Zompist Bboard Again

By the way, the phoneme inventory reminds me of Bantu languages. Also, can you give the diachronics and deep representation, so I can make the nonphonemic orthography for your conlang? Sure thing! The diachronics of this one is basically that I'm still screwing around trying to imagine what possibl...

Vowels: /i a e o u ɨ/ + length <i a e o u y> + double letter for length /m p b f t̪ d̪ s̪ n t d ɾ l k g x w j/ <m p b f t d s n tr dr r l k g x w j> /mʲ pʲ bʲ fʲ βʲ~ɥ t̪s̪ z̪ ʃ ɲ tʃ ʎ/ <mj pj bj fj wj ts z sj nj tj lj> /dʒ ŋ/ <dj ng> The digraphs are written the other way around word finally except ...

Usually, an animate noun tend to be marked accussatively. However, in my language, the animate noun is marked ergatively, and inanimate noun receives no case marking. The complete rule is as follows: Inanimate noun always receives passive case. Unaccussative intransitive verbs always make the subjec...

Max1461 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:04 pm Could voiced obstruents in the coda take on breathy voice, then spread it to a preceding vowel?

No, except you allow voiced obstruents in the onset to also take on breathy voice. Then the situation is like Javanese.

That's a standard Salishan orthography; it only occurs in <t̓ᶿ> because there's no /tθ/ in the language, only /tθ’/. The Salishan language with the actually weird (aka stupid) orthography is Saanish (SENĆOŦEN) , which (almost) only uses capital letters. Oh yes, I completely forgot about Saanich! Th...

Personally I prefer <aa>. However, if your language treats length as distinctive quality, then <ā>. Question: Why would you need to indicate length if it’s not distinctive? Sorry to make it unclear, I mean if [aː] is not considered /a/ + length, but as fundamentally different vowel like /a/ and /o/...

So; in transcribing /a:/, which would you use? 1) aa 2) á 3) ā 4) something else 5) just go eat a taco It depends in your language. Personally I prefer <aa>. However, if your language treats length as distinctive quality, then <ā>. Please don't use <á>. Alternatively, if you write germlang, or your...

So, this whole system arose out of mashing together verbs and particles of the modern English - I'm still screwing around with its hypothetical descendants, you see - where, say, the phrase "I think Tom is going to be writing" got condenced into one verb "Tom thymyyreecyn" /tom ...

ɔː > oː ə > 0, except if it results in a word with only a single consonant that is a stop. Resonant not adjacent to vowel becomes syllabic. Vowel adjacent to other vowel becomes nonsyllabic. ʉ ɨ > ə final devoicing for stops, fricatives and affricatives. ɾ̃ > r, ⁿd > d The object now can be disloca...

Phonologically, this is not SAE at all, though. Only grammar. The consonant inventory is /t k kʷ b~m d~n~r tʰ kʰ kʼ ts tɬ tɕ tsʼ tɬʼ tɕʼ s z ɬ l ɕ ʑ~j x ɣ xʷ w ʔ h/ Non-SAE grammatical features: noun incorporation is already present. I also have presented inverse marking, although working partially...

Inclusion of non-SAE phonemes, like /q/ or /ɸ/ or /ħ/. Possibly add a whole series, like ejectives or implosives or back unrounded vowels. Complex morphosyntax Non-SAE grammatical features, like dual or noun incorporation or transitivity marking. Phonologically, this is not SAE at all, though. Only...

How do you pronounce /æ/? (Note that English is not my native language.)

Sakha is a language that I'm (actually still developing). I try to incorporate some features from that sprachbund into this language: Negative Indefinite Fusion on case and number (Two cases: active and stative, two number: singular and plural) Fusion on TAM and person-number (But only part of TAM a...

Indonesia has dual indefinite.

Baik X maupun Y.

or

X dan Y dua-duanya.

Please keep down your smug, please. Also, your language is much more boring than you're thought.

missals wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 11:21 pm

Knit Tie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 7:23 pm

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2019 1:32 pm

no

Really?

I mean, why would it be? What physiological motivation would there be?

The same motivation as guttural r.

Almost universal because until now, everyone is religious. Huh? Atheism has been documented for over 3,000 years. EDIT2: Plus religions don't exist by default. They are human-made. Whoops, you're right. It's still almost universal, though. Also, while I don't think God creates a human with some rel...

So my latest conlang, a future derivative of english, got drowned in yods during the diachronic shifts. jC and Cj clusters are everywhere and in every position. So I said "fuck it" and decided that if there be so many yods, I might as well play around with palatalisation as an entire hist...

Vijay wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:41 pm If profanity involves religion, then it can't be universal because religion isn't universal.

Almost universal because until now, everyone is religious.

Is it realistic to turn rhotacized vowel into creaky voiced vowel?