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no a substratum is a language abandoned in favor of a new one that proceeds to influence the new language Pretty much. So a dialectal substratum would be a dialect being abandoned in favor of another dialect or language. I'm not even sure this is attested IRL. EDIT: I'm dumb. Of course it's atteste...

ffs there is no difference between a protolang and a regular language. I know that. I just call it protolang because I'm going to derive my other languages from it and I don't have better name for it. anyway 1) no way would you have an r~l distinction with eight consonants. Okay, I'll probably have...

Theta wrote:Even two-vowel sequences in hiatus are rare in Yoruba, and I've never seen a single word with three vowels together.

Don't Polynesian languages tend to string 3+ vowels? I'm just going off assumption.

Just Finished reading the first book in "The Wheel of Time" series 12 more to go.

The other day I used disgusting in place of sucks when I said it['s] disgusting

Yoruba?

EDIT: Thismight help

21, Northern Texas here. Never heard calling it to small children before, but some of the teenagers (usually girls) here have this bizarre "friend family" where they refer to each other as if they were part of a real family. That happens a lot down here too. I wouldn't recognize it as bizarre thoug...

Would be nice if you could cite some examples just to make things all the more clear. Moving forward, overall very common changes from what I can tell, but they seem to come together well.

Being 22 and living in Southern Texas for all 22 of those years has made me ignorant of the outside world. Lately, I have been hearing mama and papa be used to refer to young friends or small children. Is this happening anywhere else in the world that you know of?

In my part of the world we call that ice cream

Trask's Historical Linguistics if you want to understand what kind of sound changes are out there and which ones are typical. Indo-European Language and Culture by Benjamin W. Forston if you want an good sketch of a proto-language Analyzing Grammar by Paul R. Kroger. The language construction Kit b...

The language construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder rly I mean don't get me wrong it's good but it's not exactly in the same genre as those other three Difficult for me to know exactly what to recommend. There's WALS which is a good resource and a lot of grammars out there. Comrie's Aspect is pretty ...

Trask's Historical Linguistics if you want to understand what kind of sound changes are out there and which ones are typical. Indo-European Language and Culture by Benjamin W. Forston if you want an good sketch of a proto-language Analyzing Grammar by Paul R. Kroger. The language construction Kit by...

From my understanding most languages with CVC syllables tend to be isolating or fusional; and those languages with CV syllables tend to be agglutinating or polysynthetic. What are some representative example languages? I was thinking of langauges like English, Chinese for CVC/isolating and the Nati...

From my understanding most languages with CVC syllables tend to be isolating or fusional; and those languages with CV syllables tend to be agglutinating or polysynthetic. What are some representative example languages? I was thinking of langauges like English, Chinese for CVC/isolating and the Nati...

finlay wrote:what

what what?

From my understanding most languages with CVC syllables tend to be isolating or fusional; and those languages with CV syllables tend to be agglutinating or polysynthetic. Does anyone here know of a language that is CV and isolating or CVC and agglutinating?

to me it looks like CC click

I suggest you get a hold of Trask's Historical Linguistics . It is an easy read and will give you an idea of how sound change (as well as grammatical, and syntactical change) works. Anyway, here's my attempt: Tzoi доы doi "I" :> [ny] Nulos нулос nulos "We" :> [huiwu] Ṗzes/Pzés бэс bʲes "You (singula...

How realistic is for stops to lenient in unstressed syllables but remain the same in stressed syllables? In other words is it possible for /ˈpa.pa/ > /ˈpa.fa/ and /pa.ˈpa/ > /fa.ˈpa/?

While I haven't fleshed out my conworld I tend to look at it from multiples eras. Some events I look at and see how it will effect history down the line whether into the modern age or space age.

Now that I think about it are there any conlangs that use Stridulation?

Definition issues? Let's go with: syntax that is clearly alien to anything you find in human language. It may or may not be speakable by humans, but - as with nonhuman phonology - it does not follow that we cannot comprehend or describe such a system. I ask in part because I'm hoping I'm not the on...

I currently have a rough draft of a conlang for insectoids that distinguishes between phonetic sounds, the sounds their wings make, and the taps that their eight legs make.

The velar consonants are articulated on the velum, while uvular, pharyngeal, glottal etc. stops have their main constriction point found increasingly further back. It's relatively common for languages that have consonants articulated behind than the velum to front the velar consonants towards the p...