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Seed 1266280700 is not too exceptional, except for that it's inventory is almost the exact same as one I was thinking of for another conlang.

NGe nengfont thuDesertert ngaNGengkwe /ŋɛ nɛŋfɔnʔ tʰu-tɛzɛɾtɛɾʔ ŋa-ŋɛŋkwɛ/ 1p.SG make-PRS LOC-descendant GEN-english "I'm creating a descendant of English." NGet ngewod tuRyuyont botNGet ngapsit NGetsewt tuNGamoneka nganshyén /ŋɛʔ ŋaspiʔ ŋɛʔsewʔ tʰu-ɾjujɔnʔ pɔʔ-ŋɛʔ ŋɛwɔt tʰu-ŋamɔnɛkʰa ŋanʃjen/ 3p.I...

KathAveara wrote:Check Nort's list of languages with small consonant inventories. I believe many there, such as Rotokas (the smallest) have only one stop series.

Rotokas apparently has phonemic /p b t d k g/ though

Having /ʀ/ in a smallish inventory isn't that weird, IMO- it's attested in Portuguese.

My conlang, Arroe, steals a lot from Yoruba.

Nortaneous wrote:13 consonants, ɸ~f contrast.

I'm guessing what happened there is that *b *g > ɸ ɣ.

That is just wonky, particularly since the only lateral appears to be retroflex.

Mayan?

A lot of it is historical stuff. Maybe do something that might be plausible historically?

Kanęr kjok əxuʂ ñęrtos ru sləña sləslən
person some DUB-ACT believe SUB FEM-sun [PRES.COP] FEM-god
Some people apparently believe that the sun is a god.

Kęr pə xęrtos. Xun xruţar.
1p. NEG believe. DEM <PEJ>crazy<VRB>
I don't. That's crazy.

Astraios wrote:Accents are food? Never heard of that type of synesthesia...

That's a thing, actually.

Also Aslian languages, which also rely on noncontatenative morphology- and have lots of insane reduplication.

A good thing to look at might be Morrocan Arabic vs. Classical Arabic.

I'd be interested.

Lexember 4th
Kimonese

<fafre > [ɸɐβ.'re] (n.)
1.friendly alliance, brotherhood
2.the general-led government
3.clans of the ancient Sewaqui
4.castes of India
5.(informal) a socio-economic class
6.(colloquial) friends with benefits

Etymology
From Old Sewaqui *waufrei, meaning clan.

Alveolar click here too.

So, I'm working on a language where I have logophoric pronouns. I think I understand how they could work for 3rd person, but do 1st person and 2nd person logophoric pronouns exist in Natlangs? If they do, could someone explain how 1st person logophoric pronouns work, as I'm having trouble with it.

Nobody's pointed out yet all the astonishing things Mormons name their kids. Complete with Le-/La- and creatively spelled virtue names like MemRee and unpronounceables like X'l, inconceivables like Tiarrhea, and tongue twisters like DaLinda LaDale. The full Utah Baby Namer site here . AAVE's got no...

Phonology of Yoab: Consonants and Glides: /m n ŋ/ m n ng/ñ /p~b t~d k g/ p t k g /ð f~v s z ʃ~ʒ h~ɦ/ d f s z j h /w~v j/ w y /l r/ l r /ts~dz tʃ~dʒ/ ts/c~dz ch/tj~dj Two of your phonemes (/f~v/ and /w~v/) overlap. They shouldn't. Maybe they could overlap in the allophony. Say, /f/ could be [v] betw...

sorry if this has been asked before, but how do you derive complex phonotactics from a simple open-syllable structre without being too contrived? You could always devoice and then drop vowels between voiceless consonants, like Oogami. That's not quite what Oogami did, is it? I thought it was just i...

cerealbox wrote:sorry if this has been asked before, but how do you derive complex phonotactics from a simple open-syllable structre without being too contrived?

You could always devoice and then drop vowels between voiceless consonants, like Oogami.

Someone I know commenting on a picture:

This is literally me. It's a metaphor.

Well, AoA, at least Arka is now known outside the Japanese conlanging community now--though probably not for the reasons you'd hoped for. Congratulations, you're the laughingstock of the Western conlanging world. Well done. the zbb is hardly the Western Conlanging World, is it? there's the cbb, and...

I don't see anything egregiously bad with that, ZMoring You don't need a digraph for [ʃ] since you have a bunch of unused glyphs, you could do something along the lines of [s ʃ] <c s> Why do you only have a voiced bilabial stop, and only a devoiced dental and velar stop? Also your bits with 'depend...

8Deer wrote:

Risla wrote:Aymara has ejectives without phonemic glottal stops.

So do Quechua, Georgian, Itelmen, Ossetian and Tsez. So I was dead wrong there, sorry.

Now I wonder, are there languages with aspirated consonants that lack /h/?

Mandarin.

clawgrip wrote: next word: to irrigate

phŋusuj
to push something liquid, to drink, to irrigate

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