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11. a 12. a 13. c (m̩ > um, otherwise C̩ > aC) 14. c 15. a I have nothing to add to the X's. It's wonderful to see our sound changes applied and tested. I think we should try to interpret our changes to PIE quite literally as long as it makes sense. Most of us are knowledgable enough about PIE to wo...

5. c (ḱ ḱʰ ǵ > ɕ t͡ɕ j)
6. a
7. b
8. c (pronouns only)
9. c (vo1dwalk3r's suggestion
10. a

Nominative, vocative, accusative, instrumental, dative and genitive seems like a perfectly good case inventory to me. Cases often drop put. PIE had eight, but even today there are Indo-European languages which retain all of them. Specificity, definiteness and animacy all correlate positively to the ...

There's always vowel harmony, that is nasal vowel harmony. Beware that you don't need to make all vowels in a word nasal. You could for example have nasality that spreads from the vowel to the right and is blocked by /k/ and /g/. In general, it seems like nasal vowels become more mid-low as time pas...

Well, it seems to work. /b p t d g t/ b p t d g t Presumably this should be /b p t d g k/ b p t d g k The syllable structure seems to need some work unless you want to allow words like "Lsiq". Maybe you do. The "possible" is not a case if it goes on verbs. That would probably be ...

I wouldn't worry about the inventory's size. Mandarin is analytic and has just as many consonants. Hawaii is isolating like there's neither tomorrow nor affixes and has among the smallest inventories of any language. But please get to the phonotactics soon, it will make both the inventory and vovabu...

As the minor bitch I am, I've tried to almost break the rules, but without going all the way. This might seem hopelessly unfinished for being submitted this late. Working name: Xenjeiñ Phonology: i ɛ ʊ ɔ /m mˀ n nˀ ŋ/ <m m' n n' ñ> /p ʰp t ʰt tʼ k ʰk kʼ/ <p hp p' t ht t' k hk k'> /k͡p k͡ʰp/ <kp khp>...

From what I've seen, conlangers seem to like the sound of lateral fricatives and have much stronger opinions about consonants than vowels. https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/46hsju/what_are_some_of_your_favorite_phonemes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/27zqi8/whats_your_favorite_...

I believe that what your suffix <-(e)fs> does is totally naturalistic but it is no plural. I blame Pirahã for believing that. Pirahã has dulled me.

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OTheB wrote: The language uses a base 12 counting system [...]. A fifth is 0.24...

Stop being wrong.

If I'm not mistaken, the sub-reddit really likes this cool thing:
http://www.internationalphoneticalphabe ... th-sounds/

As for me, it was mostly wikipedia. A lot of it, like months.

DesEsseintes wrote: Next: wáátsewe
verb or noun, but somewhat basic

v. To throw oneself forward (if that is "somewhat basic").

Next: nũter [ˈnʊ̃.tɛɾ]
adjective

Well, there is the possibility that ejectives arise more frequently in mountainous landscapes, but that's controversial. One would expect people there living a different lifestyle to those in valleys and the like. Some have postulated that implosives, too, arise more frequently under certain conditi...

Through a quick search through SAPHON, I found Waiwai which supposedly has /m ɸ/ but no bilabial plosives. In fact, it does not have any other bilabials at all. Kabyle also seems like a contender but it is hard to be sure though due to allophony. I also found several languages which had /ⁿb m ɸ/ and...

I hope this is the best place to find out about this idea I got the other day. Would it be feasible for a language lacking any present copula to get one from the past tense of "become", or even better, from the present perfect? I would imagine such a copula to act more like Spanish's "...

Are any of these the right amount of silly? Circumpositional adjective : An adjective is made of two parts, one coming before the noun and the other after it. Transitive verb location marking : If the subject and the object of a transitive verb were not on roughly the same place, the verb takes a ma...

Please consider Japanese: :jpn: 私が自分の庭をあるいて行きました Watashi ga jibun no niwa wo aruite ikimashita. :con: Wila lõs jaq tlozh ten jaôtwo :jpn:私はかのじょを見ていませんでした. Watashi wa kanojo wo mite imasendeshita. :con: Lõs jaq naq shian ja zan shian wi naq lân As one can see here, it is possible for a natlang to be ...

Woe us!, who have gone so long without further info on Riluetmon. I shouldn't let this continue! Welcome back everybody. We have some nouns to do. Nouns Nouns in Riluetmon do not have gender or classes, but they do decline according to their case, number, definiteness and "specificity". A ...

Have a pet douche-canoe, I mean cat. Have Aspergers Syndrome. It's like not being able to express emotions, communicate in person, or deal with sudden change. Is gay, sorry ladies. And single too, sorry fellas. I'm more concerned about how he suddenly started referring to himself in the third perso...

Um... well, that was some unique setting. I thought my space chinchillas, spontaneously created floating handles and one hundred and umpteen ways of faster-than-light-travel were weird. [...]Streets bend around to let a newborn park develop.[...] Is there any soil beneath the pavement? How does it g...

A young scribe is standing in the middle of the vast forest that just barely lies outside the city he was born in. He was chosen for the task of documenting this purported language of the glade Let's have a story! Example sentences. Don't forget to tell us about these elusive folk who speak this la...