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I will not tell you anything about this conlang. I will jsut leave a recording here and let you make hypotheses about my langauge because I want to know what impression people get who have absolutely no idea what Kiakui is or how it works :) https://vocaroo.com/i/s1wSsPRFHGF7 Make educated guesses a...

OK people, here is my phonology... help me to create an orthography... 6 Tones: 1. ma (high: 5, as in Mandarin Chinese "mā") 2. ma (low-falling: 3-1, as in Vietnamese "làm") 3. ma (high-falling 5-1, as in Mandarin Chinese "mà") 4. ma (high-falling-rising 4-2-4, similar to Southern Vietnamese "bả") 5...

I am not sure if this is the right thread for this, but here is an audio recording of my conlang. Please tell me whether it sounds European or not

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1vmgYRHUVAz

Dear fellow conlangers, recently I reworked my tense and aspect system and I would like to know your opinions about whether the system which I am going to present in this thread would be plausible with regard to the tense and aspect systems in languages. Furthermore I would like to ask you to check ...

Thanks for your clarification, I was not aware of that.

Dear people, I would like to present you some of my weird ideas for future evolutions of some natlangs which do not deserve a separate thread: Reform Idea for Polish: Direct object agreement for the first and second person singular... :) Standard conjugation kocham - love-1SG kochasz - love-2SG koch...

Miwonša 5p: - postnominal relative clauses with inflected relative pronouns (e.g. English "who" vs. "whose") - a periphrastic perfect formed with 'have' plus a passive participle (e.g. English "I have said") - a preponderance of generalizing predicates to encode experiencers, i.e. experiencers appea...

Hey people, thank you very much for the link. I've just read what Hallow wrote about the types of feedback in this forum. For this reason I've come to the conclusion that I should have explained why I am trying to create a conlang about which even I say that it is not very naturalistic and not very ...

Astraios wrote:Could I just point out that Modern Hebrew is a triconsontal language which distinguishes all four of /pt/ /pd/ /bt/ /bd/.

Yes, but you forget zet my natiff languache hess final devoicing. For me it's difficult to pronounce them differently

But what You confuse me. I shall take my leave OK again, DePaw asked me why I have <š> instead of <z> and then I wrote him that I do not want to have a voicing contrast in my root system, since I would get mixed clusters with voiceless and voiced consonants, which are not only a little difficult to...

Herr Dunkel wrote:

Plusquamperfekt wrote:...When there are consonant sequences like [bt] or [zk]...

Which you, um, do not have.

That's why I don't have them, to avoid such sequences.

Very simple reason: When there are consonant sequences like [bt] or [zk], it's very likely that people would either voice or devoice all consonants and then there would be many homophones.. Edit: On the other hand, instead of avoiding voicing contrasts, it would also be possible to use only use stop...

OK people, let me try to categorize the semantic features of verbs First consonant (lexical) <f> - other category <h> -physical change of structure, state or constitution of object <k> - production <l> - physical change of structure, state or constitution of subject <n> - direction, movement of body...

It's not that easy Rhetorica, some sounds are so similar that speakers could confuse the roots, therefore not all possible combination should be used.

cromulant wrote:

Plusquamperfekt wrote:OK then report this thread, maybe you should also ask someone to ban me for spamming only unsubstantial stuff.

I'm quoting this because this is the fourth time you've changed your post. This time it stays.

So what? It's hard to choose the right words when people insult you for no good reason.

OK then report this thread, maybe you should also ask someone to ban me for spamming only unsubstantial stuff.

I mean sort of - but we also don't need to applaud everybody's efforts at doing an overdone thing that every single noob has at some point tried to do. It's fine to experiment obviously, but publishing it on the forum for all to see when you know it is nothing more than a slightly silly thought exp...

I see your point, but I honestly disapprove of your initial reaction. Conlanging is a hobby which requires a lot of creativity and innovation and this means that sometimes you just have to be allowed to experiment with things that are completely absent in the languages you know well, because every f...

I don't see the problem, really. I think it's an interesting concept and I wanted to share this idea with you, as I can't imagine a more efficient way to have both subject and object agreement in a language which is not fusional. I apologize for causing allergic reactions, but I really do not unders...

OK people, this time I need your help... With this limited number of available phonemes for tri-consonantal roots I can only form about 30 verbs. These verbs need to have very genenal and unspecific meanings so that I can derive more verbs with more specific meanings by adding prefixes to the verb. ...

This is going to be an experimental conlang and not designed to be naturalistic... I just want to try out if such a regular and systematic system can work ;) Example word p-k-n - see pukin = I see you pikan = you see him/her Pukan ak pikanot. = I saw him after you had seen him/her. Pukan ak pikanol....

Verbal morphology 1u2u3 = 1SG agent - 1SG patient (reflexive) 1u2i3 = 1SG agent - 2SG patient 1u2a3 = 1SG agent - 3SG patient 1u23u = 1SG agent - 1PL patient 1u23i = 1SG agent - 2PL patient 1u23a = 1SG agent - 3PL patient 1i2u3 = 1SG agent - 1SG patient 1i2i3 = 1SG agent - 2SG patient (reflexive) 1...

The worst thing you can say to someone in Miwonša (until now, I rather busy with inventing basic vocabulary and not swear words

Hanzju šai, ši kručišan! ['hãzju ʃaɪ, ʃi 'krutʃiʃã]

Interesting idea... OK, then let's check some more sentences Žaniman wanca tuškai ya cuskai . = I see a nice and beautiful girl. Žaniman cuskai wanca ya tuškai. ≈ I see a nice beautiful girl. (implicature: There was another girl which was beautiful, but not nice) Žaniman hanzai wancak. = I see the g...