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When making the pre proto and proto world languages, I got very confused in how I needed to make multiple more down the line. what would be the most efficient method to make this problem solved?
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Esperanto is already pretty well-known, but Proto-Esperanto is not so much. There is some info on Wikipedia, but not much. For example, what is the phonology like? What letters are in the alphabet? ...
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I'm a beginner to glossing and have virtually zero linguistics knowledge, so please keep answers simple if possible! Apologies that I don't know how to do the spacing properly for the gloss below, ...
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About 30 years ago, there was some talk about "Trigger languages" on conlang-l. The term seems to relate to Austronesian languages like Tagalog and to the exploration of unusual (in terms of ...
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If all world grammars were merged, intelligently, into a single supergrammar, what would that grammar look like (in Chomsky notation)? And, how would you do it?
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There are some conlang word generation tools that are often recommended, such as: https://susurrus-llc.github.io/langua/gen/ https://monke.lunah.dev/ https://github.com/conlang-software-dev/...
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Can someone please point me to an ideogram-based/including, constructed language (like Chinese or Japanese)? Thanks.
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Inspired by the question Word for both complex and detailed I want to know how to express this concept in a minimalistic language like Toki Pona. It is clear to me, that complex and detailed are ...
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In Chinese, 我们 is used to address the self plus a set of other people, and 咱们 to address the self plus the listener plus a set of other people (especially in Beijing talk). What if there was more ...
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I want to PHP-explode a word in all possible ways, including, appending, prepending, englobulating, transposing, word parts in generic names and drawing a scene containing all parts, (even. in a time-...
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I'm not making a conlang; I'm just asking a hypothetical. So, as you can guess by the title, I want to know about how someone can use an alphabetic numeral system alongside a positional one without ...
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I'm currently trying to retroactively fit three originally unrelated languages (Apshur, Mtsqrveli, and Dingir) into a family, but their pronouns are causing me some trouble. Currently, they contrast ...
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I would like to know what studies, have, been made to do with articulation and speed.
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The split between nominative-accusative, ergative-absolutive, and other alignment types (Austronesian, tripartite, neutral ...) gets a lot of attention, but there's another split that's also ...
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The ornative case, used in the description of some languages like Hungarian, is used to indicate that the marked case is an attribute of, or possessed by, another noun. Wikipedia gives the example of ...
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