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by Vlürch
19 Sep 2021 05:03
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347124

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...
by Vlürch
06 Sep 2021 18:31
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155190

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...
by Vlürch
06 Sep 2021 15:29
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Metal Thread
Replies: 335
Views: 151461

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...
by Vlürch
16 Aug 2021 14:49
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325147

Re: False cognates

:jpn: ちょっと (chotto) - a little
:rus: чуток (chutok) - a little

Not that they're that similar, but...
by Vlürch
12 Aug 2021 07:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347124

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...
by Vlürch
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: 4760

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...
by Vlürch
11 Aug 2021 23:45
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
Replies: 30
Views: 5505

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...
by Vlürch
11 Aug 2021 18:15
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347124

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/, /...
by Vlürch
11 Aug 2021 15:38
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: How do you say "bee" and "wasp" in Algic languages?
Replies: 30
Views: 5505

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...
by Vlürch
09 Aug 2021 05:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155190

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/...
by Vlürch
05 Aug 2021 23:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155190

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 ...
by Vlürch
05 Aug 2021 01:36
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155190

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?&...
by Vlürch
05 Jul 2021 20:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347124

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...
by Vlürch
21 Jun 2021 01:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Урданорос/Urdanoros:: A Turkic-Influenced IE lang
Replies: 10
Views: 1763

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...
by Vlürch
08 Jun 2021 21:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Hinzamazi gima (a failed attempt at "un-Borean" language)
Replies: 3
Views: 1233

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 "...
by Vlürch
08 Jun 2021 12:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Hinzamazi gima (a failed attempt at "un-Borean" language)
Replies: 3
Views: 1233

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...
by Vlürch
08 Jun 2021 11:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155190

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...
by Vlürch
21 May 2021 02:21
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Replies: 60
Views: 25170

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...
by Vlürch
11 May 2021 02:04
Forum: Games
Topic: Cyrillisation game #2
Replies: 122
Views: 51016

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> [...
by Vlürch
07 May 2021 19:23
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: PPIE
Replies: 10
Views: 2388

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...