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Mbwa

You know what, I'll derive a Lukpanic langauge. The pitch accent and other stuff in Proto-Isles was confusing me. Lukpanic looks nice, and lonely.

Mbwa

Oh I misread that. I thought ay aw and ai au were differentiated by length or something.

Sorry Bunnycatch3r, I actually did fail.

Mbwa

ph th kh are pronounced aspirated, meaning there is a puff of air upon their release. English p t k are slightly aspirated. I'm assuming because aspiration is the main contrast between plosives in Uyseʔ, p t k are pronounced without this puff of air, and Zomp notes that ph th kh have strong aspirati...

Mbwa

The first generation Isles languages seem to have many broken links or not a lot of info. I don't have a great track record with sticking to projects anyway; I'll probably create another first generation language spoken by a small tribe who moved to a little island somewhere.

Mbwa

Alrighty then. I scanned over the proto-languages and I think I'd want to derive an Isles language. I see, though, that some other language families are a bit smaller. Isles didn't seem to overcrowded though, do you think it would be alright to have another Isles language?

Mbwa

Hey, do you think I could join in on this thing, or is it getting too packed? I'm more interested in language than culture, so my language-speakers won't impact anything you guys had planned really. They'll probably be some nomads or island-dwellers or something.

Mbwa

Yeah, what they said. But the 2 wasn't supposed to be there in the first one, I just missed the shift key, it should've been @. I suppose the final [?] could drop out and I bet it would still be comprehensible if [tAg@mbaU] went to [tA(@)mbaU], although I probably wouldn't say that unless I was real...

Mbwa

Yeah, [aU~n@U@42fVgiz tAg@mbaU?].

That could get even worse, too.

Mbwa

Emphasis seems like a likely candidate in English:

I ain't got any vs. I ain't got none

Although stress could also do the trick I think.

Mbwa

How legal is it to take sound changes out of a book? I have access to a few Mayan sound changes. It's not much, but it's interesting. Also, what about taking sound changes off of Wikipedia? There are a few decent articles on the history of particular languages, and it wouldn't really take that long ...

Mbwa

It is certainly awesome. The Kebreni grammar feels like such a steal. I did notice a couple of mistakes myself, though: P. 69- A lot of the text seems to be carried over from the original web version. In the gender section, the example of how it can help free word order in Swahili is taken out, yet ...

Mbwa

It came in today. It looks quite promising.

Mbwa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0PWukxRV8U

Mbwa

I ordered it today. Very much looking forward to it.

Mbwa

I guess it's news to me because I don't follow updates closely. But cool, I was looking forward to this one.

Mbwa

tatapyranga wrote:Thanks to Octaviano, I learned how to argue like a 'serious linguist': just repeat what the other people said, negated, IN UPPERCASE.

Mbwa

Isolating ones. I think Le?

Mbwa

Seems to be gone now.

Mbwa

Aldwinkle wrote:i am a heron. i ahev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans

Trailsend wrote:OMG I THOT IT WAS A JOK BUT MY KICHEN IS A MESS!!1!!

Sadly accurate.

Mbwa

So... Ural-Altaic's not a crazy idea, Indo-Uralic's not either... I think it's time to start reconstructing Proto-World. Ha, kidding. More seriously, I'll make a little chart of some common words in a bit. I'll probably do a bit of this for the Ural-Altaic theory too, not because I think I'm a lingu...

Mbwa

Not to mention "asstastic". Is this how do you define yourself? LOL! in a shocking development, it was revealed this week that Octaviano is, in fact, made of a rubberlike substance coming up next, are you concerned about your newfound adhesive qualities? we interview a doctor who says you should be...

Mbwa

Can we just clear one thing up here and now: Skomaker'n doesn't speak like he claims to. The majority of his "oddities" are affectations. That is all. HAND. Don't be such a square, my English dialect has biconsonantal roots and only 10 consonants. Yes, it was a bad joke. I'll come across another we...

Mbwa

I'm gonna buy this. I'm especially curious about the syntax section.

Mbwa

Xonen wrote:
Mbwa wrote:nasal vowels are susceptible to lowering.
Sez who?

Lyle Campbell.

I wasn't saying they are extremely likely to, I was just saying [i~] > [e~] is a plausible change. I think I could come up with an example of a language with a roughly /a e i o u/ oral vowel system with roughly /e~ o~ a~/.

Mbwa

Onondaga doesn't have one really strange feature, but it has a bunch of odd features combined that make it weird imo: -no labials except /w/ -no voicing contrast on any phonemes, but the only affricate is /dZ/ -/i e { a o/ vowel system, with /e~ u~/. I'd definitely expect /o~/ instead of /u~/ becau...

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