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I simply want to say that Himmaswa is excellent.

Might as well bring this back, since we've got its diachronic equivalent going now also. Allowed final clusters in Qiang are either the same as or a subset of allowed initial clusters, and the only allowed C1s in a cluster (all clusters are two consonants) are /ʂ x χ/. However, /ʂ/ is realized as [...

How does NI affect object agreement? WOuld the agreement affixes be amputated, or no?

Qwynegold wrote:Yikes! I have /?_j/ and /?_w/ in a conlang project. Are these possible?

I think Hausa has the former.

brandrinn wrote:Round 3 will be done once *Ceresz sends his in. I'm already seeing some patterns emerge, so I'll probably stop the experiment after another two rounds.

(BTW, Solarius, you sent me the same names as the creatures you were given. Did you mean to do that?)

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't. I'll fix it.

I could do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonnaruwa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuac%C3%A1n I am sorry to say that none of these civilizations were great at all. Alright the Incas built Macchu Pichu and the Khmers built Angkor ...

From the wikipedia page on Irrealis Moods: Every language has a formula for the unreal. The Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest have as many as five levels of "unreality", which are of real and practical use in a hunting society.[1] Even better is the source of the statement above. Especia...

Chagen wrote:About the "there're/there's" discussion: am I the ONLY person here who uses rhotacized vowels? Who the hell pronounces "there" with a final retroflex trill, alveolar tap, or the rhotc approximant?

You probably have some sort of southern accent, which, I would wager, is uncommon among ZBBers.

This. Is. Awesome.

You have inspired me to make one of my languages polysynthetic.

Paperfolding is okay, but a little weird.

Doctorreccomending is just wrong.

I still find it strange that Spanish has no phonemic /b/. /b/ is in, like, every single Euro-lang. ALL of them. Don't forget very many High German varieties and Icelandic too, in which it has been devoiced in all cases. And if one is counting Uralic amongst Euro-langs, don't forget Finnish and Esto...

I dreamed that I managed to work out new features for the noun inflection of my current squeezelang, then I woke up. I still had them in my mind so I typed'em up and, voilà, I have new and great features for my nominal inflection, which is awesome because I've been looking for a way to spice up the...

Bristel wrote:I'm sad that Bianca is no longer a host of the show.

Me too.

[kʰɛːɻəˈbiːɨn]

Chagen wrote: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.

Darkgamma wrote:

Bristel wrote: Phonologically, it looks like Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłiné) is more insane... but I'm probably wrong.

But Chipewyan, going by its name, is Dene-Yeniseian, therefore not applicable =/

Go here. Look at the table.

Karajá is pretty insane.

Enough of that, though. I'm almost threadjacking my own thread. On topic, thanks to everybody for the early comments. I plan to follow up with morphophonology on Tuesday, but for now, I'll address Whimemsz's little catch: I must give you props on having morphophonology, which most conlangers neglect.

Putrid wrote:

dhokarena56 wrote:"Burushaski as an Indo-European Kentum Language"

Yes.Navajo is also a Niger-Congo language and Nynorsk is Austro-Asiatic.

No, Nynorsk is Eskimo-Aleut!

Except native speakers, these days. Well, it has about 100... Not literally: I meant few wanted to speak it anymore: "Tucano is rapidly replacing Tariana in the Vaupés river basin", "the language is spoken by only about 100 people (none of them children)." (Dixon, Aikhenvald, The Amazonian language...

EDIT: Found some. Tariana has aspirated nasals and an aspirated /w/. Are they actually aspirated, or just partially devoiced, as most voiceless nasals/liquids are? Angami has nasals with a positive VOT. (i.e. actually aspirated) Alas, my Tariana grammar doesn't say, but since it doesn't really elab...

• Proto-Lakes Plain is reconstructed as having a consonant inventory of /p t k b d/. Not particularly weird - of the usual stops, /p/ and /g/ are the most likely to be missing. Does he mean and nothing else? I.e. no nasals, fricatives, rhotics, laterals, semi-vowels...? That would be a bit weird, t...

Quick question: Is <istion> pronounced /istion/ or /ɪʃtʃɪn/ or what?

I just want to say that I look a this thread whenever I create a new phonology.
Thanks!