miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Dairwueh: Person-Specific Quirky Case
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Certain verbs in Dairwueh have no forms for some set of persons, generally one or both of first and second person. Most of these in fact on...
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Detail #306: Pronoun as Comparison Strategy
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This is, I think, a new comparison strategy. Consider a pronoun that indicates that a thing is being compared. I'll be using italicized...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Detail #305: Social-Status Demonstrative Quality Pronouns
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In languages with great amounts of social stratification, where this stratification has been grammaticalized, consider pronouns and determi...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
A Musical Notation
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Consider a culture of polyphonic improvization where the conductor has a sign language, using the position of the left and right arm to com...
Sunday, August 21, 2016
#305: Telling Time
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In non-earth conworlds, telling time could use non-number-based lexemes. Consider giving hours or their analogies their own names, and givi...
Sargaĺk: A Common Saying and some Grammar
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mist od kaməŕtat od (tućś): all our oars (are still here) "All", od is a bit peculiar, in appearing both to the left and rig...
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Sargaĺk Personal Pronouns
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I suddenly noticed I have not posted a table of personal pronouns in Sargaĺk, so I guess I might just as wellpost such a thing: 1sg 2sg...
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