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Is there a correlation between an area’s geography and the phonology/pronunciation of the languages spoken in that area?

dyolf wrote:Mr Edgar "Artifexian" Grunewald is actually in the process of building an interesting "magic" system. I think the only documentation of it is within the Artifexian podcasts, rather than written form. It's worth checking out.

Artifexian is awesome. Do you watch Xidnaf?

For all you fantasy/sf conworlders, if you have one, share your magic system in the comments.

The other day, I was thinking about a hypothetical mammalian species that somehow ended up with 3 genders. Gender A bears the sperm and fertilizes the egg. Gender B bears the egg. Once it is fertilized by A, it is moved to gender C which nurtures the egg and gives birth. My question is, hypothetical...

I propose a new 4th person perspective, based on impersonal pronouns such as "One should work."

I'm sort of new to conlanging and I want to make a language just to get a feel for it. I'm thinking of making it an agglutinative language with few morphemes (along the lines of Finnish and most if not all Algonquin languages) and was wondering which morphemes to use. I do own all 3 of the Zompist's...

Just out of curiosity, do any of your conlangs use natural scripts, like Greek or Cyrillic that are not Roman?

All letters are pronounced as they are in the IPA except for long vowels. Long vowels are just doubled short ones. Stress always falls on the first syllable. C: m n ŋ v s h V: á a à í i ì ú u ù áá aa àà íí ii ìì úú uu ùù A: w l j N: m n ŋ Syllabic structure is (C)(A)V(N). Diphthongs are allowed, but...

All letters are pronounced as they are in the IPA except for long vowels. Long vowels are just doubled short ones. Stress always falls on the first syllable. C: m n ŋ v s h V: á a à í i ì ú u ù áá aa àà íí ii ìì úú uu ùù A: w l j N: m n ŋ Syllabic structure is (C)(A)V(N). Diphthongs are allowed, but...

I'm designing a language with more emphasis on logic and would like to know, which of the 6 word orders would be considered the most logical? Though I could simply be biased by my English-speaking background, I feel as if the most logical is SVO. For example, in Jim hit Bill, it is ordered chronolog...