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I wonder how do you pronounce my profile name. I pronounce it: [xʷtɛ̀k]

Is this syntax realistic: If the subject and the object is both core pronoun, the compound pronoun is used. If only one of them is a core pronoun, then only core pronoun is required. The rest of the subject/object is understood for third person. (Alternatively, the full version of 3rd person pronoun...

Of course about bugs language.

Karch wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 7:09 am /pʰ tʰ kʰ/

I didn't see any aspirated consonant in the example text.

Wait, is tone>voicing attested. I thought it's usually the other way around

Can I see the result of language telephone?

Why is Tagalog nonconfigurational? Why we can't use this analysis as deciding the subject? Bumilí ng saging ang lalaki sa tindahan para sa unggóy. => ng saging Binilí ng lalaki ang saging sa tindahan para sa unggóy. => ng lalaki Just because they're both mean "The man bought the banana at the s...

Indonesian has a word piutang that means "accounts receivable"

Then the maker of the conworld is inconsistent. Why the Samalas eruption didn't finish off Sasak people?

Let's see how Tambora language is extinct: A volcano erupts and kills every Tambora speakers. You must be kidding me.

Yes, it's pretty much a predicate.... Though I'm reluctant to talk of verbs; tense and aspect is marked on 'nouns' Not a contradiction. 'rau'c' is different (it means you'd have to undergo a fairly long trek to reach the place...) No, 'rau'c' is not verb. The predicate slot is Verb-Positional-Direc...

evmdbm wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:11 am Is a common alphabet plausible?

Absolutely. Latin has been used to write a language with extremely diverse phonology from English, to Spanish, to Yoruba, to Indonesian, to Vietnamese, to Nahuatl, etc. Like Latin, you have to devise digraph or diacritic.

Ah cool. I can see the language is evolved from a way to communicate the location of food, danger, etc. Then the language is extended to communicate something as expressive as human language. My question, how do you make a complex clause, like "I was walking to the base when the landslide occur...

jal wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:54 am What kind of "way" do you mean?

What to fuse.

Any other way to make a fusional language other than Subject+TAM+Voice prevalent in Indo European?

I liked this project. So my question:
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1. How is your linguistic universal in your conworld? Or does every bug speak a language
2. How is a sentence formed in your conworld?

One possibility would be to borrow only nouns, and then use them in a light verb construction (e.g., with a verb meaning do ---Japanese mostly does this, for example). I already know light verb construction. However, in language with SVO word order, heavy verb serialization, and no ditransitive ver...

So, if I’m understanding correctly: you have a verbal system which is very irregular, but which contains much ablaut with some metathesis. However, as in English, the ablaut process is unproductive; that is, it applies only to some verbs. (I presume that there are several other processes which can ...

My language has extensive ablaut. Sometimes, it can even become "triconsonantal". However, the triconsonantal system is rare, and it's mostly ablaut with some metathesis. The problem is that when loaning a verb from another language. Unlike Semitic, the ablaut is unproductive, due to varie...

At the time, Nama was by far the world's strongest military power, but they were almost entirely a land-based empire, with only a tiny seacoast. When famine came, they invaded their southern ally, Paba, whose food supply came largely from the ocean and was thus unaffected by the cold spells. Why di...