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Archive for June, 2017
Detail #348: Finely Grained Reciprocals (and potentially reflexives)
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017Detail #343, pt 2: Differential Number
Saturday, June 24th, 2017five man
three ship
etc
Detail #347 pt II: A Meatier Description of Quirks by Featural Design
Saturday, June 24th, 2017A: transitive vs. intransitive
B: perfective vs. imperfective
C: past vs. non-past
D: irrealis vs. realis
× perfective + transitive + realis + past
ב past + perfective
×’ irrealis + intransitive
ד transitive
×” past + intransitive
ו imperfective + intransitive
#500
Friday, June 23rd, 2017Rhotics can have all sorts of pronounciations, from the alveolar trill to a uvular fricative to the alveolar approximant - make your conlang use the *bilabial* trill (/Ê™/) as its default rhotic.
Detail #347: A Possible Quirk of Featural System Design
Tuesday, June 20th, 20171: A
2: B
3: C ^ D
4: ¬ D ^ E
5: ¬C
6: ¬E
Language Sketch Needed for New Intellectual Property
Tuesday, June 20th, 2017Description
Toby O’Hara is looking for a skilled conlanger to develop a conlang sketch for a new intellectual property set in a fantasy world, to be used for novels, role playing games, miniatures and board games, but starting with novels. The premise behind this language is that it was originally created by angelic and daemonic beings. The beings had a complex system for communication, based on telepathy and glyphs/runes, which they adapted into an audible language to communicate with lesser beings (i.e. humans). Nowadays, this language is long lost and forgotten, but traces of it still exist within all forms of spoken communication of the present-day world.
Initially, all that is needed is a basic conlang sketch with rules for naming characters, locations and concepts. Only a romanization is needed, the writing system is to be designed later. Regarding lexical forms, most needed are opposing concepts (e.g. good/evil, light/dark, female/male, etc.), so no more than 50 words would be necessary at this time. The sound and look of this romanized language is open to the conlanger’s imagination, hopefully with some input or feedback from the employer along the way.
Ultimately, this sketch is intended to be developed into a full conlang that will serve as the starting point for the creation of several (3-5) other spin-off languages. The language will also need a script, possibly a glyph or rune system in the vein of the Chinese hanzi or Japanese kanji, but obviously with its own unique look and feel. For that reason, experts with experience creating glyph or symbolic orthographies would be highly desirable.
This job posting is just for the initial conlang sketch. The additional work referred to above will be negotiated and contracted separately. Depending on how many people apply for the job, it is possible that more than one person will be hired to do this first sketch. In that case, it will be up to the employer which sketch will be used, and which person(s) will be hired for future assignments.
Employer
Toby O’Hara
Application Period
Until the job is filled, but at least till June 30
Term
The deadline for the Conlang Sketch is 3 months, but this can be negotiated.
Compensation
The compensation is $200 for the Conlang sketch, which will be paid in two installments (half up front, half upon completion). An additional $100 will be paid if the sketch can be completed before July 31. Besides compensation, the language creator will be fully credited for their work.
To Apply
Please email ‘Toby’ at ‘shadowborne-games’ dot ‘com’ for more information. Any sample conlangs that the applicant is willing/authorized to share would be greatly appreciated. The chosen candidate must be willing to sign a Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA) before work commences.
Note: Please assume that comments left on this post will not be read by the employer.
#499
Sunday, June 18th, 2017Langauges can split noun classes in different ways such as male/female, animate/inanimate, edible/inedible, etc.
However, your conlang should classify nouns as “human†or “dancerâ€
Dairwueh Case System: Cases as Bundles of Features, pt II
Sunday, June 18th, 2017- nominative
- accusative
- dative
- genitive
- locative-instrumental
control | ¬control | |
subject | genitive (nominative) | nominative |
¬subject | dative | accusative, loc-instr |
¬adnominal | adnominal | |
subject | nominative, genitive | genitive |
¬subject | dative, accusative | loc-instr |
Sargaĺk: 2nd Person Interaction with Demonstratives
Thursday, June 15th, 2017ʒu-ta-te-tta nen omər ulət
this.peg-you.peg me comfort give
you, give me comfort
(A rather exasperated call for support when, for instance, talking to an idiot)
Detail #346: Another Alignment
Thursday, June 15th, 2017I sew-1sg-3sg a patch onto my jacket
a patch sew-1sg-3sg I onto my jacket
sew-1sg-3sg a patch onto my jacket