Search found 2729 matches
- 16 Aug 2010 15:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New to conlanging, help appreciated
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9012
Re: New to conlanging, help appreciated
And nice idea with the descenders, but I will keep the Uzbek barred <ғ> which looks better. Oh, I didn't mean for you to do otherwise :) Should I also add other letters for phonemes present in Kazakh,Uzbek,Tajik,Mongolian,Turkish when i'll borrow words? Or I could also adapt them with the present s...
- 16 Aug 2010 05:57
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: How to pronounce the palatal lateral approximant?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8743
Re: How to pronounce the palatal lateral approximant?
Well apparently the two are still distinguished in some regional varients of Spanish, Catalan and Galician although, as you and Ossicone pointed out they have basically merged into /j/ in other dialects. Hungarian used to contrast them but doesn't anymore but Italian, Scots Gaelic and Quechua do. Ap...
- 16 Aug 2010 03:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: New to conlanging, help appreciated
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9012
Re: New to conlanging, help appreciated
/p b t ʦ d k g q/ <p b t c d k g q> <п б т ц к г қ> /m n ŋ/ <m n ñ> <м н ң> /r/ <r> <р> /f v s z ʃ ʒ χ ʁ h/ <f v s z ş-ç j x ǵ h> <ф в с з ш-щ ж х ғ Һ> /l j/ <l y> <л ј> /a i e y ɯ ɤ o u ə/ <a i e ü ı ö o u ə> <а і е ұ и ө о ү ә> For aesthetic purposes, I didn't take the basic OU, but instead took ...
Re: /ɮ/
Well, if you prefer a more phonetic spelling what you could do is use <l> for the voiceless version and <z> for the voiced following the reasoning I mentioned above, and it doesn't seem like [z] appears allophonically so it should be fine. One other thing I was thinking about a bit ago was how to wr...
PIE Idea
Well, with this being a new incarnation of the old CBB it only seemed right to move over a few of my favourite threads, this being top of my list atm. Thakowsaizmu's PIE idea came about late July last year and, for those who might not remember or know about it, the basic concept behind it was that P...
Re: /ɮ/
/m m̥ n n̥/ <m ḿ n ń> /p t k q/ <p t k q> /v s ɬ ɮ ɣ h/ <v s lh ? ǧ h> /r/ <r> /j/ <y> /i iː u uː a aː ə/ <i í u ú a á e/ Syllable structure: (C)V(V)(C) I'm going to have to agree in part with Max here but under the conditions the script is primarily phonemic . That is to say, /ɣ/ could easily be w...
- 13 Aug 2010 00:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Makurungou Language (Moved from last forum.)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7202
Re: Makurungou Language (Moved from last forum.)
This is because I just find this layout easier, and it's generally a "convention" on boards like CBB and ZBB in that it arranged phonemes by both manner and position of articulation, i.e. in a similar manner to the IPA table itself, as well as presenting the basic representations of phonem...
- 12 Aug 2010 18:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Mahal s'Aentoui (First real conlang, feedback appreciated!)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11824
Re: Mahal s'Aentoui (First real conlang, feedback appreciate
And you lost me at "lenite intervocalicaly". :D Sorry, but I'm no linguist, could I get that in English? Thanks. LOL. Well, "intervocalically" means "between vowels", which is the easy part. Lenition in this context means the changing of one sound into another sound fu...
- 12 Aug 2010 12:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Makurungou Language (Moved from last forum.)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7202
Re: Makurungou Language (Moved from last forum.)
The best guess I can make using standardish European sound values for graphemes is: Vowels: /i u/ <i u> /e o/ <e o> /a/ <a> Not sure what the umlaut indicates though. It could be vowel length, nasalisation or they could indicate completely different vowels given the "like Finnish" descript...