Zompist Bboard Again

/slɛxtə/,.....It looks like it could be any of Irish, German, or polish, but all three of those use /x/ for ch.(edit: Oh German would have started with schl-.)

Is it even a word? It's not in the OED and the Wiktionary entry contains no citations. now that I look at it, the wiktionary entry seems to have been a neologism added by its creator. So there's no real attestation at all. _________ To Vlürch: Would you consider changing the name of the album to Ag...

1) ascience 1) /əsaɪ̯əns/ just feels right, but I'm not 100% sure if it's correct. I mean, according to Wiktionary omniscience is /ɒmˈnɪʃəns/ or /ɑmˈnɪʃəns/, which sounds totally wrong and I could swear I've only ever heard it as /ɒmnɪsaɪ̯əns/ and the only way I could say it... not that I'd have he...

i have one of those questions that probably has no answer -- what in your opinion makes a language pretty (or rather, euphonious?) 😛 Tastes differ, yes. Not too many people would say Poswa and Pabappa sound pretty, but I've heard a few people say that they sound cute. My tastes are way off the map,...

I would just complat-out avoid the 1st word because even a correct pronunciation will sound awkward. Its like Oceania. I've never heard of graveolence, but I'm with you on sounding it like ravioli except that I'd put the stress on the e. /græ'vi.o.ləns/. Gaster to me just means melanogaster, etc, so...

next: broccoli Kala: tohi(kuya) - broccoli next: abdomen; stomach; belly Proto-Dreamlandic: riaši "stomach, belly" lienčalia "stomach; to digest food" ćariaši "waist" Every syllable in the above words is CʲV. This language has a lot of palatalization, but getting six s...

i think it could happen. the Chemnitz dialect of German turned all of its vowel + r combinations into pharyngealized vowels and thus became nonrhotic. It was a different type of /r/ to begin with, and phar is not the same as creaky, but I think the concept is similar. http://enwp.org/Chemnitz_dialect

Question: are there attested natlangs that have a sound phonemically that is only found in a certain word class, or that is restricted to derivational morphology as opposed to root lexemes? If so, what sounds what that be? yes there are a few examples .... some Uralic languages have voiced stops on...

But there will always be religious people in every society. Even in China where the state promotes atheism, there are hundreds of millions of religious people, and the others are, I'm sure, at least familiar with basic religious concepts.

I think it's worth considering that what we think of as profanity seems to be less defined by being usable as insults, and more by being a set of words that are taboo to utter in certain/most social or discourse contexts. Or are there other ways profanity is typically defined? i stick with the trad...

For ejective /s/ i imitate a garden hose with a kink in it. For the voiced pharyngeal approximant I try to say /z/ without moving my tongue. Not the most professional methods but for me at least I'm pretty sure I'm saying the right sounds. Although I would say that ejective fricatives are functional...

Marshes can count as wasteland from a human perspective. Ive seen that map a long time ago....brings back memories. I remember drawing all over the atlas it was in. But I don't remember the title.

My internal lexicon has 'Cf:' as "compare wif [ sic with]" instead of "confer". Ah, I didnt know that. I just learned "cf. = compare" from an etymological dictionary long ago and yet never bothered (that i remember) to look up the etymology of "cf" itself. Iv...

Are the lips shaped any differently for the palatalized labials vs the normal ones? And can they occur in the coda? E.g. like from "supper"...would that end in a /p_j/?

I only work with a priori conlangs, so none of mine are based directly on any language family, but although I mostly show Poswa & Pabappa, by number most of my conlangs are from the Andanese/Dreamlandic/Tropical Rim families which have classifier prefixes that work much like those of Bantu. I no...

"Sick" & "healthy" are right now homophones in Poswa, but the realistic thing to do is to just disambiguate them by adding more morphemes....I just haven't gotten to it yet. Palindrome? By that do you mean each is the other spelled backwards, or that they are both palindromes...

abortion and orbation are anagrams and both relate to losing a child.

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 alveolar ones. I have dentals in a few languages.... always derived from earlier /t/ vs /t_j...

next: orthodox, strictly in accordance with doctrine These are getting tough. I used to be in this thread all the time but lately I've been having trouble. This is not even actually a new word, but rather a reevaluation of the scope of meaning of an existing word. Poswa: pipiputa "conservative...

Nice map .... is nationstates doing that now or is that yours? Either way, the landmasses are so huge that I don't know which side is the water.... I'm guessing Usimbi is on the west coast of a big landmass, not the east coast of an even bigger one. (Wait no... I see it now... it's the east coast an...