Vreleksá

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I feel like I've been posting a lot. Wink

But, I saw something similar in earlier threads and I thought it'd be fun to throw out the names of my conlangs. (I tried doing this earlier but I was distracted by TV and timed out - oops.)

I'm using > to denote a dialect, and >> or >>> to denote further deviation, showing that the language is related to the one lacking an arrow but derived from one that is derived from it. I hope that's not confusing. (^_^)

Already posted:

Hemnälg
Tadváradcel
Ualaxx

Currently working on (in DEPTH):

Ddamaiche (though by the time I’m done with it the name probably will have changed)
Hellcat (the actual name of which I haven’t figured out a Romanization for yet)

Other (human):

Kari
>Ipisha/behyokicha
>>Tuyago
Naau
>Qi
>>NgRayang
>>Hé
>Myaga
>>Yia
Bai-ren-gen-Mak
>Hob-dee-gen-Mak (Yhe bei-pyonam) – this isn’t so much a dialect as a branch on the same tree
>Ta Nonn-gen-Mak – same thing here
>>Kiyrop – this is actually a dialect of Ta Nonn
Ddamaiche
>Báiliá
>>Brech
>>>Eastern Brech
Nómah – partly related to ddamaiche
Taisyth (Sal-Haim)
>Northern Taisyth (Thashyb/Shalimh)
>Delolha’
Adia – a variant of Ualaxx
>Nanga
>Aá E Iná
>Ste – considered part of the Adia family but only because of some grammatical similarities
Nel
Da’eam
Lisudu (Chaman/Chad-ci/Nablach)
>Tesq
>River dialect
>Massah
Westerling (Bal)
Border dialects (<actually>Kwb
>Bris
>je losama kiebhoch

Other (faerie):

Nymphean (family)
ra cel
Tadváradcel
>advaë/adhafä
la Cel
>evrë(cel)
>Âþê

Asrai
Ayar
Valla
Kkuch!ch!

Keudeu

Nus

Other (magical):

Chant
>Kribéda – could be considered a separate language but derived from Chant
>Daekik

I'll admit, I made the bases for ALL the human languages and some of the faerie languages about 5 years ago, and most of them never turned into more than basic grammar and lexicons of probably 50-100 words. But, if any of them seem interesting enough just by name, I'd be more than happy to work on them and post them for constructive criticism. Comments, please! Very Happy

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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:09 am Post subject:

Nice, you've done some work on all of those? Dang.

I have plans for something on a similar scale, but it'll take me quite some time to do anything at all. (And I think I have barely 150 words in Emitare so far, I suck so bad at making vocab.)

I wish you could do a 'family tree' somehow on a forum. I'd like to see yours, maybe as an image if you can.

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I could try that... just for the human-languages though, since the others really aren't related to them or each other at all. I'll give it a shot. Very Happy

Do you want any help with vocab?
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I'm not sure what I mean either. Laughing

I'll let you know if I figure it out.
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

How can I post an image on here?
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:07 am Post subject:

Upload it somewhere (like Photobucket), then put it in [img] tags.

And thanks for the vague offer of help again ^_^

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

http://s627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/achemel/?action=view&current=languagetree.jpg

I couldn't figure out the picture thing so I did it under URL... Rolling Eyes

Here's the language tree for most of my languages. (^_^)
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

Cool. What do the underlines mean?

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Haha, woops - the red lines are to mark the family base; the Italic/Celtic-root, for example, shows languages I made based on Romance-language grammar or Celtic-sounding/looking words, and the Asian-root are based on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese words and grammar. The Ciphers I just didn't have a general classification for... And, the blue lines mark older versions of a language that are extinct or remain only as a "classical" form, kind of like Classical Arabic is to Arabic, or Latin was to 18th or 19th century English (or whenever it was). "Tanga" is the version of Kari I used for my senior project presentation in high school, but now it's a bit outdated.

And, the "proto-grunt" is supposed to be a universal sort of natural language in our future which then splits into the Asian and Italic branches due to religious and political conflicts.
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

Cool indeed. I like the ideas. How are you going to relate the Asian and Italo-Celtic ones back together?

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Haha, I'm not sure... Some things in the Italic/Celtic languages have a bit of Asian-root influence; for example, some structures and phrases take the verb at the end, despite normal verb flexibility, and the process of combining verbs is the same in both families - it's kind of like Japanese, where you take the... stem? (verb - /-masu/) and then you can tack on other verbs like 続く or　始める etc. Likely the proto-grunt will be more of a basis for the Italic/Celtic languages, and then the conflicts already present at its foundation as the base language will be the cause to the split into the Asian-root family. If you have any suggestions on how to make them relate I'll consider them gladly! (^_^)
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject:

That's cool. Relating already extant languages back together is a lot harder than descending off of the original one, so you may end up having to go back and change stuff to make it make more sense. I can see the proto-grunt being more Italo-Celtic, languages can change at what look like massively different rates (compare both Spanish and French to Latin).

JSYK, that pre-masu form is technically called the ren'youkei 連用形. Sadly, I've never seen a Modern Japanese grammar or textbook in English that actually describes Japanese right. I can't stand the name 'pre-masu stem' - why not just call it the ren'youkei and get it over with?
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achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Haha, I totally feel that - we learned some proper terms for things like the different levels of honorifics and stuff from our recitation teachers, since the textbook got confusing. Although, I've kinda forgotten what they are now... sonkeigo and... sumthin' else? As cool as ren'youkei looks it sure is easier to just type in "stem" isn't it? Wink

I seriously hope I get to learn all the right terms this fall... or in the spring. XD If I don't I might just have to ask you about them, ahahahaaa.
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:21 am Post subject:

I'd be happy to teach you ^_^

AFAIK the Wikipedia article on Japanese grammar uses most of the right terms. I learned them from learning Classical Japanese (the textbook by Shirane Haruo, the book cover says Haruo Shirane). ^_^

I prefer typing out 'ren'youkei' since it's not really the 'stem'. IDK what the stem is, but if anything I would say there are 5 (in Classical Japanese, where the system is more visible) and the ren'youkei is one of them.

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

Well, we learned a bunch of terms... the stem is ren'youkai, the root is used to determine if the verb is a "vowel-verbal" or a "consonant-verbal" - and I know these are incredibly stupid terms and we've all spent the last two years making fun of them and others. Anyway, so the root of /iku/ would be /ik-/ and that's supposed to tell you that when you make it polite /ikimasu/ you have to have the /i/ with /masu/, not like /taberu/. That's a "vowel-verbal" and I forget the real term for the three (?) verb types... Um, the /te/ form we just call the gerund form. There's the /ba/ and /ra/ forms, and the rest of the terms we learned I think are pretty normal: causative, passive, volitional, etc.

Claaaaassical Japanese!!!! I have to wait until next year to take it because you have to have 3 years under your belt firrrrrrrst... Crying or Very sad

I may have to look for that book.
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:42 am Post subject:

Hemicomputer · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:27 am Post subject:

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

I'm still working on figuring out /ra/ and /ba/ myself. Smile

I know I've heard "godan verb" before!! But, I couldn't remember what it meant. XD Perhaps sometime this week I'll have to browse Barnes&Noble for that book - amazingly enough I've got a giftcard for $20 or so, heh. (^_^)

We did learn about the adjectival ren'youkei because we dove right into the super-ridiculously polite forms first, because they're more difficult than the casual forms and all that. I know a bunch of stuff because I love the variety in dialects, and you can see that some dialects retain the old forms sometimes. Very Happy

I love it!!
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah