By the way, I'm still curious if any language—#natlang or #conlang—has rules for politeness resolution, i.e. a grammaticalized strategy to resolve combined reference to individuals with different politeness status, e.g. when you collectively address a group of which some members are tu and some are vous. I raised that question at the end of a recent blog post on my PhD research that, predictably, went largely unnoticed (it's quite a wall of text, sry 😅): https://ayeri.de/archives/7835

#linguistics

I had been working on a Ph. D. in German Language for what feels like forever—more accurately, for seven years since February of 2017. As the proverb goes, “Good things come to those who wait,” so last month, the revised version of my thesis has finally been published by Language Science Press’ Advances in Historical Linguistics series.

Carsten Becker. 2024. Genusresolution bei […]

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Would you like to find out what your name is in the language of a Goddess?

It has been living in my head since I was created, and it has existed before the memory of my body's brain.

I would love to give people names in my #conlang (If you could call a #natlang constructed in that it is non-terran and personal), and help me not starve!

All for the cost of a coffee.

What do you say?

I think today I am going to have as much Iscrezian become as I possibly can, starting with the font and the roots. I am going to look deep inside and outside until I have divined as much as there is to divine.

#conlang #natlang

Taki Taki : smallest natlang
annno 2005

Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.

https://www.vistawide.com/languages/language_statistics.htm

A few years later it had already some 10 000 words ...

#TakiTaki #Sranan #Surinaams #toki_lili #natlang #SmallestLanguage #minilang

Damin had a much more restricted and generic lexicon than everyday language. With only about 150 lexical roots, each word in Damin stood for several words of Lardil or Yangkaal. It had only two pronouns (n!a "me" (ego) and n!u "not me" (alter)), for example, compared to Lardil's nineteen, and had an antonymic prefix kuri- (jijuu "small", kurijijuu "large").

Grammatically, the Damin registers of the Lardil and Yangkaal use all the grammatical morphology of those languages, and so therefore are broadly similar, though it does not employ the phonologically conditioned alternations of that morphology.

Damin - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damin

Lexically this is quite close to Toki Pona’s vocabulary inventory …

#TokiPona #Damin #conlang #natlang #konlan #toki_sama #sona #anno2018

I'm usually posting on

http://mastodon.blue
and
http://mastodon.host
these days

mainly about Toki Pona

or about languages in general
(French, English, Latin, Italian and Dutch/Flemish)

#TokiPona #languages #natlang #toki