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Do you think a stop system consisting of plain voiceless, plain voiced, and voiced implosive could exist? That seems even more unlikely than the traditionalist voiceless/voiced/voiced-aspirate setup. Implosives could have existed at some point, but i doubt that there was ever a series of implosives ...

http://aveneca.com/Raritaeten.pdf says Gilbertese requires all words to be at least 3 moras, and many are 4, but that these can be just one actual syllable. Possibly the same is tsrue of relatefd languaghes suich as Marshallese.

Thanks, I like that dream. Thats the kind of dream that makes me glad this threead is here and its not just us keeping our dreams to ourselves because we feel no one else will be interested. I had a dream abouyt Wikipedia but that is one dream I didnt even find interesting myself so I didnt bother w...

Several of you mention Latin as a source of influence, or as something to compare your first conlangs to. Me, too: I contracted the "language bug" from my brother's Latin school grammar, and have been fond of the kind of rich, colourful inflectional paradigm I found in there ever since. Yeah I love...

Some questions: Have you ever had a dream involving your conworld? Have you ever incorporated elements from a dream into your world? What are the beliefs of people in your world regarding dreams? I rarely dream about my conworld. When I do, its relevance to the story is generally fairly insignifcan...

The Parrot Thruway opened, and was a road and a few towns in which only females were permitted. It was intended as a safe space where the crime rate was low. Boys up to the age of 5 cvould stay if accompanied by their mothers; after that, the mother was expected to move out. I will put this in my co...

I think Panceor is still there on the "Help your conlang fluency" thread, although I cant find that thread and the Search function doesnt seem to br working. Maybe it got pruned. But anyway, I liked what I saw of that language. Hopefully this is just tewmporary, but Search by word seems to be compol...

I was conlanging before I knew what to call it. It was a story, set in I think 4208 AD, but possibly 2408 ... i still have the original notebook i used even after more than 20 years. Like Annulled's, it was basically just English as I thought it might appear in another 400 ( or it was 2200? help!) y...

Though, oddly, they exclude languages with more than 10000 words, so my main project (Poswa) isnt even included. Though it is just barely over 10000 (10470 when I listed it) so it wouldnt have mattered too terribly much. Currently my Excel spreadsheet has 11426 entries for Poswa, but a lot of those ...

Would you feel Ok with a "just so" language where you makje a bunvch of words and then build the language around that ? e.g. with me the word "Baeba" is eight years older than the language it currently belongs to, because I created the name long before I created the language and then just retconned ...

A disease called "ileopsoou" or "ileopsoriou" was raging through people who had taken another drug, perhaps Truvada, which had become a 100% reliable cure for HIV and AIDS. Symptoms were inflammation of the skin and extremely high fever, such as 107°F. The skin would also get thinner, and be easier ...

It could easily have analogized over, especially if initial [ʔ] vastly outnumbered initial [0], and there was no phonemic /ʔ/ in the language. Besides, if intiail [ʔ] is not from an early phonemic /ʔ/, it could only have come from nothing anyway. Im not saying I believe the theory is absolutely ttru...

Well it does look like something did get lost in the transition to Wikipedia, if we're talking about the same language. Wikipedia says it uses prefixes rather than suffixes, and specifically that it *does* apply when speaking to the person with the deformity rather than merely speaking about them to...

I wonder if the original researcher on this topic was a small man with a limp and lazy eye syndrome and they just were messing with him. Other than that I agree that it's difficult to believe people would contort their words when speaking to someone with those characteristics. The other thing, thoug...

lol. I think Ive seen thatwoman before, or someone who looks like her ... the hair color was different. okay now that i look its probably not the same woman: http://www.whiteeyebrows.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mothers-disapproving-241x300.jpg ------- at a beach, a duck opened its mouth wide and ...

I use MS Excel. I tried Access once but I couldnt quite get my mind around it so I gave up. Access would have been awesome and perfect for matching languages with each other. Two of my conlangs have >10000 words so Im not sure Lexique Pro would handle that.

Ive always pictured pitch accent being basically a variation of stress accent in which the one stressed syllable of the word can take any of several different ones, often bleeding out onto the neighboring unstressed syllabls as well. So the answer is not only yes, but also that it's a requirement fo...

Bunmch of college studnetas were visting me, including a hraphic designer from LA whom I used to know. In fact they mightve been all freidns of his. They were mostly men. Some of them brough ther kids, a 2 year old girl showed up and I said "college students are getting yougner every day" to a cowor...

Sorry for offtopic comment but I just coudlnt udnerstand what you were saying because I always thought Avestan the Iranian language was itself preonounced [ˈævɨstæn], or at least [ˈavɨstan]. Becasuse its Middle Eastern so I just automatyivcally assumed the -stan was the modern use. That exaplains wh...

I was back at my parents house, and a rabbit was pooping and throwing up all over the place in a my room. They had a pet rabbit, it seems , and i was stuck with cleaning up after it. Dream probably caused my hearing about someone's 9 pet skunks and the fact that in my conworld rabbits are aggressive...

I had a dream about April Lavigne (sic) that I really wanted to remember ... I woke up 3 times thinking "i gotta post this" even though I knew that posting in the middle of the night makes my typing even worse than normal. Buuuut i was too sleepy so i just kept going to back to sleep and now all I r...

I thoguht Id posted this comment long ago, but maybe i just posted it in the chatroom. I think /t/ > /f/ unconditionally and /d/ > /rs/ between vowels are the most bizarre sound changes Ive ever seen. Not saying I dont bvelieve it, but maybe the speakers of those languages were using symbols for sou...

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My conworld has gotten a bit weirder lately since Ive been working in a video game world. In that world, there is a race of walking, sentient Bombs somewhat similar in outward appearance to SMB2 Bob-ombs (the ones with arms) but more sad and slow moving. They are video game experts, and all have hun...

Well I have a lot of words for bubbles so this will be quite long. Next: carbonated beverage Khulls: ŋō "foam" î "bubble" Both words have a wide range of meanings, such as ŋō being used for grains of sand and î being used for round objects in general. But both words securely retain their original ba...