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I was able to get the initial sound changes for one of my conlangs (code name: Fate) to work out right in SCA^2 on Zompist! A lot of the problems were a mix of syntax, having to add an additional rule bc I had taken something for granted, and having to write out several versions of the same rule bc I couldn’t get it to work otherwise (degemmination 🙃) but I got it there!
I double checked it on what I did by hand and it even fixed a couple mistakes I had made!
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Petition to fill these gaps. I think it's fervifically stupible that we don't use them. I'll support it with vigid and candific rigour.
Does that mean Vapor and Vapid are related? That makes sense.
So I’m wanting to make a dragon language and to make up for a lack of labials (dragons have no lips) I’m giving them a series of pharyngeal consonants and I am so glad that on further inspection symbols for them have been added to the ipa (the one in the book I have is the 2005 version and only has the fricatives and my 2020 one also doesn’t so maybe Wikipedia is bullshitting me)
We’re learning the nifal (נפעל) pattern in Hebrew now and I’m just like
Language with no morphological future tense vs language with no morphological present tense FIGHT
(Aka ‘to be’ is doing too many jobs in translating to English and I keep wanting to translate the imperfects to the future perfect in English “will have been” but that’s not really the point of the verb tense)
English doesn’t have a letter for ʃ
I don’t want to use to ʃ bc I have to switch keyboards if on mobile and also it’s distracting because it’s not a usually seen letter in English
Don’t want to use <sc> because I do that a lot
Kind of want to use the long s, but I can’t type that on mobile
If I use a diacritic I might forget what it means
Leaving me with *drumroll*: ß (which does not make the ʃ sound but is a convenient to type letter and it is made of the long s and the ezh (ʒ) so it’s a win win)
Basically I wish it was easier to type old letters on standard keyboards (long s, insular g (assuming you aren’t in a font that defaults the g to an insular g such as Uncial Antiqua), wynn, ezh, round r, etc.). They’re such cool letters and I would love to be able to type them on mobile, but I can’t and for some of them the font support is abysmal.
I think I need to clarify something: I’m not asking for alternatives here. I’m merely going through my thought process. I don’t want something I have to copy/paste, I don’t want to use diacritics on consonants, I don’t want to use digraphs if I can avoid it. For me ß fits all of these criteria, and I don’t care that it usually doesn’t make the sh sound.
Really this was more about how hard it can be to type non-standard letters on mobile than anything else.
English doesn’t have a letter for ʃ
I don’t want to use to ʃ bc I have to switch keyboards if on mobile and also it’s distracting because it’s not a usually seen letter in English
Don’t want to use <sc> because I do that a lot
Kind of want to use the long s, but I can’t type that on mobile
If I use a diacritic I might forget what it means
Leaving me with *drumroll*: ß (which does not make the ʃ sound but is a convenient to type letter and it is made of the long s and the ezh (ʒ) so it’s a win win)
Basically I wish it was easier to type old letters on standard keyboards (long s, insular g (assuming you aren’t in a font that defaults the g to an insular g such as Uncial Antiqua), wynn, ezh, round r, etc.). They’re such cool letters and I would love to be able to type them on mobile, but I can’t and for some of them the font support is abysmal.
@sir-virtem I completely forget <x> existed for the purposes of this sound lol. I’ve used it before and I don’t have the velar fricatives so yeah I could use that probably.
@digilici Mostly my desire to use as few digraphs as possible.
English doesn’t have a letter for ʃ
I don’t want to use to ʃ bc I have to switch keyboards if on mobile and also it’s distracting because it’s not a usually seen letter in English
Don’t want to use <sc> because I do that a lot
Kind of want to use the long s, but I can’t type that on mobile
If I use a diacritic I might forget what it means
Leaving me with *drumroll*: ß (which does not make the ʃ sound but is a convenient to type letter and it is made of the long s and the ezh (ʒ) so it’s a win win)
Basically I wish it was easier to type old letters on standard keyboards (long s, insular g (assuming you aren’t in a font that defaults the g to an insular g such as Uncial Antiqua), wynn, ezh, round r, etc.). They’re such cool letters and I would love to be able to type them on mobile, but I can’t and for some of them the font support is abysmal.
Weird skill* I’ve picked up because of conlanging:
I learned how to type Unicode characters. Mac has a Unicode hex input keyboard, and it works like a normal keyboard, but if you press the option key you can then put in the code for pretty much any Unicode character. Obviously I use it more for ipa symbols, and there are many that I’ve started to memorize (such as the voiced alveolar approximant [ɹ] which is the most common American English realization of /r/ and thus the one I am most familiar with). It’s so cool.
*I don’t know if it counts as a skill but it’s something I bet a lot of average people don’t know how to do so
fun fact for those who don't know you can do the same thing with alt + decimal code of an unicode character (you cannot do it in hex which afaik is the default most places give for unicode characters)
also if you have like 30 mins of time to learn how to do it and install some windows tool the name of which escapes me you can make a full on custom keyboard layout with any unicode characters. This includes combining diacritics, for example I set alt + l as the combining macron so i can easily make long versions of any vowel like ā
Annoying thing: looking up flora that grows in certain areas (specifically northeast Minnesota this time) and things have country names in their common name and/or specific name.
Like the American Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana). Yes this is a tree that I would like in this place in my world. No I am not going to call it the American Mountain Ash bc America doesn’t exist in this world. I’m gonna have to call it something else.
Really it’s the only type of ash tree that I’ve singled out here so it’s just gonna be called ‘zo’ which is the root word for ‘ash tree’ that I came up with. But my point stands.
(State websites are actually surprisingly good for like flora and fauna stuff. They even tell you if something is native to the state or not.)
Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!
I have beef with one (1) anthropologist who I know of purely bc of my special interest in the Upper Paleolithic-Neolithic in Europe. If you have any interest in pre-Indo-European Europe you probably know who I’m talking about.
My beef is purely in “old Europe was a matriarchal peaceful culture until the patriarchal Indo-Europeans came in and violently conquered them all” like I’m sorry you think a geographic area as large and as relatively sparsely populated as Europe at the time had a single unified culture? Really? Press X to Doubt.
Like I’m just a layman, I don’t have degrees in this stuff, and I know that the Kurgan Hypothesis (for the homeland of PIE) is the widely accepted theory for where Indo-European came from (which is cool im not disputing that, I’m only bringing this up bc same person).
But you can’t seriously think that all of Neolithic Europe had a singular culture. I’m not talking about tools and pottery and stuff. I’m talking the less concrete stuff: beliefs, rituals, structure, language. (I’ve also got beef with the Vasconic guy, but it seems more people have beef with him as well)
I also take umbrage with the “peaceful matriarchal mother goddess worshipping” part of it, from an ideological standpoint mostly. Like yeah they probably had a mother goddess or two. Most ancient cultures did! That doesn’t mean they were peaceful or matriarchal or anything like that. It smacks of mystical feminine energy or whatever to me. I don’t like it.
(To be clear: I don’t care about the mother goddess part of this. I don’t care about the idea that most of their deities were goddesses tho I don’t think there’s much evidence for that. I care about the idea that that somehow leads to them being peaceful and matriarchal. I don’t think those correlate. I don’t think there’s sufficient evidence for either of those.)
(To be extra clear: I have no issue with goddess worship, whether ancient or modern. If you find the idea of goddess comforting or ‘right’ then I’m happy for you. Sometimes I do too. This just feels like it’s inching a little too close to ‘esoteric divine feminine womb magic’ to me.)
I’m doing the Conlang Year thing, but I’m trying to breeze through the January prompts kind of at once, because I have my comps for my masters in February and still have books to read for them.
Weird skill* I’ve picked up because of conlanging:
I learned how to type Unicode characters. Mac has a Unicode hex input keyboard, and it works like a normal keyboard, but if you press the option key you can then put in the code for pretty much any Unicode character. Obviously I use it more for ipa symbols, and there are many that I’ve started to memorize (such as the voiced alveolar approximant [ɹ] which is the most common American English realization of /r/ and thus the one I am most familiar with). It’s so cool.
*I don’t know if it counts as a skill but it’s something I bet a lot of average people don’t know how to do so
Decided I was doing way too much for this one conlang. Like it’s meant to be a very early language, it doesn’t need multiple case endings or complicated conjugations.
Really all it needed was strict word order, ways of indicating plurality (also duality bc that’s fun), and ways of indicating that a verb is (1) factual and complete, (2) factual and ongoing, (3) doubtful and complete, (4) doubtful and ongoing, and (5) past tense (all this to say indicative vs irrealis and perfective vs imperfective with an infix indicating that its past tense whereas the default is non-past and unmarked)
Word order is OVS, several words mean multiple adpositions (e.g., ‘ak’ can mean and, with, in, or on), adjectives come directly after their noun and the way you differentiate adjective vs possession is the word ‘wrth’ which acts as a marker of possession and comes from ‘wrtha’ meaning ‘to hold’. So:
Hwith kaunta -> mammoth tooth
Hwith wrth kaunta -> mammoth’s tooth
Overall I’m liking it much better now. I was having trouble getting my endings to a place I liked but I really liked my roots, so this is a better situation imo
If I ever start evolving it into daughter languages, then I’ll worry about evolving case endings and stuff
I got more conglanging books!!!
Had to deal with the ordeal of my parents and grandparents going “what are these books” and the short answer being “it’s a hobby” bc we didn’t have time to go into it
A couple of example sentences (okay the same sentence but the first is the proto-lang and the second is an intermediate stage of the language)
This is one of my first goes at sound changes and interlinear glosses. If there’s any confusion with the gloss, ask and I’ll do my best to answer.
Also: one fun thing about having little actual formal linguistics education (ok about 3 hours short of a TESOL minor but most of it was sociolinguistics and not applied linguistics aka the class I was missing) and being into conlanging is that on the one hand I can know what I want a functions to be. On the other hand I don’t know the proper way to explain said function.
Aka the genitive case confuses me so I have a possessive case which may or not be an actual grammatical case according to Wikipedia (as well as an objective case and a lative case for similar reasons)
I’m currently tinkering with a proto-lang of a people that are roughly equivalent to like the Upper Paleolithic cultures (Aurignacian or Gravettian) of Europe so it’s like one of this setting’s very first languages so it can be a bit wonky
