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The language has been in use for many millenia. In this time it's experienced a lot of change, even though it's been highly regularized in the past century. Some entire cases have been borrowed wholesale from neighboring languages, like the durative. Others have seen one or two forms borrowed. Still...

Kisire is a language isolate, spoken mainly in the foothills of the Khuštu massif. Speakers refer to themselves as Rokandalak . PHONOLOGY /p t k/ p t k /b d g/ b d g /m n ŋ/ m n ṅ /f s ʃ x/ f s š x /r l ʀ w j/ r l h u i SYLLABLES Sonority in the language goes [p t k b d g] < [f s ʃ x] < [m n ŋ r l ...

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 pa...

It's possible - almost any stop can become /j/ - but I'd think the opposite would be more likely: k > kʲ kʔ > k Consonants that are seen as 'stronger' in tend to resist change, then fall back into the newly vacant niche left by the change of the previous 'weak' variant. For example, Turkish and Earl...

Kruhsang tepon kk orul iegesain Paša-gosul rindapa.
Wonder.ACC I.make REL nobody.PROX he.see.PRF Easter-Orthodox yesterday
I wonder greatly that no one noticed it was Orthodox Easter yesterday.

I have used that word exactly twice in my life, at least on this forum. Which doesn't give y'all any right not to check it.

And Hallow, please don't think I did not notice that hastily deleted post of yours... if you want to be rude, don't be cowardly.

That's circular reasoning: X must be true because Y would be pointless otherwise. The fact is that this quiz is quite poorly designed. 99%+ of all languages have vowels, except for Nuxalk and maybe a few others. A lot of the other point questions are completely skewed also. Just looking at the quest...

44. All words must include at least one vowel - ✘

Syllabic vowels are vowels nonetheless. Just because we write <krk> or <prst> doesn't mean the <r> isn't in fact the vowel /r̩/

Also, some context. Phonotactics - ancestral, target state? Morphological effects that you'd like to have or rather avoid (umlaut etc.)? Contrasts on consonants prone to interact with vowel qualities - palatalization, labialization? Also, how much homophony would you tolerate (is merging them all i...

What's a cool vowel shift I could do with these vowels? All have stressed and unstressed forms.

I thought you might have meant that, I agree that happens fairly often.

Like in
"He runs quick" or "He runs fast" vs. "He runs quickly"

The l-vocalizing places in America were originally settled in part by folks from the West Country of Britain/England, which has the same feature. In fact Bristol was originally Bristow, but the presence of l-vocalism was so widespread that it was considered dialectical and hypercorrected. And it's f...

Well in my part of New Orleans most coda /l/s are vocalized,

For example /'ɒ:mənd/ <almond> /'kɛjbəw 'kɑr/ <cable car>

I wouldn't be surprised if our odd voiced contrast turned into an Iceland-style aspiration contrast, so we might see something like /'ɑ:mənt/ and /'kʰipo'kɑr/ in the future

... The eastern half of the continent is usually divided into dialect regions that (except for NYC up through New England) are roughly horizontal east-west zones; South, South Midland, (North) Midland, Midwestern, Canadian. It looks to me like it's all shaping up into a good proper dialect continuu...

Are all your /ʎɶǁuʎiǀæɫɯ/-type languages related, Matrix?

Ancient Azunan ṭərmináuḷəyi [ʈʰɚˈminoɭəji] → Yeg Màućez tàrminuàlàź [tər'minu:wəʃ]

stuff That's hardly Greek. I imagine it's what someone with very limited knowledge of Greek would think Greek is spelled like. For example N for /n/ vs actual Greek V, which you use for /ɫ/ ??? Also you're using the Byzantine miniscule version of sampi, completely unlike your practice for your othe...

I was thinking of a romlang and this change popped into my head: Vmn > V[+nasal]bn > V[centre+nasal]bn > V[centre]bm > Vbb (or V[centre]dn > Vdd) so somnia > sõbnia > sə̃bnia > səbmia > səbbia (sədnia > səddia) That's pretty cool, you could contrast this original "mn" with later "mn" from the loss ...

Ars Lande wrote:Heče drio i-rin ranéš. Umi ɡoro inte ɡotarno. Hai ežetteke oti etan ne?
I'm experimenting with a new language this time - we'll see how it turns out. But can you guess what it is?

Uftæ eń Słufće? Ipeplo śæn "g" eń pidzeri...
Is it Slavic? Also your g's are strange...

8Deer wrote: ɬ w? How?

[ˈɬázò] would be borrowed into Proto-Ilńiće as λάζω ['lazo], ending up after a few hundred years as Ilńiće łac [wat͡s].

Not too odd a change, I'd think

it's a slavistics joke :/ -i(d)lo means "tool" in Slavic, ex. lepi(d)lo "glue", from lep- "to stick" -ets is one of many agentative and noun-formative endings, ex. borets "fighter" from bor- "to fight" -ski/ska/sko forms a locative adjective (or substantive) from a root, ex. "gorski" from gora "moun...

Imperatorial Ngade n Tim Ar cá3o [ˈɬázò] Ilńiće łac [wat͡s]

you should have -sk- be locative. and -ts- agentative. and -(d)l- to mean a tool. and so on

just some advice

Is the -sk- infix in Siųa locative?

Thanks for the input guys. I've decided to use sangi's romanization with the slight modification of using <ł> for /w/, hopefully it won't be too unclear