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Zofus pkëiktor łim fong xi. Xlowaž. HSY-be-PST-3s.PROX mother GEN.INAL=1s like 2s. xlowaž. My mother was like you. A xlowaž *. Ne gu xlowaž fem. Gu xlowyž fem. Łbugurit mi taklot depili łim. NEG ESS xlowaž be-PRS-1s. ESS xlowyž be-PRS-1s. teach/learn-PST-IMPRS-NOM 1s close-INF-NOM ability-SGV GEN.I...

Łmiwošemet var The Hobbit , o isbum si. Voifës gu swerelzak ul var Babylon 5 . To šuisbem li, thav šalbraidem xyližot zvë gu li gus vasoz gkaž. read-PFV-PRS-1s-NOM ART The Hobbit, and like-PST-1s 3s.PROX. EPIS-be-PRS2*-3s.PROX ESS depressing TERM2 ART Babylon 5. NEG2 EPIS-like-PRS-1s 3s.OBV, but SJ...

Bafesez kjen zam gu mran ksi kjen zax. EXP-be-PRS-3s.PROX-ABS dog GEN.ALIEN=1s ESS big TERM4 dog GEN.ALIEN=2s My dog is bigger than your dog. Baswepesur welal fy žobal łis, tîz es tîz. O leik so ne sbîfunaz es depygor zvë tsor ev si, gkëłatus si. EXP-extinguish-PST-IMPRS light-OBV in eye-PL-OBV GEN...

Asgon enfoswedwinur pibafîr var nałêsfôn so baswerethim pa raiga gus dełaot pa šoza se. Sparrowgrass is so unfinished that I make up words to be able to say things here. O ir rhiânott podera rasin î cin miullist, ni o adam sauthatt, o nît scana cuacairatt coppa, idian sioton se arîttaion mie o ia. ...

*I have no idea what you call this particle... it's a long story involving set theory. Never mind -- it's actually sort of an essive, except when it's partitive. I'll just call it ESS/PTV or something. Glossing it makes it easier to understand how your language works, so please continue doing it. S...

Gu laulin bafîr los. gu* song EXP-be-IMPERS DIST1-PROX That's a song . Ne šubafîr mi evleik šifo kmažot es pa kaval. NEG1 EPIS-EXP-be-IMPERS 1s ever after ride-INF** on INDEF*** horse I don't think I've ever ridden a horse. *I have no idea what you call this particle... it's a long story involving ...

Waklethir ûziatłëp ûziatłëp aris fîr ev sa ûz iatł.
Bicycles are called bicycles because they have two wheels.

I put a disclaimer in case you thought I was totally new to this or just ignorant and only knew how to make stuff that contained the entire consonant inventory of English (it does, kind of). Also, the established phonology of this language ("Sparrowgrass" by the way) scores 73 on the test, which I t...

<tz> means either /tz/ or /t͡s/. Yes, that's the problem with it, though it isn't ambiguous because /ts/ is <ts> and /tz/ isn't allowed because of voicing assimilation. Nonetheless it looks pretty stupid. I suppose I would have to go with apostrophes. How do/did you distinguish between /k/ <kʼ>. /k...

Don't some dialects of English (Australian? can't remember exactly...) have /ai au/ [ɑɪ æʊ] or similar? Yes, apparently Australian has [ɑe] and [æɔ]. My American English has roughly the realizations you mentioned FWIW though I don't know how mainstream that is. [ɔɪ] for /ai/ is also present in some...

Good information. If I were to write it, I'd add if geminated vowels contrast with two of the same short vowel in hiatus. Most members who post such phonologies don't do that and I assume that there is no contrast. Ah, sorry. There is indeed no contrast -- two of the same vowel in hiatus aren't all...

I'm considering making some changes to the phonology of my main project, but I haven't decided how I should spell the result, so I thought I'd post it here to see if anyone had what suggestions. (Yes, it's boring and SAE-ish. Don't worry, though, I know what I'm doing.) /m n ŋ/ /p b t d k g tʼ kʼ/ /...

I don't have any good ideas (I think they're all taken), but I figured I should post a romanization before putting my own phonology. Consonants: /pʰ~p͡xʰ p~p͡x b~bə pʰʲ~pʰʲj pʲ~pʲj bʲ~bʲj tʰ~t͡xʰ t~t͡x d~də tʰʲ~tʰʲj tʲ~tʲj dʲ~dʲj kʰ~k͡xʰ k~k͡x g~g͡ɣ kʰʲ~kʰʲj c͡ç~c ɟ͡ʝ~ɟ ʔ/ <ph p b phy py by th t d t...

I think there is actually at least one European grammatical feature that is not listed by them: the tendency to use "adposition+verb" compound verbs or phrasal verbs, Germanic languages, Slavic languages and Latin do all show such a way to create new verbs, although I am not sure the situations abo...

Sudric: As crod ny menaynei asbeir y naightyn oc? /as krɔd ni mɛ'næne as'ber i naɪɣtyn ɔc/ And how.many of.the wife-pl-GEN the tales-PL 3pGEN And how many wives tell their tales? Gu hepna goidhelic cabîr syló? Bapareir si vel manec. Is that a Goidelic language? It looks like Manx *. Otgai gu fotfyb...