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- Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
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Re: Romanization challenge thread
English-pronunciation-based orthography: /p b t d ʈ k/ p b t d tr k /f s z ɸ͡ʃ β͡ʒ ʃ ʂ x ɣ ʍ/ f s z fs fz sh hs kh gh wh /p̪͡f ʈ͡ʂ ɖ͡ʐ k͡x g͡ɣ/ pf ts dz ggh /m n ɳ/ m n ny /ɥ ɰ w/ y wr w /ɬ ɮ l ʟ/ tl dl l gl /r r̥ β͡ʀ r͡ʀ/ r rh br rr /y e ɛ/ iu e eh /ɯ u ɔ/ ui u o /ä/ a /ei ɛɪ ai ɑɪ ɔɪ/ ei eih ai ae...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 511849
Re: Sound Change Game
Doayâu foasi [ˈɸóɐ̯̀ɕi] > Ccymrant powhi [powhi]
Doayâu foasi [ˈɸóɐ̯̀ɕi] > Language 17 [ɸəŋhɨ]
Doayâu foasi [ˈɸóɐ̯̀ɕi] > Language 17 [ɸəŋhɨ]
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:42 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868934
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Who wants to romanize language 17 (title pending)? Nasals: /m ŋ/ Base Stops: /p b ɓ k g ɠ ʔ/ Dual Stops: /k͡p g͡b ɠ͡ɓ/ Fricatives: /ɸ ɣ h/ Approximants: /w ɰ/ Vowels: / ɨ ɨː ə ɜ ɜː ɐ ɐː/ (There is extensive allophony, so the vowels will be fronted after front consonants and backed after back consona...
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:38 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Composing Music
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8981
Re: Composing Music
I draw sound waves by hand in Audacity.
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 511849
Re: Sound Change Game
Proto-Eastern k·ush [kʔusʰ] --> Ccymrant kkus [k'us]
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:51 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Color Light Language
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8038
Re: Color Light Language
Since normal human eyes detect three base colors, you could at least expand your phote inventory to R G B, and then shade, tint, and saturate them as needed, along with combining colors in balanced and imbalanced ratios.
- Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512654
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Ccymrant: /m n ŋ ɴ/ m n ng nq /p b t tʼ d ʦ ʦʼ ʣ k kʼ g q qʼ ɢ/ p b t tt d c cc j k kk g q qq gg /s z h/ s z h /w ɾ/ w r /i ɨ u ɛ a ɔ/ i y u e a o To distinguish /ɴ/+/q/ from /n/+/qʼ/, etc., a raised dot is used: nq•q vs. n•qq. The former is optional; the latter is not. Vowels are always nasalized b...
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:16 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868934
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Seri /p t k kʷ ʔ/ p t k ku q /ɸ s ɬ ʃ x xʷ χ χʷ/ f s l x c cu h hu /m n/ m n /j/ j /l ɾ/ w r /ɛ ɛː ɑ ɑː i iː o oː/ e ê a â i î o ô <y> marks irregular stress, and is used with syllabic(?) consonants. Sample text: Oh ipaykta iti, xâc pak qakih taqka ma, kusîfp ta ma, qapha xo tok kopom iqo hy, tok ku...
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Romanization challenge thread
- Replies: 3842
- Views: 868934
Re: Romanization challenge thread
Ugly pseudo-Irish attempt: Neutral consonants /n/ n /p b q/ p b k /ⁿb ⁿɢ/ mb mk /ɸ β θ z ʝ ʁ/ f v th z j q /ɬ/ l /q͡χ ɢ͡ʁ/ kh gh /t͡ɬ d͡ɮ/ tl dl /r/ r /j/ y Slender consonants: /t̪ d̪ c ɟ/ t d c g /ⁿd̪ ⁿɟ/ md mg /s ç χ/ s ch h /t̪͡θ/ dh /w/ w* Broad consonants: /ʈ ɖ k g/ t d c g /ⁿɖ ⁿg/ md mg /ʂ x h...
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A quick question about Devanagari, Mongolian alphabet...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1843
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A quick question about Devanagari, Mongolian alphabet...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1843
A quick question about Devanagari, Mongolian alphabet...
A quick and possibly silly question. Several writing systems, such as Devanagari and its ilk, the Mongolian alphabet, and so forth, attach the letters to a stem that runs the length of the word. However, I am confused as to whether, in writing a word, the stemline is drawn first, to be followed by t...
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Looking for unusual phonemes
- Replies: 58
- Views: 11664
Re: Looking for unusual phonemes
Whistled sibilants, Syllabic fricatives
Whatever the sounds are when you lay the tongue's tip in the rear of the teeth and inhale forcefully (either the weird ingressive tongue-snort or the totally attractive sucking sounds.)
Whatever the sounds are when you lay the tongue's tip in the rear of the teeth and inhale forcefully (either the weird ingressive tongue-snort or the totally attractive sucking sounds.)
- Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512654
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Thalase-ne (Thalassian) Consonants: Labial Dental-Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Stops p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g Fricatives f s h Taps ɾ Approximants l j Nasals m n (ŋ)* Coarticulated w (ps)** ts kʷ ks * Combinations of /n/+Velar, or Velar+Velar, could have resulted in [ŋ]. ** Clusters of the form Labia...
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Irish Cyrillic alphabet
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8619
Re: Irish Cyrillic alphabet
Not to mention that, despite the spelling reform, there are still quite a lot of words spelled according to archaic pronunciation.
- Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Flags
- Replies: 396
- Views: 83910
Re: Flags
I don't know what country this flag is for, but it is an old design.
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
- Replies: 391
- Views: 68057
Re: Nice sounding natlangs
This was difficult; some languages sound good sometimes, and hideous other times.
Like:
Latin
Chichewa
Nahuatl
Dislike:
Hebrew
Vietnamese (except on Thursdays)
Romanian
Like:
Latin
Chichewa
Nahuatl
Dislike:
Hebrew
Vietnamese (except on Thursdays)
Romanian
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 810621
Re: Lexicon Building
Proto-Sèferi òtayi, ii, to chop, cut (roughly), hew, slash; to fell.sano wrote:Next: to cut down, chop down (a tree), to chop (wood)
Next: iris (of the eye, or the flower; whichever you prefer)
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 171377
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Time for Proto-Sèferi... 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] 2. Phonemic voicing [half mark if voicing is only part of the distinction] 3. Two and only two parallel series of p...
- Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:02 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 148740
Re: Odd natlang features thread
Reading about the insanities of Athabaskan tongues makes me wonder how they ever got to be that way in the first place.
- Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
- Replies: 285
- Views: 37666
Re: Words you love because of their sounds
I suppose that would be tantamount to pronouncing "Warsaw" the Polish way. English, especially for older borrowings, likes to pronounce things by its own orthographic system, and not those of the source languages.
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 810621
Re: Lexicon Building
Ophidian looking.
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 511849
Re: Sound Change Game
Teskwan: djouduhin /d̥ʷjʷuduhin/ [d̥ʷɥuduhin] > Proto-Sèferi: diudukhini [ˈdi.u.du.çi.ni]
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 511849
Re: Sound Change Game
It does now, as it did back in 5000 AE.
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 511849
Re: Sound Change Game
^
It's not very stable, as you can imagine (actually, it is assumed to be a transitional form from the earlier plain velar, but it's nevertheless the oldest easily reconstructed form), so the sound change to ʝ happened quite quickly. At this point, it's in free variation with ɣʲ.
It's not very stable, as you can imagine (actually, it is assumed to be a transitional form from the earlier plain velar, but it's nevertheless the oldest easily reconstructed form), so the sound change to ʝ happened quite quickly. At this point, it's in free variation with ɣʲ.
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Judgment Tests
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5503
Re: Judgment Tests
How do you make -ly adjectives into adverbs, e.g. friendly, silly?
My usual cop-out is "in a ___ manner/way", but that sort of circumlocution can get quite tiring.
My usual cop-out is "in a ___ manner/way", but that sort of circumlocution can get quite tiring.