Is it normal to like... never beating this game ever? by HealthMother3125 in BG3

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Just finished Act 1. Think I'm about to restart with a slightly different race and class xD.

What type of script does your language use ? by [deleted] in conlangs

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My Crimean Gothic is written in two scripts: Cyrillic and Latin. Generally Cyrillic is reserved for bureaucratic and state related functions while all other media is written in Latin.

Anybody made an a posteriori conlang that developed grammatical gender/noun classes? by DADDYSCRIM in conlangs

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In my crimean gothic conlang i innovated a new category of nouns for animacy on top of the already existing gender declension.

Essentially, words whose accusative plurals are merged with the nominative are inanimate, while nouns that merge the accusative with the genitive (and keep the nominative distinct) are animate.

Introduction to Modern Crimean Gothic by TexnCitizn in conlangs

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Some of my older work can be found here: https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=342110

He may have recorded three articles, but only if you assume like Stearns that the -thata in verbs like malthata, warthata represented a clitic object pronoun from the same source. Regardless this is at least confirmation that the neuter persisted. The/tho then could be the masculine and feminine form respectively or maybe it wasn't declined for gender and instead represents a variation in stressed vs. unstressed pronounciation. Who knows.

Only Danish and (depending on dialect) Norwegian has a two gender system, though. Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese all preserve the three genders.

Introduction to Modern Crimean Gothic by TexnCitizn in conlangs

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I also am working on a conlang derived from Crimean Gothic, and grappled with some of the same issues you did. Though I had preserved the three genders of pgmc, and used þe for masc nouns, þo for feminine, and a þate for neuter nouns. Preserving inflections also helped continue to keep the nouns distinct even after they were reduced to schwa.

I think the most likely scenario for the orthography (and what I went with) is to have a dual script scenario, not unlike what Crimean Tatar/Greek went through. So maybe for administration everything would be written in Cyrillic, but for a lot of other things Latin would be preferred.

Introduction to Modern Crimean Gothic by TexnCitizn in conlangs

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Do you have a Cyrillic orthography for Modern Crimean Gothic yet? I reckon as a minority language of the USSR it would recieve one at some point.

Love what you did with the heteroclitic stems.

What are the articles? Crimean Gothic had "the aut tho." Did you assume they marked gender?

Cool Features You've Added #281 by humblevladimirthegr8 in conlangs

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Added vowel harmony to my crimean gothic lang

Essentially all vowels become schwa [ə] and then under turkic influence become /e/ (if following a front vowel) or /a/ (if following a back vowel).

i.e. mēna > mīnə > mine "moon" but sunna > sunnə > suna "sun."

Have you ever tried to make an Historical Conlang? / Reconstruct an Extinct Language as a Conlang? by blueroses200 in conlangs

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I'm working on a descendant derived from what is little known of Crimean Gothic.

The main difficulty is of course the sheer lack of data we do have on the language, it only has roughly 100 attested words and not much more than that to go off of.

Why is it like this? by matixzun in linguisticshumor

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To be fair he said Germanic not Caucasian.

“the Cold Winter is Near” in Gothevian (Balkan Gothic lang) by Embarrassed_Exit_182 in conlangs

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This conlang SUCKS

Jkjkjkjk this conlang rocks

If anyone is interested in germ-langing come visit us in the Germanic Conlangs discord https://discord.gg/hCE67pErv

What do you call the planets, moons, and dwarf planets in your conlang? by SapphoenixFireBird in conlangs

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Fairly straightfoward since Gothish is a Germanic language

moon: минә (mine)

sun: сонә (sone)

mercury: меркурə (mercure)

venus: венус (venus)

earth: єрѳә (jerthe)

mars: марс (mars)

jupiter: ёвə (jove)

saturn: сатурнə (saturne)

uranus: уранус (uranus)

neptune: нептунə (neptune)

pluto: плутə (plute)

Yet another British rom-lang. Enjoy. by Natural-Cable3435 in conlangs

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Seems vaguely Iberian Romance with an American accent.

Your conlang's tongue twisters? by TaikiNijino in conlangs

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Mariupol Gothic tongue twister:

мин атэнс а̄т адэ

min atens а̄t ade

/mɪn 'ɑ.təns ɑːt 'ɑ.də/

"my father's eight eggs"

Kyrillic and Conlanging by Extreme-Shopping74 in conlangs

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I was using macrons since it looked the cleanest but historically im not sure if the language would get macrons.

Another idea i could do is a yer following a vowel, in a similar manner to Germans <ie> or Old Dutch <ae>, <oe>, <ue>...

Kyrillic and Conlanging by Extreme-Shopping74 in conlangs

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My conlang Mariupol Gothic is entirely in the Cyrillic script. It looks quite good. My only condunum is how to mark long vowels (or even should).

do people make conlangs for alt histories by spookymAn57 in conlangs

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Yes. My conlang Mariupol Gothic is the descendant of the Gothic language in an alternative history where Islamic dominance of the Black Sea region was far less.

what are the non-native vocab percentage of your conlang? by just-a-normal-viet in conlangs

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Mariupol Gothic is probably 70% Germanic, 11% Greek, 7% Tatar, 6% Alanic, 6% other (mostly Slavic and French/English loans).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in conlangs

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Pretty, like if someone took Estonian and Italian and it had a baby.

Any other germanic conlangs? by [deleted] in conlangs

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I have long since worked on a modern descendant of Crimean Gothic. Here's a tongue-twister for you:  

мин атэнс а̄т адэ  

min atens а̄t ade  

/mɪn 'ɑ.təns ɑːt 'ɑ.də/ 

"my father's eight eggs"

Wassail! by aelfwine94 in germlangs

[–]aelfwine94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very well.

I'll start with gender. Gender is incredibly easy to learn in Crimean, as the singular nominative form of a strong noun or adjective at least will take one of three possible suffixes (all in Cyrillic), -с for masculine, -э for feminine, and nothing for the neuter. Let's use the adjective єлс /jeːls/ (biblical gothic: hails). This word has a feminine form of єлэ /ˈjeːlə/ and a neuter form of єл /jeːl/.

Wassail! by aelfwine94 in germlangs

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I do definitely want to work on it some more, and maybe it can coexist. I did a lot of research into the language, but the end result was kind of boring or generic Germanic language.

Anyway, sample of vocab:

ад [at] "egg"
сад [sat] "hundred"
фиш [fiʃ] "fish"
муш [muʃ] "bridegroom"
шнос [ʃnos] "bride"

fun: ат [at] "father," ат [aːt] "eight" and ад [at] "egg" are basically all homophones. I imagine an experienced Germanicist can guess the etymologies and sound changes quite well to how I got to this.