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hwhatting wrote:

Zontas wrote:Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: North Picene

Well, if you've read a paper about it, chances are that you know it as well as anyone else alive today.

To be fair, that "paper" was Wikipedia.

I figure I should update everyone about my whereabouts, albeit in this roundabout way. Basics Username: Zontas Name: Marty Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Helios Birthplace: Greenbelt, Maryland, United States Place of residence: West Hyattsville, Maryland, United States An...

Welcome back, Hokulani! I'm relatively new here and in the next generation, so you probably don't know me but i heard many a story about you. Glad to see i'm not the only thespian on the board.

Upperdreamy Inventory Consonants /n/ n /[super]n[/super]b t [super]n[/super]g/ b t g /f s [super]n[/super]z χ/ p/ f s z k/ h /[super]n[/super]ɹ/ l /ɾ/ r Notes: *Even though /b/, /g/, /ɹ/, and /z/ are prenasalized, i'll be marking them as oral for simplicity's sake. Furthermore, <l> and <k/ h> will ...

The answer is nay. There aren't any geminate stops they contrast with, because ejectives are the genesis of stop geminates. The inventory presented is the one used for describing characteristics like sandhi or syllable structure, rather than the standard. Can all other consonants be geminated? I no...

•/p'/ and /q'/ only occur in northern and northwestern variants. Some speakers on the island of Ktella and laterally parallel areas retain them as /b/ and /g/. Other dialects have geminates instead. •/(β͡b)/ and /(ɣ͡g)/ are become /bb/ and /gg/ in Rohslor dialects besides the northeast, but some sp...

•/p'/ and /q'/ only occur in northern and northwestern variants. Some speakers on the island of Ktella and laterally parallel areas retain them as /b/ and /g/. Other dialects have geminates instead. •/(β͡b)/ and /(ɣ͡g)/ are become /bb/ and /gg/ in Rohslor dialects besides the northeast, but some sp...

•/p'/ and /q'/ only occur in northern and northwestern variants. Some speakers on the island of Ktella and laterally parallel areas retain them as /b/ and /g/. Other dialects have geminates instead. •/(β͡b)/ and /(ɣ͡g)/ are become /bb/ and /gg/ in Rohslor dialects besides the northeast, but some sp...

Upside down a denotes something between /ɐ/ because I use small capital oe as a rounded central /ø/. But anyways, all spelling oddities are for stylistic purposes. So is <∀> /ɶ̈/, or /ɐ̹/? I'm confused. Also, "rounded central /ø/" (despite the fact that /ø/ is already rounded) is /ɵ/. I meant round...

I find it slightly confusing that you use <q> and <ƣ> to refer to labialized velars but <qq> to refer to a uvular. I take it that the dieresis and the doubled vowel letter are different ways of writing the same sound depending on whether the context permits the use of diacritics and/or special char...

Uqonian http://i.imgur.com/9dm8vZa.jpg?2 The photo's from Meet The Robinsons , a movie where an art style called Zeerust is displayed like a minor character, not that that's a bad thing- I mean that's only reason I saw it when I was 12 (haven't seen it since). It was good, by the way. Zeerust is Ra...

Wait, do we have a wiki for this?

Can I have the squares above and above-left mine? I want my culture to be marine~beach people.

I will give them the name Uqons (not a plural), culture/ language coming soon- schoolwork.

Hey, howabout we synegize on this project with me taking Mercia and you taking Northumbria? @Nortaneous, who speaks Pembrish again? Is that a Welsh-English creole? That is tempting, but I actually have kind of a lot on my plate right now, since I'm participating in the collaborative world thing her...

That's truly a shame; ever since playing the computer game Crusader Kings I've been quite enamored with alt-histories where Mōrcǣr of Northumbria and Ēadwine of Mercia make out better than they did historically. Hey, howabout we synegize on this project with me taking Mercia and you taking Northumb...

Herra Ratatoskr wrote:

Zontas wrote:Hey, you mind sharing sources with me?

Sure. What sort of thing are you looking for?

Pretty much all ya got. I do have a particular lack of understanding in the history department, tho, as most of my info comes from homebrewed websites and Wikipedia.

Thanks man! A taste of it can be found in my Anthologica stuff.

Hey, you mind sharing sources with me?

Mercian Introduction http://i.imgur.com/Up152lz.png?2 Anglian is the term normally used for the dialects of Old English (or Anglo-Jutic-Saxon) that represent the speech of the descendants of the Angles. Within said classification are two subdialects, that probably would evolve into languages with a...

Keep in mind you are claiming the space immediately above Zontas's nightpeople, who are at C-8r. Not sure if you noticed his claim on that one, since he didn't actually write it in his post anywhere. I did. But the map came out so messy you have to follow my instructions for it to work. EDIT: Bette...

I stake a night people claim [Uimg]http://i.imgur.com/DaTcZGH.png[/img]. Yeah, I know I'm late- I just want a nice, even number, y'know.

EDIT: The image is so damn clunky I have made it only able to be seen if you copied the link, removed the extra "U", then previewed the link.

Bawiil wrote:The Geico Gecko speaks with a faux mixed accent though. Also is lizard mascot, not one person.

Isn't he called Martin the Gecko? I wonder if his actor is British.

(doesn't Cornwall have a rhotic accent)? You're thinking of West Country . It extends into Cornwall, but there are so many non-locals there (chiefly from SE England, but also elsewhere) that most of the speakers you'll hear will be non-rhotic. (Actually, West Country accents seem to be declining ev...

pthag is very much in the right-wing (remember the ZBB three-dimensional political compasses you analyzed?), but I don't think it extends to more than pthag, Nort, rusanov and äreo (and äreo doesn't even talk politics here, but gets channeled through Nort on the IRC). I'm not sure patiku is that mu...

Dhok is the one who has problems with women and Darkgamma is the one who said he was born in 5 different countries at the same time once. Also he has a thing for Slavs. Well, basically, I had a thing. I grew up. I'm more into Indo-Iranian languages than Slavic now, although Proto-Balto-Slavic itsel...

Morrígan wrote:For the weekend, you say?

WOO! I'm gonna find shoes, and then I'm ready for the WEEEEEEKEEEND!