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by Yaali Annar
Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:30 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
Replies: 54
Views: 14216

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...
by Yaali Annar
Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:08 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 841984

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...
by Yaali Annar
Tue Jun 27, 2017 7:15 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
Replies: 7
Views: 3370

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 ...
by Yaali Annar
Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:18 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
Replies: 7
Views: 3370

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 ...
by Yaali Annar
Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:22 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
Replies: 7
Views: 3370

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...
by Yaali Annar
Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:36 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
Replies: 7
Views: 3370

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...
by Yaali Annar
Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:45 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Compromising My Way Toward A Standard Language
Replies: 7
Views: 3370

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...
by Yaali Annar
Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:40 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Linguistatistics Thread
Replies: 1
Views: 1234

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...
by Yaali Annar
Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:24 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Linguistatistics Thread
Replies: 1
Views: 1234

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...
by Yaali Annar
Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:52 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
Replies: 112
Views: 22372

Re: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language

Xephyr wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:Yes well you can offer up an image
Alright, I'll try:
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Image
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.
by Yaali Annar
Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:50 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116227

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 ...
by Yaali Annar
Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:26 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The 200,000 Year English Project
Replies: 9
Views: 3034

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..
by Yaali Annar
Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:13 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: SIWA update
Replies: 11
Views: 3684

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...
by Yaali Annar
Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:24 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Guess the language, noöne
Replies: 21
Views: 4457

Re: Guess the language, noöne

Adamic Language.
by Yaali Annar
Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:25 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Compte rendu d'une représentation donnée par le Nô japonais
Replies: 17
Views: 3837

Re: Compte rendu d'une représentation donnée par le Nô japon

So, when did Devanagari become prevalent in India?
by Yaali Annar
Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:03 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The 10000 syllable phonology challenge! (kitchen sinks ahoy)
Replies: 26
Views: 7962

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...
by Yaali Annar
Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:02 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Odd natlang features thread
Replies: 354
Views: 145184

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.
by Yaali Annar
Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:51 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Odd natlang features thread
Replies: 354
Views: 145184

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.
by Yaali Annar
Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:32 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies
Replies: 21
Views: 5467

Re: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies

Gaspard wrote:I was surprised to see that German and Hebrew have fairly similar phoneme inventories—apart from some minor things…
As far as Jewish language goes Yiddish is the one most similar with German.
by Yaali Annar
Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:53 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Coincidentally Identical Phonologies
Replies: 21
Views: 5467

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.
by Yaali Annar
Sat Mar 07, 2015 8:42 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Bird language
Replies: 34
Views: 7782

Re: Bird language

Birdlang wrote:First of all, I have a similar condition to Eddie's.
I doubt that. Eddie's condition is.... idiosyncratic.
by Yaali Annar
Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:31 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Bird language
Replies: 34
Views: 7782

Re: Bird language

Halian wrote:
a keyboard with 20,061 sounds
...How
A synthesizer can make infinite amount of sounds. I don't see why it's special?
by Yaali Annar
Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:31 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Esce (alphabet)
Replies: 8
Views: 3174

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 ...
by Yaali Annar
Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:17 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 841984

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...
by Yaali Annar
Tue Feb 24, 2015 2:13 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 841984

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 ...