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My planet is basically earth and sun. I don't make a space sci-fi world, I make a fantasy world. However, I need to give a believable climate to my world. How do I do it? About the map, it looks like Carboniferous Earth.

I'm less interested in astronomy and more interested with climatology. Is there any tool for that? My planet and star is basically like Sun and Earth.

How about
d -> r / #_T
t -> s / #_T
k -> h / #_T

But
p -> p / #_T
b -> b / #_T

where T is stop.

For me, thing that is underrated: 1. Using verbal inflection instead of either adposition or relational noun like applicative voices? parts of it. The other part are directional particle. 2. Not an IE (or IE-like) conlang but using relative pronoun. This reminds me of Georgian...Georgian uses relat...

Why do you necroing a dead forum? - having productive reduplications, either full or partial reduplications. This is quite good. However, I prefer ablaut. - evidentiality Common kitchen sink features. - words indicating some kinds of abstract ideas like cultural values that can't be neatly translate...

Going back to my fictional society where they have gender roles that are not based on sex I'm trying to figure out how their sea trade works. This society highly values trade and merchants who go to other cultures are a religious position. But the sea is a great opportunity to defy the traditional ...

Do polysynthetic languages' verbs tend to be closed class? The only polysynthetic language that has open class verbs that I know is (modern) Nahuatl. (I don't know if modern Nahuatl remains polysynthetic, or it has been simplified)

So this is from a chat with my linguist friend about my ideas for my conlang's grammar, I'd like to know your opinion on all this jazz. In terms of grammar, I'm thinking highly agglutinative with a very productive an important independent tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality and applicativity marking...

Suppletion is a process in which one word counts as the inflected form of another word, but in fact they are not cognate. So you have two unrelated words A and B and let's say B becomes associated with A to the point where B only occurs as an inflected form of A. My point is the absence of other wa...

How realistic would it be to have a sound shift were /pˤ fˤ bˤ vˤ/ become /kw xw ɡw ɣw/ intervocalically and word-initially, then the latter two clusters merɡe into /ɣw/ and subsequently become /ʕw/, which then simplifies into /w/? Word-initially, the Cw clusters develop a prosthetic /a/ before the...

Occasionally I've thought about making a conlang whose history took it directly from largely analytic to largely internally-modifying, without passing through an agglutinative or fusional stage. There's precedent in various kinds of diachronic and synchronic changes in different languages around th...

What is the difference of using some verbs like "cook", "close", etc as intransitive verbs, and using passive voice.

What is difference of:

The meat cooks.
The meat is cooked.

The door closes.
The door is closed.

Sometimes when I speaking an English word, I feel like I syllabicate the word as if some sylable don't have vowel at all. Exampleː

/s.plæt/
/plænt.ts/ (I don't know if the syllable breaks should precede or follow /t/)
/s̠.t̠ɹ̠ɛŋ.kθ/

Do you also syllabicate that way? Is this correct?

Not a conlang, but let's assume that Earth is a conworld. The creator of this conworld must like misery. Your Capitanian Extinctions, P-T Extinction, and Smithian-Spathian Extinction are too close together. And why is there extinction event, when the diversity is already so low? That said, I like th...

How does any language acquired applicatives?

Tropylium wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:02 pm Finnish is not going to be faring well in this race most of the time, but an arguably two-phoneme pii for 'silicon' could be tough to beat.

You count it wrong. There is 3 phoneme there. /p/, /i/, and /:/ (the chromoneme is counted as separate phoneme, not combined with the vowel as in English)

What linguistic abbreviation to be used if my language has a suffix that means either 1SG or 2SG. (i.e. German except German merges 1SG and 3SG instead of 1SG and 2SG)

Personally, I don't like /nr/ /nl/ and /nz/ (Try to pronounce it.) They're more likely to be /nd/ /n/ and /ndz/, respectively.

Is this sound change realistic?

s > z / V_V or V_[+voice] or {i e}_#
ns> nz

The problem is the allowed final consonant cluster was only /n s ʔ h j w ns nʔ jʔ wʔ jn wn/

Nouns have three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), four classes (animate, inanimate, abstract, and miscellaneous; note that the fourth can contain examples of the first three) Could you elaborate on this? Grammatical gender and noun classes are usually synonyms. Treating them as separate w...