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Leþwin
root: mh̨̀ɑ́b /mʷxɒpʷ/ (to) indulge wholeheartedly,delightfully (with no regret)
root: vɑ́bb /ʋɒpʷ:/ (to) indulge (in drinking) with the foresight that you'll regret it later.

next: (your favorite word from your own language here)

Gwóntu /ŋʷʊ̃tu/ /m mʲ mʷ n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ /p pʲ pʷ t tʷ c k kʷ ʔ/ /t͡s t͡sʷ t͡ɕ/ /ɸ ɸʲ ɸʷ s sʷ ɕ x xʷ/ /w ( r ) j l ʎ ʟ ʟʷ/ /i e æ ɜ ɑ o u/ The following vowels are present in most accents, but conservatives tend to keep their historic forms. Each group will typically either be wholly present or wholly ab...

Nortaneous wrote:

Kvan wrote:k͡p ɡ͡b

yessssssss

also, why are all the sibilants preaspirated?

Perhaps I should have a contrasting series? I was debating on doing it, but I parsed 'em out.

As a distraction from Leþwin I'm diddling around with a language set on the same world but from a different lineage than Leþwin. Taps/Trills: ɺ ʀ~ʁ <r ř> Nasals: m n <m n> Laterals: l~ɬ tɬ <l c> Plosives: p k͡p b ɡ͡b t d k g <p kp b gb t d k g> Fricatives/Approximants: w~β ʰs ʰsʷ s sʷ ɥ x xʷ <v s s̥...

Astraios wrote:Yibire osanda ['ousan:a]~['ɔsan:a]~['osanda]~['usanda]

Pick a dialect.

['usanda] >
Leþwin: [usanda]>[ysæntæ]>[ʏs.sæn.tæ]>[ʏ.s:æn.tæˑ]>[ˌʏs:ˈænt] <yssand>

Ah ok. I was going to say, clicks are one thing, but an array of finely distinguished clicks is another. Personally I've been thinking about the phonetic "universals" of languages on Earth and I thought it would be neat to tweak them for my world. I was thinking of having at least one click be a rel...

Proto-Atlantean Aspirated stops: /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ Plain stops: /p t k/ Voiced stops: /b d g/ Fricatives: /s ħ h/ Nasals: /m n ŋ/ Liquids: /r ʕ/ Vowels: /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/ EDIT: How'd I forget the clicks?! Tenuis: /ʘ ǀ ǁ ǃ ǂ/ Voiced: /ᶢʘ ᶢǀ ᶢǁ ᶢǃ ᶢǂ/ Aspirated: /ʘʰ ǀʰ ǁʰ ǃʰ ǂʰ/ Nasal: /ᵑʘ ᵑǀ ᵑǁ ᵑǃ ᵑǂ/ Glotta...

sano wrote:next: to groan; to snort; to hum

<ludḩɑmɑ> /ɬøtxɒmɒ/ : s/he is groaning (typically whilst under physical burden)

next word: to appreciate secretly, hidden emotion, etc

q qʰ bʱ ɓ θʼ ɻ tθ tθʼ u ɝ i ʊˠ ɑ ... are you aiming for a cross between Hindi and something Athabaskan? Because you may have succeeded. More specifically Tlingit and Oriya– you're pretty much spot on. u ɝ i ʊˠ ɑ is such a cool vowel system! Right now in the C&C Quickies section there's a collaborat...

Darkgamma wrote:maker > synthesizer > assembler > player > child

Next word: crap

Crap > awful stuff > cheesy music > synthesizer

Haha, just kidding, I like myself some cheesy prog on occasion.

Next word: bifrucating

Buddha > an enlightened man > (through sarcastic usage) a knuckledragger/moron > idiocy > a dumb accident > children from teenagers

next word bloated

Murder

slavery > brutality > murder > extreme difficulty > inconvenience > common/quotidian struggle > banality

Next word: meta-

That makes me think of "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson, where ~99% of Europe was wiped out by the Bubonic Plague. The entire time I read the book I kept thinking of what wonderful languages would have evolved in Europe. And even more interestingly how the indigenous populations ...

Alright, so I've tweaked the structure yet again, in order to accommodate easier speaking and understanding. Below is the new template, just a slightly altered form of the last. [Mood/Evidentiality][Tense][Aspect][Polypersonal Marking][Noun Stem][Classificatory Marking] [Verb Root] [Derivational Suf...

Daistallia wrote:
acerbic > caustic > alkali > lye/caustic soda

Next: monkey

Monkey > simple but emotive person > quixotic > naive

Next word: arching

Christopher Schröder wrote:dishonest > cheater > adulterous spouse > spouse (pej.) > spouse > lover > close friend > acquaintance

Next: pinecone

pinecone > seed > phallus > cylinder/cylindrical > tesselation > spiral > natural pattern > pinecone

next word: acerbic

Rodlox wrote:

Kvan wrote:clandestine

buried -> hidden -> clandestine -> known but not spoken -> paperwork

next word: jump

stumble --> rebound --> jump --> leaping (as in to attack) --> last ditch effort --> pyrrhic victory

Next Word:infinitessimal/itty-bitty/wicked-frickin'-small

I like it. /ʰs/ is awesome. Yeah, I'm a big fan of it too. I'm trying to reproduce it, and all I'm getting is a sort of exasperated /s/. But regardless it's a pretty brilliant sound if that is what it is. I especially like that it stands out by its lonesome. It usually comes out as something akin t...

You mean like this ? That thread must not exist anymore. Neither does the search function show any other threads dealing with the subject. I missed the last one, but semantic drift is a difficult area for me too, and probably others, so hopefully it's alright to bring this thread to the front. I co...

In most languages that very-productively incorporate specific/referential nouns into verbs, the incorporated noun is almost always a patient (an object) [/size] ... my thinking on noun incorporation was muddied mostly by my inability to consistently place the grammatical role of the noun in the inc...

So I'm currently tooling around with the Tense system and I've decided I wanted a fairly minimal system. I was originally going to use a Past/Non-Past Distinction. I'm still debating on doing it that way or having a Non-Remembered Past Tense for all those things which took place before my subjective...

roninbodhisattva wrote:

äreo wrote:I like it. /ʰs/ is awesome.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of it too.

I'm trying to reproduce it, and all I'm getting is a sort of exasperated /s/. But regardless it's a pretty brilliant sound if that is what it is. I especially like that it stands out by its lonesome.

sano wrote:next: ultimately; in the final analysis; after all; when all is said and done

Leþwin: derivational suffix -xŗk /xɹ̩k/ (ultimately, decisively, with finality)

Next word: cordial disagreement

Leþwin is a polysynthetic language with a proclivity to have heavily inflected verbs and a more austere nominal system. So it's probably verb-initial. That it is. The structure is something like: [II][III]{IIa}{IIIa}[R0][R1] [VI] [V] [VI] .... IV: Lexical Suffixes You left out IV and put VI in twic...

Leþwin is a polysynthetic language with a proclivity to have heavily inflected verbs and a more austere nominal system. I've been trying to work out a system that falls in line with Leþwini structure and can still articulate what a language should. My primary problem is based on the templatic struct...