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Fascinating stuff about Finnish.

Judging by one of those posts, I assume affricating a cluster like /ts/ to /t͡s/ is perfectly attested as well. Im just brainstorming ways to get this phoneme without palatalization necessarily.

Simple question. Is a sound change θ > t͡s possible? I'm aware of examples of the reverse happening (i.e. Spanish) but not this. Yes, the Index Diachronica has examples from Finnish and Gros Ventre. Also, I think it makes more sense in one step if it is unconditional. So θ > t͡s, but neither θ > t ...

Simple question. Is a sound change θ > t͡s possible?

I'm aware of examples of the reverse happening (i.e. Spanish) but not this.

Irish Norse

seóteghande (xsampa: ['So:t_j@G@n_jd_j@])

"seventieth"

арыш ipa: [ˈarɨʃ] from older Gothic harjis meaning "army"

Singular | Plural
N: арыш [ˈarɨʃ] | арыш [ˈarɨʃ]
A: аръ [ˈarə] | арынш [ˈarɨnʃ]
G: арыш [ˈarɨʃ] | ары [ˈarɨ]
D: ары [ˈarɨ] | арым [ˈarɨm]

Üdj wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022 04:14 That's not that far-fetched. Arguments have been made that spoken French is polysynthetic.

Yeah that was my motivation, a future French dialect that became completely agglutinating and polysynthetic.

Feel free to take the idea

I say do it. /g/ is less stable than the other voiced plosives so doing only g > k > x and none of the other PoA's feels entirely justified to me. But also i'm biased, i don't like the vibes of the HGCS and only did k>x in my germlang lol. Haha, how could you not love -p- > -ff- Spoken Thai has wid...

Yay or Nay: I should change all instances of non initial /k/ to /x/ in my reconstruction of Crimean Gothic. Supposedly southern Crimean Tatar dialects, which my language is in contact with, change /k/ to /X/, which might explain oddities like CGo mycha (mēkeis) and ich. However, as a sound change th...

For the "lols" I once tried to make a polysynthetic romlang. Didn't go too far with it, though.

Mecislau's Novegradian and other languages, as already said.

I am also a fan of Dewrad's Dravian and also Parra which inspired my own Goetisch.

Love the choice of location. Tempted to try a romlang there too.

The macrons are also a nice touch. Can the language be written in another alphabet than Latin (Arabic perhaps?)

Cool avatar Qwed! Well I got the old rom-lang itch again, and after stumbling upon All4Ɇn's Gallo-Tuscan conlang I was inspired to do something similar with the Tuscan Gorgia. I reckon this language would be spoken in the northern Apennine Mountains, though for now I will leave the exact details vag...

The Norse-Algonquian creole I am working on has phonemic nasal vowels, and its probably the farthest thing from French you can think of. Personally, I love nasal vowels.

Ah I saw devoicing and fricativization and jumped to the conclusion it should have been Southern. (Well maybe not necessarily Southern, but more southern.) But devoicing of plosives is actually fairly typologically common for Germanic languages, Icelandic does it, and so does my Crimean Gothic (base...

For a language in northern germany those sound changes are very southern

Looks good otherwise. For some crazy ideas you can look up German dialects such as Chemnitz

Well where is it located? That will determine its spelling more than anything else.

Not too unusual. Gothic -jj- > -ddj- after all.

My apologies for the late response, I kept formulating a reply and then later deleting it. I believe that a pidgin/creole would be the more likely scenario here. Perhaps a pidgin arose naturally from vikings arriving from Greenland and Iceland to the area in order to trade with the natives of the ar...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑03 Apr 2021 16:53 What I’ve accomplished so far today is to wake up before 11:00 AM. I wasn’t sure I could do that!

I wish I could wake up before 11:00...

I wanted to recently get back into conlanging, and revisit one of my old ideas for a descendant of Old Norse in North America. Though it wouldn't be a straight descendant, but rather a creole or mixed language between Old Norse and a dialect of Cree (perhaps one of the tribes the Norse would have fi...