Zompist Bboard Again

[ɬ] in Welsh also seems to have come out of some bat-shit nowhere place. If I'm remembering correctly the cluster [sl] > [ɬ] may have been first, and then other changes like [ln] > [ll] > [ɬ], and [lt] > [ɬt], and word-initial [l] > [ɬ].

On the topic of postage stamps... http://anthologi.ca/pictures/universes/Terra%20Mala/TEF%20Stamps%20(1).png These are created from some old 19th century ornithological plates by Jonathan Gould, just with some reworking and coming up with bird names in Telèmor. The "1" and "2" s...

I've probably achieved more in the last two weeks than I have in the last decade.... well, regarding my conlang project anyway. Maybe, just maybe, by the end of the year I'll actually have something conlangy to share.

… when adjectives are used as nouns … This alone means that you have nouny adjectives. Yeah... but that doesn't mean that a plural adjective (in agreement with a plural noun) behaves the same as an adjective used as a plural noun. So "poor" is ventu - plural in ventoa ; but "the Poor...

How naturalistic is it for a language to have completely different paradigms for forming plurals for nouns, adjectives, and verbs? I would say a lot depends on what adjectives are. Verby adjectives will very likely have a paradigm similar to verbs, while nouny adjectives will have similar to that o...

How naturalistic is it for a language to have completely different paradigms for forming plurals for nouns, adjectives, and verbs? My current proposed system is: Nouns: -i suffix if sing. ends in a consonant; -t suffix is sing. ends in a vowel. Adjs: -ea suffix if sing. ends in -a or a consonant; -o...

Have I been pronouncing cases wrong? I've been saying (mostly in my head because I seldom need to actually speak about noun declensions) things like allative as [ə.ˈlɛɪ̯.tʰɪv] and locative as [loʊ̯.ˈkʰɛɪ̯.tʰɪv] (the same first two syllables as location ). Double wrong on locative, it seems. I did h...

At the moment I have two conlangs I'm actively working on: P and L because I still haven' named them. Anyway, I know how I want the verb systems to work in each, I'm just unsure how both systems could evolve from a proto-language, so I'm looking for help. I'll begin by giving some information on bot...

Thanks for the feedback, folks! I wasn't ignoring, just very busy! I appreciate it.

Language 1: Shortening of vowels in open monosyllables

[tẽ]
Teng

Language 1.5: [tʃ] > [ʃ]

[ʃɛːŋ]
Sǽng

Language 2: [g] > [j] before [i]

['tegæji]
Tegäġi

Language 3: [ɲ] > [ny] before [ø] resulting in two Finnish-style rounded vowels in hiatus

['tønyø]
Tönyö

Thanks for the feedback, folks! Very helpful.

Been doing a lot of work on the PQL family over the last couple of days. A lot of the previous work has been thrown out in favour of re-hauling everything. A lot of Celtic-like plurals have been implemented by classifying them as a-stems, e-stems, i-stems, o-stems, u-stems, t-stems, nt-stems, and s-...

And the "we're getting a PM we didn't vote for" brigade are already out. How can these people be so unaware of how general elections work? Are they so taken up by US politics and presidential races that they think our own elections are the same? – You vote for a party to form a government,...

I think Hungarian has both? The allative isn't super common as a separate case (i.e. not a postposition), but when it does occur it doesn't seem like the dative is rare. Nenets has dative but no allative, so I'm guessing Finnish and Estonian lost the dative secondarily after the allative developed,...

Boris is gone. But the Tories remain... sometime next week we can look forward to Rishi Sunak taking up the role of PM. We all know it'll be him, but they'll make out like they aren't expecting it.

Have I been pronouncing cases wrong? I've been saying (mostly in my head because I seldom need to actually speak about noun declensions) things like allative as [ə.ˈlɛɪ̯.tʰɪv] and locative as [loʊ̯.ˈkʰɛɪ̯.tʰɪv] (the same first two syllables as location).

Would it be naturalistic to have both the dative case and the allative case in a language? My L conlang is going to have a Finnish-like case system, but when doing some research into Finnish cases I realised it doesn't have a dative but uses the allative instead. I would rather use both, even if it ...

I've never really thought about it before, but why do European languages with cases tend to use a case with adpositions? Some even label the case prepositional case . For example, Irish uses the dative with prepositions (also known as the prepositional case), German uses the genitive, dative, and ac...

Dissimilation:

[ɕɛɪ.dvə]

I also don't want to be limited to sounds I can produce. I deliberately put this constraint on my conlangs because I want to be able to speak it – not in a fluency way but just be able to read aloud what's written. For me, creating a conlang which I cannot comfortably produce from my own mouth is p...