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by Vlürch
09 Dec 2023 14:48
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656158

Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Not sure if this is a quick question, but it doesn't feel worth making a new thread for, especially since I know it almost certainly doesn't have an objective answer since it's already unrealistic to begin with, and pretty much anything can be handwaved, but... if you took landforms (ie. an archipel...
by Vlürch
26 Sep 2023 21:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155246

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

Just something random, not sure if I'll do anything more fleshed-out with this but I might chuck it somewhere in one of the two con-archipelagos I've been focusing all of my recent conlanging on. /m n̪ ɳ~ŋ/ <m n ñ> /p b t̪ d̪ ʈ~k ɖ~g (ʔ)/ <p b t d k g Ø> /s̪ ʂ~x/ <s h> /f v θ ɻ~ɰ/ <f v z r> /ɬ/ <l> ...
by Vlürch
20 Jul 2022 15:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347206

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Debating the romanization for a the palatal series of a language I'm working on. The current romanization is /t͡ɕ ɲ ʎ j/<tj nj lj y> because I liked the odd and clunky look of the Cj digraphs, but that clunky look makes a lot of words look sort of strange, especially since <i l> are pretty common t...
by Vlürch
19 Jul 2022 17:18
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

If you want to make it unambiguous, you could add ustedes explicitly: "..., los comería a ustedes como ellos comieron mis unicornios" Ah, I didn't know that was possible. Nice. I understand that most of the time, it wouldn't be necessary, but it's really good to know that can be done with...
by Vlürch
18 Jul 2022 13:59
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

If there is really " no context ", then you're not dealing with real-world Spanish, but floating example sentences from a textbook exercise or something. And in that case the correct answer is to give both possibilities, 2nd or 3rd person. Sorry, it was really late when I posted the quest...
by Vlürch
18 Jul 2022 04:35
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Sorry for the incredibly stupid question(s), but... I'm trying to learn Spanish again, now more than just to understand a little but to be able to use it myself in a grammatically correct way, and... If the accusative of ustedes is just los / las depending on gender (and can be suffixed to the verb)...
by Vlürch
07 Apr 2022 17:04
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

French Wikipedia says it's used in Lakhota as well. Russian Wikipedia says <ȟ> represents [X] in Lakhota. Interesting that it's a different language from Dakota, I always thought they're just different names for the same language for some reason. Nice that it's used for basically the same sound (ev...
by Vlürch
05 Apr 2022 16:51
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Is it true only one natlang (Finnish Romani) uses <ȟ> for /x/? Wikipedia suggests that being the case, but I could've sworn there was at least one other language somewhere in Europe that used it, and IIRC it was for the same sound too, but now I can't actually find any other language using it except...
by Vlürch
05 Jan 2022 18:14
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I can't answer regarding the timing of the Persian shift, but rounding (and often raising) of /ɑ:/ is very common (it even raises to /u:/ in some environments in Tehrani Farsi I think). This type of shift also happened/is happening in a lot of Semitic, the Canaanite shift had /a:/ > /o~ɔ:/ (likely ...
by Vlürch
03 Jan 2022 16:28
Forum: Games
Topic: Cyrillisation game #2
Replies: 122
Views: 51032

Re: Cyrillisation game #2

/p pʰ b bʱ t tʰ d dʱ k kʰ g gʱ/ <п пӿ б бӿ т тӿ д дӿ к кӿ г гӿ> /f v s z ʃ ʒ h/ <ф в с з ш ж х> /m n ŋ/ <м н ң> /l j ɰ w/ <л й ғ ў> /r/ <р> /i y ɨ u/ <иь уь и у> /e ø o/ <е оь о> /ə/ <ы> /ɛ ɔ/ <э о> /æ/ <ә> /a ɒ/ <аь а> Next: /m n/ /p t k ʡ/ /pˤ tˤ/ /s ʂ/ /sˤ ʂˤ/ /ʋ ð j ʕ~ɦ/ /r ɻ l ɭ/ /rˤ ɻˤ/ /a i u...
by Vlürch
03 Jan 2022 16:14
Forum: Games
Topic: Romanization game #2
Replies: 3384
Views: 310980

Re: Romanization game #2

/p t k/ <p t k>
/s ɬ ʃ h/ <s z x h>
/t͡ʃ/ <c>
/m n ɲ/ <m n j>
/l j ɰ w/ <l y w v>
/ɾ/ <r>

/i iː u uː/ <i ỉ u ư>
/e eː o oː/ <e ẻ o ơ>
/a aː/ <a ą>

Next:

/m n ɲ/
/p b t d k ʔ/
/t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/
/s z ʃ/
/f θ~ð j w x~ɣ h/
/l ʎ/

/a ɛ e i y ɔ o u ə/
by Vlürch
03 Jan 2022 15:07
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

When did Persian /ɑː/ become rounded? Less importantly, why? I know the latter can only be speculated on, but... eh. The impression I get is confusing, since in Classical Persian it was apparently still unrounded and Persian loanwords in most languages borrowed /ɑː/ as unrounded, so it had to be a f...
by Vlürch
21 Dec 2021 10:04
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Thanks for the detailed and thorough answers! [:D] Good to know that the lack of (sibilant affricated) palatalisation is naturalistic enough to not need some weird handwave (even if IRL only one dialect of one natlang avoided it), and it'll still count as a Romlang regardless. But it's also interest...
by Vlürch
19 Dec 2021 07:07
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282093

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I read VSO and VOS often alternate in languges where one is dominant. What is the difference in meaning? Is one of the positions (after the verb or finally) more topical, or how do the clauses differ? Probably depends on the language? Aaaaaaand then, uh... I have a stupid question that I'm aware is...
by Vlürch
18 Dec 2021 05:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347206

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'm thinking about an Altaic-inspired lang in Mongolia or Russian Siberia. Its vowel inventory is the one below. What Cyrillic letters should be used for the vowels? /ɘ/ and /ɒ/ are probably the hard ones. i y ɨ u e ø ɘ o ɛ (œ) ɑ ɒ Chuvash uses <ӑ> for /ɒ/ and <ӗ> for /ɘ/, and Uzbek uses <ў> for /o...
by Vlürch
11 Dec 2021 19:45
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431664

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

Since the subject of flag icons is being discussed, were the flag icons for Afghanistan and Karachay-Cherkessia that I made missed/forgotten to be added or was it a decision not to add them? Just seems weird to have flags for some republics of Russia but not all of them, and other countries but not ...
by Vlürch
24 Nov 2021 00:43
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
Replies: 30
Views: 5182

Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]

Ah, I thought "Proto-Finnish" could mean basically "Proto-North Finnic" since it went straight from Proto-Finnic to Proto-Finnish, and was just a matter of terminology and categorisation and referred to the entire continuum excluding the "proper Karelian" and "prop...
by Vlürch
23 Nov 2021 23:35
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
Replies: 30
Views: 5182

Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography

No traditional dialect has /t.s/. Well, yeah, but the dialects traditionally spoken outside of Finland's modern borders in the Karelian isthmus had the affricate /t͡s/, and deaffrication isn't a big change. I don't know if it always remained /t͡s/ or if it was reintroduced by migrants from the nort...
by Vlürch
23 Nov 2021 13:17
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
Replies: 30
Views: 5182

Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography

Spanish had /t͡s̪/ > /s̪/ > /θ̟/ That was the one I could think of too, but didn't think it counts since it had an intermediate stage. Well I mean, obviously if /θ/ was a reflex of earlier /ts/, then /ts/ would have been widespread before it turned into /θ/. But apart from that, all I can say is th...
by Vlürch
22 Nov 2021 11:38
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography [split]
Replies: 30
Views: 5182

Re: Questions on Finnish and Estonian Phonology and Orthography

No, I'm saying Finnish sounds like Finnish, Karelian sounds like Karelian and Udmurt sounds like Udmurt. Finnish and Karelian are closely related enough that they still sound quite similar, but neither of them sounds much like Udmurt. And none of these sounds much like Swedish, either, in the sense...