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Interesting, thanks for the replies. Roughly speaking then, some people here use 'on accident' and have never been corrected for it, others have heard of it but would never use it, and to some of us, it sounds very odd. I don't think any non-Americans said they use it but please correct me if I'm wr...

I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but 'on accident' is a variation of 'by accident' which I often see on the Internet, although I've never actually heard anyone say it in the wild (I live in the south of England.) After doing a bit of Googling, it seems that 'on accident' is a fea...

Me plac ke pög päreul nal mia lenga son kört, ät aücz son löng.
I am glad that some words in my language are short, and others are long.

Ahh, I can't decide which of the three Romanizations I like best.

Nort's certainly captures the Germanic feel of the language, but I prefer diacritics to digraphs overall so we will see!

Here's a phoneme inventory with an example sentence: /m n ɲ ŋ/ /p b t d k g/ /ts tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ/ /f s ʂ ɕ h/ /r/ /l ʎ/ /ɻ j/ /i y/ /u/ /e ø/ /o/ /ɛ/ /ɔ/ /a/ /ai au ei eu oi ou ɛi ɛu ɔi ɔu øi/ Phonotactics in brief: Any single consonant can occur in onset or coda position, with the exception of /j/ whic...

šanqukwaratəb bekip'it gaχu nöl wartu menjes pekkingünəb kikeŋŋe satna kekip'i [ʃɑɴqukwɑɾɑtəu βekʲipʼiʔ ɣɑχʷ nœl wɑɾtu mɛnjɛs pɛkkiŋɣynəʉ kʲikɛŋŋe sɑʔnɑ kekkʲip'i] far-know-1S>3S.IRR 1S.POSSD-language.ABS-PL enough difficult COP let_alone INCHO-learn-1S>3S.IRR other.GEN person.GEN 3S.POSSD-language...

Yes.

Wiktionary says it's also a verb meaning 'to write' but I've never seen or heard it used in that way.

Radius Solis wrote:
Edit: oh, and screed. But we all know what a screed is, right? right?

This made me think of screeve, which is rarely used outside the context of Georgian grammar.

All the cool kids noun incorporate.

šōŋək kurəttejes ō mīməɬjul ɣamnijaksəjč čenjakɨttɨ ɣojmˤ once fay-DIM-DAT INST Nairutin.ERG 1S-language.ERG speak-IRR-3S.DAT try An elf once tried to speak my language, Nairutin cəi ʁustən məgɨlotātˤ ʁošumbɨkūqet ol čəuŋˤ šūdruxlɨ but all-ERG.PL REL-be_glottalised-3P.ABS consonant-PART-ERG.PL 3S.A...

The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID was, ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’ ‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.—I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud. ‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the a...

No because omlauts are a result of i-mutation, which in simple terms, is saturation of progressive spread short vowels. Any basic textbook on Germanic linguistics will tell you this. Sure, further sound changes in some languages produced front rounded vowels (better, ''faucalized'' vowels) but this ...

I would like to present a better system: When there is a pair of vowels, the member on the left is sliding. The one on the right is flat. I think this is a neat way of classifying tones in languages that have them. http://imgur.com/C4myE.png I'm not sure about the placement of the rhotic vowels, and...

Granpa, tell me this.

How would you represent nasal vowels?

Aha, interesting. I knew /ɣ/ > /v/ would be a bit of an odd sound change, but it's good to know there is some precedent for it. I'm guessing /ɣ/ > /w/ would be much less outlandish? I can work with that.

ɣ > j /#_
ɣ > v

Has it ever been done? Could it be done?

Here's the phonology of my latest conlang, tentatively called Cembes: Consonants: http://i.imgur.com/tY7nG.jpg Vowels: http://i.imgur.com/7sK5n.jpg One important thing to note is that the phoneme inventory is pan-dialectal. Cembes has three main dialects which are quite divergent from each other, ye...

That is indeed a classic quote from our beloved and venerable Chagen.

Modern Zaltas: Consonants Labial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ Plosive p (b) tʼ t d kʼ k g Affricate ts dz tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Fricative f v s z ʂ ʐ ɕ ʑ x (ɣ) h Approximant r l j /b/ is an extremely rare phoneme, being restricted to recent loanwords. /ɣ/ tends to be realised as the v...

dhokarena56 wrote:There aren't any natural languages that feature oligosynthesis, tho...

Darkgamma wrote: Ithkuil? It's no natlang, but...

dhokarena56 wrote:There aren't any natural languages that feature oligosynthesis, tho...

Darkgamma wrote: Ithkuil? It's no natlang, but...

natural languages

natlangs

beep boop bop.

L1: English
Also been exposed to: Welsh
Ancestral languages: English, Welsh, probably Irish.

Thanks for the replies guys! I'll do what Nort said.

On a slight tangent, anyone know how Armenian developed ejectives? (probably best to PM me so that this thread doesn't derail..)

I'm trying to get ejectives into one of my a posteriori conlangs, and I'd like to know how plausible these sound changes are:

sp st sk > p' t' k'
pt kt > t'
pp tt kk > p' t' k'

A stereotypical impression of a person from East Anglia is usually something along the lines of 'yarr I'm a farmerr, this is my tractorr', always replete with heavy rhotacism. Which is funny because East Anglia is fully non-rhotic and has been for some time.