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Hi guys, Do any of you use any programs or anything for your conlang to create a course? I've been wondering what it'd be like to make a course for my conlang in duolingo's format. I read online some people have used memrise instead to do something similar, so I thought I'd give it a go, too, trying...

Could two separate phonemes be in complementary distribution? From everything I've read or heard in classes, phonological complementary distribution is brought up when talking about two allophones belonging to one phoneme. But would two distinct phonemes be able to be in complementary distribution? ...

Zakóm gahnőlenpend ṡetöneg rögesep?
EXIST_INDF-who-ABS DEM.PROX-summer-TEMP-PART fun-NOM-INS busy-3.INT
/t͡saxoːm gahnøːɮɛnpɛnd ʃɛtœnɛg rœgɛsɛp/
[t͡səˈxoːm gəˈn̥øːɮn̩pn̩d ˈʃɛˑtənəɣ ˈrœˑgəsəp̚]
Does anyone have any exciting plans for the summer?

One I'm hoping to start working with more soon. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions. Consonants /p b t d k ɡ q ɢ ʔ/ - p b t d c g c g x /ts tʃ/ - ç ḉ /m n ŋ ɴ/ - m n ng ng /r/ - r /f θ s ʃ x χ h/ - f z s ś k k h /ɮ/ - l /ʋ j/ - v j * /p t k q/ are realized as [p̚ t̚ k̚ q̚] word finally * /b d ...

Ean wrote:

txmmj wrote:I don't like Spanish.

For anything in particular?

I just don't like the sound of the language in general, no matter the dialect. I do find Spain Spanish more appealing, but honestly, it just sounds... plain ugly to me.

Which languages sound the best/worst to your ears? I love the way Mongolian sounds. I really like Scottish Gaelic, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPgrTlxnMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJaAr9COe2c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CuWD9k-ps&list=FLzEonuJbr1xndBr1ktdvz6g&index=63&feature=plpp...

But even your high vowels are marked oddly! It would be better if, say, you wrote /e/ with <e> and /i/ with <ei>, because <i> at least implies raising. Actually, my original plan was to have the vowel rise rather than lower. However, since I have <e o u y> representing /j w ɥ ɰ/, I would need to us...

I see what you're trying to do with the orthography, using <i> for consonant palatalization, so you don't want any of your vowel letters to begin with that letter, but... 1) There are better ways of doing that. Like using <ee oo> for /i u/. Some natlangs do that. It's a bit silly, but better than t...

Your vowel inventory (/a e i o ø ɯ u y/) is identical to that of Turkish. Don't know if that was intentional. It makes sense to me that /e/ and /o/ are raised to [ɪ] and when unstressed at the end of a word. Vowels are raised at the end of a word in some natlangs too. In Brazilian Portuguese, unstr...

I'm trying to edit my vowel inventory... But I'm not sure how realistic or possible it could be. Basically, I'm pretty happy with how the vowels are in normal situations. However, <a e o> change sometimes in unstressed situations. I don't know if these changes seem reasonable or whatever... Any advi...

/m n̪ ɲ ŋ/ m n ṅ/n(i) ŋ /p b t̪ d̪ ʔ/ p b t d h /ts dz tɕ dʑ/ c x ċ/c(i) ẋ/x(i) /ɸ β θ ð s z ɕ ʑ ç ʝ x ɣ/ f v þ ð/-r s z ṡ/s(i) ż/z(i) ḱ/k(i) ġ/g(i) k g /j w ɥ/ i w y /r̪/ r /ɬ̪ ɮ̪̪/ kl gl /l̪ ʎ/ l ĺ/l(i) * ḱ and ĺ should be written with a dot above, but you can't type it that way, so I used that in...

(and I'm think about also making transitive verbs represent the passive...) What do you mean by this? A transitive verb has two required arguments (subject and object). Passivization decreases the number of required arguments by one (move the object to the subject position and you can drop the orig...

Do any of you have a special way in your conlang to represent the difference between the two? Do you have different conjugations? Are there two different words of each? Is there no difference? In mine, I decided to represent a transitive verb by adding a specific suffix, while adding a prefix when i...

sano wrote:Next word: border; be next to; abut

Chreientae: óssen - border; "the next to"; something that is directly next to you

Next word: bookshelf

sano wrote:next word: hydration

Chreientae: vaxég [vaˈθeːg] - hydration

next word: open-minded

sano wrote:next word: generation (Race; kind; family; breed; stock)

Chreientae: fackóul [faˈkuːl] - generation; family ties

Next word: everybody