Zompist Bboard Again

Zaarin wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 2:24 pm

Akangka wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:10 am So, English, how do you differentiate yourself from other conlang? /ʍ/? Are you serious?

Uh, /ʍ/ really isn't that weird, and not many English dialects still have it anyway.

But that phoneme is so out of places, Why isn't English has another voiceless liquid?

Knit Tie wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:00 am

Akangka wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 4:38 am Is it realistic if I only allow these consonants word finally/t d k ts tɬ tʃ s ɬ ʃ x ʔ/? There is additional cluster /st sk ɬt ɬk ʃt ʃk/.

Sounds pretty good to me! I'm playing with word-final consonant restrictions myself, actually.

The problem is that I have voiced fricatives.

Is it realistic if I only allow these consonants word finally/t d k ts tɬ tʃ s ɬ ʃ x ʔ/? There is additional cluster /st sk ɬt ɬk ʃt ʃk/.

How do you pronounce:

1. Ejective fricative, (Not ejective affricate or ejective stop, I can already pronounce that)
2. Pharyngeal consonant

So, English, how do you differentiate yourself from other conlang? /ʍ/? Are you serious?

Tamaziɣt: So you want more word without vowels. But you can't just use old words and simply removing the vowels in certain positions.

Everywhere I see desert, I see a native culture utilizing agriculture. Even Atamaca desert. Isn't the point of desert is you can't easily grow a plant? The only place I see a culture without agriculture in desert is Australia and South Africa. Southwestern US is partial answer, because you can get b...

Tanoan language family makes no sense. For first, why do you think Inverse number system is a good idea? Also apparently you don't know how language family works. You can't just make it like: They have inverse number system, but the suffix is not cognate. They also don't have horses, but let's make ...

I have abandoned my Asent'o, but I'm still curious how do you grammaticalize relative pronoun. I couldn't use relative pronoun in my new conlang due to a different environment. (And also because of more extensive voice system).

Max1461 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:00 pm I'm trying to get a nominative-accusative system out of a split-ergative one, where the split is based on an animacy hierarchy. How might that occur?

Can you give the current declension system?

Note that the vowel distribution frequency can indeed make a language sounds different.

Note that the vowel distribution frequency can indeed make a language sounds different.

I think the conlanger of this world is a smartass. Why do you have two language family with similar names? Austronesian vs Austroasiatic. Even worse that there is Palauan (an Austronesian language) and Palaungic languages (an Austroasiatic subfamily)

Subject pronoun and verb cannot be separated by an adverb. Note that noun subject can still be separated by an adverb. The subject pronoun also fuses with the verb. The pronoun is reduced if after fusion the pronoun receives no secondary stress. Similarly to the possessive pronoun, but to the next ...

I wonder why does my previous mandarin speaker says "b dibaca p dan p dibaca b" (b is pronounced as p and p is pronounced as b). Even though they're actually /p/ and /pʰ/, respectively. Is it possible that /pʰ/ is registered as lenis one instead of /p/. Or is it just a byproduct that javan...

Anyone know how to pronounce implosives? It seems much harder than ejectives. My attempt to pronounce it only results on voiced(creaky?) stop + creaky vowel.

Is it wrong if in my language, the noun to be relativized becomes proximate? For example:

a koɬ dex

DEF man die.PFV

no khaar stoúm a koɬ

INDEF car hit.PFV DEF man

Becomes:

a koɬ sunzdoum no khaar dex

DEF man REL-4SG-hit.PFV INDEF car die.PFV

I think it's more plausible for original alveolar nasal to turn into dental one than original nasalized flaps. Also ð > θ > t̪ Maybe I'll skip the dental-alveolar distinction in nasals, then. And yeah fortitioning θ and ð to t̪ and d̪ is exactly what I'm going to do. But if I see your sound change ...

Serial verb constructions with "leave", "exit", or similar. Too bad, my conlang's preposition works like SVC. The only difference is that aspect marking is nonexistent except for telicity. All preposition can even turn into verb by zero derivation (just conjugate it like verb).

My favourite: dental stop vs alveolar stop (include both, or else it will simply be /t/) I'm surprised this isn't more common in conlangs - there are dialects of English with this contrast, and in some without it, the interdentals often undergo phonetic fortition to stops that contrast with the alv...

Also, since I ended up having a very sane and basic phonemic inventory with my latest changes, I'm trying to think of a way to spice it up with something crazy without resorting to the usual suspects (i.e. ɬ, ejectives, pharyngeals and so on). To this end, I'm probably going to go with /ŋ/ in onset...