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i'm quite new to conlanging (if no one could tell), but if you tried to tell the 13 yo me who didn't know about conlanging that this proto-plateau lang wasn't a natlang and instead was a conlang, I would look at you and question if I knew more than you about conlanging. this has to be one of the mos...

sasasha wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:39 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:55 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 3:52 pm

Congratulations!

Seconded!

That’s great news.

Fourthed! (fourthed??)

You seem to have missed out /θ/ from your phonemic inventory. the reason you see /θ/ used in /avdəθa/ and not in the consonant inventory for Proto-Ohufëi is, well, there really is no reason. but if I had to come up with something on the spot, I'd probably say something along the lines of the fact t...

You seem to have missed out /θ/ from your phonemic inventory. the reason you see /θ/ used in /avdəθa/ and not in the consonant inventory for Proto-Ohufëi is, well, there really is no reason. but if I had to come up with something on the spot, I'd probably say something along the lines of the fact t...

This is a new thread I have created for all things involving my conworld, Avdëtha (/avdəθa/)! (all posts involving Azoi can now be put here instead of the Phonemes for Azoi thread.) To start it off, I’ll put the lore behind Avdëtha, and then my progress so far on the oldest conlang in Avdëtha, Proto...

alice wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 2:23 pm Unless you're talking about the town in Perthshire, which as all right-thinking people know is /skun/.

personally, I am a left-thinking person

Good luck, Man In Space. I hit a depression after the initial shock of losing my friend. This is fine and natural and I’m ok. But I’m so unfocused. My brother came to stay and I could barely think what to say to him. It’s easy to just want time to float away in whatever fashion it most easily can, ...

I swear, I look away for...

well I suppose it's been two days, but still! this concept of kitchen sinking (kitchen sinking??) a language with too many options and not enough rules sounds like the best kind of headache. I would love to see more of this conlang.

I personally like phonologies that have unusual/unexpected "gaps", since this happens in natural language all the time. It also gives you the opportunity to do some historical conlinguistics if you want, to figure out what kind of splits and mergers could create the gaps found in modern A...

I like this concept so far!

Another option to consider is to have two voiced palatal phonemes, /j ɟ/ and have [ʝ] be an allophone of one or the other. I feel that keeping /ʒ/ as a separate phoneme is fine as long as one does not also have /ʝ/ plus both /j ɟ/ (one thing to remember that there are languages with a three-way con...

¹ /scɔnz/, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong I typically pronounce it as /skɔnz/, but I love the use of /c/ I have /ˈskoʊnz/ [ˈskõ̞ːnts] because I am ignorant American unfamiliar with proper British pronunciation. I also am an ignorant American under most circumstances, but when it comes to th...

Another area in which the consonants seem a bit, well, close together is having a four-way contrast between /j ʝ ɟ ʒ/ -- it is very common for some of [j ʝ ɟ ʒ] to be allophones of one another. hmm. I did notice that it was somewhat difficult to switch between /j/, /ʝ/, and /ɟ/ in regular speech, a...

Lērisama wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:49 pm ¹ /scɔnz/, and anyone who says otherwise is wrong

I typically pronounce it as /skɔnz/, but I love the use of /c/

I just got back home from a wake for a man I didn't know that well, though with him being the kind of person who he was, my little contact with him was enough to leave an impression. I was accompanying a family member who is a close friend of the deceased's girlfriend. It was interesting to hear so...

finalized Azoi consonants with romanization: Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Plosive p, b t, d c, g /ɟ/ k Nasal m n ñ /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/ Tap or Flap v̇ /ⱱ/ ṙ /ɾ/ Fricative ph /ɸ/, vh /β/ f, v th /θ/ s, z sh /ʃ/, zh /ʒ/ ĉ /ç/, ŷ /ʝ/ x Lateral Fricative ś /ɬ/ Approximant r /ɹ/...

Belatedly, welcome! I’m posting bradrn’s table here as code for you to unpick, if you wish. I’ve formatted it with line spaces between the rows to make it a bit clearer what’s going on. There’s not much documentation on how to make tables on here, so you may find it useful. [table] [rowh][cell][/ce...

this is a really interesting conlang idea!

let me know in the morning (in about 10-12 hours if you don't live in american mountain time) Note that phpBB is quite different to a chat program (like e.g. Discord) — conversations here are asynchronous as often as they’re synchronous. We have lots of Americans, but I’m in Australia and many othe...

so yes, while Azoi is intended to be similar to natlangs, there will be some areas that I will be tweaking a bit in order to make it feel slightly otherworldly. more on that topic when it becomes necessary. In that case I’d be curious to know more — what kinds of non-naturalistic properties are you...