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Thank you, Adjective Recoil! Before I ask any more sensible questions... [waˑjd] and [wʌjɾ] I suspect you've been mistyping "ɾ" (alveolar flap) for "ʔ" (glottal stop)? One would expect [wʌjʔ] for white . It's not quite a glottal stop- my tongue does end up in alveolar position. Maybe it's best desc...

So, the first question: do you notice this difference in vowel quality in your own speech and/or in other Canadian lects, and which diphthongs does it affect for you ? It's noticeable upon observation, but I don't think anybody who isn't told about it would notice it on their own. It affects /aj/ a...

"Dun". Hardly used, but I feel it fits the meaning so well.

According to this article, a new language has been discovered in Australia- and it's less than 35 years old. This may or may not be bullshit. I do not profess to know. I just thought you guys might find it interesting.

Adjective Recoil's map was better. First, thank you Patiku. Second, I think the reason my map took off was because there was a story that went with it. It's easy to just draw a line on the map and say "That's a country." But countries aren't just lines on the map- they have histories, they have wan...

Asvaki and Erminjeo had a major war about 15 years ago. After Asvaki used chemical weapons in the Second Battle of Apchen and the siege of Jun-Kamya, the Sjelt Pact Organisation, lead by Alfava, intervened and ended the war by threatening to use nuclear weapons; both sides retreated to the pre-war b...

Also, in terms of the plosives, native Finnish words maybe have no voicing contrast, except that d does exist and all of b,d,g exist in loanwords and slang words; Hungarian, Turkish, Chuvash and Japanese have a voicing contrast; Korean... well, it's complicated (and Korean has three sets of plosive...

I looked up Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Chuvash, Mongolian, Korean, and Japanese's phonologies and vowels and came up with this as a composite: /m n/ m n /p t k tʃ/ b d g c /pʰ tʰ kʰ tʃʰ/ p t k ç /ʃ s h/ ş s h /ʋ l j r/ v l j r /i y u/ i ü u /e ø o/ e ö o /æ a/ ä a Vowel harmony groups <ä ö ü> as ...

I used to avoid diacritics as much as possible because I was just too lazy to break out the Character Map every time I needed special characters. This led to some rather awkward and ugly romanizations. However, I recently came across a utility that allows me to make my own keyboard layouts; now I ha...

I've been searching around for a while, and I've been unable to find anything that says what the phonotactics of Turkish are. I read through a couple of papers on Turkish phonology, but there doesn't seem to be anything that specifically mentions the phonotactics. I think they're something like (C)V...

According to Wikipedia, Romansh contrasts ts and tɕ.

Phonotactics are (C)(K)V(K)(C) where K = any consonant except a stop. Stress is uniformly on the first syllable. So are ttsenl , yrafr , tsdzify , and zhsashl all allowed syllables? They are, although /ttʃ/ would be interpreted as /tʃ/. My own orthography used <w> for /ɒ/. I used <sh> for /ʃ/ and <...

Unnamed Dwarf Language I'm making this for a friend who's making a conworld. The vowels are ripped straight from Farsi. Nasals: [m n] Stops: [p b t̪ d̪ k g] Fricatives: [f v s z ʃ ʒ] Affricates: [ts dz tʃ dʒ] Approximants: [j] Trills: [r] Laterals: [l] Vowels: [i u e o æ ɒ] Phonotactics are (C)(K)V(...

English is merging adverbs into verbs, although I think that's well established by now. Any examples of this? I can't think of any. Or are you talking about phrasal verbs? Same thought here. And phrasal verbs are not a sign of this - they are something inherited from Proto-Germanic which show up, i...

So far, we've been talking about phonology. What about grammar and lexicon (especially closed categories)? English is merging adverbs into verbs, although I think that's well established by now. Probably one of the first noticeable (for average people) splits between Northern and Southern GA closed ...

Also, on pin/pen: I'm a Vancouverite, and I don't have it. I've noticed that "bowl" and "old" for me are [bo:l] and [o:ld], not [bowl] and [owld] ([ow] > [o:] before L). Has anybody else noticed this or heard of it? Also, "let's go" turns into "tsgo"; "What's going on?" beocomes "tsgoin on?", etc. ...

I found this descendant of General American . Maybe it will give you a few ideas? Also, on pin/pen: I'm a Vancouverite, and I don't have it. I've noticed that "bowl" and "old" for me are [bo:l] and [o:ld], not [bowl] and [owld] ([ow] > [o:] before L). Has anybody else noticed this or heard of it? Al...

A quick sketch made during math class. I decided to throw in a lot of crazy affricates. As for vowels, I decided to be cheap as shit and ripped off Māori. Stops: p b t d t̪ d̪ k g <p b t d th dh k g> Fricatives: f v ɸ β s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ <f v fh vh s z kh gh> Affricates: pf bv pɸ bβ ts dz t̪s d̪z tʃ ʒ dʒ ...

I personally find the way Russian and German sound very appealing, what with the complex clusters of consonants, the way everything fits together; like a complex piece of music performed with great skill. On the other hand, Māori, with its relatively simple and elegant phonology and phonotactics, is...

This is the phonology of Anaric, my current project. Phonemes Orthographic representations of phonemes are in parentheses. Consonants Nasal: m (m), n̪ (n) Stop: b (b), t̪ (t) d̪ (d), k (c) g (g) Fricative: v (v), θ (th), s (s) ʃ (sh), x (ch), h (h) Affricate: bv (bv), ts (ts) Approximant: j (y) Tril...

I don't really like the way the top of the lowercase t looks. The way that it dips slightly makes it look as if there's a notch; combined with the way it slants (something which I don't like, maybe it's my hatred of Arial influencing me) it looks very strange, especially at medium sizes.

1. The usual: a detailed description of pronunciation using IPA , that includes a fair description of allophones, even across words. This would be a godsend. I hear a lot of "par-lays voos fran-says?" type pronunciations in my French class; it's ridiculous. An IPA comparison of French and English w...

For the verb "to go" in Anarastic:
yarav [jarav] or yalav [jal̪av]? (-av is the infinitive suffix).

2-4 wrote:What is the best word for "sun"?

aḍái [ɐˈɖaːj]
agú [ɐˈgʷuː]
astrú [ɐˈstruː]

I personally like aḍái for "sun" but astrú sounds like it would be nice for another heavenly body (perhaps a star... although it may be too close to Greek "astron").

What's the best word for "mint" (aromatic herb)? mirce ['miɾsɐ] mirze ['miɾzɐ] mirte ['miɾtɐ] Mirce. The unvoiced fricative makes it sound more... minty... than the other two. Mirze and mirte could work nicely as names for other things, though; mirte sounds like a diminutive, and mirze sounds like ...