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- Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14653
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Phonemes with exactly 4 occurences in Phoible: /'n̪̥ ɛu ye e̞u kǁ͓ n̠ʒ ʈʼ eo χʲ yə kpʲ β̃ eə k̰ʷ s̪ˤ jɛ t̪s̪ʲ ɾ̤ ɲc t̠ʃʰʲ ʉ̃ tːˤ ø̞ː we ɤ̟ ʂʰ v̤ uai ɤ̤ t̠ʃ͉ lʱ uʌ ɹ̩ ps ɐ̹̆ ɪ̆ t̪θʰ n̪ʲ|nʲ ʊ̜ d̠ʒʰ ə̰ uɪ ɟ̟ ʈːʰ ɐu ɛ̝ i̞ː ɮʲ ɯi qːʷ ɟʷ k̟ æi wõː ɡ̰ rʱ ae̞ ɾʷ kǂ ðː ao̞ ɤ̞̃ ɟʝʷ xʼ õ̰ n̠d̠ aɯ ɛɪ zːˤ dzʱ ia...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868946
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Horrible Kitchen Sink Lang n ɲ ŋ ᵑǃ ᵑǀ ᵑǁ ᵑǂ ˀn ˀɲ ˀŋ ˀᵑǃ ˀᵑǀ ˀᵑǁ ˀᵑǂ t ts tɬ tʃ k q ʔ ǃ ǀ ǁ ǂ tʼ tsʼ tɬʼ tʃʼ kʼ qʼ ǃ' ǀ' ǁ' ǂ' θ s ɬ ʃ x χ h ð z ɮ ʒ ɣ ʁ ɦ e ø ɤ o a ɒ Syllables are CV only, clicks only appears in the beginning of words, vowels may be long and/or nasalized and they also fall into th...
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 7:15 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3434
Re: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
I like the direction this language is going. It's not "boring" at all IMO. With SOV and no case, when there's an [noun] + [verb] construction is it an SV or OV? There are two posibility that leads to [noun] + [verb] the first one is intrasitive verb. Which is obvious. Dunuhar jadormo : The dogs are ...
- Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3434
Re: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
Negation has a lot of compromise between 143, 144, and the language being OV. According to the 143 set (A,E,F) the negative morpheme is a preverbal word similar to spanish "no". But then we go to 144A and it said that the most common form of negative morpheme is morphological. Additionaly 144L says ...
- Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:22 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3434
Re: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
I found a clash in your choices. Your whole-language typology is actually "head-marking", not "inconsistent marking or other type", since both 23A and 24A have the head-marking value. Yeah, I think I'll make the language consistently head-marking (it's the second most common after inconsistent mark...
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:36 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3434
Re: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
[MORPHOLOGY] 20A. Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives: Exclusively concatenative (not isolating, not tonal, not ablauting) 26A. Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology: Predominantly suffixing 27A. Reduplication: Productive full and partial reduplication Beside the reduplication, t...
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3434
Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
I remember someone here tried to make a "Standard Language" by taking the most common feature in WALS and come up with a language for them. I'm attempting the same, and in my progress I found something interesting: Sometimes the most common features clashes against each other. When this happens, I h...
- Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Linguistatistics Thread
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1258
Re: Linguistatistics Thread
Onward to ejectives, there are 167 ejective languages registered in phoible. On average, an ejective language has, 29,62 Non Ejective consonant 6,26 Ejectives 9,47 Vowels There is a /t̪ʼ|tʼ/ entry here. What happened is that some of the data comes from UPSID, and in UPSID some consonants are classif...
- Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Linguistatistics Thread
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1258
Linguistatistics Thread
I have just downloaded phoible data sets, and I'm doing some data crunching with it. First, bear in mind that phoible's data has skewed distribution. For example, 17% (that is one in six) of the languages registered in Phoible has labiovelar plosives. So anyway I'll start with click languages. There...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
- Replies: 112
- Views: 23124
Re: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
A: Tang
B: Corong
C: We don't have a word for that
D: Gada
E: Mata
F: Jagung
G: Busa
H: Hati Yahudi
I: Cakar.
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142705
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Je suis en milieu de apprendre le Français. L'espagnol a aidé moi me souvenir les genres des mots parce que il conserve les terminaison -a et -o qui a été élidé dans le Français. Cependant, d'une façon ou d'une autre, je peux lire textes en français plus rapide dans espagnol. Peut être c'est parce ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:26 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The 200,000 Year English Project
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3098
Re: The 200,000 Year English Project
Assuming that humans are still using auditory means of communication 6000 years in the future. I see that future english would be heavily pidginized..
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: SIWA update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3744
Re: SIWA update
I've not quite understood why the community as a whole, compared to the others, seem to give so little attention to one of the very most extensive conlanging projects out there. The trend is that people are more interested in weird or unique languages rather than the ones with the most extensive do...
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the language, noöne
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4583
Re: Guess the language, noöne
Adamic Language.
- Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Compte rendu d'une représentation donnée par le Nô japonais
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3954
Re: Compte rendu d'une représentation donnée par le Nô japon
So, when did Devanagari become prevalent in India?
- Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The 10000 syllable phonology challenge! (kitchen sinks ahoy)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8178
Re: The 10000 syllable phonology challenge! (kitchen sinks a
All pulmonic, no voice distinction: Consonants: /p t ʈ c ɬ kp ʔ/ /f s ɬ ʂ ɬ˞ ç x xf h/ /pf ts tɬ ʈʂ ʈɬ˞ cç kx kpxf ʔh/ /mp nt ɳʈ ɲc ŋk ŋmkp/ /mf ns nɬ ɳʂ ɳɬ˞ ɲç ŋx ŋmxf/ /mpf nts ntɬ ɳʈʂ ɳʈɬ˞ ɲcç ŋkx ŋmkpxf/ /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ ŋm/ /ɹ l ɻ ɭ y ɰ w/ Vowel: /i ɯ u/ /ɛ ʌ ɔ/ /a ɒ/ /iː ɯː uː/ /ɛː ʌː ɔː/ /aː ɒː/ /a...
- Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:02 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 148740
Re: Odd natlang features thread
I think it's less weird when you figure out that the dual-trial-quadral distinction in oceanic language is basically pronoun + numeral.
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:51 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 148740
Re: Odd natlang features thread
Colloquial Indonesian, and (formal Indonesian to some level) distinguish gender in 2nd person pronoun but not in 3rd (or 1st).
But then again, I think this is mostly true for many languages in Asia.
But then again, I think this is mostly true for many languages in Asia.
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5590
Re: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies
As far as Jewish language goes Yiddish is the one most similar with German.Gaspard wrote:I was surprised to see that German and Hebrew have fairly similar phoneme inventories—apart from some minor things…
- Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5590
Re: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies
Proto-Dravidian have bunch of PoA, no fricatives, and voicing distinction... just like stereotypical australian languages.
Proto-Bantu is also reconstructed without fricatives too, but it has voicing distinction.
Proto-Bantu is also reconstructed without fricatives too, but it has voicing distinction.
- Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Bird language
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7975
Re: Bird language
I doubt that. Eddie's condition is.... idiosyncratic.Birdlang wrote:First of all, I have a similar condition to Eddie's.
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Bird language
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7975
Re: Bird language
A synthesizer can make infinite amount of sounds. I don't see why it's special?Halian wrote:...Howa keyboard with 20,061 sounds
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Esce (alphabet)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3225
Re: Esce (alphabet)
The hand written version is somewhat... better. But still confusing. It's fine if it's intended for ceremonial or decorative purpose. But if it's intended for general communication, there needs to be some breathing room. One of the solution I can think of is to give space every syllable, making the ...
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868946
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Modified my clicklang a bit kitchensinky: Voiceless: /p ʘ t̪ ǀ ǁ ʈ ǃ c ǂ k/ Voiced: /b ᵍʘ d̪ ᵍǀ ᵍǁ ɖ ᵍǃ ɟ ᵍǂ g/ Nasal: /m ᵑʘ n̪ ᵑǀ ᵑǁ ɳ ᵑǃ ɲ ᵑǂ ŋ/ Approximants: / l̪ ɭ ʎ ʟ ɹ̪ ɻ j w/ Vowels: /a e o aː eː oː/ Tone: /˥ ˧ ˩/ /maː˥ɳe d̪eː˧ɭe ɳaː˧d̪a ᵑǁoː˧ɟa ba˥l̪o ᵍʘaː˥ʎe ᵑǂoː˩ba ɟa˥ɖe ja˩be ʟa˧l̪a/ /ᵍǂe...
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868946
Re: Romanization challenge thread
ɔtx: /p pʲ tʰ tʲʰ t tʲ kʲʰ kʲ kʰ k qʰ/ /f fʲ θ θʲ s sʲ h hʲ/ /m mʲ n ɲ r j ɮ ɮʲ/ /ɛ ɔ i ɨ u/ + length /a e/ + length /a e/ are less common than the other vowels, and they can only occur in a few environments. Long vowels can only occur in the first syllable. Non-initial vowels are either a copy of ...