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Thinking of rewriting /ʕ/ as ⟨5⟩ because ⟨`⟩ is aesthetically displeasing to me. Right, so from here , it is proposed that one can develop word order like this: SOV > SVO > VOS, which is the order in Classical Ngade n Tim Ar, hereinafter "CT" (Proto-Tim Ar-O, hereinafter "PTO", was SOV). I'm trying ...

Seed 1907023281: The only long consonants are /pː ɭː̻ wː/. /ɭː̻/ has no lateral counterpart; instead there is /ɽ̻/.

I was trying to figure out how to handle the reduction of complex onsets from PTO to the main (C)V(C) structure of CT. Just dropping the second element of the cluster was kind of boring, but then I got this idea and have edited it into the OP: First, eliminate *p when %_lV (that is, in the onset bef...

Common Caber has quite a few of them. ip "man" ( Ip Man ) śimo "friend" (shimobataar) śimobatar "friendship" (shimobataar) carau "grip" (clawgrip) garưp "claw" (clawgrip) maś "pit" (mosh pit) opi "peek" (opipik) ci "near" (Keenir) one "bar" (Elizabeth Barone, an author who had some very nice things ...

Phonology /t k/ ⟨t k⟩ /m n ŋ/ ⟨m n ng⟩ /S s ɬ x/ ⟨3 s c kh h⟩ /ɹ l ʕ/ ⟨r l `⟩ /ù ɯ̀ ò ɤ̀ à è ø̀ ì ỳ/ ⟨u ï o ë a e ö i ü⟩ /ú ɯ́ ó ɤ́ á é ǿ í ý/ ⟨ú î ó ê á é ô í û⟩ Additionally, all nasals, and the approximants /ɹ l/, can occur as syllabic consonants. Syllabic consonants do not take tone. /S/ is a p...

She might even be feeling embarrassed that she bailed on the date. I recently had a meeting with my counselor and he actually suggested this. I suppose, if true, it's a difference in worldview. I guess I'm pissed off that the entire last decade has been one romantic failure after another. I desire ...

So, I finally went on my first date ever at age 25. Why is this not in the Happy Things thread, you may ask? We were supposed to go to this concert/music festival, but stopped on the way to get a bite to eat. She mentioned having food allergies, and despite requesting food without the offending ingr...

There are of course exceptions to these, but in general… Uvulars Simple vowel systems No length distinction in vowels Some sort of secondary distinction on vowels Non-isolating morphology, especially polysynthesis Relatively simple phonotactics such as CVC Lack of vowel hiatus Where clusters exist, ...

Notes dump for a new triconsonantal-language family for the eastern continent. Wǫkratąk, which, if I did this right, means something along the lines of "those having been given the mandate". /m n ŋ/ <m n ŋ> /mb nd ŋg/ <ṃb ṇd ṇg> /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g> /h/ <h> /w r/ <w r> /ɔ ɔ̃ a ã ɛ ɛ̃ i/ <o ǫ ...

mèþru wrote:

Pogostick Man wrote:Even though foreigners aren't so good, and foreign food and media, good though they be, aren't as good as home-grown.

What does this sentence even mean?

That was a lapse in editing. Get rid of the "Even though".

The Zompist Culture Test™ for the Tim Ar If you're one of the Tim Ar… …you feel the death penalty is an appropriate and necessary punishment for the three capital crimes—treason, murder, and rape. …your name is a nominalized sentence followed by ré and then the names of your parents (though normall...

Seed 1721083895: The standard five long vowels, but the only short vowel is /i/. Seed 1517181820: The only two vowels are /a i/. Seed 1610773332: …This: Syllable structure (C1)(R)V(C2)(C3)(C4)(C5)(C6)(C7)(C8) C1: a consonant R: a resonant; i.e. one of /ɾ ʋ j w/ V: a vowel C2: one of /m n g͡b g ɾ ʋ j...

High tone can cause high vowels to diphthongize. I'll have to look to find the paper I saw that in, but I have read about this occurring.

My band played a show on the 7th. Here are some photos.

"Act I, Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76", from John Adams' Nixon in China.

Thank you, masako! And you totally should. Another daughter script being developed from this one. Note the change in orientation of the glyphs; this is motivated by a change in writing direction (originally top to bottom, left to right, now left to right, top to bottom). http://i.imgur.com/NvqN7Ez.j...

Quick sketch of a group from the conworld and their language. The Uhuiquenta /uwikenta/ were a people who were contemporaneous with the Classical Khaya civilization. They notably invaded the lands occupied by what would become the Tim Ar; one theory is that this language influenced the development o...

So I'm trying to figure out where and when writing first developed. So far I have the following: - Caber logograms (eastern continent) - Khaya monumental script (eastern continent) - Waqwaq logograms (western continent) I'm thinking there will be a few other places where it appears—this isn't like E...

I dreamed that Donald Trump was getting married in some big arena/parking garage-type thing and I went with some friends. He got angry at one point because someone kept calling his personal cell phone and he wanted to know if I gave out the number. I didn't, and he believed me. The caller turned out...

mèþru wrote:I follow the interpretation that palatovelars were actually plain and the plain velars were actually uvular.

Is this in the wrong thread?

Thanks to /u/PlatinumAltaria, Wikipedia, and one of zompist's books (can't remember which), I can add the following chemical elements:

imp'ih carbon
dulun sulfur
pham arsenic
agik' antimony
dow zinc

mèþru wrote:Not an "earth, fire water, wind" kind of thing?

I suppose I should clarify: These are the elements (of the Periodic Table) that people in antiquity knew about.

The elements of antiquity in Classical Khaya:

t'ihsa 'copper'
hulyu 'tin'
qhaĝ 'iron'
suykul 'mercury'
mowol 'lead'
baft'ih 'silver'
lu 'gold'

Set up a first date with a girl. This is the second date that was seemingly confirmed and that I went to. Got stood up. I'm 0 for 2. Talking with another girl on Siren. Asked her if she wanted to get coffee. Said she was flattered but would have to think about it. A female friend told me this was a ...

Here is a collection of information about vowel shifts.