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by Ouagadougou
Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:15 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 842540

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...
by Ouagadougou
Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:51 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 496053

Re: Sound Change Game

Doayâu foasi [ˈɸóɐ̯̀ɕi] > Ccymrant powhi [powhi]
Doayâu foasi [ˈɸóɐ̯̀ɕi] > Language 17 [ɸəŋhɨ]
by Ouagadougou
Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:42 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 842540

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...
by Ouagadougou
Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:38 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Composing Music
Replies: 23
Views: 8679

Re: Composing Music

I draw sound waves by hand in Audacity.
by Ouagadougou
Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:15 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 496053

Re: Sound Change Game

Proto-Eastern k·ush [kʔusʰ] --> Ccymrant kkus [k'us]
by Ouagadougou
Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:51 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Color Light Language
Replies: 33
Views: 7824

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.
by Ouagadougou
Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:51 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499893

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...
by Ouagadougou
Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 842540

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...
by Ouagadougou
Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:30 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Romanization challenge thread
Replies: 3842
Views: 842540

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...
by Ouagadougou
Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:03 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: A quick question about Devanagari, Mongolian alphabet...
Replies: 5
Views: 1796

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...
by Ouagadougou
Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:58 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Looking for unusual phonemes
Replies: 58
Views: 11298

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.)
by Ouagadougou
Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:58 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499893

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...
by Ouagadougou
Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:08 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Irish Cyrillic alphabet
Replies: 22
Views: 8052

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.
by Ouagadougou
Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:08 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Flags
Replies: 396
Views: 81880

Re: Flags

I don't know what country this flag is for, but it is an old design.
by Ouagadougou
Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:24 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
Replies: 391
Views: 66127

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
by Ouagadougou
Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:57 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784433

Re: Lexicon Building

sano wrote:Next: to cut down, chop down (a tree), to chop (wood)
Proto-Sèferi òtayi, ii, to chop, cut (roughly), hew, slash; to fell.

Next: iris (of the eye, or the flower; whichever you prefer)
by Ouagadougou
Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:42 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
Replies: 622
Views: 166879

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...
by Ouagadougou
Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:02 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Odd natlang features thread
Replies: 354
Views: 145349

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.
by Ouagadougou
Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:23 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 36401

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.
by Ouagadougou
Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:59 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 784433

Re: Lexicon Building

Ophidian looking.
by Ouagadougou
Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:28 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 496053

Re: Sound Change Game

Teskwan: djouduhin /d̥ʷjʷuduhin/ [d̥ʷɥuduhin] > Proto-Sèferi: diudukhini [ˈdi.u.du.çi.ni]
by Ouagadougou
Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:22 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 496053

Re: Sound Change Game

It does now, as it did back in 5000 AE.
by Ouagadougou
Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:06 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Game
Replies: 2673
Views: 496053

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.
by Ouagadougou
Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:34 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Judgment Tests
Replies: 32
Views: 5364

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.