zompist bboard

Are these sound changes valid:
mʲu→mĭu→məu→muə
Or mʲu→mçu→mxu

Can Palatalazation become Velarazation?

I once read something that basically called all linguists Nazis, over the so-called Afro-Asiatic languages, whose claim to unity, the author claims, is from the work of "Proto-Nazi linguists" who wished to prove their racist attitude of "inferior races" by saying that the Jewish and "Negroid" races ...

A description of the Binan’s attitude to the verb (General Adjective) Babarřum suvepuu tamwaga řuu kul. Uupuu saliimaancu targa. Saliimaanśśuulcu uuŧŧuqu leqa Babarřum suvepuu tamwaga řuu kul. Babar-řum suve-puu tam-waga řuu kul. Utterance-GEN end-LOC adjective-IDN ADJ general Uupuu saliimaancu targ...

An inscription on a pillar in Proto-Binan: ńiǹan amqumoy řuu źeẉaga řuu aa. Insuffaśśuul ińńiǹanii mara. Uu varukawaga ńiǹan amqumoy řuu źeẉaga řuu aa. ńiǹan amqum-oy řuu źe-ẉaga řuu aa. We.INC place-ABL ADJ 12DEM.12VIS-IDN ADJ here Insuffaśśuul ińńiǹanii mara. Insuffa-śśuul iń-ńiǹan-ii mara. Creato...

Birdlang wrote:Why are the long vowels not marked with macrons or colons?
Why are e and o central and not e and o?
Is the unrounded u from Japanese?

1. Because I prefer to double the vowels.
2. Because I tailored the orthography to the phonology and not vice versa.

So I tried to give the Bina, the aliens that implanted the humans on my conplanet a protolang. I will be devolving various daughter languages eventually.This language is the protolang for the entire Bina species. They were made in 3761 BCE. by an entity they call the "Creator" who gave them language...

There's a Dravidian language called Toda that has a Retroflex Lateral Fricative.

I have heard a theory that the "Spain" legends come from a group of Phoenicians from Hispania coming to the British Isles and assimilating into the Celtic population, explaining Insular Celtic being VSO. Isn't there also an outdated 18th/19th century theory, based on some Irish legend, that the Iri...

I have heard a theory that the "Spain" legends come from a group of Phoenicians from Hispania coming to the British Isles and assimilating into the Celtic population, explaining Insular Celtic being VSO.

Qat or Khat:
A plant used a recreational psychoactive drug in Yemen, the Horn of Africa and Israel.

birds aren't real wrote:
! is an alveolar click, dunno why it'd become a dental stop. click loss usually turns ! into a velar iirc.

Mixed it up with /|/

A phonology I'm proud of, mainly because of the allophony Phonology: /p t k/ <p t k> /m n ŋ/<m n ng> /!~t̪~t/ <c> /f~h s~ʃ/ <f s> /ð~nð ɣ~ŋɣ/ <d g> /l/ <l> Vowels: /i u e o a/ <i u e o a> Phonotactics: (C)V Allophony: <f> is pronounced [h] intervocally. The voiced fricatives are prenasalized word in...

Can someone romanize this phonology?:

/m n ɲ ɲʷ ŋ/
/p t c cʷ k/
/pʰ tʰ cʰ cʷʰ kʰ/
/ɸ f s ç çʷ x h/
/l ʟ/
/β̞ ɥ ɹ  ɰ/

/i u ɯ/
/e o/
/ɛ ɔ ʌ/
/a ɑ/

Tones:
˥ ˧ ˩ ˥˧ ˧˥ ˧˩


Phonotactics:
(C)V(V)(C)
Only nasals and plain stops are permitted codas

Basically, This is an alt-Lang where the Jews were never expelled from England and developed a Judeo-English much like Yiddish is to German or Ladino is too Spanish. The main differences from Modern English are Phonology, Orthography, The Pronominal System, and Lexicon. Phonology (with Romanization ...

CaesarVincens wrote:Neat.
Any particular reason 2nd person pronoun isn't distinguished for number?

Some of the weirdness made me want to ground it in something familiar, so I lifted English's pronoun system, just without the male/female/object 3p distinction.

p t tʰ d k kʰ g kʷ gʷ <p t th d k kh g kw gw> n <n> s sʰ h <s sh h> ɬ <l> t͡ʃ~ d͡ʒ <ch> ɺ <r> j w <j w> Vowels: i: i u: u <ii i uu u> ə̃ <y> ɛ ɔ <e o> a <a> Phonotactics: (C)(C)V(C)(C) Permitted initial clusters: <pj tj dj kj gj pw tw dw nj nw sw sj hj hw ps ks sp st sk sn> Permitted Final clusters:...

Around 1950 BCE a group of Advanced ETI kidnapped a community of people who lived on the northeastern shore of the Apsheron Peninsula and Pirallahi Island in modern-day Azerbaijan. They implanted them on a terraformed planet called Tau-Ceti 2. Tshoshefhenlak (True-God's-way) is the monotheistic reli...

I checked it out - it basically says that Biblical Hewbrew is the original garden of Eden language, My favorite is the guy behind it all - you see his bio page, and all his degrees are in English lit. Well this makes perfect sense; after all, El Shaddai spoke the world into creation using Hebrew. E...

Help me romanize this:

m n̪ ɳ
p b t̪ d̪ ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ʔ
s ʂ ç ħ h
β z ʐ ʕ
tˤ ʈˤ
sˤ ʂˤ
r
l ɭ



i u
e o
a
i: u:
a:

No, the practice is to make threads on a non-pruning subforum when you plan on doing some more serious work. I posted a lot of serious grammer in the k'apfatweyatl thread........and I am doing serious wok on hengese. EDIT: But now that I posted this here, would it be against practice to post a thre...

you now have two threads in which you give phonologies do you not think that the phonology thread, or, if you must have your own, a single thread in C&CQ would suffice for this For both K'apfatweyatl and Hengese, I gave more then phonologies. for the former I gave grammar, and for Hengese I gave th...

The Kingdom of Heng is in the southern portion of what is in the real world the Thai Malaysian peninsula. The language itself was considered to be an Isolate, however in the past ten years it has become accepted that it is decended from a sister language of proto-austroasiatic, Thus forming the Heng...