... You'd consider kj) > tS in Italian a separate development then? ... Regardless, you'd need to assume a rather asymmetric intermediate system with tj) vs....
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 1, 2008 2:38 pm
150932
Yes it seems that Eastern Romance k' > tS and Western Romance k' > t' ... point where Italian goes together with Balkan Romance, so there's nothing remarkable...
Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch@...
Feb 1, 2008 4:21 pm
150933
What should be the term, parallel to `conlang', for an invented lang used in acquisition research? The ideas I've had are: reslang "research language" acqlang...
Kelly Drinkwater
mizunomi@...
Feb 1, 2008 6:18 pm
150934
... But you need to set up j >> dZ anyway, so then you have a palatal > palatovelar > palatal to-&-fro development there. And for the same, a continuant > stop...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 1, 2008 6:32 pm
150935
"Explang" - or this might be better suited for the more generic notion of "language created as (a part of) an experiment"? Maybe "groklang"? John Vertical...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Feb 1, 2008 7:00 pm
150936
Following the brief presentation on the Damanhur on Good Morning America a couple of days ago, I was wondering if someone could direct me to resources on their...
Krista Casada
kcasada@...
Feb 1, 2008 7:02 pm
150937
... Yes. ... The Charles River that flows through Boston, MA English is not entirely consistent. ... Good question. on consulting Goodwin's grammar I find: ...
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 1, 2008 7:31 pm
150938
Does anyone know of a tengwar font that can be used on FrathWiki? Charlie...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Feb 1, 2008 9:02 pm
150939
... My brain hurts. How do you use a font on a wiki? Isn't a wiki just web pages? Which means that it's the fonts on the computer running the browser that...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 1, 2008 9:02 pm
150940
... caeruleancentaur ... FrathWiki? ISTR the "Code2000" font having Tengwar and Klingon included in the user areas....
li_sasxsek@...
Feb 1, 2008 9:04 pm
150941
Whups, I misunderstood. Frathwiki already has pages with Tengwar, that do indeed use the ConScript range, and you're looking for a font that will let you see...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 1, 2008 9:21 pm
150942
... ...but the link is broken. Code2000 is at http://code2000.net these days. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 1, 2008 9:27 pm
150943
If no ___lang term comes to mind, perhaps an acronym could be used. Just an example: Language Acquisition Research Conlang = LARC...
Rick Harrison
rick@...
Feb 1, 2008 10:10 pm
150944
Kelly: << What should be the term, parallel to `conlang', for an invented lang used in acquisition research? The ideas I've had are: reslang "research...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Feb 2, 2008 1:57 am
150945
"Toylang" is the generic term for something that minimal. I'm not sure if it's pragmatically/socially appropriate though. - Sai...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Feb 2, 2008 2:30 am
150946
In a message dated 2/1/2008 12:29:59 PM Central Standard Time, ... "speclang": special(-purpose) language? stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
Feb 2, 2008 7:23 am
150947
In a message dated 2/1/2008 12:29:59 PM Central Standard Time, ... Of course they deserve their own term. But "research language" is one such term. It...
MorphemeAddict@...
Feb 2, 2008 7:24 am
150948
... Quite so. (Though without the breathing, if he was baptised after 1982.) I think that his identity papers will also show Ιωάννης. Similarly with...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2008 7:51 am
150949
In a message dated 2/1/2008 8:33:48 PM Central Standard Time, sai@... ... I like that. stevo </HTML>...
MorphemeAddict@...
Feb 2, 2008 8:12 am
150950
In a message dated 2/1/2008 8:04:05 PM Central Standard Time, ... At the Evertype list http://www.evertype.com/langlist.html they define "conlang" as including...
MorphemeAddict@...
Feb 2, 2008 8:26 am
150951
... A Greek friend of mine is called Κατερίνα, but her passport indeed says Αικατερίνη. Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Feb 2, 2008 8:30 am
150952
... Apparently I should not try and post Greek letters. That's "Katerina" and "Aikaterin" respectively. Andreas...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Feb 2, 2008 8:35 am
150953
The private use area of unicode has been brought up several times when discussing font creation, and font displays. I also have seen the site where conlangers...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Feb 2, 2008 8:55 am
150954
... I'll reply with my understanding, which may or may not be correct. ... Yep. (The ranges are U+E000-U+F8FF, U+F0000-U+FFFFD, and U+100000-U+10FFFD.) (ISO...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2008 10:16 am
150955
There's a very important difference between using other established characters and using the UPUA. If I see a web page that specifies in its CSS a particular...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 2, 2008 1:05 pm
150956
... Peterson ... There's the ConScript Unicode Registry. http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ The only problem here is that I'm not sure anyone is minding...
li_sasxsek@...
Feb 2, 2008 1:32 pm
150957
... ConScript ... run by ... collection ... clashing. ... extent that ... anyone ... a ... True, there's no enforcement. We'll just have to rely on mutual ...
li_sasxsek@...
Feb 2, 2008 1:44 pm
150958
... Not that quickly, I'm thinking. The PUA has room for over 130,000 characters. Say a typical neography has 50 characters, almost double the size of the...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Feb 2, 2008 4:34 pm
150959
... I suppose I was considernig only the primary PUA, which has 6400 or so code points, not the supplementary PUAs in planes 14 and 15. Cheers, -- Philip...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2008 5:07 pm
150960
... I can't resist pointing out that the Latin alphabet is larger than 50 chars, since Unicode treats capitals and small letters as distinct. An actual concern...
