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- Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 642235
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
This isn't a sound change, but.... My conlang Tazic has a vowel system /a i 1 u a: i: u:/. Stress falls on the first syllable with a long vowel, but I have this other rule: on either side of the stressed syllable, vowels must match in length. So you could have CaC1'Ca:Cu but not CaC1'Ca:CuCi: or wha...
- Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 826757
Re: Lexicon Building
Reussitian-
shaáno - paper, from Tazic thapánubi - tree bark
Next word - basket
shaáno - paper, from Tazic thapánubi - tree bark
Next word - basket
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 642235
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
yeah, i could have the /ʈ/ be a laminal retroflex, then have it velarise.
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 642235
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I'm thinking of losing a retroflex series /ʈ ɖ ʂ ʐ/ like this: ʈ > k ɖ > r ʂ > ʃ ʐ > ʒ well the only change i'm really doubting is ʈ > k, dunno if a little context would help at all. I am really only doing that cuz I like [k], and it would make irregular k~r alternations, but I may end up going with...
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 811227
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 642235
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How about an onglide? I have VCʷ :> Vu̯Cʷ :> Vu̯C. u̯C :> ɰC :> Cˠ (and in this case tˠ :> k) ? Also, what would happen to sʷ? I guess I could have it :> x, since I already have x :> h, but then I'd need another source of x that wouldn't have the offglide; /qʰ q/, maybe? If you're trying to get to ...
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 642235
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Uh, do you think the labialized consonants could develop some sort of u~w offglide? Then the velarization could spread to the t.Nortaneous wrote:Is /t_w//k/ plausible as part of a loss of contrastive labialization?
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 642235
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 811227
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
it's from a cell phone so it's not great quality
- Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:46 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 811227
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
Ah, that makes sense... but you can't assume with cyberbullying!
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:08 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 811227
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
that's pretty dickish
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:08 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 811227
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
...you're wearing a coatfinlay wrote:also dammit I also look fatter in the second one.
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 663919
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
dunomapuka wrote:More pretentious - and more stupid. Like people who say "coup de gras" instead of "coup de grâce." A blow of fat? Congratulations
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:43 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 42459
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
I've wanted to make an isolating language for a while now. I mean, all my conlang attempts have failed, so it's not like there's anything holding me back from isolating langs in particular. Once I figure out how to actually keep conlangs, I'll definitely make an isolating one.
- Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:55 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 372452
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOCz8xe9PU
The band is called Ogre You Asshole. My friend told me to listen to them.
The band is called Ogre You Asshole. My friend told me to listen to them.
- Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 329352
Re: The dream thread
Yesterday I had my first lucid dream that wasn't under five seconds. Hard to say how long, and it wasn't that long, but I got to examine the surroundings a little bit and I think I did a flip.
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 909607
Okay, I have really forgot about/put off this thing for a while. Honestly, I don't know if I will work on it again. It's no big deal, I bet, just a little Lukpanic language, but I feel kinda bad about giving up. If anyone wants, for whatever reason, I could post the sound changes I have so far, but ...
- Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:30 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 663919
- Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:21 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB 2010 Fieldtrip
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12061
Wow, it almost sounds kitchen-sinky (well, minus the "designed by a twelve year old" part). And, forgive me if this is an ignorant question but how do you communicate with the Otomí? Do you know the language enough to converse, or do they speak English, or are there interpreters, or do they know Spa...
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 212255
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:05 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: What is the limit of similarity for allophones?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13905
Since allophones tend to come from historical processes, I'd say that almost any two phones could be allophones of each other. I dunno if you can stretch allophony that far. We don't consider [h] and [N] allophones in English even though they have complementary distribution. I've always heard the r...
- Sun Jul 11, 2010 12:26 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: What is the limit of similarity for allophones?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13905
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ASCA v0.1.6 - NEW
- Replies: 125
- Views: 32993
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Other conlangs?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14391
I also like Vabungula. It may not be as fancy as many conlangs, but it is cool that it is used so much by its designer, and it got me into conlanging. Tell me moar. Here is the webpage. It started off as any old kids conlang, I guess you could say, but he developed it quite a bit and is now an adult.
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 811227
Man, everyone always talks about working out to lose weight. What about building some muscle? Different goals Yeah, I don't even know why I said that right now. I guess I was asking- is anybody on the zbb trying to bulk up rather than slim down? I myself could use a little muscle, being more on the...