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Orthography and Phonology Alphabet = IPA unless otherwise noted, allophones in brackets a, b, c (tʃ), d, e [ɛ], f, g, h, i, y (j), k, m, n ([ŋ] when succeeded by k or g), o [ɔ], p, l [r/l], s, t, u, v, w It seems it has /ʔ/ too, unwritten at the beginning of words and written with a hyphen elsewher...

"9. Fricatives distinguish more POAs than (non-nasal) stops [half mark if they distinguish the same number]" How do you draw the chart? I have three laterals: /tɬʰ ɬ l/. I give them their own POA column between the dental/alveolar column and the post-alveolar column. "46. No non-glottal POA with on...

Nice.

The Frequentizer would be even nicer if it reported rhyme frequencies,

and also if it could count the absence of codas as null codas.

"9. Fricatives distinguish more POAs than (non-nasal) stops [half mark if they distinguish the same number]" Does the alveolar lateral "POA" count as the same POA as (non-lateral) alveolar? It's the same unless there's a good reason for it not to be. What would qualify as a good reason? "46. No non...

Not as far as I'm aware. There's several words for lion: ˀaryē , lāb̠īˀ , layiš , and šaħal , but I'm not aware of any difference in meaning. The first is the common word, the second's poetic, and the other two are biblical. I found this , where ˀarye is the African lion and laviˀ the Asian lion.

For Astraios or whoever knows the answer: does Biblical Hebrew have different words for "African lion" and "Asian lion"?

English distinguishes between "pen" and "pencil", Swedish has "penna" that covers both. English has "squid" and "octopus", Swedish has "bläckfisk" ("bläck" = "ink", "fisk" = "fish") that means "cephalopod". Well, English has a word for "cephalopod" too, so I guess it's rather a matter of Swedish lac...

Simplified Technical English is now free of charge, so it might be of interest.

My conlang gets at least 56 points, I think. "6. One fewer phonemic POA for nasals than for stops and affricates combined" Is it true or false if it has more than one fewer? "9. Fricatives distinguish more POAs than (non-nasal) stops [half mark if they distinguish the same number]" Does the alveolar...

102! What else to expect from a Romance language of Germany? Um that's literally not possible, the highest possible score is 100 (55 one-point questions, 9 five-point questions). Yours got 90 by my calculations, but I could also be wrong. There're only 54 one-point questions! (the 33rd question is ...

I cannot form actual contrasts between [ə] and [ɨ̞], even though I have both phones. Where I do appear to have contrasts can be neatly explained away by invoking environment in the form of morpheme boundaries (e.g. I still contrast roses and Rosa's , but morphology explains that away). So, how is t...

I cannot form actual contrasts between [ə] and [ɨ̞], even though I have both phones. Where I do appear to have contrasts can be neatly explained away by invoking environment in the form of morpheme boundaries (e.g. I still contrast roses and Rosa's , but morphology explains that away). So, how is t...

The 400 Dublex Roots might be of interest. (another link)

Clarification: you don't study something by eating it.

Is there a good list to show basic adposition concepts? (if there is any such thing as "basic concepts") You could look at how Latejami handles adpositions , or at the "basic concepts" of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage , or perhaps the cases of Ithkuil could give you some good ideas. Don't just ...

Xeroderma Pigmentosum wrote:I got the Landau Core Vocabulary quite a while ago. It's not online, but I suppose you could ask Khemehekis for it if you really wanted it. He's registered here, but a search for his posts returns no hits; I guess he hasn't posted in a while.

An earlier version is found here.

Phylogenetics is an invalid method for ascertaining polysemy. The fact that "herptile" is non-cladistic doesn't prevent it from being monosemous. Nor is the concept "wolf (non-dog caninian)" invalid just because it's a non-cladistic concept. Classifying koalas as bears is perfectly reasonable in lin...

Vardelm wrote:Do I detect the influences of Rick Morneau's Lexical Semantics?

Yes. The two main sources of inspiration/influence for my conlang are Biblical Hebrew and his Latejami.

My conlang keeps argument structure to the morphology and not the lexicon. die-STAT-NFOC-PAT X "X is dead" die-DYN-NFOC-PAT X "X die" die-DYN-NFOC-AoP X Y "X kill Y" die-DYN-NFOC-AP X "X commit suicide" have-STAT-FOC-PAT X Y "X have Y" have-DYN-FOC-PAT X Y "X get Y" have-DYN-FOC-AoP X Y Z "X give Y ...

Depending on version of my conlang, some versions have a three-way distinction between definite , indefinite , and generic , and some other versions have a binary distinction between generic and non-generic . Indefinite is unmarked, it's marked just by the absence of definite or generic marking. If ...

Natural Semantic Metalanguage (edit 2013: new url) important for the expressive power of a language. The Toki Pona lexicon useful for checking for important holes in your lexicon. Classifiers in Latejami (edit 2012: new url) also useful for checking for important holes. Universal Language Dictionar...

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I have a serious problem with the idea of verb subject in many Swedish sentences. I would say, "...jag lär mig spela gitarr..." when it was really "...lär jag mig spela gitarr...." Still to this day I cannot figure out why the language does this. From your example it looks like confusion of SVO and...