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Ok, thanks. This seems to be an interesting way to think about areal relations.

OK, thanks. Sorry, I knew the slashes thing, I just forgot.

Just a random thought: About historic areal contact, what ways would there be to divide the world into, for the lack of a better word, linguistic macro-regions, i.e., Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, etc.? Many linguistic categories seem to be shared between most Euroasiatic languages that aren’t shar...

Read this about inflectional categories and thought it was interesting. The authors seem to think it is exhaustive list. (https://wals.info/chapter/22) “The prime candidates for this are categories like agreement, tense/aspect/mood, evidentials/miratives, status (realis, irrealis, etc.), polarity (n...

Can /ʃ/ be allophonic with /x/ depending on the surrounding vowels? Would this allophony be relatively stable?

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Hi all, I'm new here but I'm interested in getting to interact this community more. I have an open question about conlangs but romanization in particular. Can less practical approaches to romanization such as <gn> instead of <ñ> or <ɲ> be justified if they contribute to phonaesthetics? Thx, conlange...

Two noun-related systems I came up with (please tell me if it’s unnaturalistic). What number markings a noun can take depends on the animacy level of the noun. (level 1 animacy) Humans, gods, spirits, large animals: Singular, paucal, and plural (level 2 animacy) Small animals, water, weather, tools:...

If Trump is found guilty of something and is put in jail, but then goes on to be elected as president, would there be a means by which he could get himself out of jail? I guess as long as it's for one of the federal charges, he can pardon himself, if necessary from his jail cell, as soon as he's ta...

Here are my core parameters so far: 1. Somewhat isolating 2. Head-final - Dominantly suffixing, SOV, postpositions ect. 3. Head-marking 4. Animacy based alignment split 5. Three verb inflections: Perfective, imperfective, subjunctive. Also, due to the language being somewhat isolating, I decided to ...

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Hi guys! In my current (and hopefully my last!) unnamed proto-lang, I have so far completely finished my phonology, as well as worked out some basic-level details (i.e., what inflections exist, basic word order, black pronoun charts, et cetera) by going through the various questions of LCK. My plan ...

Thx. I based my rules off the table of possible combinations.

What do you guys think of my vowel Sandhi system? By the way, I have a typical five-vowel system plus phonemic length plus the diphthongs /eu/, /au/ and /ai/. Here it is: When two word-internal morphemes meet and multiple vowels come in contact, eight sound changes are applied, in order, simplifying...

Sounds fine to me! I think some examples might help for understanding the sandhi effects. 4. Semivowels, after nasals or /s/, turn into their corresponding short vocalic form. What do you mean by ‘short vocalic form’ here? Generally, a semivowel is considered to be just another name for a very shor...

Since my conlang, while having a CCVC syllable structure, only allows certain medial consonantal groups, I devised a Sandhi system to deal with word-internal morpheme contact, but I’ve done anything like this before, so I’m wondering what you guys think. First here’s the phonotactic rules: The sylla...

Does this system for my verbs work? Did I get everything? Is it naturalistic? Subjunctive: All deontic and dynamic modality, future events, interrogatives, polite imperatives, jussives, conditionals, presuppositions, wishes, and fears. Imperfective: All present events, habitual past events, past eve...

Question: What is the best way to format a dictionary entry. What I am currently doing is something like this: edhas (eðas) n. 1. black 2. Evil | Middle Ambaran ethas > Archaic Ambaran etas (edhas is not actually in my language, I’m still working on the Proto-Lang).

What do you guys think about the early drafts of my morphology and syntax sections: Morphology Nouns: Nouns are inflected for singular, dual and plural in animate nouns, and just singular and plural in non-human animate nouns, and optional singular and plural marking in inanimate nouns. The singular...

Hi guys! I haven't posted on this board for a while (My interests were diverted mainly towards natlangs, mainly Old English), but I have just started work on a yet unnamed Proto-Lang, and I’m wondering what you guys think about the phonology. CONSONANTS Nasals: m, n Stops: p /pʰ/, b /p/, t /tʰ/, d /...