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Mjenje, vinu betŕeŕ xťætjgǫhtǫ. Si ģælæjesj betŕi n smhe.
1P.sg.gen wine-nat.sg better-nat.sg.com prefer-1P.sg.pres.ind | as vehement-comp-unn.sg.com better-unn.sg.com=thereupon ser.3P.sg.pres.ind
Personally, I like wine the best. The drier the better

Imralu wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:26 pm Mia ligos ali na.
on.way meet friend NOM.1S.ACS
I'm going to visit friends.

Xǫŕìŕ?
(where~what-loc.pl)

Nda x:
>xævæs haptani
VLƎNTǪHSU
and=and
have-2P.sg.pres friend-unn.pl
jealous-nat.sg.com

Wow that was fast 2. A dialect of Finnish (Savonian?) has something similar, not for the same MOA, but for a lengthy list of consonant clusters. There were a couple of close patterns to it, but I don't remember them - maybe some of them were hC, lN? E.g. kolme > kolome three . Thanks! I was actually...

From syllable final /Vs Vh Vw Vj Vʔ Vn Vns Vnʔ Vwʔ Vjʔ/, how can I get rhotacized vowel? It doesn't have to affect all of them, as long as some of them results in rhotacization. The only thing I can think of is Vʔ, Vh > Vʡ, Vħ > V˞ . But I don't know how plausible that is. Wasn't there some languag...

So, Lenny = Latin? Idk, I always thought Scandinavia was the most penisy of the peninsulas
Also, Lenny takes the penis peninsula. I see what you did there. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Also Osage guy why you do this as well French kinda has an excuse because it's got a cramped vowel system anyway but you started off with a simple five-vowel system! Don't forget Ancient Greek I'm actually surprised so few people talk about the trainwreck of a lang that is Modern Greek. First of al...

Looks pretty cool! I do still wonder why Proto-3 only has the one long vowel, but I think it's neat you have a pretty-much unified orthography for pretty much all or the proto-langs. Also, I spotted a thing: <æ> is pronounced as a standard English <a> when reciting the alphabet. Front Central Back H...

I'm trying to take a very plosive-cluster-heavy language and simplify the clusters somewhat. However, I'd rather not just reduce these by eliminating the first element. Are there any good precedents I can work off of other than C1C2 > C2 / _? If it helps, the plosive inventory is /p t k/ /b d g/, th...

Found this with a quick search
Edit: also this

I like this one, but it'd need some serious allophony with that fricative row. Also, I think you might be trying to do the voiced uvular stop, but I can't be sure due to the vagueness of how it's defined; this is the sort of thing you need the IPA for. If you instead meant the voiceless uvular stop...

...please learn the IPA...there's this , which I find super helpful for typing IPA...this is the sort of thing you need the IPA for... Yes, I plan to learn IPA. And during the time when I haven't learned it yet, I plan to at least look up the IPA symbols for my sounds... Oh, and for proto-4, it loo...

The liaison evidence is only one issue. Another is that despite the common contention that it's "implausible" or excessively "complex" for people to memorize a multitude of essentially arbitrary added segments, the data from acquisition, etc. shows that people do memorize all th...

excrement obvious things First of all, I'd like to formally apologize for completely forgetting that secondary stress exists. Second, a question about the scope of nonconcatenativity: do any of the following count? Truncation - Is this nonconcatenative? If so, why is any one form of the word consid...

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:40 pm is /anː/ -> /ãn/ plausible? and can it be generalized to any vowel/nasal?

If you specifically want to keep it distinct from /Vn/, perhaps this?
V>>Ṽ/_N
VCː>>VːC
Ṽ>>V/_N (short vowels only)
Ṽː>>Ṽ

Language temporarily code named C3: I haven’t decided yet whether it is a language isolate or simply the only language from its family that has appeared in my conhistory so far, but I’m leaning towards the latter. Anyway, this language will have to provide 13 naming elements. Consonants Labials Den...

The shifts seem fine at first glance; I'll do them in the next post. I’m trying to come up with a bunch of naming languages for a lot of names in my conhistory, and before I start to use them for actually inventing the names, I wanted to ask more experienced and knowledgeable people whether the phon...

I don't know. Are tone & stress considered "morphology"? I assumed they weren't, and therefor wouldn't be "non-concatenative morphology". Tone and stress are absolutely considered morphology. They're distinct phonological segments which can bear meaning - there are morphemes...

If by nonconcatenative you mean to include stuff like consonantal root systems, I've seen quite a few of those while lurking both here and elsewhere. I particularly remember a few from r/conlangs like fenekere . As so many of us are English-speaking, I think analytic conlangs probably don't seem int...

Perhaps this will be a full-blown scratchpad someday, but this is an ideä I've had rattling around my brain for quite some time. Basically, one must assume 1 thing for this ideä (something I concede is growing less likely each week): Franco-German relations remain relatively good towards each other,...

Just got here from the old board (college interrupted). Hi, everyone! me and half the board Huh, I indeed count about 50% so far, and that's without subtracting replies that have no info either way. The LGBTQ lean in linguistics is a known phenomenon, but over here it seems still stronger yet than I...