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- Sat May 16, 2015 2:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 352263
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 4:41 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499829
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
The current phonology of Nizhmel: Initial consonants: /pʼ t̪ʼ ʈ͡ʂʼ kʼ/ /pʰ t̪ʰ ʈ͡ʂʰ kʰ/ /p t̪ ʈ͡ʂ k/ /s ʂ/ /z ʐ/ /m n/ /l/ /r/ Vowels: /i e̞ a o̞ u i̯e̞ i̯o̞ u̯o̞/ Coda consonants: /p˺ t˺ k˺~ʔ˺/ /s ʃ/ /z ʐ/ /m n~ŋ/ Syllable structure is (C)V(C). Many stems (and a few roots) are bisyllabic. In those...
- Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Double inflection?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3367
Re: Double inflection?
In my conlang, nouns can be treated like adjectives, e.g.: rámi: cat messá: friend rámi messá: cat who is also a friend Adjectives typically agree with the nouns they modify in case and number. But if a noun inflected for one of these is used as an adjective, and the noun it modifies is also inflec...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:33 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wakeu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6668
Re: Wakeu
There has been some development of the language. Most notably, I have been working on a writing system, which basically works like this: (1) Every consonant, and every long vowel, is written by one grapheme. This means that a typical root will contain three graphemes. (2) For most consonants and lon...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6460
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
It's with parts of speech as with philosophical concepts like "time", "existence" or "justice" - we can understand them in an everyday sense, but it quickly becomes more problematic when we seek to formally define them in an absolute, universal way, applicable anywhere and anytime. I think the preli...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:03 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: YŠKK YT-VṚḴẔKM (Yaškik Yat-Vṛḵaẕīkam) scratchpad
- Replies: 118
- Views: 28795
Re: YŠKK YT-VṚḴẔKM (Yaškik Yat-Vṛḵaẕīkam) scratchpad
The quotation is from this CCB thread.
- Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A near-open back vowel? ɔ̞ or ɔɒ
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4702
Re: A near-open back vowel? ɔ̞ or ɔɒ
I think my <lot>-vowel is somewhere between /ɒ/ and /ɔ/. But anyway, I agree with the preceding poster: Yes, the IPA chart is not symmetrical and generally thinking of the symbols on it as anything but very vague representations of sounds kept apart in different languages leads to insanity. /ɔ/ or /...
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:45 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European grammar
- Replies: 70
- Views: 25161
Re: How to design a non-European grammar
The best conlang in the world: :wink: 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 experie...
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wakeu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6668
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:09 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wakeu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6668
Re: Wakeu
Here is the first part of a short story I am writing in Wakeu. (Note that not all words in the story are listed in the dictionary ) I suppose the language can be characterised as Polynesian-Micronesian crossbreed. I don't think I'm going to include /s/ or some other fricative in the foreseeable futu...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wakeu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6668
Re: Wakeu
I have been thinking of adding one or two fricatives - probably /s~S/ and /x~h/ (which could fit into the light-dark pattern). But I have not decided anything yet. Occasionally I have used fricatives in some loanwords in some TC's.
The dark counterpart to /t/ should be /k/.
The dark counterpart to /t/ should be /k/.
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:46 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wakeu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6668
Re: Wakeu
Sorry, I made some mistake with the phonemes :P Fricatives and glides are in free variation: /ʝ~j/ and /ɣ~ɰ/. And /mˠ should be among the dark consonants. The grammar is influenced by Polynesian languages - which was my main focus of attention a few years ago when I started conlanging. The secondary...
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:56 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wakeu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6668
Wakeu
I have finally decided to create a Wakeu thread here on the ZBB. In this first post, I shall - not very surprisingly - deal with phonology. I'll focus on two features - the dark-light contrast, and the three-moraic morphemes. The dark-light contrast Wakeu has a rather limited phoneme inventory. I ha...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 499829
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
I've been trying to revive Nizhme l. It's current phoneme inventory looks like this: 1. Onsets Aspirated plosives: /pʰ tʰ ʦʰ~ʧʰ kʰ/ <ph th ch kh> Tenuis plosives: /p t ʦ~ʧ k/ <p t c k> Voiced plosives: /b d ʣ~ʤ g/ <b d j g> Voiceless fricatives: /f s ʃ x~h/ <f s sh h> Voiced fricatives: /v z ʒ/ <v z...
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:49 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Looking for a source on implosives
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3915
Re: Looking for a source on implosives
I think I read somewhere that it's quite natural that voiced plosives turn into implosives, since this enhances the audible contrast with plain voiceless plosives. Prenasalisation can arise for the same reason.
- Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ZBB Conlang Index (check the first post)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 25782
Re: New ZBB Conlang Index
I have a website for my main conlang (Wakeu): http://constructedlanguages.net/cwa.html (Though I'm mostly on the other board...)
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:11 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: accents
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16414
Re: accents
I'm not sure about Cockney and other non-standard Southern BE accents though. Cockney I think uses /ɛ/ where I would use /æ/. When I imitate something like "thanks", that's roughly what I get. And I think I read it somewhere on Wikipedia. The Cockney [ɛ] is still the same phoneme as /æ/ in other En...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Diachronics of clicks?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4001
Re: Diachronics of clicks?
Could it have been this article?Nortaneous wrote:
I once read an article about /kt/ sequences in some language outside Africa (might've been German or something) being realized allophonically in somewhat clickish ways.
Weak clicks in German?
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: accents
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16414
Re: accents
Well... I don't know your dialect. *I think* London English would use /ˌkɑnˈtɑɚ/ [ˌkʰɑnˈtʰɑː], instead of /ˌkɑnˈtɵ ˞/ [ˌkʰɑnˈtʰɵː], but I'm not sure. /kæntɑ:/... Hmm... /æ/... The fact that Spanish textbooks describe /a/ as "a as in f a ther" makes many learners (with NAE as their L1 anyway) prefer...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:02 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 640252
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Flower [ˈflaʊ̯.ə] ~ [flaː] Flour [ˈflaʊ̯.ə] ~ [flaː] Flier [ˈflɑɪ̯.ə] ~ [flɑː] Flayer [ˈflɛɪ̯.ə] Flair [flɛː] Floor [flo̞ː] Flora [ˈflo̞ː.ɹə] four [fo̞ː] poor [pʰo̞ː] cure [ˈkʰjɵə̯] fury [ˈfjɵə̯.ɹi] No variety of English has uvulars, especially not fucking syllabic epiglottalized uvular approximants...
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:51 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 145285
Re: Odd natlang features thread
I have found many, many more.Wattmann wrote:
I find this to be very true - the only loanwords I've found in Icelandic are "djók" and "djóka", that is, "joke" and "to joke"
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 640252
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
<evil> /iːvɪl/ [ˈɪi̯vɫ̩ ~ ˈɪi̯vo ~ ˈɪi̯vɤ]
<get> /gɛt/ [gɛt ~ gɛt̚ ~ gɛʔ̚]
<jet> /ʤɛt/ [ʤɛt ~ ʤɛt̚ ~ ʤɛʔ̚]
<cat> /kæt/ [kʰæ̞t ~ kʰæ̞t̚ ~ kʰæ̞ʔ̚] (I don't know if I should transcribe the vowel [æ̞] or [a̝]; I may even have something like [a])
<get> /gɛt/ [gɛt ~ gɛt̚ ~ gɛʔ̚]
<jet> /ʤɛt/ [ʤɛt ~ ʤɛt̚ ~ ʤɛʔ̚]
<cat> /kæt/ [kʰæ̞t ~ kʰæ̞t̚ ~ kʰæ̞ʔ̚] (I don't know if I should transcribe the vowel [æ̞] or [a̝]; I may even have something like [a])
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pazmat
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15924
Re: Pazmat
Adjectives do not agree with their nouns in case or number (they were planned to, but I cannot make it look nice at all). They can be derived from other word classes by adding "-ni". There are different kinds of adjectives that can be derived from the same noun. Suppose we have the nouns "X". What ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Pazmat
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15924
Re: Pazmat
Chagen wrote:Yes. An example is that the Locative ending for Human is "-īdh" while the Locative ending for Magical is "-necj".How does this work? Do they have different forms of conjunction, or what?
Locative endings on verbs? Should it perhaps be "noun classes", since you talk about "declensions"??
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Your Native Language
- Replies: 228
- Views: 34545
Re: Your Native Language
Swedish