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Can anyone think of a good Roman orthography for this lang? Preferably without ñ for /ɲ/... Ilɲiʨi : /m n ɲ/ /p t k b d g/ /f v θ ð s z x ɣ ɕ ʑ/ /r l~ʎ/ /tɕ dʑ ts dz/ /w j/ /a e i o u/ Sample text : ol anθrup ziɲu d'iliθidz tɕ'iɕ sit ekɕuprepij tɕi ti ðitɕont. iɲ pritɕismeɲ mi wustɕi tɕi ɕiɲiðiɕ, tɕ...

Ah, I missed that. Well, synchronically it doesn't really hold up, since most speakers have lost collective cognizance of the previous vocality of 'ь' and 'ъ' such as they once may have had. But iotization from dropped ǐ never contrasts with a plain /j/ word finally or interconsonantally*, so one ma...

It's a legacy of supershort vowels, called yers, one of which was <ǐ> (a supershort /i/) that subsequently disappeared in most Slavic languages in a contextual manner described by Havlik's law, leaving behind palatalization. Thus *mekǐ (sword) became *metʃǐ became *metʃ, *dorgostǐ (dearness) became ...

Pole wrote:Bullshit. It's about the etymology, not the phonology. And how would you analyze word-final palatalized consonants?

Yers that dropped out per Havlik's law, duh?

Меч ~ Miecz < Mekǐ
Драгост ~ Drogość < Dorgostǐ

etc.

That analysis of Russian is all wrong. It's phonetic, not phonemic. And purely phonetic analyses are always silly. Even worse, this analysis concludes that palatalization is phonemic on consonants, whereas it actually stems entirely from the vowels! Here's a better one: /m n/ /p b t d k g~ɣ~v/ /t͡s ...

Two have /i/ from /e:/ and /e:a/ < /au/ respectively, the other has /ɛi̯/ < /a:/. Presumably at least two of these would be distinguished. meat : meat meet : meet mate : maat Something like that perhaps. Our fadhir dhaet art in heven, Halowed bee dhii naam But that's silly. It's hard to teach people...

A Diŭo maŭas mortu dur taĭ pentaĭ Maĭeŭ, dur toĭ anoĭ. Te die nestu die espeċiale.
But our God dies in the fifth of May this year. Today is not a special day.

"Alfons" significu 'curvo' in soĭ lingoĭ? Ċoĭ? Maĭ esut bono Ġermanico nomo.
"Alfons" means 'whore' in your language? Why? To me it's just a good German name.

Mapudungun is an Indo-European language of the lower Patagon which has three major competing orthographies and many smaller ones, however they're quite ugly. Whence a need for some modern, open-minded Western conlangers to step in and solve what those conservative, agrarian, uneducated, etc. neo-In...

You might be surprised. In any society, the less intelligent tend to have more children than those more intellectually burdened. http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6779/fertilityintelligence.png ^ a sample from Lynn' 2004 study on the topic; many others can be found with only a little searching. To ...

Naeetlrcreejl wrote: Pudáb titskanwātitsože xart kïí "ơtà" "haˀakon" kïí "fɛŋnu" "haˀakewa".
In Tonkawa the word for "man", "haˀakon", is derived from the word "haˀakewa", meaning "to sexually penetrate".

E no de Hakonoĭ Norŭeġieŭ com ta mogut mena?
And not from Haakon of Norway as one might think?

"giariese" ŭiduru com une familie Italieŭ dur medieĭ ereĭ.
"Giarese" seems like a family of medieval Italy.

All this talk of over-inflection reminded me of an excellent piece of linguistic satire, such as I enjoin all to read: http://specgram.com/CLXIV.l/02.perverbum.princes.html Especially this part: he saw the [redacted]-word could go anywhere and stand anywhere and live anywhere, even if it did not hav...

Gender in Lingo Dunieŭ has nothing to do with sex, and is an inherent feature of the root. Yeah, that's even stupider. Here's a quote from a learner of a language with arbitrary gender: @#%! this @#%&?%! language and all the @#%@?%! who speak it and also their sisters and their mothers and their pe...

Well, those with more prominent positions are in a much better place to provide tutoring, hands-on activity, new literature & supplies, etc. to their children than those worse off. This skews the results of education in their favor. The lower class conversely must work and would be too exhausted whe...

So in practice not everyone is free & equal. Those of less than average intelligence (50% of the population) can't rise to any high jobs and are destined to brutal or menial lives. Is there at least affirmative action of some sort to give this huge segment of the populace some hope of succeeding in ...

Gender in Lingo Dunieŭ has nothing to do with sex, and is an inherent feature of the root. Considering it sex-based is very old fashioned, quite sexist, and frankly inexcusable in this day and age. Gender has literally nothing to do with biological sex, in linguistics or in our society at large. Any...

Nouns are intrinsically members of either of two genders. If you want to make the language easy to learn, why did you give it grammatical gender? Because most international words end in vowels and, without word-final alteration, it would be very hard to express synonyms, names, and the like. Like "...

Being island dwellers, the Wéykqá also eat a lot of seafood, such as fish, shellfish, and whales. I read that last word as something else, lol. Is there any reason the Wéykqá are so intellectual, punctual, and into education and debate? How does the society deal with individuals who are less than i...

No.1oser wrote: Fuánkhojúútúbúkhoríigáól, cham gurŋa myŋ dzúŋ.
There aren't enough videos in my YouTube subscription list.

E ċo componento ŭerboŭos toŭ sermoŭ significu "YouTube"?
Which segment of the words of this phrase signifies Youtube?

The world is wide and full of wonders. It may be that such a thing could come about. But no plosives and no non-lateral fricatives and clicks seems very strange in conjunction.

Matrix wrote:Proto-Bosporic: ˈir.tʃu Budisua liivratasu [ʎi.ⱱæ.ǀæ.ɬɯ]

Not to cast aspersions or anything but how would this work?

Those are all very interesting languages. I object particularly to their use of voiced fricatives in a disambiguative capacity, which is needlessly Eurocentric, WALS states that 189/567 or 33.3% of languages have voice distinction in plosives, while only 158/567 or barely 27.9% have it in both plosi...

Skyran (Skýræ) érðækjat [ˈiɻɜʨɔ̟ˀ] → Lingo Dunieŭ ireċo [iretʃo]

being able to make it clear ... whether an action is complete are necessary Dunno if I agree with that. Many languages function perfectly well without marked aspect, for example Standard German, in which your first two examples would be expressed exactly the same with no loss of meaning. I ate a sa...