The CBB

<mūmhéa>
[mojˈbɛː] > [wœ̃bi]


New word: (If anyone objects to me making a new word since this one has gotten fairly reduced, just go with the previous word)

<ëhëlèttirmassgourkïxaliirawè>
/ˌɤhɤˌlɛʰtirˌmaʰskoʊrˈkʰɯʃaˌlɪi̯raˌwɛ/

/b bʷ t tʷ d dʷ dʒ k kʷ ɡ ɡʷ ʔ/ <b~m b*~m* t t* d~n d*~n* j k k* g~ng g*~ng* '/ /ɸ~h s sʷ/ <f s s*> /z̩~s̩ v̩~f̩ i u ɛ ɔ a/ <i *u ei *ou e *o a> High, low, falling and rising tones /z̩˥ z̩˩ z̩˥˧ z̩˩˧/ iK ì iG ìK The system is fairly similar to Irish in having a caol le caol agus leathan le leathan s...

<mīmhéa>

[mɛj˦˧mɛ̰ɐ̯˦˨] > [miˈwæ˥˩]

Hey, if we're allowed to talk Carly Rae Jepsen, I will note she released a "Christmas" song last year , of which a stanza reads My boyfriend is a vegan so they fed him fish My uncle made it worse by talking politics I had a few opinions, might have started a fight Well, it's not Christmas 'til someb...

Allowing /s/ + stop clusters to begin a syllable is actually one of Indo-European peculiarities , since these clusters also go against the sonority hierarchy. In that context Western Romance languages which put a vowel before these clusters are actually making things more normal! It's not that weir...

You know, I think that now, the Latin language is a dead language, and I see no reason to water time by learning it. For me, it would be better to invest your time in studying languages like Spanish, French, or English, in case you are not a native speaker. For example, I know Spanish, French, Russ...

I've prepared my response to ɶʙ ɞʛ's second attempt, but I'd really like for the game to have more than one participant per round, if possible. I'm personally willing to wait if anyone wants to participate, but is currently too busy to do so. I know I participated in the past, but I've found it rel...

/p p̼ b b̼ t d k g ɣ ʔ/ <p p̈ b bv b̈ t d k g g̈ ħ > /t͡s t͡ʃ d͡ʒ t͡ʂ dʐ> <c ch zh tr dr> /ɸ f β s z~ʒ ʃ ʂ ʐ h/ <pf f bv s z sh sz szh h> /r j/ <rr j> /l ɬ m n ɲ ŋ/ <l lh m n nh ng> /a æ~ʲa~ɜ ʌ e~eɪ̯ ɛ~ʲɛ~ʲe~ʲɜ i ɔʊ̯~o aʊ̯ u ɨ/ <a æ v e ɘ i o ɒ u y> *all dialectal variation /l̩ ɬ̩ m̩ n̩ ɲ̩ ŋ̩/ <l lh...

/p pʰ t tʰ k kʰ kʷ kʷʰ/ <п пг т тг к кг қ қг> /f s ʃ h/ <ф с ш г> /t͡s t͡sʰ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ/ <ц цг ч чг> /m n ɲ/ <м н нь> /l j ʎ w/ <л й ль> /r rʲ/<р рь> /i ɨ u/ <и ы у~оу*> * <оу> only used etymologically with raised /o/ /e o/ <е о> /æ/ <э> /a/ <а> Некст: /m n/ /p p̼ b ̼ t d k g ʔ/ /θ~t͡s~s s z ʃ ʒ x/ /t͡...

Phonotactics/Allophony: D E A D
Stress/Tone: A D A B

Does it have anything to do with motion? [cross] I can't imagine it's just "here", is it? Is there a commonly-used English equivalent/translation? Since this game has been down for the last two months, I think I'll just make give shimobaatar the win here. To start, it doesn't really have a one word...

<jèyżdzìś'>
[jɛ̀ɥʐ̩d͡zɨ̀ʔʝ̩́↓] > [çɛɪʐ˥˩d͡ziʃ'˥˩]

It seems plausible enough. There is some Amazonian language (I forget which, this was from a morphology practice set) that evolved tense marking from deixis marking: "That man sleep" became interpreted as "That man (in the past) slept), vs. "This man sleep" which became interpreted as "This man (in...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021 02:58 I am now the twentieth-spammiest poster here.

Proud to be number ten, although I think the numbers have been deflated now due to regular deletion of certain threads

Got a bit further in translating the document, and had to make some fixes to the previous paragraph. Thank god for Spring Break. Khöm4wö1sáj4 dak1 Ma2rëk1rëk1 Phyün1 lüt4 khöm4wö1sáj4 nèy2thö ha zha'1 öng1 nö2kha1 phí2 rék1 na1. Sěkw3ma1 myü2lai1ja1 öng1 rék1 myo1ang2 khöm4wö1. Ğay4 sáj2am1ma2 na1 ö...

Kinda dipped out for a while, so here's a quick sketch, I might also dump a more "diachronic" one later First some definitions, with letter abbreviations, and a full name for the category P = /p t k m n/ (pulmonic plosives) N = /m n/ (nasals) S = /p t k/ (plosives) E = /k'/ (ejectives) R = /s w r j/...

Over the last three months I've been working on writing a short Schleicher-y story in the Unnamed Hlaitype A Priori. Starting from an adaptation/version of Tsuru no Ongaeshi (The Crane's Return of a Favor), a traditional Japanese story, that I had made, I've gotten a paragraph through, and I think t...

Ok, so I was going to discourse, but after sleeping on it (I probably should have done that first :P) come to a "solution" that I like, which is that deictic markers are postverbal and mandated, but actually distinguish temporal remoteness over spatial remoteness (cf the relative impermissability of...

So I’ve been working a bit on the Hlaitype A Priori, and I started working on a longer translational text. I’ve been thinking about existentials too. Right now I’m thinking that existentials are formed from a combination of a deictic pronoun and a verb (probably the copula), similar to the comparabl...

Consonant Inventory: A

Bases: D