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I’m most familiar with “applicative” meaning a specific way of rearranging the arguments of a verb. For example, the -el- suffix in Lingála adds a direct object to a verb, the person who …
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I have learned about serial verb constructions, and I am looking into Leonard Talmy and his theories of translating between and among Chinese/English. I have seen a few examples where “for” …
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I am basically finished with the first draft of the conlang, having figured out how to handle nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, gerunds, participles, particles, and other features …
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Usually, constructed languages of all kind (naturalistic or not) draw their sounds from existing natural languages. Are there conlangs with constructed sounds, i.e., sounds that do not occur in …
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Having just started the Duolingo Klingon course, I’m wondering if anybody is using the Klingon writing system (pIqaD) at all, or whether the Latin transliteration is always used? As the characters …
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Real languages I am aware of several types of writing systems. The first one would be left to right and a prime example is English and also most of other languages, no matter if they use letters or …
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Looking at the “about Esperanto” page, I see this line: While he realized that a common language would not end the cultural barrier, it would enable ordinary people, not politicians, to have cross …
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For the toki pona language there is a writing system where each word is replaced by a single logogram or hieroglyph. There is also a web-based converter which allows you to enter a text in toki pona …
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I have a human culture that gradually develops an underwater civilisation. They still require mouth and nose breathing and will be living in air bubbles, retaining traditional phones. They do spend a …
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Sorry, my title is slightly misleading; what I’m after is more like a written language that doesn’t have its roots in spoken language, and has no definitive translation into speech, but is none-the-…
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