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Leþwin Consonants: Nasals: /m n ŋ/ <m n ɴ> Plosives: /p b t d k g q/ <p b t d c g k> Affricates: /t͡s ͡dz/ <ts dz> Fricatives: /h̪͆ θ ð s z x ɣ χ/ <x þ ð s z č ğ ʞ> Laterals: /l ɬ ɮ ʎ ʎ̶̥ ʎ̶ tɬ dɮ/ <l ʎ̣ʎ y y̌ ỵ̌ tʎ̣dʎ> Taps: /ɾ/ <ʀ> Trills: /r̥ r ṙ̝ r̝ <ṛ r ṛ̌ ř> Approximant: /w/ <w> Vowels: Modal ...

Haeccity I thought was quiddity!

What we need is troll control.

copyright pending :-p

Astraios wrote:Á aá.
His armpit smarts (from an irritated wound).

This is sort of old-fashioned Lakota, nowadays you'd be more likely to hear Á oyáya for the same thing, but that's just not as fun.

Ha! It would certainly be the sound I'd make if I had an irritated wound on my arm pit.

I forgot where I originally found them but I've been in love with them for a bit. I find myself listening to a lot of Willis Drummond lately. Basque Rock is soooo good. Here's a link to their MySpace page, I'd highly recommend the song Zenbat Gramo for those of you who are so inclined to give 'em a ...

During socialization isn't it the norms which come first truly? And the "deeper reasoning" (for lack of a better term) is the value which is learned after the norm?

But I guess from actual structural standpoint, the value underlies the norm no matter what eh?

I struggle with palatal plosives, fricatives and affricates. In general I tend to neglect them because even as I try to emulate the sounds they always sound like [Consonant]+j. Even worse it seems is palatization, my onset time for j is too long or at least it seems so because my received pronunciat...

Hey that's cool, I have creaky vowels in Lethwîn too, however there isn't a necessary preceding consonant. It doesn't have much to do with the thread, but I needed to point that out. Lethwîn has creaky, breathy and modal vowels distinguished by two lengths. But anyway, your language that I have seen...

It could be distinct from zero copula if the nouns-acting-as-verbs exhibit verbal morphology, yes? I read (on Wikipedia which probably doesn't really count) that Nahuatl has an interesting property called "omnipredicativity" which means that not only do nouns mean for instance "knife" but also "is ...

Zero copula I thought was sort of different. Where a zero copula is understood as a copula without one there, a language without a verb/noun distinction or rather a language where nouns are predicates means that a copula functionally doesn't exist. But perhaps this means that all nouns and verbs are...

None tht I know of do this, but it could make for a fun philosophical/art/just-for-fun language.

I read (on Wikipedia which probably doesn't really count) that Nahuatl has an interesting property called "omnipredicativity" which means that not only do nouns mean for instance "knife" but also "is a knife". This picqued my curiosity because I was interested in not having any copulas in Lethwîn. I...

Lethwîn (since I sadly have no computer at the moment I couldn't properly transcribe the name which in the digraph 'th's stead would be thorn), originally had a case system swamped in locative and directional cases which I found borderline obscene. I then shifted all locatives and directionals to be...