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@mèþru: Thanks for the insights! I'll take them into account when working on Norman. First, I haven't exactly done much research (which is a huge mistake on my part) into the history of Normandy, so this gives me a whole new opportunity to work with things I hadn't even considered. As for languages,...

This conlang, completely unrelated to the actual Norman language that (apparently) exists, is a combination of French and Danish spoken in the Second Workers' Republic of Normandy ( Dal Annzem Noermans Sajjus ). It was created in 1797 by a group of wealthy Normans who took an interest in their regio...

masako wrote:next: bacteriophage; phage; virus that infects bacteria

Nordiek: spvarspammør - bacteriophage, from spvar (bacteria, from spo (little) and spar (rod), a calque of the original Greek) and spammør (professional form of spamme (eat))

next: map, chart

Shame about the scrapping. Is Nation States still even around? You read Jennifer Government? Link us up when you post that language description. NationStates is still around, and with it every single possible ideology there is. I haven't read Jennifer Government yet, but it seems interesting and it...

Ditto what Genome said. Any update? I made a Germanic auxlang myself, which takes the Scandinavian languages on board. Only thing left online right now, though, is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbt6d4wfBBA Terribly sorry to disappoint, but I ended up scrapping the auxlang because I redid my ...

Bedik /p b mb ɓ t d nd ɗ c ɟ ɲɟ ʄ k ɡ ŋɡ ʔ/ <p b mb b' t d nd d' c ȝ ñȝ ȝ' k g ŋg q /m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ñ ŋ /r/ r /f s ʂ h/ f s š h /w l j/ w l j /i ɨ e ə ɛ a ɔ o u/ i y e œ æ a å o u /fajər ləcəkɔ Urɨn ɔɗ ɟamani lɛ, la wɔ jeɗəkɔ ar kənjo Gindeʄ ɛn Urɨn alɛ. əŋɡ Urɨn ɔɗ jekən ɓaŋɡ. ɗanaŋ wum Urɨn wɔ jekɔ...

No. 4a tcano /ˈtɕə.nɒ/ Unnamed Conlang šana [cçəˈna]
No. 4a nai /ne̞ː/ Unnamed Conlang ne [ne]
No. 4a vavaumai /ˈvə.vo̞.me̞ː/ Unnamed Conlang babone [bəbɵˈne]
No. 4a hawaihai /ˈɦə.ve̞.ɦe̞ː/ Unnamed Conlang ȝabeȝe [ɣəbɛˈʝe]

Tá-Sīsī stàs [stas˨˩] long, large, wide, far

Next: tshjíts [tsʲʰits˧˥] ground, dirt

Cwôła kyisʼey [tɕitsʼej] :> Old Ushu çiçej [ˈtɕitɕej] :> Polkian çiĵej [ˈtɕidʑej] Cwôła towksutow [towksutow] :> Old Ushu tofksutov [toɸˈksutoβ] :> Polkian topeksudob [topəˈksudob] Cwôła wowsutow [wowsutow] :> Old Ushu vofsutov [βoɸˈsutoβ] :> Polkian bopesudob [bopəˈsudob] Cwôła sowksutow [sowksutow...

My best advice here would be to learn IPA. It's one of the most useful resources available for conlanging (or learning a natlang) because it's a logical chart that contains all of the sounds that are used in language. For example, "knife" and "kniv" both look very similar (they're from English and D...

/i e ɛ/ i a e /ẽ ɛ̃/ aa ea /u o ɔ/ u o ou /õ ɔ̃/ oa oua It's /e ẽ ɛ ɛ̃/ but <a aa e ea>. Why's the /e/ <a> and the /ɛ/ <e>? Also, did you take the phonology from Gleb? It has lots of allophony that is basically useless because the phonotactics doesn't allow those same clusters needed for allophony....

Proto-Northern is a protolanguage for one of the major language families of my alternate history project, with the point of divergence being the absence of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event. This has caused mammals to remain the small rodent-like creatures that they were in the Cretaceous Pe...

So, I've recently started working on an auxlang that is to be used by a fictional nation of mine, which encompasses what is today the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries, New Zealand, Malta, and the Canary Islands. The auxlang is based off of the following languages: Danish , Norwegian , Swedish ...

/p b t d k g q/ p b t d k g q
/f ç x ɣ x̠ h/ f ć x ģ ķ h
/s z ʃ ʒ ʂ/ s z ś ź ș
/ts tʃ/ c ț
/m n/ m n
/w/ w
/ɹ l j/ r l j
/a e i o u y/ a e i o u y

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/m n ɲ/ m n ny /p b t d c ɟ k g/ p b t d c y k g /ts dz tʃ dʒ/ ts dz tsh dzh /ɸ β s z ʃ ʒ ç ʝ x ɣ/ f v s z sh zh ch yh kh gh /r j l ʎ/ r j l ly /a e ɛ i o u/ a e w i o u /ai au ɛi ɛu iu oi ou ui/ ai au wi wu iu oi ou ui Digraphs are easier to type, as keyboards may or may not have the required diacr...

It being an alien language isn't so much of an excuse for it being big, unless you can prove that it absolutely needs to be that big. I've created an alien race, the Tá-Sīsī, that only has a five-letter romanisation for all possible sounds that they can make (ignoring tone, which the language makes...

It being an alien language isn't so much of an excuse for it being big, unless you can prove that it absolutely needs to be that big. I've created an alien race, the Tá-Sīsī, that only has a five-letter romanisation for all possible sounds that they can make (ignoring tone, which the language makes ...

Since the previous poster didn't include another romanisation, I figure that I'll give this a go. /p t c k q ʔ/ p t c k q ' /b d g/ b d g /f ç x h/ f ç x h /v/ v /s ʃ ʂ ɕ/ s š ś ß /z ʒ ʐ ʑ/ z ž ź ż /β̞ ɹ j/ w r j /l ɬ/ l ł /m n ɳ ɲ/ m n ń ñ /tʃ tʂ/ č ć /i e ɛ a/ i e æ a /y ø œ/ y ø œ /ɯ ʌ/ ư ơ /u o ...

Modern Vitran suī [sui:] Unnamed Conlang ʃuī [ʃuhi:]
Modern Vitran ddak [d:ak] Unnamed Conlang dak [dɑk]
Modern Vitran tuziak [tuziak] Unnamed Conlang tŭʒiak [tŭʒihɑk]
Modern Vitran qizīgā [qizi:ga:] Unnamed Conlang qiʒĭgā [qiʒĭgɑ:]