Talk:Rangyayo

This is one of the most attractive conlangs I have ever seen. Keep up the good work. If you can give me any methods of instant communication I'd gladly talk about rangyayo. Consider me a fan of it :) RWHÔ 07:35, June 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure I would love to :) are you on zompist bboard? if yes, please drop me a private message so we can swap msn contacts :) my id on that forum is "desmond" Deslee 23:55, June 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * or you can drop me an email sumomo UNDERSCORE nagamoto AT yahoo DOT com :) Deslee 13:11, June 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! My MSN address is canis_v@gazeta.pl. I would be honoured if we could talk about rangyayo :) RWHÔ 15:06, June 15, 2011 (UTC)

why use japanese symbols? The Emperor Zelos 19:33, June 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * The writing system of Rangyayo is a mixed script of Chinese characters and Korean Hangul. The only "purely" Japanese symbol I have used so far is "々" which is an ideographic iteration mark, indicating that the previous Chinese character should be repeated :) Deslee 14:34, June 15, 2011 (UTC)

why would you use that as a writting when so few of the world knows it? The Emperor Zelos 06:18, June 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Emperor Zelos, not all conlangs are auxlangs... ;p RWHÔ 10:15, June 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, Rangyayo is an East Asian artificial language. By using a hybrid writing system of Chinese characters and Korean Hangul, it gives the artlang Rangyayo an East Asian aesthetics. (Quenya and Klingon even have their own alphabets!) I've provided romanisation for all Rangyayo written and audio samples so that everyone can read the materials. :) Deslee 02:36, June 17, 2011 (UTC)

I never meant it as it was meant as an auxlang I just find it redunant to have both roman and that when roman can be read by anyone who got internet and its obviously needed to get here The Emperor Zelos 07:07, June 17, 2011 (UTC)

Any particular reason you're using the NIV? pá mamūnám ontā́ bán 21:48, April 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I found that NIV was the easiest to understand. Is King James version (1611) the most common version? I already forgot which version I had studied when I was at school as a kid. Deslee 15:01, April 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Personally I'd use KJV but if you find NIV easier then I suppose that's okay. KJV is definitely more traditional and the English used is definitely a lot nicer and better. We didn't study the Bible at school. Flag of Kihāmát (1957-).png pá mamūnám ontā́ bán 15:25, April 20, 2012 (UTC)

I have a bunch of questions!


 * What is the vocative in Rangyan? What are the different nuances of giving commands/requests?
 * By vocative, do you mean the vocative case? the case used for a noun identifying the person being addressed? if so, there's no vocative case for Rangyan nouns. Imperative mood is used both for giving commands and making requests. However for commands, honorific suffix -ya is dropped and usually with particle re attached at the end of the sentence for emphasis. Therefore, "Go away!" 离뻐스러 gubesüre and "Please go away." 离뻐스야 gubesüya Deslee 11:51, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there a distinction between politeness/teineigo and honorific/sonkeigo in Rangyan? It would feel strange to me for a language with honorifics to not distinguish between politeness and honorific at all but do as you wish.
 * The Babel text translation leads me to ask: How does the history of Christianity in East Asia differ in your conworld? Many traditionally used Korean and Japanese Bibles *here* use an archaic register, and special verb forms are used to talk to God. So you would need an archaic version of Rangyan. What are the older forms of Rangyan like? I bet it would mostly be shrouded in mystery, as the situation is with Korean compared to IE languages *here*. I speculate that Old Rangyan might have had something similar to yin/yang "gender" which was semantically based.
 * What are the standard rules for Rangyanization of foreign terms?
 * I may need to write a whole page in order to clearly explain the Rangyanisation of foreign terms, but hopefully these two examples can give you a clearer picture, "Australia" 옷트레랴 os-thü-rei-rya: make full use of the 8 possible codas (m, n, ng, p, t, k, s, l) and diphthongs, ü is inserted into consonant clusters (e.g. -str-) that exceed the phonotactics allowed by Rangyan (CgVC). "Finland" 핀란뜨 phinrandü: /f/ and /v/ are Rangyanised to /pʰ/ and /b/ respectively. You can find more examples here (country names). Deslee 12:24, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * How do you derive Sino-Rangyan from Middle Chinese?
 * I refer to the pronunciations of Middle Chinese reconstructed by Bernhard Karlgren according to the Rime dictionary Guangyun compiled from AD1007 to AD1008. I have a set of sound change rules to simplify/convert/merge the complicated Middle Chinese pronunciations to Sino-Rangyan pronunciations (e.g. gʰĭwaŋ > gwang "lunatic" 狂). Deslee 12:49, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * I am sorry to be even more burdensome but could you indicate the position of the pitch accent in the Romanization (by e.g. marking the pre-downstep syllable with an acute accent)?

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