Zompist Bboard Again

A fruit in a conworld can be named after a race, that is also a name of its language Aha. But I think this person called their ethnicity "Han". The guy who did Korean also called their ethnicity Han. You two need to sort this out. :roll: They did. The Mandarin one decided to say it came f...

though [affix -like ] seem[s] to have a slightly different meaning? It looks to me like you can only call things that aren't actually bird s ' birdlike ', e.g.? Yep, that's the problem. For some reason English chooses not to resort to an elevated, or should I say high register, suffix like -oid for...

Mandarin, but a colloquial f word and the literary/formal word for "Sun" are both rì /ɻ̩˥˩/. Both written as 日 too. The f word is the regular result of the classical word "enter" (入), though the literary/formal pronunciation has long been rù /ɻu˥˩/ only, possibly from an alternat...

I'm not sure which one your third low vowel is, but FWIW IMD there are at least five: TRAP, BATH, LOT, THOUGHT, CUT plus marginally/incipiently SHIRE and SHOWER*, while SQUARE and COMMA are also generally rather low in the vowel space. The third one is CUT, with its contemporary SSBE (SSEE?) value....

I really, really can't believe nobody's mentioned the biggest elephant in the room yet: Modern English. It's quite a ramble, so I hope you could bear with me...it's just some frustration with the highly odd conlang I've been having. Yes, the idea of adding layers of history to your conlang is cute, ...