miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Phonology idea
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Do a statistical survey of the distribution of different vowels and consonants in some common form of English. The survey would basically gi...
Friday, July 26, 2013
Detail #50: a type of numeral
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At times, trying to come up with numerals different from the normal ordinals, cardinals, groups-of-N, and distributives and whatnots is a th...
Monday, July 22, 2013
Detail #49: Case system detail / Vocatives
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Imagine a language with vocatives and with case congruence on adjectives. Further imagine the language has some kind of intensive or superla...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Tatədiem
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Tatədiem is a conlang I have been, well, not working on per se, but coming up with occasional ideas for over about eight years now. I have ...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
The Isolating Conlang: Implicit adjectives for adpositions
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In some languages, adjectives can take complements - e.g. afraid of bears, proud of himself, full of shit, ... In English, almost all such ...
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Detail #48: Some congruence blocking things
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I considered making a few suggestions along the lines of "no congruence for interrogative pronouns" and so on, but changed my mind...
Detail #47: A superlative construction
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Use either all or every (if your language distinguishes them), in dative or comparable form as a particle, with a regular adjective. Works w...
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