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- Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
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Re: Post your conlang's phonology
The argument of "languages do weird shit" aside, it does look a bit odd. I think that's because of the palatal affricates, voiceless liquids and nasal and the lonely velar fricative there :P. I don't know much about protolangs but that vowel system does look a bit "modern". Maybe that'd be fine wit...
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:36 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Oh, someone paid attention :P. Thanks for the post. Is /o̞/ written <o>? 'Cause you forgot to mention it. Nice spot there. /o̞/ is obviously <o>. There's diphthongs? What are they? SHOW US YOUR DIPHTHONGS NOW!!! That's actually a logic fail right there. As I've described them here, the only differen...
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
The argument of "languages do weird shit" aside, it does look a bit odd. I think that's because of the palatal affricates, voiceless liquids and nasal and the lonely velar fricative there :P. I don't know much about protolangs but that vowel system does look a bit "modern". Maybe that'd be fine with...
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
UAL, version 0.7 /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ń ṉ> /p t c k q/ <p t c k q> /s ɕ h/ <s ś h> /w j/ <w y> /ɾ l ʎ ʀ/ <r l ĺ ř> /i u ɵ e̞ ø̞ o̞ ɜ a/ <i u ŏ e ö ă a> /ĩ ũ ẽ̞ õ̞ ã/ <į ų ę ǫ ą> (C)(C)V(C) Onset clusters: stop + liquid; /p t k q/ + /l/, /c/ + /ʎ/ stop[α POA] + nasal[α POA]; stop[-uvular] + sibilant; /p t...
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Translating Lyrics
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2987
Re: Translating Lyrics
Argh! It hurts! My heart! My eyes! I wouldn't be sure, but she might mean so as in putting a grape in someone's mouth , that is, the would-be romantic gesture. As for the words you claim to be from Yorubá... I haven't the faintest of ideas. Now please... go find some of the few good Brazilian artist...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:24 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
He does have /o/. Though something looks a bit weird in that set... Could develop allophony so it doesn't like like some changes were only for the sake of being different (/ʉ ɑ/ struck me as being replacements for /u a/ :P). The consonant inventory is pretty meh though. The romanization is bad. And....
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Finger survey
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6910
Re: Finger survey
Best. Name. Evar.Astraios wrote:Lakota: škaŋkápiŋ ring finger ("reluctant to move")
Portuguese has basically the same as Spanish: polegar, indicador, dedo do meio, anelar; but: [dedo] mindinho.
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:03 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "[H]is voice...[sounded] like two people speaking in unison"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3964
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:21 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "[H]is voice...[sounded] like two people speaking in unison"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3964
Re: "[H]is voice...[sounded] like two people speaking in uni
Well, ayyud didn't exactly say which is the one in the novel, so it could be any of the two, Miekko. I've seen people get freaked when an acquaintance of mine accidentally (don't ask me how) spoke in a manner similar to throat singing, in the sense his voice seemed to amplify two harmonics (is that ...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Seriously though, are there any languages with aspirated consonants without having any of /x h/? (though they can be quite different acoustically, I'm finding that people often mistake the two in their analyses - BrPt being my prime example)
- Tue May 08, 2012 8:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Shit demon speech
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8722
Re: Shit demon speech
I'm not ashamed because this is hella funny. I'm ashamed because it's a shit language and it's better and better developed than any of my conlangs.
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:36 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
It got a little boring around the vowels, I know. But I can't imagine making a conlang without the "basic five". Uh... you can do all sorts of cool shit with even three vowels. Try nasalizing the [also basic] group /a i u/ and you have a realistic and, hells, fun system: /a i u ã ĩ ũ/. You could al...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
dafuq, apical/laminal series and prevelar/velar? How does that even work? Why did you choose to represent the centrals with tilde? Seems really unintuitive for me... then again, the orthography isn't really logical. Were you aiming for a specific aesthetic? Also, do /i_V:/ diphthongs reduce to [jV:]?
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gomain (now 100% digraph-free!)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15799
Re: Gomain (reintroduction)
I know of hj > ç (I think I do this in some English words), but as Jádyndár seemed very thorough in his changes, I wanted to know about hj > ʃ directly (i.e. no intermediate ç). Also, isn't ç more likely to turn into ɕ?
- Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Gomain (now 100% digraph-free!)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15799
Re: Gomain (reintroduction)
I hadn't posted anything because I'm a newbie... The sound changes seem nice, though nothing really weird seems to go on. Only 8 doesn't seem to make much sense for me (did that happen in any other language?), and 19 seems to be quite unstable (personally, I'd have turned nasal+h_# into voiceless na...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
This is from one of my conlangs, Kron: Stops: /p b t̪ d̪ c ɟ/ Fricatives: /f v s z ʃ ʒ ç/ Affricates: /ts tʃ dʒ dz ʨ dʑ c͡ç / Misc./Approx.: /r l j/ I think it's very unnaturalistic to have palatals without velars. They would probably become velars very quickly. Also, I think /ç c͡ç/ are very unlik...
- Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: European/Brazilian Portuguese Differences
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2532
Re: European/Brazilian Portuguese Differences
1. Why is it that there is a difference between <ti> and <di> in Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese? In Brazil, they are pronounced [tSi] and [dZi], but in Portugal they are pronounced [ti] and [di]. I couldn't think of a way that a shift like this would happen simply from a language cros...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
- Replies: 974
- Views: 181776
Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #29: Romanization)
Still listening to the latest episode, but two comments... The "cyloning" sounds a lot like some CPU-load issues I had when messing around with FLS. The speech itself is weirdly intelligible, but the chopping might have been caused by something overloading Audacity (that's what you use, AFAIK). Did ...
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630994
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Not really a sound change, but is word-final /p t k/ -> [ʋ s̪ x*] a reasonable phonemic alternation? I intended to use these three phonemes (/p t k/) as some sort of verbal thematic vowel for inflections, since word-final stops aren't allowed, but I also have /ʋ s̪ x/ as independent phonemes... *ac...
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630994
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Not really a sound change, but is word-final /p t k/ -> [ʋ s̪ x*] a reasonable phonemic alternation? I intended to use these three phonemes (/p t k/) as some sort of verbal thematic vowel for inflections, since word-final stops aren't allowed, but I also have /ʋ s̪ x/ as independent phonemes... *act...
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #94: Face and Politeness)
- Replies: 974
- Views: 181776
Re: Conlangery Podcast (Latest Ep: #27: Irregularity)
Most notably, my mic seems very happy to regulate my voice in annoying ways, which makes it hard to equalize, especially because I don't currently have a way to record separate tracks. Something like that happens to me when I switch "Automatic Equalizing" (or similar) on in Skype. The volume of my ...
- Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:53 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
This is a lang I've started recently. I might be making it too much kitchen-sinky, though... Telyrhełkøs /m n/ <m n> /p t k ʔ/ <p t k (')> /s̪ s̻ ɕ x ʀ/ <z s š h r> /ʋ j l l̥~ɬ/ <v i l ł> /i ʉ u ɛ ø ə ɔ ɑ/ <i y u e ø ë o a> [eɪ̯ eʊ̯ øʏ̯ øʊ̯ əʉ̯] /ei eu øy øu ëy/ constraints: the maximal valid syllab...
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:03 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Inyauk
- Replies: 51
- Views: 27015
Re: Inyauk
I will look forward to seeing your future work, then. However, I'd still like to see Inyauk once in a while; even though you seem to prefer the CBB (which I do not visit). I do think it's an one-of-a-kind language...
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Write a diary
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6451
Re: Write a diary
Aw. Well, learn any Scandinavian language, and you've got very little to learn in order to master another one (I personally don't consider Swedish and Norwegian separate languages, and Danish is just so marginal, so I can't decide where to place it, really – I understand it, after all, but it's pho...
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Write a diary
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6451
Re: Write a diary
I managed to have a conversation over a dinner and a walk with a Brazilian lady (we weren't the only two attending that dinner; don't worry :roll:) a while ago, but I don't practice it very often. I did have the entire inflectional tables for regular verbs in my head for a while, though. Not sure i...