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Ongshv́ is the language spoken in Fiúgham 's non-Lantin-speaking clergy. Like most of the inventories for my conlangs, this came from a rather simple idea. Specifically, it came from the idea of a Dravidian language with the dental fricatives. This is its most recent evolution. The most significant ...

Feel free to correct my classifications, if you need to, because this is my most complex phonology to date. Phoenixfolk (Romanization only) Phonology Consonants /p̪ b̪ t d c ɟ k g/ <p b t d kj gj k g> /p̪ʲ b̪ʲ/ <pj bj> /p̪ʷ b̪ʷ tʷ dʷ kʷ gʷ/ <pw bw tw dw kw gw> /ʈ͡ʂ t͡ɕ d͡ʑ c͡ç ɟ͡ʝ/ <qj tj dj kj gj> ...

Reposting because it seems to have been overrun. My setting's Primordial language has tenuous, aspirated, nasal, and affricated clicks at three POA (cover K) [K Kʰ K̃ K͡χ]. There's at least one language that has [i → e] after [q] (can't remember which). For future reference, is it possible to have [...

Thanks guys. My setting's Primordial language has tenuous, aspirated, nasal, and affricated clicks at three POA (cover K) [K Kʰ K̃ K͡χ]. There's at least one language that has [i → e] after [q] (can't remember which). For future reference, is such an alignment possible with clicks? "Future ref...

Thanks guys. My setting's Primordial language has tenuous, aspirated, nasal, and affricated clicks at three POA (cover K) [K Kʰ K̃ K͡χ]. There's at least one language that has [i → e] after [q] (can't remember which). For future reference, is such an alignment possible with clicks? "Future refe...

Voicing won't contrast in my setting's Elvish language's plosives but will in its fricatives. Is this attested in any natlang? Does having the language's affricates pattern like its plosives or fricatives sound more natural?

The language posted above is only one factor is Common's construction because humans, like us, only provided limited influences to the final language. The next two posts will focus on the language's major contributors, Elvish and Primordial Phoenixfolk. Unfortunately, Elvish may take a while to appe...

What are some vowel systems that can emerge from a co-mingling of my setting's Elvish and Primordial languages (vowel systems below), aside from a direct combination? Elvish: (oral) /ɑ ɐ e ɪ o ɯ/; (nasal) /ɑ̃ ɛ̃ ɔ̃ ɯ̃̽/ Primordial: /ɑ e̞ i o̞ ʊ/ with [Kɑ → Pa] and [CV → NṼ], where K is a click, P is...

The elvish language sounds similar to French and has nasal vowels, making the full vowel system /ɐ ɑ ɑ̃ ɪ ɨ ĩ ø̞ ẽ̞ ɵ̞ õ̞/ (<ä a a/äm/n î i i/îm/n e em/n o om/n>). Shorthand slashes are to save space and mean "or". Considering the Romanization scheme is for orthographic continuity, do any ...

Great read! Please watch the oddly-placed line breaks, though, because they mess up the flow.

I'm, actually, strongly favouring the central vowels being marked. But, if I shift at the last minute, do you recommend changing all peripherals to being marked with circumflexes? I’m not sure I understand this question. What exactly do you mean by ‘shift’? Change my mind. Considering the context I...

I'm, actually, strongly favouring the central vowels being marked. But, if I shift at the last minute, do you recommend changing all peripherals to being marked with circumflexes? As for the vowel system's weirdness, the language is spoken in a fictional galaxy, so that should afford some oddity. I ...

Currently, I have a law that affects every nasal in the protolang named VViqàxùa’s [ˈʙí.ʔɐ̀.Xù.ɐ̀] Law (see below), after the fiendish linguist who discovered it. Should it be broken in half (nasals to voiced plosives; deglottalizations), or is it fine as one? [X] represents Greek lower case chi. VV...

My roleplay setting's Elvish language has the six vowel system /ɐ ɑ ɪ ɨ ø̞ ɵ̞/. Is it more logical to Romanize it with unmarked central (/ɐ ɑ/ as <a ä>) or peripheral (/ɐ ɑ/ as <ä a>) vowels?

I've crossposted this topic for the Runepath roleplay setting's main language, the name of which loosely translated as Common, on the CBB. After an experience with a similar topic, in which I dumped everything on them at once, I'm posting one stage at a time, starting with the protolang. Is the bit ...

Galactic Standard's a object-prominent language that may have a topic-comment structure as well. Thus, the objective/instrumental case is unmarked. Does it still need an object-marking particle? I don’t know what an object-prominent language is, and a quick search doesn’t turn up anything obvious, ...

Galactic Standard's a object-prominent language that may have a topic-comment structure as well. Thus, the objective/instrumental case is unmarked. Does it still need an object-marking particle?

Is [Cʔ] → {C', Ƈ}, depending on the previous consonant's voicing, plausible, or would it go the other way? I couldn't find anything like it on Index Diachronica. I don’t think so, on the basis that having both ejectives and implosives at the same time is quite rare (although I don’t know why). I im...

Is [Cʔ] → {C', Ƈ}, depending on the previous consonant's voicing, plausible, or would it go the other way? I couldn't find anything like it on Index Diachronica.

For the record, [*j → l] appears from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian to Proto-Malayo-Javanic (what'cha know, two proto-langs); a variant, [*j → lʲ], happens from Proto-Slavonic to Polish; and sporadic [*j → ɭ] is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian to Proto-Chamic. I brought up PMP spawning a second proto-lang ca...