Zompist Bboard Again

Me, my mom, my hubby, and some other people I knew (as well as tons and tons of people I didn’t) were put on a spaceship in cryogenic sleep to travel to this planet far away. Before we got there, a bunch of drones and robots had been sent to build a big city (in some type of bubble but that let ligh...

Pedant wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:27 pm Next: edible mushroom

Old Nyango: /kupikənɔk^wo/
Lit: eating-mushroom, mushroom for eating

Next: Calico, tri-colored (animal, object, etc)

When I hear "roughing it" I think of camping, but not somewhere with even basic amenities like bathrooms or pre-built fire pits (so out in the actual wilderness instead of campgrounds). Likely you are catching your own food and finding water from a natural source as well. While I could see...

akamchinjir wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:36 pm

linguistcat wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:23 pm In my cat lang based on (Old) Japanese, I decided to drop a lot of /a/s. Why? I wanted to keep /i/ and /u/ as much as possible because cat sounds.

That sounds like a good reason though.

Could have dropped others, just chose /a/ because.

In my cat lang based on (Old) Japanese, I decided to drop a lot of /a/s. Why? I wanted to keep /i/ and /u/ as much as possible because cat sounds.

Ah, I get what you mean then. I might play around a bit, especially since I still have other combos to decide.

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:02 pm Let N = nasal, S = stop, F = fricative, and P = prenasalisation

PS/N/_PS
PS/N/_S
S/F/(P)_S

These are actually pretty close to what I came up with. On the last sound change, what do you mean by putting (P) in the condition like that? I want to make sure I understand what you were going for.

Deriving a language from Old Japanese, which was pretty strictly CV with some word-initial V syllables. After some vowel loss, I plan to have various sound changes happening to the various consonant combos that result from this. I can deal easily with nasal+stop and I might just make 2 of the same c...

Japanese and English: Various crafting and cooking videos. On the crafting side, a lot of tutorials on how to make various things with UV resin, and in cooking, the use of agar-agar in different dishes. English only: I have been watching the second session of Critical Role, might go back and watch t...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:07 am

mèþru wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 11:03 am Partay and bizzay are intensified/ironic forms.

But people don't ironically intensify tendencies that don't already exist...

They aren't ironically intensified tho. They are ironic or intensified, and used in such situations. Ironic intensification is a whole separate thing

I don't know enough about American English dialects to know whether this is genuinely an innovation, or something already somewhat established which I'm just not familiar with, but I have a friend who evidently has ɪ > i /_ŋ and then ŋ > n, so he has the contrast sin [sɪn] vs sing [sin], where I ha...

Aside from a general list of sound changes occurring in your conlang, how do you keep track of what sound changes happen, when leveling happens, etc?

akamchinjir wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:32 am I can't help you with Old Japanese, but "xianli" (or "xiānlí") is correct for "仙狸" in Mandarin.

Thank you, I might get more information in English with the proper tone markings. If not, it's good to know in itself.

I'm still not 100% on where I'm breaking Nyango from other Japonic languages, but I'm assuming that Old Japanese vowels are more or less i1 = /i/, i2 = /ɨ/, e1 = /e~ j e/, e2 = /ɛ/, o1 = /o~ w o/, o2 = /ə/, a = /a/, and u = /u/. What later mostly became voiced stops and the allophones of /z/ were pr...

Most people would write /a/. I generally use what I imagine the most common realisation of a phoneme is (not necessarily the prototype) unless if I'm lazy. From what I've seen, if a language has just one open vowel, it will be transcribed /a/ I was leaning toward /a/ myself and will just make notes...

If a language undergoes a sound change that collapses /a/ and /ɒ/ into a single phoneme, how would the new phoneme best be written? Or would it depend on what the new "default" for the phoneme is?

Nyango is intended to be a language related to Japanese, but spoken by cat spirits known collectively as kaibyou (怪猫) in Japanese, with the main subtypes within the population being bakeneko (化け猫), manekineko (招き猫) and nekomata (猫又). Although stories about kaibyou in some form or another date back t...