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- 19 Sep 2021 05:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Kind of a stupid question, but... if a conlang (in a story) is meant to be easily pronounceable somewhat correctly by at least English-speakers (and my Finnish-speaking dad lol), possibly German-speakers too, maybe others but dunno, would using <ə> for /ə/ be pronounceable to people who have zero kn...
- 06 Sep 2021 18:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155646
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Something meant to sound ugly and cute at the same time, which is basically the default recipe I have for conlangs so eh. /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k q (ʔ)/ <p b t d k q Ø> /pʰ tʰ kʰ qʰ/ <ph th kh qh> /s/ <s> /j w ɣ~ʁ h/ <y w g h> /ɾ l/ <r l> /ɑ ɒ ə ə̹ ɚ ɚ̹ i u/ <a o e ö er ör i u> /ɑː ɒː ə ə̹ ɚː ɚ̹...
- 06 Sep 2021 15:29
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Metal Thread
- Replies: 335
- Views: 151691
Re: Metal Thread
I’m trying to start a side project that’s more drone/doom/sludge/stoner metal than Amniote is. Right now we’re about 50% assembled, give or take; we’ve bass, drums, and vocals at the moment and I’m looking for two, possibly three guitars and maybe a saxophonist (yes, really). I may end up just hiri...
- 16 Aug 2021 14:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325653
Re: False cognates
ちょっと (chotto) - a little
чуток (chutok) - a little
Not that they're that similar, but...
чуток (chutok) - a little
Not that they're that similar, but...
- 12 Aug 2021 07:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thoughts? The "dots consistently below" one looks the best on its own imho, but a thing to consider (or at least that I usually consider) is whether consonants have more diacritics above them or below them (if at all), and then have the opposite be the default on vowels. So if the languag...
- 12 Aug 2021 02:00
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) The day before the day before yesterday and the day after the day after tomorrow.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4774
Re: The day before the day before yesterday and the day after the day after tomorrow.
Finnish has toissapäivä (the day before yesterday) and ylihuominen (the day after tomorrow). The adverbial forms are toissapäivänä and ylihuomenna . At least the latter is clearly calqued from a Germanic language, presumably specifically Swedish övermorgon . Not sure about the former, I mean apparen...
- 11 Aug 2021 23:45
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5521
Re: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
Again: you live in northern Europe. You don't have many types of wasp, so can mostly just assume that anything that isn't a prototypical wasp is a bee. This isn't true in the rest of the world. It's also not actually accurate even in Europe. OK, but it's not just assuming that anything that isn't a...
- 11 Aug 2021 18:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Do most of you prefer using <k> as opposed to <c> to represent the /k/ sound in your languages? Depends on the aesthetic. Usually I use <k> because it just feels more natural, being Finnish, and because it's the one used more in most of the languages I'm into. Also, I can't help but think of /s/, /...
- 11 Aug 2021 15:38
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5521
Re: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
But wait, what about appearance? I can easily tell apart wasps from bees based on how they look: wasps are yellow and black with dark hair, bees are orange and brown with light hair. Wasps look like sports cars or cheetahs, bees look like mopeds or house cats. Some people do have trouble remembering...
- 09 Aug 2021 05:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155646
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Sorry for the double post, but... I have to post this monstrosity. /m n/ <m n> /m̥ː mː n̥ː nː/ <mh mm nh nn> /p t k/ <b d g> /pː tː kː/ <pp tt cc> /pʰː tʰː kʰː/ <p t c> /ɓ͡βː/ <bb> /q͡χː/ <cr> /z/ <z> /sː ʃː ʒː/ <s jj j> /j w x/ <y w h> /θː/ <ss> /ɾ/ <r> /rː ʀː/ <rr gr> /b͡ʙː d͡rː/ <br dr> /a ə i u/...
- 05 Aug 2021 23:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155646
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Where does [q] derive from? /k/ before /ɑ/, two lines up from the note about /i/ in contact with it. So, [ɘ] is an allophone of /i/ before the syllables /kɑ/, /kʰɑ/ and /hɑ/, but I worded it less specifically in case I start trying to develop that into a more fleshed-out conlang and there could be ...
- 05 Aug 2021 01:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155646
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Not really sure why, but I've been thinking about this kind of phonologies a lot lately, and this is what it ended up being like. You could maybe describe it as something like "what would happen if you threw Mandarin, Japanese, Nuxalk, Inuktitut and maybe also a hint of Finnish into a blender?&...
- 05 Jul 2021 20:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348004
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
A single word cannot contain two consecutive stressed syllables. Really? In Finnish the difference between eg. the tule in hän ei tule ("he/she doesn't come") and tule! ("come!") is /ˈtule/ and /ˈtuˈle/ AFAIK, or at least that's what it sounds like and I'm sure I've read it desc...
- 21 Jun 2021 01:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Урданорос/Urdanoros:: A Turkic-Influenced IE lang
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1776
Re: Үрйәнэрэс/Üryäneres: A Turkic-Influenced IE lang
I do think that there is a good conlang in here struggling to get out. I like the idea of a Turkic-influenced IE language, and the idea that RUKI */ʂ/ underwent a conditioned split between its reflex in Iranic and its reflex in Slavic is an interesting one. However, this language is not it. Well, t...
- 08 Jun 2021 21:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Hinzamazi gima (a failed attempt at "un-Borean" language)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1236
Re: Hinzamazi gima (a failed attempt at "un-Borean" language)
I like the nominal inflection. This part looks really complex and well worked out. Thanks! A part of me wanted to include noun classes but I don't really know how they work even remotely realistically, so I ended up doing what I did as a kind of compromise. To be honest, before the attempt at "...
- 08 Jun 2021 12:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Hinzamazi gima (a failed attempt at "un-Borean" language)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1236
Hinzamazi gima (a failed attempt at "un-Borean" language)
This was an attempt at making a language that doesn't feel "Borean", but of course that didn't really work out. I mean, it kinda did, but not really because it's still practically way too close to being SAE to even feel naturalistic in Africa... and not only that, I kinda got bored of it b...
- 08 Jun 2021 11:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 570
- Views: 155646
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
It's another one of these "this could be spoken somewhere in the former Soviet Union and therefore uses Cyrillic, by the way it uses letters that are not used together in the alphabet of any actual language and the phonemic-orthographic correspondences match suspiciously well in spite of the we...
- 21 May 2021 02:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25286
Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Never heard. Same. It's hard to say at which point those clusters appear in Finnic, but I think they first appear through loan words and then also in native vocabulary by elision of vowels. A distinction between /rt/ and /rtt/ existed already in Proto-Uralic according to at least Starostin's and Sa...
- 11 May 2021 02:04
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Cyrillisation game #2
- Replies: 122
- Views: 51165
Re: Cyrillisation game #2
/p b t d tˤ dˤ k g kʷ gʷ ʔ/ <п б т д тӑ дӑ к ҝ кў ҝў ъ> /f v s z sˤ zˤ ʃ ʒ x ɣ xʷ ɣʷ h/ <ф в с з сӑ зӑ ш ж х г хў гў һ> /t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ <ч ҹ> /m n nˤ ŋ ŋʷ/ <м н нӑ ң ңў> /ʋ~w l lˤ j/ <в л лӑ й> /r rˤ/ <р рӑ> /i ĩ u ũ/ <и иӎ у уӎ> /e ẽ o õ/ <э эӎ ө өӎ> /ɔ ɔ̃/ <о оӎ> /a ã/ <а аӎ> [ji jĩ ju jũ] <і іӎ ю юӎ> [...
- 07 May 2021 19:23
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: PPIE
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2411
Re: PPIE
(perhaps such is comparable to clicks being considered a primitive sound) Well, clicks are articulatorily complex sounds and that's probably why they're so rare. I don't think it's impossible that clicks existed in some absolutely insanely ancient "caveman" languages (although "cavem...