Zompist Bboard Again

Only monosyllabic morphemes and no inflection Honestly, I think it is unrealistic. Even Chinese has disyllabic morpheme, like 蝴蝶 (which goes back to Middle Chinese) and 马达. While no inflection is doable, I think you mean word modification based on context, and there is no language without derivation.

ʻAʻole hiki iaʻu ke ʻōlelo i ka mea e loaʻa ana... Sa i'n gallu siarad dim byd... Ní fhéadaim éinní a lobhairt... I ka nitts schwätze... No puc parlar res... I can't speak anything... kendikanipun tiyang ingkang saged ngagem 5 basa. ... とは五つ言辞を話せる人を言う Kata orang yang bisa 5 bahasa Said a person who...

If your aspirates behave like a cluster, I think it should be analyzed as a cluster. In Khmer, it's because the infix -um- would split the phoneme to /C/ and /h/, like t-um-hum If your language disallows cluster like khr or phl (English does), and there can only be a maximum of 2 consonants in the s...

mae wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:10 pm Some very normal (regular!) sound changes exhibited by the Malayo-Polynesian language Merap:'

Can you list the sound changes?

I'd romanize it as /ɐ ɑ ɪ ɨ ø̞ ɵ̞/ <a o i y e u>

Why are there parentheses around the "#" in the condition? whoops, that's originally (#,C). But I decided only to drop /i/ and /u/ at that environment. i e o > zero / C_# happened first, sometime around 600 AD perhaps. E.g. bonum bonī 'good (masc. acc.sg. and nom.pl.) > (with [ɔn] > [õn])...

Xwtek wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:21 am is a i u > 0 \ C_(#) realistic? I know that Japanese do drop /i/ and /u/ on similar environments

Can anyone check the sentence what's wrong with the sentence?

is a i u > 0 \ C_(#) realistic? I know that Japanese do drop /i/ and /u/ on similar environments. Also: Is it realistic that I consider all coda consonants not as single mora by themselves. but as a part of preceeding mora. Because I want to have a mora based tone language, but more like Navajo one,...

/ɢʁ/ is not really my favorite sound, though I admit it's interesting both because it stands out so much from the rest and because it shows somewhat of a parallel to the development of uvular R from /r/-like sounds in Europe. There is also similar development in Lampung and Anak Dalam. Similar deve...

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I think that fixing someone's grammar is actually an exception to the rule, though.

Ketika kami punya anjing, saya jalan-jalan jauh lebih sering. I think that the second phrase should be "saya jauh lebih sering jalan-jalan". despite what the dictionary may say, I think "sering" is actually an auxiliary verb, not adverbs. Alternatively, you can nominalize the wo...

僕は問題がある。どの言語は誰も話せますか？
I have a question. What language does anyone can speak?

(As you can see, I need help in both Japanese and English)

It seems that the Chinese financial digit is based on homophony. 捌 is a variant character of 朳 that means to break open. It's a homophone of 八 even in Middle Chinese. 玖 means a black gemstone that is poorer than jade. It's also pronounced as 九 in Middle Chinese. 壹, 貳, 肆, 陸, and 拾 are also homophones...

I don’t know about how he would learn the language, but you may be interested in the curious case of Narcisse Pelletier . He was abandoned on the Cape York Peninsula in Australia and was found by the Uutaalnganu tribe. He learnt their language and belief system readily, and to such an extent that h...

I think that this should be in https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20. If it's restricted to conlang one made, then probably we should expand this thread to any popular conlang.

I have a character named Kaahtkw'eid (which is actually an adopted name after he is teleported). For some reason, he is teleported to a plane (it's originally called Sakha, but I am going to change the name). People there are never exposed to Kaahtkw'eid's language. There is no schooling at any kind...

It reminds me of the joke about the difference between Indonesian language and Malaysian language (which despite the name, it's actually 2 dialects of the same language, Malay). Percuma berbual 30 minit Malaysian: Free talking for 30 minutes (about talking on telephone) Indonesian: It's futile to bo...

jal wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 3:32 am Well, he's a bit of a snob, so it's probably no longer a match for his elite taste .

That paper is about the Dai language, David Peterson's own conlang. And he's embarrassed about it when I read it, it's not even bad. It's actually decent.

http://fiatlingua.org/2017/03/

Why is David Peterson embarassed with the conlang. It seems fine, if not a bit too SAE.

A VP can also be a sentence fragment that answers a question: "What did you do today?" "Made a conlang." Does the behaviour of my relative/anaphoric infix <ess> indicate the presence of a VP? I can use it to omit the subject in following sentences leaving just the syntactic obje...