Zompist Bboard Again

There's something to be said for pencil and paper in mapmaking though. And doing it well always takes time. When you're as artistically bereft of talent as i am (I've seen videos of more elephants with more artistic talent than i have) there's something to be said for hiring someone to make a map.....

My reading is all over the place and changes by the hour(all in english): the bible - new american standard bible Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans The DaVinci Code A Delusional of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Lee and Karen Armstrong - for my nano project, it's...

Ok so i'm finally narrowing down the rest of the stuff, excited to pretty much have my phonology and much of my orthography figured out. So now onto finalizing that grammar and syntax and start word building. Genders : Masculine Feminine Neuter My Cases so far : nominative case accusative case genat...

Akangka wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:02 amDo you know how to create more than one conlang there?

You click on the profile menu and on the page that loads there is a new language link

I havent gotten a conlang to the point yet where a software is needed. I have a little notebook i use to keep my notes and will plan to transfer them to the computer eventually. Though i am not nearly to that point yet, i am playing around with two softwares based on recommendations from a facebook ...

JT the Ninja wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:55 amSounds reasonable! Although if you're on Android there is an IPA keyboard you can download, which I've found useful.

Just downloaded it, though nowhere near the point where i need it yet.

Zaarin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:05 pmAny reason not to write it <eu>? I suppose English speakers might interpret that as /u/ or /ʊ/ thanks to French loanwords, but...

Mainly because i associate the /e/ or /eɪ/ with the English Letter A. I do think now that i shouldnt for this dipthong.

Dont know if this is the right place but i just had to share this language related thing on facebook

So my updated Orthography:

/ʒ/ = zh
/dʒ/ = j
/tʃ/ = ch
/ʃ/ = sh
/ʟ/ = ll
/x/ = kh
/ʔ/ = '
/ŋ/ = ng
/ts/ = c
/dz/ = dz
/j/ = y
/r/ = r

Vowels:
/i/ = ë
/ɪ/ = i
/u/ = ô
/ɛ/ = e
/ʌ/ = u
/ɔ/ = o
/o/ = ou
/a/ = a
/ʊ/ = ū
/aɪ/ = ie
/eɪ/ = ae
/eʊ/ = aū
/oɪ/ = oi

if you want it, keep it. never do anything you don't want to. i get that, just if I'm remembering correctly it was suggested I add it because it was a type of dipthong I was missing. yes you just combine/blend the two sounds. pronounce it smoothly and make it unbroken. I think i got its pronounciat...

you switched <u> and <ou>, not <o> and <ou>. it should be /ɔ/ = <o> and /o/ = <ou> Oops just a copy error /ɔ/ = o /o/ = ou https://vimeo.com/138071832 i think the above sounds more like /eu/ or /eo/ but it's the closest i could find Is this dipthong interesting enough or provide some element that m...

I was going to post my thoughts for cases, tenses, and aspect but I'll wait till I've finished deciding that and till I have the orthography finalized.

I gotta stop reading this thread at work. Im breaking out into laughter and getting weird looks, and i dont think explaining what I'm cracking up about would help any lol

i'd switch <o> and <ou>. personally i think it's a bit more intuitive So now: /ʌ/ = <ou> /ɔ/ = <u> Did i understand you correct? Are /o/ and /eʊ/very different sounds? yes Can i get an example of each sound to ensure that i am understanding correctly what each sound? all i get when i google is this...

If you've got <sh> for /ʃ/, then <zh> for /ʒ/ makes sense. zh sounds good <x> isn't terrible; <kh> is also traditional. I knew i saw something + h for it somewhere but I couldn't remember which. I'll go with <kh>. i know I would have trouble not confusing /x/ with the /ks/ sound if /x/ was <x> Piny...

Ok, so I added back in the glottal stop. but otherwise the last phonology is what i'm going with. YAY Progress! Lol i'm excited to be able to finally move forward with my language. The first question I have is on the writing, and will post a follow up for feedback on what I'm thinking about cases, a...

Just a fun question i thought of. Has anyone decided to include or to not include someothing for really stupid reasons? Like i dropped the glottal stop from my personal artlang mainly because i hate having to constantly switch keyboards on my phone to be able to put in an apostraphe for posessives a...

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:54 pmlooks good!

Glad to hear. I think i can finally concentrate on figuring out cases, syntax etc and then start word building.

Yay! I think i'm finally happy. I took a totally different root for my inventory, i just never was happy with what I had gone with prior to this, so I decided to look to my heritage and look that Ukrainian and i went from there. Here is my consonant Inventory. I dropped /p/ and switched out on of th...

English /p t k/ are aspirated syllable-initially except when preceded by /s/; part of what makes many ESL speakers sound foreign is the lack of this aspiration. Not including such aspiration will make the language easier for non-English speakers. Denti-alveolar is the term used to describe the poin...