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by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:42 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 827391

Re: Lexicon Building

sano wrote:Kala: natlo - plum; plum flower; prunenext: (math.) elliptic curve
Modern Xó:tlasecál(from tláse-circle and cál-to distort)
Next:inversion
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:41 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Lexicon Building
Replies: 4308
Views: 827391

Re: Lexicon Building

sano wrote:Kala: natlo - plum; plum flower; prune
next: (math.) elliptic curve
Modern Xó:tlasecál(from tláse-circle and cál-to distort)
Next:iverting
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:38 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Possible sound changes for [ɲ]
Replies: 22
Views: 4287

Re: Possible sound changes for [ɲ]

Kajkavian dialect of Croatian changes /ɲ/ to /jn/.
I have idea of changing /ɲ/ to /ni/.
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:37 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Pronounce Caribbean?
Replies: 32
Views: 5983

Re: Pronounce Caribbean?

/kɚɪˈbi:ã/
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:27 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other langs
Replies: 57
Views: 8977

Re: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other lang

In Croatian,word for citizen of Tirana is same as the word for tyrant.So,tyrants live in Tirana.
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:51 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
Replies: 391
Views: 69560

Re: Nice sounding natlangs

Cuzeian Count of Votes Iainos conceived languages for humans of his creation and Eiledan constructed them. Ecaias didn't have his own language,so he disturbed the languages;hence the dislike to French,English and Russian. Amnas told to Iainos what has Ecaias done. Iainos didn't want to redo the lang...
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:41 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Nice sounding natlangs
Replies: 391
Views: 69560

Re: Nice sounding natlangs

Good ones:
Greek
French
Polish

Not so good ones:
German(sounds like a person chewing an aluminium foil)
Maltese(its pharyngeal fricative sounds evil)
English(too much vowels)
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:54 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
Replies: 622
Views: 174990

Re: How to design a non-European phonology

Yesterday designed a phonology and I want to test it here. PLGY.png Words can't end with alveolopalatals,ejectives and mid vowels. Syllable structure can be VC(max4) C(max 2)V if first syllable and C(max 3) if not first syllable. Nasals and retroflexes are syllabic.No vowel harmony. Green-yes Yellow...
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:10 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 38743

Re: Words you love because of their sounds

Chicken!
/tɕɪkən/
I don't want a quarrel about how to pronounce chicken ;)
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:45 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Replies: 812
Views: 212365

Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2

Yes.Navajo is also a Niger-Congo language and Nynorsk is Austro-Asiatic.
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:24 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 157
Views: 25680

Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters

Darkgamma wrote:
/skrɔb ɔpskrbi ɔpskrbu ɔpskrbʎɛnu ɔpskrbɔm ɔpskrbɛ ɔpskrbʎɛnɔɡ ɔpskrbʎivat͡ʃa/
S in skrob is probably š /ʃ/ so we have škrob /ʃkro̞b/ which means starch.
There is no ɔ but o̞.
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:13 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 38743

Re: Words you love because of their sounds

Tokelau-north wind(one Polynesian language)
Fornax-Latin for oven
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:56 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 38743

Re: Words you love because of their sounds

English-anvil
Spanish-murcielago
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:16 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Rain (n) Rain (vb) ~ Different Languages...?
Replies: 71
Views: 12170

Re: Rain (n) Rain (vb) ~ Different Languages...?

Croatian

kiša(noun) kišiti(infinitive)
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:46 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 157
Views: 25680

Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters

Darkgamma wrote:
Putrid wrote:I am native speaker of Croatian.
TEACH ME GOD DAMN YOU TEACH ME I'M GERMAN MY VIRGIN TONGUE HANGED ITSELF FROM MY UVULA TRYING TO PRONOUNCE SERBOCROATIAN'S "Good welcomes, dear mr."
Ok,I'll start the toppic named Croatian/Serbocroatian lessons.
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:50 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 157
Views: 25680

Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters

I am native speaker of Croatian. Croatian-srdačni pozdravi Pronounced like /srdatʃni pozdraʋi/ Too much consonant clusters for me. That's weak. Try /'ɔpskr̂:bʎ/ Note: the /r̂:/ is the nucleus, not the vowel. Serbocroatian is a tonguebutcherer. Of course. I can pronounce /'ɔpskr̂:bʎ/ because one supe...
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:51 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 157
Views: 25680

Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters

Croatian-srdačni pozdravi Pronounced like /srdatʃni pozdraʋi/ Too much consonant clusters for me. That's weak. Try /'ɔpskr̂:bʎ/ Note: the /r̂:/ is the nucleus, not the vowel. Serbocroatian is a tonguebutcherer. Of course. I can pronounce /'ɔpskr̂:bʎ/ because one supermarket was called Opskrbni cent...
by Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen
Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:43 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters
Replies: 157
Views: 25680

Re: Our own nat- and conlang tongue twisters

Croatian-srdačni pozdravi
Pronounced like /srdatʃni pozdraʋi/
Too much consonant clusters for me.