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- 09 Dec 2023 14:48
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 672004
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Not sure if this is a quick question, but it doesn't feel worth making a new thread for, especially since I know it almost certainly doesn't have an objective answer since it's already unrealistic to begin with, and pretty much anything can be handwaved, but... if you took landforms (ie. an archipel...
- 26 Sep 2023 21:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 597
- Views: 164071
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Just something random, not sure if I'll do anything more fleshed-out with this but I might chuck it somewhere in one of the two con-archipelagos I've been focusing all of my recent conlanging on. /m n̪ ɳ~ŋ/ <m n ñ> /p b t̪ d̪ ʈ~k ɖ~g (ʔ)/ <p b t d k g Ø> /s̪ ʂ~x/ <s h> /f v θ ɻ~ɰ/ <f v z r> /ɬ/ <l> ...
- 20 Jul 2022 15:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1770
- Views: 372629
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Debating the romanization for a the palatal series of a language I'm working on. The current romanization is /t͡ɕ ɲ ʎ j/<tj nj lj y> because I liked the odd and clunky look of the Cj digraphs, but that clunky look makes a lot of words look sort of strange, especially since <i l> are pretty common t...
- 19 Jul 2022 17:18
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If you want to make it unambiguous, you could add ustedes explicitly: "..., los comería a ustedes como ellos comieron mis unicornios" Ah, I didn't know that was possible. Nice. I understand that most of the time, it wouldn't be necessary, but it's really good to know that can be done with...
- 18 Jul 2022 13:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If there is really " no context ", then you're not dealing with real-world Spanish, but floating example sentences from a textbook exercise or something. And in that case the correct answer is to give both possibilities, 2nd or 3rd person. Sorry, it was really late when I posted the quest...
- 18 Jul 2022 04:35
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Sorry for the incredibly stupid question(s), but... I'm trying to learn Spanish again, now more than just to understand a little but to be able to use it myself in a grammatically correct way, and... If the accusative of ustedes is just los / las depending on gender (and can be suffixed to the verb)...
- 07 Apr 2022 17:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
French Wikipedia says it's used in Lakhota as well. Russian Wikipedia says <ȟ> represents [X] in Lakhota. Interesting that it's a different language from Dakota, I always thought they're just different names for the same language for some reason. Nice that it's used for basically the same sound (ev...
- 05 Apr 2022 16:51
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it true only one natlang (Finnish Romani) uses <ȟ> for /x/? Wikipedia suggests that being the case, but I could've sworn there was at least one other language somewhere in Europe that used it, and IIRC it was for the same sound too, but now I can't actually find any other language using it except...
- 05 Jan 2022 18:14
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I can't answer regarding the timing of the Persian shift, but rounding (and often raising) of /ɑ:/ is very common (it even raises to /u:/ in some environments in Tehrani Farsi I think). This type of shift also happened/is happening in a lot of Semitic, the Canaanite shift had /a:/ > /o~ɔ:/ (likely ...
- 03 Jan 2022 16:28
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Cyrillisation game #2
- Replies: 126
- Views: 56528
Re: Cyrillisation game #2
/p pʰ b bʱ t tʰ d dʱ k kʰ g gʱ/ <п пӿ б бӿ т тӿ д дӿ к кӿ г гӿ> /f v s z ʃ ʒ h/ <ф в с з ш ж х> /m n ŋ/ <м н ң> /l j ɰ w/ <л й ғ ў> /r/ <р> /i y ɨ u/ <иь уь и у> /e ø o/ <е оь о> /ə/ <ы> /ɛ ɔ/ <э о> /æ/ <ә> /a ɒ/ <аь а> Next: /m n/ /p t k ʡ/ /pˤ tˤ/ /s ʂ/ /sˤ ʂˤ/ /ʋ ð j ʕ~ɦ/ /r ɻ l ɭ/ /rˤ ɻˤ/ /a i u...
- 03 Jan 2022 16:14
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3579
- Views: 335507
Re: Romanization game #2
/p t k/ <p t k>
/s ɬ ʃ h/ <s z x h>
/t͡ʃ/ <c>
/m n ɲ/ <m n j>
/l j ɰ w/ <l y w v>
/ɾ/ <r>
/i iː u uː/ <i ỉ u ư>
/e eː o oː/ <e ẻ o ơ>
/a aː/ <a ą>
Next:
/m n ɲ/
/p b t d k ʔ/
/t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/
/s z ʃ/
/f θ~ð j w x~ɣ h/
/l ʎ/
/a ɛ e i y ɔ o u ə/
/s ɬ ʃ h/ <s z x h>
/t͡ʃ/ <c>
/m n ɲ/ <m n j>
/l j ɰ w/ <l y w v>
/ɾ/ <r>
/i iː u uː/ <i ỉ u ư>
/e eː o oː/ <e ẻ o ơ>
/a aː/ <a ą>
Next:
/m n ɲ/
/p b t d k ʔ/
/t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/
/s z ʃ/
/f θ~ð j w x~ɣ h/
/l ʎ/
/a ɛ e i y ɔ o u ə/
- 03 Jan 2022 15:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
When did Persian /ɑː/ become rounded? Less importantly, why? I know the latter can only be speculated on, but... eh. The impression I get is confusing, since in Classical Persian it was apparently still unrounded and Persian loanwords in most languages borrowed /ɑː/ as unrounded, so it had to be a f...
- 21 Dec 2021 10:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks for the detailed and thorough answers! [:D] Good to know that the lack of (sibilant affricated) palatalisation is naturalistic enough to not need some weird handwave (even if IRL only one dialect of one natlang avoided it), and it'll still count as a Romlang regardless. But it's also interest...
- 19 Dec 2021 07:07
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 301214
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I read VSO and VOS often alternate in languges where one is dominant. What is the difference in meaning? Is one of the positions (after the verb or finally) more topical, or how do the clauses differ? Probably depends on the language? Aaaaaaand then, uh... I have a stupid question that I'm aware is...
- 18 Dec 2021 05:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1770
- Views: 372629
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm thinking about an Altaic-inspired lang in Mongolia or Russian Siberia. Its vowel inventory is the one below. What Cyrillic letters should be used for the vowels? /ɘ/ and /ɒ/ are probably the hard ones. i y ɨ u e ø ɘ o ɛ (œ) ɑ ɒ Chuvash uses <ӑ> for /ɒ/ and <ӗ> for /ɘ/, and Uzbek uses <ў> for /o...
- 11 Dec 2021 19:45
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
- Replies: 898
- Views: 443604
Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Since the subject of flag icons is being discussed, were the flag icons for Afghanistan and Karachay-Cherkessia that I made missed/forgotten to be added or was it a decision not to add them? Just seems weird to have flags for some republics of Russia but not all of them, and other countries but not ...
- 24 Nov 2021 00:43
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5471
Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
Ah, I thought "Proto-Finnish" could mean basically "Proto-North Finnic" since it went straight from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Finnish, and was just a matter of terminology and categorisation and referred to the entire continuum excluding the "proper Karelian" and "prop...
- 23 Nov 2021 23:35
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5471
Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography
No traditional dialect has /t.s/. Well, yeah, but the dialects traditionally spoken outside of Finland's modern borders in the Karelian isthmus had the affricate /t͡s/, and deaffrication isn't a big change. I don't know if it always remained /t͡s/ or if it was reintroduced by migrants from the nort...
- 23 Nov 2021 13:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5471
Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography
Spanish had /t͡s̪/ > /s̪/ > /θ̟/ That was the one I could think of too, but didn't think it counts since it had an intermediate stage. Well I mean, obviously if /θ/ was a reflex of earlier /ts/, then /ts/ would have been widespread before it turned into /θ/. But apart from that, all I can say is th...
- 22 Nov 2021 11:38
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5471
Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography
No, I'm saying Finnish sounds like Finnish, Karelian sounds like Karelian and Udmurt sounds like Udmurt. Finnish and Karelian are closely related enough that they still sound quite similar, but neither of them sounds much like Udmurt. And none of these sounds much like Swedish, either, in the sense...