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Birdlang wrote: It has every sound in the IPA and every modification. It even has the ExtIPA!!!

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Thanks for posting pronunciation guides. What is the climate of Yat-Vrkhazh like? Right now I'm trying to wrap my head around the placement of the cities. Some of them seem to be a bit far from the rivers and lakes.

A guide to pronouncing these names would be nice. They have a nice Semitic vibe to them, but I don't know how to parse the diacritics that you're using.

Caroline wrote:How likely is χr→ʁ/_V ?
And ɹχ→ʁ/V_ ?

It's not a far stretch at all: /χr/, /rχ/ > [χʁ], [ʁχ] > [ʁ]. You're moving the rhotic to a matching uvular POA and then deleting the fricative element, leaving the trill.

My Lexember contributions for the 18th are a collection of names I've been cooking up for the past few days: Cuori names and their reflexes in Ardinorian. Some background: Cuori is the Greek to Ardinorian's Latin - the language of philosophy, literature, science, civilization - and names from the fo...

Awesome map CatDoom :-D With regards to the southern extant of the Western languages, it seems like Xšali will spread back up towards Tjakori (going by the histories of the Empire of Athale and Xšalad). Or maybe not; Western speakers could remain a nice buffer between Athale and Xšalad, with alterna...

Wippwo has shit, which just means 'as for'.

I remember that Zompist discusses this (briefly) in his Lexipedia.

Quick googling, with the search 'linguistics body part typology', brought me this article (pdf) that might contain information that you're looking for.

Some secular and religious Ardinorian titles: Aurhebon : aurhebon , 'emperor', is a straightforward compound word composed of aur- 'defend' and hebon 'settlement'. The word functioned as a military rank until the rulers of Ardinas co-opted it as a title, with hebon referring to the entire realm. Aru...

He even links Mandarin and Arabic ! And there's this crazy under his 'Talks' section: The aim of this seminar is to show that Arabic and English as well as European languages are dialects of the same language, whose differences are due to natural and plausible causes of phonetic, morphological and s...

Anheshnalaks, scripts, Xshalad, etc That is an elegant script! And speaking of Shtasa, has Radius posted any draft lexicons of Xshali? I've wanted to put a lot of loans into Shtasa but I could only find attested Xshali words in the Adata lexicon. Would the Anheshnalåks spread writing westward by tr...

Also an intensifier:
These are some tasty-ass burgers

Obligatory relevant Xkcd

I finally have the spare time to rework and add to my Akana-langs. In today's productivity Empotle7á got one new phoneme (/t͡ɬʰ/) and its morphophonological processes have more complications because of sound changes.

Adyghe's voiceless bidental fricative

Axetxukwer:
ntsáyla - scary - from ntsáy frighten, scare

next: cyst, wen

I'd imagine that this might lead to more stringent sanitary measures in urban areas at an earlier time on Almea than on Earth if Almean humans have more of a need for water

我今天晚上喝了一杯茶，我和我的朋友去徳州大学的Round-Up玩儿的。 wǒ jīntiān wǎnshang hē le yí bēi chá, wǒ hé wǒ de péngyóu qù Dézhōu Dàxué de Round-Up wánr de. My friends and I will go to hang out at UT's Round-Up this evening after I drink a cup of tea. @Mandarin speakers: Is 玩儿, wánr , like Japanese asobu , in that both are ...

我今天晚上喝了一杯茶，我和我的朋友去徳州大学的Round-Up玩儿的。 wǒ jīntiān wǎnshang hē le yí bēi chá, wǒ hé wǒ de péngyóu qù Dézhōu Dàxué de Round-Up wánr de. My friends and I will go to hang out at UT's Round-Up this evening after I drink a cup of tea. @Mandarin speakers: Is 玩儿, wánr , like Japanese asobu , in that both are o...

Buried in my journals is a language named Vɔáko. Simple tonal system (three tones) and labial-velars. Inspiration was Yoruba, I think.

Exactly what it says on the title

ObsequiousNewt wrote:"fag" has lost its bite?

I've heard it (and used it) appropriated positively, although I still would consider it aggressive if a person were to throw it against, say, me and my boyfriend holding hands.

So...any more material in addition to the phoneme inventory?

Oh, I'm sure Straio knows more than one trick

Modern Standard Arabic uses حيثما ḥaiṯumā , which is transparently ḥaiṯu 'where' + mā 'what, which': He eats an English breakfast wherever he goes يأكل فطورا إنجليزيا حيثما يذهب ya'kulu fuṭūran injlīziyyan ḥaiṯumā yaḏhabu 3sg-eat-IND breakfast-ACC english-ACC wherever 3sg-go-IND The colloquial varia...