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You act as though you expect us to understand what you mean by that ...

Are you, perhaps, saying that you have one conlang, which you are fluent in, and in which you write?

As much as I love putting all my stuff on here, it is a bit inconvenient for certain things, such as lexicon documentation. So I'm relocating my Xúuuatxia lexicon to this spreadsheet. I'll use this for any lexicons and suchlike, and I'll link to it in the table of contents.

Welcome to the board, guyontheinternet!

Well, you can always come up with things yourself. And what are some examples of things you're trying to evolve? I and others here could likely give you some suggestions.

And English - at least, US English - distinguishes [ɾ] and /ɹ/. The former isn't conventionally considered phonemic yet, but its a very well-established allophone. Well, in this case they're more distinct than that, since the latter is at the least retracted to /ɹ̠/, and more than often labialized ...

There seem to be about 10 to 15 odor words in languages that use them, which I find interesting as that's about how many base color terms languages have. Huhhh? Didn't Berlin and Kay find a maximum eleven basic color categories (white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, g...

Welcome to the board, Akubra! First up: Probably don't trust ChatGPT on its own, especially for less-well-known fields like linguistics. Ideally, use Google or Wikipedia (and don't trust Google's AI search overviews, either). And ideally, check the sources for it. That said, the distinction between ...

Can we get IPA, please? As it is, I don't know whether to read, say, <ee> as [eː] or [ . i], for example. I slip out of the fold of the multiverse and act as if I've been there all along. "Eel," I say, guessing that it was a greeting due to its position in the utterance, and perhaps due t...

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Thought it'd be better to have this as its own post.

LANGUAGES

• 0 · Proto-Highland-XXX
• 1000 · Proto-Highland, Proto-Xúuuatxia, Proto-XXX, Njabad

(more later)

Okay, I didn't like how Rúuuädjia and Xvótxie looked, and I wanted to do some other stuff differently too, so disregard that post. I'll have something new up today or (more likely) tomorrow.

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑26 May 2024 23:54

Arayaz wrote: ↑24 May 2024 18:52 Alushi
Ibi kahi om ibi taa owam kinukyan.
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Why must you do this to us...

Because :3

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑26 May 2024 23:54 Congrats on 1.6k!!

Thanks! I'm really glad to be part of the CBB, and I get a bit sentimental with the round numbers.

Flavia wrote: ↑26 May 2024 17:59

Arayaz wrote: ↑26 May 2024 17:58 I'd love to be part of this! Where in the remnants of the USA are we?

UnbiasedBrigade wrote: ↑26 May 2024 13:42 You're in a suburb in the northern part of the New Empire, near the border with Quebec and Canada.

Oh, oops. Somehow I missed that.

I'd love to be part of this! Where in the remnants of the USA are we?

Bisexual people may or may not be cisgender, but we're all attracted to both males and females. Bigender people may or may not be monosexual, but they feel some male in them and some female in them. ah, the difference is getting down to business... Really? I think this is a pretty simple difference...

lsd wrote: ↑25 May 2024 07:01 for trans people that would be nightmarish, no...

You think? I'm trans, and I'd quite enjoy being able to assume a different human form (that I designed) at will.

Visions1 wrote: ↑25 May 2024 01:20

lurker wrote: ↑16 May 2024 23:08 How about were-humans? Humans that just turn into another human during the full moon.

Still powerful. Imagine having two identities, just like that. Perfect for espionage, crimes, existential crises...

If you can custom-design your alternate form, could be nice for trans folks as well!

"Khaþ ota?" he says, cocking his head to the side. "Do you mean 29) khayh otaklu? Or 30) khaþ otahak?" He claps his hands together once. "Whatever you meant, though, you're right. It's getting late, anyway. Come on, everyone, let's get back." The board's post #237,273!

2c2ef0 ■ ■ ■ ■ ( 6ca950 0111fd 424220 99a9fd ) Here begins ends my ramble. Haššáya W̌a! Hello! Lhvver Áéyidít, ne xuňáégawoluf. I've come to talk with you again. Lhfọvevier Elh eyieševo éweš, I don't know what I'll say, Erụụħangụjerụ a kụụw ụụħụjel ụụħụket. but I want to say something. Arskiilz Gvu...

I'd hate to see this die.

"Bi 'lesian' cananar," I say. "Lesian le?"

I would say that this looks like a pitch accent plus word melody system, which has definitely been suggested before for some natlangs. Oh, cool! Which natlangs? I find the terms upstep and downstep a bit confusing because they usually refer to tonal registers (the overall pitch level that tones are...