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I would suggest FrameNet, it's like TVTropes for English predicates and ideas, but it tries to group them under the least number of entries. These are literally the basic blocks for ideas. There's a Spanish and Japanese version (I think Arka author might have used this.) There's also wordNET for TH...

SCORE|POSSIBLE::STATEMENT 1|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] 1|1 :: Phonemic voicing [half mark if voicing is only part of the distinction] 0|1 :: Two and only two paralle...

2: ha (up), hi (down) 3: bal (ceiling), bil (wall), bol (floor) 4: keta (spring), keti (summer), keto (autumn), kete (winter) I'm sure glad that language is only ever spoken in quiet rooms between exactly two people facing one another and both of whom are fastidious about their pronunciation. N-wor...

Eandil wrote:?

Russia
Prussia
Russian
Prussian

[ɹʌʃʌ]
[pʰɹʌʃʌ]
[ɹʌʃən]
[pʰɹʌʃən]

treegod wrote:Grandma and grammar.
Also pawn and porn.

[ˈgɹæmɒ] and [ˈgɹæmɚ]

[ˈpɒn] and [ˈpɔ˞n]

Bob Johnson wrote:scion
Zion
Seuss
Zeus

[saɪən]
[zaɪən]
[sus]
[zus]

English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese. For instance, what is the most common word order? Are they mostly agglutinating or gluten free? i'm wondering if there are user affordances i could use to my advantage, or traits to completely avoid. The order of the list indicates the relative...

Japanese じゃぁ jaa (one of the longer version of ja , when e.g. you're about to suggest a plan that is probably replacing an older one that you have given up on for some reason) and あぁ aa (the sound used to show disappointment about something that can't be changed) both have something similar. They h...

From what I understand, Spanish leer , to read, is pronounced with something like what you describe: [le.ˈer]. I could be wrong though, and I'm sure there is a slight change of vowel quality between the two syllables. I studied Spanish in high school 15 years ago and hardly remember anything beyond...

Yeah, that works. I just don't want a glottal stop in between them; that's all.

I have no idea what you're asking because you're not using the terms correctly. Vowels aren't plosives so there can't be a "cessation of plosivity" during the production of a vowel; likewise, most stops (except for implosives, ejectives, and clicks) are "pulmonic." Unless by both "pulmonic stop" an...

Yes, I just made that up, but it's about the best I can come up with to describe a phenomenon I wish to incorporate into my current conlang. I like the idea that rather than long vowels, there is a pulmonic weakening after the first half of the long-vowel, followed by a sharp pulmonic strengthening ...

I'm currently working on lemmatizing a frequency list.

Dunno how much use it would be to everyone here, since I'm making it specifically for my current conlang, which is very verby and adjectivy (most of its nouns will come from forms of verbs and adjectives).

how do you all pronounce "always", "day" and "you done with that?" For me it's: ['oʊwejs], [de:] and [jədʌnwɪðæ] ~Lyra [ɒwɪz] [dɛɪ] [ju dʌn wɪ θæʔ] Note: in the case of the last, due to assimilation of the th in with and the th in that , what would normally be [ðæʔ] in my dialect, is devoiced to [θ].

Thanks, guys.

I looked up Hurro-Urartian languages. They look interesting.

Does anyone know what languages were spoken at or close to Göbekli Tepe when it was in operation, or was that too far into the past?

Something I noticed in Japanese, is that, although it's SOV, pronouns sometimes fall at the end of the sentence as a sort of afterthought: Dare ga watashi no ringo tabeta ka? (Who ate my apple?) Aa! Tabeta, watashi . Suman. (Oh! Ate it, I. Sorry.) Anyway, it seems like a plausible way in which origi...

How do y'all pronounce "thank"? In my dialect, I've always said (and heard) [ðæŋk] I think I have a vowel merger there, but the initial consonant is clearly [θ]. This sounds like a reception merger, if you can't hear the [θ]. What do you have for <thin thigh throw>? [θɪn], [θaɪ], and [θɹɔʊ]. It's o...

Following the massive amount of replies the "How do you pronounce Wikipedia" thread got, and the fact that I have such a question as well, I decided to start a thread for this kind of questions. If you wonder how others pronounce something, you can post your question here, and I'll add it to the OP...

Please delete this.

Zompist,

This is great! Trying to get the old SCA to work was driving me nuts, and so I was just about ready to use ZoundsIPA when you posted this.

Cheers, mate!

I'm planning an english-based conlanging project, for which I need a list of modern english words, with their pronounciations (preferably in received pronounciation). First, I wanted to use wiktionary dump, but I failed to import it to my local mysql database. I've searched for other possible resou...

I remember reading somewhere that pre-PIE might have been like Semitic with consonantal roots. How probable is this?

Thanks, guys. I think I understand a bit better.

How did the PIE ablaut system develop? In other words, and more generally, what sorts of changes would lead a non-apophonic system to become apophonic?