Southern Neck dialect has /tr̥/.)
> >> Chances are
> >> likely that /c/, /ɟ/ are actually alveopalatal, i.e.
> >> what Sino-Tibetanists would write as ȶ ȡ! AFMOC
> >> Sohlob has /ȶɕ/, /ȡʑ/~[ʑ], /ɕ/ and {/ɕt/, /ȶɕt/, /sȶɕ/},
> >> {/ȡʑd/, /zȡʑ/} are realized as [ɕȶ], [ʑȡ], which I
> >> transcribe _çt, jd_ -- you will remember that I have
> >> qualms about word-initial _jd_ in Cidilib. The area
> >> where Cidilib is spoken is [dɮɒˈfiɕȶir] 'Içtir Mountains'
> >> BTW, where /dlof/ is the reflex of _*gryafu_.
Nice! In Northern Neck Old Albic, /tɕ/ is cognate to Southern
Neck /tɬ/ (< Proto-Albic */tl/ and */kl/, both preserved in
Classical Old Albic).
> > /tl/ does exist ("tlug" = "neck"); the Zharranh word for "neck" is
> > "qolka" with initial /kw/, so it would be interesting if these are
> > somehow related. I think maybe the *kl /_i > *cl > /śl/ might work
> > out better though.
Fair. Maybe first the lateral was palatalized, which caused the
/k/ to palatalize, and then the contrast between alveolar and
palatal lateral was lost. Or whatever. You are much more
knowledgeable than me in this regards, it seems.
> [...]
> >> Intervocalic [ʈ]ˌ [ɖ] easily become [ɽ], whence I guess [ɻ] is
> >> a small step.
Yep.
> [loss of retroflexes]
>
> Another possibility is that retreflexes merged with
> (alveo)palatals. They are quite similar acoustically.
Yes. Many languages have only one kind of postalveolars, and
when such a substratum is involved, /ɕ/ and /ʂ/ may merge into
/ʃ/ etc. (of course, it may also happen without a substratum,
too).
> [...]
> >> The spontaneous voicing of [ʍ] seems OK but [ç] > [j]
> >> somehow rubs me the wrong way. I'd rather expect
> >> [ç] > [h], at least word initially. I'm clearly
> >> influenced by Sohlob here, though!
> >>
> >> /bpj
> >
> > Here the problem is that we don't have a good way to write a
> > voiceless /j/ without making it look like the German "ich" sound.
> > I'm thinking of the same kind of change that happened in many
> > dialects of English when the "wh" sound was merged with /w/. Carl
> > Sagan's pronunciation of "human" as /jumən/ is an example of that
> > change.
>
> <foreheadslap>
Indeed, /ç/ > /j/ certainly is possible, especially if /ʍ/ becomes
/w/ in the same language.
In some dialects of German, /ç/ has become /ʃ/: "In der Palz geht
der Parrer mit der Peife in die Kirsche". (Helmut Kohl's famous
_Gechichte_ is a hypercorrection: in his native Pfälzer dialect,
the word is _Geschischte_.)
> > I could just arbitrarily write /J/ I guess. ɪ could write /j̥/, but
> > the ring under the j might not be apparent depending on your font.
>
> Tolkien used ƕ and ꜧ for labiovelar and palatal voiceless
> approximants.
> I have used ƕ for the coarticulated [x] and voiceless bilabial
> approximant which occurs for /x/ hereabouts.
What sound is _ƕ_ in Gothic? /ʍ/?
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