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- Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 986
- Views: 478322
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
preceding a vowel: /pʰ p b ⁿb tʰ t d ⁿd kʰ k g ⁿg qʰ ɢ ⁿɢ/ ＜パ ハ バ ンバ タ゚ タ ダ ンダ カ゚ カ ガ ンガ ヽカ゚ ヽカ ヽガ ンヽガ＞ /tsʰ ts dz ⁿdz tʃʰ tʃ dʒ ⁿdʒ/ ＜ツ゚ァ ツァ ヅァ ンヅァ チ゚ァ チァ ジァ ンジァ＞ /s z ʃ ʒ x h/ ＜サ ザ シァ ジァ ア゙ ア゚＞ /m l r j ð̠~ʝ/ ＜マ ナ ヤ ラ ヷ＞ all full-size kana and combinations indicate a vowel+consonant sequence, abo...
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:22 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 986
- Views: 478322
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
/p t k q~ʡ/ <p t~th c~qu gc~gqu> /b~β~ɸ~ɓ d~l~ɗ/ <b d~dh> /s (ʂ) χ~ħ/ <s~t j ch> /z~j ɻ ʁ~ʕ/ <gi~g~i~î j r> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> <t d c gc s gi> become <th dh qu gqu t g> before <i e> /z~j/ written <i> after a consonant, <î> when not adjacent to a vowel /i ɯ u e o æ ɔ ɑ/ <ie u ou ei o ea oa a> /əi əu əɯ...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:31 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 986
- Views: 478322
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
- Replies: 986
- Views: 478322
Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
untitled conlang: /pʲ t k q/ /tʰ kʰ/ /dʒ~ʒ/ /m mʲ n ɲ/ /f fʲ θ s ʃ ʂ x~χ/ /β z/ /r w/ /i o a/ /ī ū ē ā/ I don't have any sample text yet so here are some paradigms: conjugation of xikʰā - "I hit" xikʰā xifan kʰaθo xikʰām xifan kʰaθomā xikʰā xifān kʰafā kʰaxixē kʰaxixon kʰaxiθ kʰaxixēm kʰax...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound change applier troubleshooting thread
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4033
Sound change applier troubleshooting thread
Ok, I was originally having some issues getting a set of sound changes to work in SCA2 (under read more, if you're interested), but I've found a work around so it should be OK for now. On the other hand, I'm new to using sound change appliers in general (I usually do all my sound changes by hand), s...
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:42 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Name That Language!
- Replies: 1182
- Views: 445827
Re: Name That Language!
Turkic (feel like if it was Turkic that fact probably would have been obvious but still worth a shot)?
- Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339522
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:27 pm My goals include the following:
- Correct the errors and typos—except for the word “changeling” in the changelog, which is really funny to me
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:38 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
- Replies: 151
- Views: 99445
Re: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
Not sure about this - I'd say that in a very simple sentence, such as " Ich esse gerade Kuchen " (" I'm eating cake right now "), German has SVO, and it "only" turns SOV when things get even the slightest bit more complicated. Agreed. When I say "underlying word o...
- Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063840
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
What IE languages have retain [w] for PIE *w and/or [j] for PIE *j? Obviously at least English has (everyone? only some places?) but *w > v seems to have happened in all the rest of Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan at least.
- Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063849
- Fri Jun 18, 2021 6:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 822993
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I have a conlang, whose current name is just L. Initially, I decided to rid it of voiced plosives because its sister, P has them everywhere. Then, I realised that having no voiced plosives was rather boring and no decided I would allow them only after nasals, so nd, mb, ŋɡ. If I, therefore, insert ...
- Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:52 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Question about the development of Portuguese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4040
Re: Question about the development of Portuguese
In a word like /kaleda/, you'd have syncope leading to cluster formation. Compare Latin calidus > Portuguese caldo . In rigidus , the /g/ palatalises before it can be lost and you get the inherited form rijo . How was syncope handle in longer words – say, something of the shape CVCVCVC or CVCVCVCVC?
- Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
- Replies: 151
- Views: 99445
Re: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
Ok, this does at least seem possible then, but I'm still not sure what kind of pressures would cause this to happen (as opposed to clitisizing the "normal" way). On a related note, how do construct-state type systems for marking possession tend to develop, anyway? On an unrelated note: how...
- Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:40 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 822993
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Anyone know of cases were a sesquisyllabic language fully vocalized the minor syllables instead of eroding them?
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:20 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 701
- Views: 1063849
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
日本語がよく忘れちゃった。でももっと勉強しないで、日本語忘れちゃうことに愚痴ばかり零す。大変じゃん。
I've forgotten so much of my Japanese. But instead of studying more, all I do is complain about how much I've forgotten. It's very challenging /s
I've forgotten so much of my Japanese. But instead of studying more, all I do is complain about how much I've forgotten. It's very challenging /s
- Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
- Replies: 151
- Views: 99445
Re: Grammaticalization Quickie Thread
could a possessive preposition cliticize onto the preceding noun and eventually be reanalyzed as a sort of construct-state suffix?
- Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Sinitic Thread
- Replies: 49
- Views: 39900
Re: The Sinitic Thread
A very small question about Mandarin: I've heard that the 3rd tone is often realized with creaky voice. Have there been any studies which examine the degree to which the distinction between the 3rd tone from others relies on voice vs. pitch? For example, if one pronounced the pitch contour of the 2n...
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:32 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063840
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Guy on another website claims he can understand a significant portion of Korean due to speaking Japanese, which I find... somewhat hard to believe, but maybe not impossible? doesn't sound like the same post I saw, but if it is, I think he means Korean and Japanese share some basic vocabulary and a ...
- Sun May 30, 2021 4:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063840
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Guy on another website claims he can understand a significant portion of Korean due to speaking Japanese, which I find... somewhat hard to believe, but maybe not impossible? He also insists the two languages are related as evidenced by "primal Japanese verbs untouched by standardization", ...
- Thu May 27, 2021 11:04 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Amusing Language Names
- Replies: 162
- Views: 160676
Re: Amusing Language Names
I think these count— Bembe, Mesme, Khalkha— as the middle consonant would have to be represented with a virama (vowel-canceling diacritic). I think this depends on whether conjuncts are considered single graphemes or not. My intuition is to say that they are, but I'm not sure what the consensus in ...