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Okay, regarding the earlier posts, I decided to redesign the phonology completely /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /b t d k g ʔ/ <b t d k g q> /f θ s ʃ x ħ h/ <f c s x z h '> /j w r l/ <y v r l> /i iː u uː e o a aː/ <i ii u uu e o a aa> + plus three tones: mid, rising and falling Syllable structure (C)(C)(C)(G)V(G...

Hi everybody. I feel like it would be nice to have a thread like this where we can collect what we collectively know about different ways of conveyign the information that English, as well as a lot of other european languages coveys through the usage of prepositions. That way it can be used as a sou...

Looks nice, but there are a couple of things that I noticed: 1. Your consonant inventory is VERY regular, which leads to some weird things. A thrill invetoy of /ʙ̥ mʙ r̥ nr ʀ̥ ŋʀ/ /ʙ̥ˀ mʙˀ r̥ˀ nrˀ ʀ̥ˀ ŋʀˀ/ /ʙ̥ʰ mʙʰ r̥ʰ nrʰ ʀ̥ʰ ŋʀʰ/ is very unrealistic. Additionally, there is nothing wrong with havin...

Nianna utamaha nna besiꞌinna binni anka ttuntuha nna uxina ixe loba ka binni nna rána ka nuha: —Utele ttu ttu ka tubi gele leni binni anka ttuntu‑na kini siꞌirubana reasana idilha. Is it spoken somewhere in Melanesia. (I know that this is somewhere between one fifth and one seventh of all languages...

So, slon(o) must mean "elephant", an obvious loan from Russian. Correct. If anyone are interested the whole breakdown is as follows: Kəige ʒugdi-du siŋə-wə wākca-ini, cat house-DAT mouse_ACC hunt-3SG The cat hunts for mice in the house, kahi bua xuən-di-ni oloxi-wə wākca-ini, marten place top-DAT-3...

Udege? Yes! If anyone are interested the sample, taken from "A grammar of Udihe", by Nikoleava and Tolskaya, translates to: The cat hunts for mice in the house, the marten hunts for squirrels in the forest,and the tiger hunts for boars and kills men's domestic animals, horses, cows and others. It a...

I like:
Saami
Greenlandic
Most polynesian languages

I dislike:
Swedish
Chinese
French

opipik wrote:Orok?

No
I have noticed that the three latest languages you have guessed are all southern tungusic languages. The language of the sample is in the northern branch of tungusic.

opipik wrote:Ulch?

No

opipik wrote:Even?

EDIT: Nanai?

Neither.

opipik wrote:Tungusic?

Yes

opipik wrote:Paleo-Siberian?

EDIT: Nivkh?

Nope

Oh! Oh! I actually know this one! So many years of my life spent on this language family, if not on this specific member! I'm gonna shut up and let others take a crack at it today though. It feels totally unfair to me, otherwise, Just post it and have your moment in the sunshine. If there is a plac...

Is it a Biu-Mandara-language, say Buwal? Edit: Just looked it up more closely, it is probalby not Buwal as labio-velars apparently are very rare in Buwal, but I am not going to suggest something else because I have already spent way too much time on this. Edit (again): Turns out it might be Buwal a...

1. There is a reason that the moon rotates around its own axis in the same amount of time that it orbits the Earth (tidally locked). The reason is called tidal drag, and is explained better than I ever could in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jUpX7J7ySo 2. The answer to the seco...

Is it a Biu-Mandara-language, say Buwal? Edit: Just looked it up more closely, it is probalby not Buwal as labio-velars apparently are very rare in Buwal, but I am not going to suggest something else because I have already spent way too much time on this. Edit (again): Turns out it might be Buwal an...

Is it a chadic language?

R.Rusanov wrote:It's spoken in the balkans....

If there's no correct guesses soon, I'll give you guys a clue you can't miss...

I'm going to guess Rusyn a.k.a. Ruthene.
Just because.

Decided to try romanize it myself and embrace the diacritic spam of crazyness.
The result can be seen here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4sip8mrh1c88 ... a.pdf?dl=0

Decided to try doing it without a tone system. The result is may be a little bit crazy. Let's get started with some consonants... Plosives and Affricates (68 in total): p pʰ p' p͡ɸ b ɓ b͡β p̪ p̪ʰ p̪' p̪͡f b̪ ɓ̪ b̪͡v t̻ t̻ʰ t̻' t̻͡s̻ d ɗ d͡z̻ t̺ t̺ʰ t̺' t̺͡s̺ d͡z̺ t͡ɕ d͡ʑ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ ʈ ʈʰ ʈ' ʈ͡ʂ ɖ ᶑ ɖ͡ʐ ...

While this is certainly not my area of expertise I thought I would try anyway. After doing some research, getting a headache and then listening to some recordings I am going to make a mostly unqualified guess that it is Bawm Chin, mostly because the recording sounded like it had a lot of glottal sto...

Stuff about danish Answers to questions abowe Does Danish distinguish between /ɶ/ and other front rounded phonemes? Well that depends a lot on dialect (a vowel system of that caliber is, of course, unstable). In the way i speak it does not, [ɶ] simply being an allophone of /œ/. In my neighbours dia...

<a e i o u y> As in IPA. Acute indicates lexical stress. /a/ does not take lexical stress because of reasons. Grave means creaky voice. <b d f g h k l m n p s t v z> as in IPA. <c j ł ñ r w> /t͡s ɻ ɭ ɳ ɹ ʋ/ <x> /x~ɣ~ɰ/ Consonants with cedillas are retroflex. For the purpose of stress placement in th...

Nannalu wrote:Hi guys, I've added danilot to Team 1. I'm not sure if you guys'd be in 1 or 2 yet tho. Any idea?

Perhaps you could create an additional team for the weather-, map-, stuff-team. We could then be fitted with a green colour or something.

Can anybody do climate maps here? It's confusing me. I am what is known as a omni-nerd so I would be happy to give it a go. That would also make me able to participate without having to do any serious conlanging as i am still a newbie in that field. Edit: If other non-conlanging stuff needs to be t...