miniatureconlangs

In some languages, you sometimes have proper nouns coming from verbs, e.g. Forget-Me-Not, Vergissmeinnicht, Förgätmigej (a kind of flower i...

What consequences would it have for language if the auditory system had musculature that made the ear 'focus' on only one band of th...

In this post, "definite" refers, with regards to noun-phrases, to the quality of being a referent whose identity is known to the ...

In many languages, we find two distinct sets of nouns, viz. count nouns and mass nouns, that behave in slightly different ways: count nouns...

I have never been a fan of any conlang with a comparative case. In retrospect, I think this is a result of conlangers never thinking such a...

The Finnish partitive case is a good example of just how versatile a case can be in a language. I'll start out with a bunch of terminol...

The SI units come with prefixes that specify orders of magnitude - all the way from very small fractions to reasonably large - on a human s...