Sorry this is over a week late! My two longest videos produced straight after one another. Hope you enjoy this linguistic journey to Brazil! :) If you haven't found them yet, you can see my other language profiles here: ua-cam.com/play/PLHeVJSqi2ro_NfPih8Et-QbgxCffnooaq.html
@@LexisLang Haha, I get the feeling, working on Paleovenetic right now, and sometimes having only a few resources is exciting and disheartening at the same time.
Nice! Several aspects of this language (cough cough verb complex cough) were so complex and alien to me, that I don't think I explained it very accurately, but I'm glad you've still found it of interest. May I ask more about your conlang? Which bits are similar? I'd love to hear a little more! :D
@@LexisLang Comparing Madí and Isaket (the conlang): 1. Phonology - The /ɟ ~ j/ in Madí is very similar to how Proto-Minsan /j/ split into Isaket /ʝ/ and /j/. Proto-Minsan /p/ also split into Isaket /b/ and /ɸ/ depending on the situation, leaving the exact same stop series. One difference though is that Isaket has /l/ instead of /r/. The vowel qualities are exactly the same, but there's no length distinction in Isaket. As for the "nasalization spread", there's no /h/, but /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/ do have that effect on neighboring vowels. 2. Phonotactics - There are more differences than similarities here. Isaket permits many more consonant clusters than Madí does - The constraints for Isaket are more similar to PIE's (minus syllabic consonants) than Madí's. Diphthongs also kinda don't exist in Isaket, vowels must be separated by a semivowel (/j/, /w/). 3. Nouns - Possessed nouns and kinship terms work quite similarly in the two languages. Isaket doesn't really have grammatical gender (ok it might but that really pushes things) 4. Adjectives are also very limited in both as well, more complex descriptions being made using analogy instead. My inspiration was English's lack of variety in taste-based adjectives and how many languages have limited color terms. 5. Verbs - The phenomenon of some verbs having inflections while others use inflecting auxiliaries is very similar in both languages, as well as subject agreement using prefixes (although it is polypersonal in Isaket). The wide variety of optional suffixes also exist, and they are _complicated_ in a different way from Madí: If you want to use a specific suffix, which one you use in a situation can change depending on the class of the subject or object, and THAT depends on which verb you use...
Very interesting! This is all fascinating to hear about. Is there anywhere you post about this (YT, reddit, blog etc.) or is it a purely personal thing? Amazing how similar they are in some areas. I so often fall into the Indo-European and linguistic universals traps on my conlangs, so I'm always impressed by work outside those boxes. :D
Honestly, I'm not sure I've even done it justice. I was trying to simplify it for the video, so it's slightly twisted. But yeah, the languages of the Amazon are kind of nuts. So cool! :)
Sorry this is over a week late! My two longest videos produced straight after one another. Hope you enjoy this linguistic journey to Brazil! :)
If you haven't found them yet, you can see my other language profiles here: ua-cam.com/play/PLHeVJSqi2ro_NfPih8Et-QbgxCffnooaq.html
Great work ! Love the vowel system, simple but nonetheless original !
Thank you! It certainly is! This language is so unique and so different from European languages. It was both such a joy and such a pain to work on! :)
@@LexisLang Haha, I get the feeling, working on Paleovenetic right now, and sometimes having only a few resources is exciting and disheartening at the same time.
Never heard of this language before, but I have a conlang that is strangely similar to this in various aspects. Interesting!
Nice! Several aspects of this language (cough cough verb complex cough) were so complex and alien to me, that I don't think I explained it very accurately, but I'm glad you've still found it of interest. May I ask more about your conlang? Which bits are similar? I'd love to hear a little more! :D
@@LexisLang Comparing Madí and Isaket (the conlang):
1. Phonology - The /ɟ ~ j/ in Madí is very similar to how Proto-Minsan /j/ split into Isaket /ʝ/ and /j/. Proto-Minsan /p/ also split into Isaket /b/ and /ɸ/ depending on the situation, leaving the exact same stop series. One difference though is that Isaket has /l/ instead of /r/. The vowel qualities are exactly the same, but there's no length distinction in Isaket. As for the "nasalization spread", there's no /h/, but /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/ do have that effect on neighboring vowels.
2. Phonotactics - There are more differences than similarities here. Isaket permits many more consonant clusters than Madí does - The constraints for Isaket are more similar to PIE's (minus syllabic consonants) than Madí's. Diphthongs also kinda don't exist in Isaket, vowels must be separated by a semivowel (/j/, /w/).
3. Nouns - Possessed nouns and kinship terms work quite similarly in the two languages. Isaket doesn't really have grammatical gender (ok it might but that really pushes things)
4. Adjectives are also very limited in both as well, more complex descriptions being made using analogy instead. My inspiration was English's lack of variety in taste-based adjectives and how many languages have limited color terms.
5. Verbs - The phenomenon of some verbs having inflections while others use inflecting auxiliaries is very similar in both languages, as well as subject agreement using prefixes (although it is polypersonal in Isaket). The wide variety of optional suffixes also exist, and they are _complicated_ in a different way from Madí: If you want to use a specific suffix, which one you use in a situation can change depending on the class of the subject or object, and THAT depends on which verb you use...
Very interesting! This is all fascinating to hear about. Is there anywhere you post about this (YT, reddit, blog etc.) or is it a purely personal thing? Amazing how similar they are in some areas. I so often fall into the Indo-European and linguistic universals traps on my conlangs, so I'm always impressed by work outside those boxes. :D
Dang this language's grammar is so complicated
Honestly, I'm not sure I've even done it justice. I was trying to simplify it for the video, so it's slightly twisted. But yeah, the languages of the Amazon are kind of nuts. So cool! :)
As a Românian soeaker, i can online say that your butchered the back vowels. .
Yeah... I tried for ages but I just can't for the life of me produce them. :/