zompist bboard

In which I am way too much of a fan of diacriticless transcriptions: (it's a bit ugly but i had to compromise here and there) /m mʲ n ŋ/ <m mj n ng> /p pʲ t ts̻ k q ʔ/ <p pj t ts c k q> /pʰ pʲʰ tʰ ts̻ʰ kʰ qʰ/ <ph phj th tsh ch kh> /b bʲ d dz̻ ɡ ɢ/ <b bj d dz g q> /f fʲ s s̻ h/ <f fj s sz h> (/h/ <hh...

To misremember: keqsak.u-bata-n [kɛsːaku bata] a compound between ket.u [kitsu] and sak.u [saku], literally think-get.wrong (back). Sample phrase: keqsaq-le-bata-i-n-kei? [kɛsːɒɬːibataɪ̃ŋkiː] Maybe I'm misremembering everything? New word: the feeling of insignificance you get when looking at somethi...

mèþru wrote:Your second set of vowels are long vowels, not diphthongs.

Wasn't sure what to call them; most of those were at least historically diphthongs though.

Shiiran, tiqlen [tsiɬin] or tii suirabi [tsaj ɕiːdami] speak-NZ-1.PL.INTR-DECL, or speak Shiira-GEN; a scratchpad-esque thing I guess Shiiran is an attempt to get back into conlanging with something nice and polysynthetic. Shiiran is spoken by the Shiira people in a world much like our own. (I'll m...