Unanswered Questions
20 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why is Romanian not a control language for Interlingua?
IALA Interlingua is a naturalistic romance-based conlang. There are six control languages (primary: English, French, Italian, and Spanish/Portuguese counted as one language "Iberian"; secondary: ...
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Language evolution in Ido
The Wikipedia article on Ido states that there have been almost no official changes to the Ido language since 1922. But Ido has a small speech community, and therefore there may be unofficial changes ...
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Free word building in Interlingua
There is even a Wikipedia article on Free word building in Interlingua stating that it is feasible to apply derivational affixes in Interlingua productively even when none of the so-called control ...
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Research into novel language features that are easy to acquire in an L2
Is there any known research on novel language features that are easy to acquire?
I'm most interested in language features that are unexpectedly easy to acquire despite not having an L1 equivalent (so ...
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Where can I find resources about lingua scinter?
The Lingua scinter is an ideolanguage created in 1931 by Gaetano Viveros. It is the abbreviation for "International scientific lingua based on Latin and Greek". www.europalingua.eu
Here is ...
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How to reanalyse collectives in High Valyrian?
Note: For the purposes of this question, please do not assume that the Tongues of Ice and Fire Wiki is correct1 unless it references somewhere else.
The High Valyrian [grammatical] number page of the ...
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How do you handle the distinction between "modifiers" (adjectives and adverbs) and "determiners" in a generic way?
I am working on a conlang and am trying to better handle the distinction between adverbs, adjectives, and determiners. Adverbs modify verbs (and other things), and adjectives modify nouns, but ...
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Attach noi/poi-clauses to a selbri in Lojban
In Lojban, what is the right way to attach restrictive and non-restrictive clauses to a selbri?
Consider the English example:
It is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San ...
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Naturalness and Intuitiveness of marking tense and aspect in the negative but not affirmative
I'm wondering about the naturalness and intuitiveness of marking tense in negative clauses but not affirmative ones. I'm also wondering whether a language with this hypothetical feature would be ...
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Can you use possessive indicators on pronouns that already have a possessive version of itself in Dovahzul?
In Dovahzul, you can show possession by using se, do, ro, or dro. However, the pronouns already have possessive versions of themselves (e.g. You goes to Your).
Would something like hisedok/hi do dok ...
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How many literatures?
I believe or assume that Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Interlingue, and Klingon each have at least a few translations of important literature such as the Bible or Hamlet. What other ...
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Has the Assahai'i language ever been created?
I heard that David Peterson thought about creating the Asshai'i language. Did that ever happen?
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Is this translation of "May we drink from the empty skulls of our enemies" correct?
I'm trying to translate this sentence:
"May we drink from the empty skulls of our enemies"
to tlhIngan-Hol / Klingon, this will be used as a toast at a friends' wedding (of all things). ...
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Is lowering the tongue at word-ending a voiceless vowel?
In my conlang, some consonants can cluster with l at the end. For example, 'story' is 'coánl'; following dictionary.com's IPA for 'metal' as / ˈmɛt l / I had set out pronouncing this like /koˈa:n l/. ...
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Is it possible to have consonant followed by Uvular sound
I am thinking of creating a language that has a sound system a little similar to Latin, with a guttural feel like German. The people who are going to speak this language are harsh and sound annoyed at ...
