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Thry wrote:Δευ ση διστίγτο ιμβηντά υνα κλαυ αυ ζίφρα λη ιμβηντά υνα λήγγα ων λέξικω η γραμμάτικα λυς ήψους.
You must distinguish between doing a cipher and inventing a lang with its own lexicon and grammar.

Lexicon: yes, I had 5-10 words, I guess
Grammar: no

Voangh kyoih [kjiə̯ʔ] Zaltic xî [c͡çɪi̯]

Voangh kyoih [kjiə̯ʔ] Zaltic xî [c͡çɪi̯]

/m n n̠ n̠ʲ/ <m n nh nj> /p b t d t̠ d̠ t̠ʲ d̠ʲ k g ʔ/ <p b t d th dh tj dj k g '> /f s z s̠ z̠ s̠ʲ z̠ʲ x ħ h/ <f s z ś ź sj zj x ȟ h> /ʋ r r̠ l l̠ j/ <v r rh l lh j> /i iː e eː a aː o oː u uː/ <i ii e ee a aa o oo u uu> /ɪ ɐ ʊ ə/ <î â û ê> /hizʋaːt pɐsaːb suːbəʔdʊ s̠ullaːlʊ s̠ʲuːtəfɐ tidəluk t̠eːhɪ...

You can basically do anything you want, just make sure that you don't mess up things already known about the place and the time where your language (family) will be spoken.

Wass bigryf ji oss "mak talls"? Ig ginnti wann ig wast zett, mar túniglyk weti ig bynē nikktitiss halfig oss hú man oss to tellē.
What do you consider "conlanging"? I started when I was six, but at the time I hardly new anything but how to count to two.

Si psawnatam xihi xu ŋe nicañwulena, kaŋaxu ŋu nana.
He's been conlanging since I was a little child, perhaps even for a longer time.

Bearlandic according to new test: 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] 2. Phonemic voicing 3. Phonemic voicing only on stops and fricatives 4. Voicing distinction on fricatives ...

Maanedeetsh 'eeelee [ʔeə̯le:] Xihi hili [hili]

HausMaus wrote:how do you pronounce the "x"?

IPA /x/.

Ŋe xsitxihi Xihi. Si nixihiwule.
I'm trying to speak Xihi. That's a new language.

Máro táro [ˈtʰɛ̀͢ɐ̆ɾə̆] Bearlandic terrē [ˈtɛrːɛ]

Asaxešú šétšika [ˈʃetʃika] Zaltic šexiká [ˈʃec͡çika]

Asaxešú šétšika [ˈʃetʃika] Zaltic šexiká [ˈʃec͡çika]

Bearlandic: súp [suːp]: soup

Next word: apple

German with a Finnic substrate, or? The only words I can't make out are "iavezen" ( ia vezen certainly corresponds to wes- , one of the stems in sein 'be') and "maashmo" ( maashmo ~ manchmal ). Other than that it's all German/W-Germanic words indeed. ia- = ge-, g > j looks regular iano! Genau!

Miess maksgryfing heppt gyn grautleter.
My conscript doesn't have capital letters.

Bearlandic: wirrlirr [ˈʋɪrːlɪrː]

Next word: library

CatDoom wrote: Who speaks Bearlandic? Are they bears?

No, mar bʉrs heppt a roll in dē kulltur.
No, but bears do play a role in the culture though.

CatDoom wrote:That's interesting! Have you made a proto-language?

A fagg sgiss.
A vague sketch.

Ditt iss Bʉrnlannts.
This is Bearlandic.

Kuxk'ixe imfi t-telled brverds farsk'i fse t-telletem Berlandsi?
Can you believe that this language is disantly related to Bearlandic?

Thank you for your answers! As all of them go through *g it seems I have to devoice the voiced plosives of the proto-language, and aspirate the old voiceless plosives. And while I was working on it anyway, I've also added some new sound changes. It becomes more and more difficult to believe that it ...

Yeah, I want to have a sound change that didn't make sense. It took something like 5000 or 6000 years, so quite a lot can have happened before it finally became a k’, I guess.

Could anyone explain how /z/ possibly can have become /k’/ in one of my conlangs?

Dolkharezan daprimtisip [ɟəpʁimciɕip] Zaltic xzyprimxiśip [ɟ͡ʝɨpɾimc͡çiɕip]

Nikkt oss ji gistraft vort oss vigytē jiess mʉnnty.
Not if you get punished for forgetting your money.