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C[+nasal] :> w / C[-sonorant]_# Is this sound change too weird? Yes. It looks like a random substitution, not a naturalistic sound change. if so m :> w / C[-sonorant]_# is this also too weird? I think the second one seems to be the more plausible of the two, but I'd like it better if the first one ...

C[+nasal] :> w / C[-sonorant]_# Is this sound change too weird? if so m :> w / C[-sonorant]_# is this also too weird? I think the second one seems to be the more plausible of the two, but I'd like it better if the first one isn't all that ridiculous too... And I guess ɱ :> w / C[-sonorant]_# would b...

2-4 wrote:What is the better word for rain in Isenian?

mbu [ᵐbù] or cú [kʷú]

Why not have mbu for rain in general and make cú very heavy, pouring rain?

Would ħ > x be plausible with a language that also has χ and h? also, I'd appreciate it very much if anyone would be so kind as to suggest a consonant that can be plausibly turned into /k/ and /l/. I don't know about it skipping over χ like that. :? I would rather expect: χ > x ħ > χ nah, chalk it ...

Would ħ > x be plausible with a language that also has χ and h?
also, I'd appreciate it very much if anyone would be so kind as to suggest a consonant that can be plausibly turned into /k/ and /l/.

I found the Sino-Rangyan number system is somewhat broken, 1 (it) sounds like 2 (i), and 8 (pa) sounds like 100 (pak). In Chinese, even rhyming numbers 1 (yi1) and 7 (qi1) are forced to be distinguished (yi1 -> yao1) when reading telephone numbers. Sino-Korean has [il] for 1 and for 2, and [sam] fo...

It's a very good question! I've never thought about that. Rangyayo is not able to distinguish these two subtle differences in meanings at this stage. Does the Korean language distinguish them? For forming compound words, perhaps you may borrow root words from other natural languages? The word "food...

This is very interesting and very cool. This is the first conlang I've seen that uses hangeul for their script. (I never thought someone would want to do that.) guess it might be fun to assign native readings to Chinese characters that also bear their own middle Chinese readings (Rangyanised of cour...

Standard Korean (South) 그가 읽은 책 ku-ka ilk-un chayk (keu-ga ilg-eun chaek) 3.SG.M-NOM read-PERF.ADJ book 그가 읽었던 책 ku-ka ilg-ess-ten chayk (keu-ga ilg-eod-deon chaek) 3.SG.M-NOM read-PERF-REFL.ADJ book Korean works pretty much the same as Japanese. -던 adds reflective meaning, makes it feel like it ha...

if you want to just use the romanization, it's probably best if you don't put it between // brackets, which denote phonemes – it's conceivable that someone might come along and not recognise that <eo> and <eu> are single vowels. Just put the romanization beneath it, in a similar way to how we've be...

Standard Korean (South) 그가 읽은 책 ku-ka ilk-un chayk (keu-ga ilg-eun chaek) 3.SG.M-NOM read-PERF.ADJ book 그가 읽었던 책 ku-ka ilg-ess-ten chayk (keu-ga ilg-eod-deon chaek) 3.SG.M-NOM read-PERF-REFL.ADJ book Korean works pretty much the same as Japanese. -던 adds reflective meaning, makes it feel like it hap...

I'm like 99% certain that Japanese doesn't have any grammatical way of marking plural –you'd have to use a quantifier or a numeral. Oh.. didn't know that. I thought -達was equivalent to -들, but maybe not. I only learned basics of basics when I tried to learn Japanese. The fact that I'd have to memor...

And I don't understand what your second question is, sorry. What two points?? This: Like.. 'with raised eyes,' Like.. Oh, that. No, no particular reason there also. Usually we do that with '…' but with the phone '.' is much easier to type, and I didn't really felt the need to type three dots if I w...

Out of curiosity, is there any particular reason why you didn't add a space between each paragraph? And any for using two points instead of three for your ellipsis? (In Arabic it's common, for once. I once pointed it out to an Arabic speaker, and she even showed me scans of magazines she had with t...

I am a Korean. So you might going to see some awkward article usages or numeric errors in my posts. One of the shortcomings of having a language that doesn't care much about numbers or articles as a mother tongue. How would Korean give you problems with English numbers? Number = Plural forms in thi...

X-SAMPA seems nice, although some of the IPA symbols come out as a square on the phone, so I'll have to wait till I get on the computer to see what represents what. Apparently the phone makers didn't think it practical to include IPA symbols in the font. Guess I'll have to live with it. Also, are yo...

So, here we go, and sorry ahead for the poor pronounciation representations you are going to see. I really have know idea how to write it right. Look on wikipedia for the IPA. Also, linguoboy is the only other person I've seen on here who's written anything in Korean and he tends to use the Yale ro...

Hi I was just looking through the stuff and thought you might want to know how Korean language handle this kind of clauses. I guess it could be slightly off-topic, since Korean doesn't have any relative pronouns or such, but wouldn't it be nice to know how some natlangs work this kind of clauses wit...