Unanswered Questions
15 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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Inventing A Plural Form For First And Second Person
I am working on the pronoun system for my conlang.
The table below illustrates what I have ended up with so far.
I am looking for suggestions on how - if even needed - to implement a plural form that ...
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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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Strategies for marking boundaries between potentially discontinuous top-level clauses
What are some strategies for making boundaries between top-level clauses obvious?
I think the most straightforward strategy is some kind of collection of sentence-final particles, but I'm curious ...
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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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List of segment usage based on how many people use it?
The great Phoible 2.0 has exclusive list of segment usages based on "Languages", but since some languages such as Lak are only used by handful of people, it won't make any sense if I employ ...
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How much ambiguity for argument roles is possible without sacrificing comprehensibility?
For the purposes of this question, I'm specifically interested in marking theta-roles of verb arguments and possessive constructs, i.e. the things prototypically marked by case in languages that have ...
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Can a vocative phrase go before an adverbial phrase?
If I wanted to translate an imperative phrase: "Dad, eat quickly!" I can say
tenpo lili la mama o moku
However it seems a bit odd to me to put my vocative mama in the middle. It seems ...
