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- 31 Jul 2021 02:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How can I make the language below sound more Slavic? I'd prefer it remaining miminalist. Consonants /t d k g ʔ/ <t d k g q> /ʁ ɫ/ <r l> /ŋ/ <n> Vowels /ɐ́ ɐ̀ ɐ̄ é̞ è̞ ē̞ í ì ī ó̞ ò̞ ō̞ ú ù ū/ <á à a é è e í ì i ó ò o ú ù u> Allophony [j, w] of [ī, ū] before vowels >[jw] of [īū] before vowels [ɕ, ʑ, ...
- 13 Jul 2021 14:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks. Am I describing the relationship between approximants and trills corrently in the note about the language's pharyngeal trill and near-open cental vowels below? Interestingly, rather than adding a completely new character to the alphabet after the applicable changes, natives just added a diac...
- 11 Jul 2021 17:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've just circled back to a minimalist Japanese-inspired language I created a while ago. Cureently, the idea is for some particles (think wa , ga , etc.) to have become suffixes wgile others (think ka , etc.) remain separate words. Is this naturalistic? How is Word defined in the minimalist Japanes...
- 11 Jul 2021 15:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've just circled back to a minimalist Japanese-inspired language I created a while ago. Cureently, the idea is for some particles (think wa, ga, etc.) to have become suffixes wgile others (think ka, etc.) remain separate words. Is this naturalistic?
- 10 Jul 2021 21:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Okay. That’s what I meant my language has [ᵫ(ː)] (front rounded) and the back rounded vowel. Would they merge after, say, [ʨ]?
- 10 Jul 2021 16:52
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Can apical vowels appear after palatals and/or retroflexes?
- 09 Jul 2021 00:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Originally, Ongshv́'s lamial/apical vowels were to be treated as follows: non-palatal, non-retroflex affricates/fricatives (A/F) appearing before all, palatal A/F only appearing before front, and retroflex A/F only appearing before back. But, I just started doubting lamail/apical vowels appearing af...
- 08 Jul 2021 20:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ongshv́ [ˈɔ̃.x͡yː], Language of Outsiders
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Re: Ongshv́ [ˈɔ̃.x͡yː], Language of Religion
Nucleus [ᵫ, ᵫ, i, iː, e̞, e̞ː, ɛ̃, e̞u̯, e̞ːu̯] can't appear immediately after [ʈ, ɖ, ʈ͡ʂ, ɖ͡ʐ, ʂ, ʐ, ɳ, ɭ] Are those all vowels that can appear as nuclei of a syllable? There are more vowels, however. You could have some syllables is CVC sentence for phonotactics. Currently, every vowel, [ɐ, ɐː, ɐ...
- 07 Jul 2021 15:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Ongshv́ [ˈɔ̃.x͡yː], Language of Outsiders
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Ongshv́ [ˈɔ̃.x͡yː], Language of Outsiders
Ongshv́ is the language spoken in Fiúgham 's non-Lantin-speaking clergy. Like most of the inventories for my conlangs, this came from a rather simple idea. Specifically, it came from the idea of a Dravidian language with the dental fricatives. This is its most recent evolution. The most significant ...
- 07 Apr 2021 20:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Just to clarify, are you saying the simplified hypothetical system of [æ, ɔ, ɪ̟, ʊ̠, ə] is neither naturalistic nor impossible, whereas the current system of [æ, ɑ, ɔ, œ, i, ɯ̠, ʊ̠, ʏ̟, ə] is both more naturalistic and more probable? Well, I think the latter is more naturalistic, since that's basic...
- 07 Apr 2021 16:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is a system with all lax vowels, like [æ, ɔ, ɪ̟, ʊ̠], plausible, or do I need vowels like [a, ɑ, i]? For context, the system's central vowel, [ə], is opaque, as are the language's prenasalized consonants. AFAICT it's not really naturalistic, like I'd think of a language with it as a language with a...
- 07 Apr 2021 01:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I know I asked about backness harmony in my roleplay setting's Common language earlier, but I'm exprimenting with the system's exact peripheral vowel qualities. Is a system with all lax vowels, like [æ, ɔ, ɪ̟, ʊ̠], plausible, or do I need vowels like [a, ɑ, i]? For context, the system's central vowe...
- 25 Nov 2020 15:30
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Spirittongue and Druidic
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Spirittongue and Druidic
As you know, I'm working on a roleplay setting in a fictional galaxy. I'm making a new topic because I've had to overhaul how the languages work to make them more pronouncable for my English-speaking players. For example, Spirittongue, and its derivitive—Druidic, are based off of Hawai'ian. But, I'm...
- 03 Aug 2020 00:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
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Re: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
Please reorient the stops and nasals to be horizontal, like the other sonority classes. I had arranged the letters according to their collation order (ABC, a-ka-sa, etc.) in Tuktin, but I'll add a separate list for the phonology. Okay. Thanks for adding the phonology. I was thrown off by the last l...
- 03 Aug 2020 00:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Actually, I hadn't thought about [l]'s intervocalic phone for some reason, but it'd be either [l̪] or [l]. So either [l̪] or [l] can occur intervocalically, but can the occurrence of one as opposed to the other potentially change the meaning of a word or morpheme? For example, using V to stand for ...
- 02 Aug 2020 17:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
- Replies: 19
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Re: A 'Sino-Turkic' altlang
Please reorient the stops and nasals to be horizontal, like the other sonority classes. It's really disorienting to read a phonology vertically.
- 02 Aug 2020 17:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
My settings Catfolk language has an assimulating <l>, as described below. Is it described correctly? If not, how should I be describing it? [l̪, l, ʟ] are in complementary distribution with [l̪], occurring adjacent to [f, v], [l] adjacent to [t, ɗ, s, z] or at the beginning or end of a word, and [ʟ...
- 02 Aug 2020 14:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
My settings Catfolk language has an assimulating <l>, as described below. Is it described correctly? If not, how should I be describing it? [l̪, l, ʟ] are in complementary distribution with [l̪], occurring adjacent to [f, v], [l] adjacent to [t, ɗ, s, z] or at the beginning or end of a word, and [ʟ]...
- 13 Jul 2020 18:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The only diphthongs in my setting's Spirittongue language are [ɛ́ú̯, ɛ̀ù̯]. While that's unremarkable in-and-of itself, I'm here to check on the proper name for their relationship with [ɛ́ːw, ɛ̀ːw]. Considering [ɛ́ú̯, ɛ̀ù̯] (before consonants) and [ɛ́ːw, ɛ̀ːw] (before vowels) don't contrast, are [ɛ...
- 13 Jul 2020 18:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The only diphthongs in my setting's Spirittongue language are [ɛ́ú̯, ɛ̀ù̯]. While that's unremarkable in-and-of itself, I'm here to check on the proper name for their relationship with [ɛ́ːw, ɛ̀ːw]. Considering [ɛ́ú̯, ɛ̀ù̯] (before consonants) and [ɛ́ːw, ɛ̀ːw] (before vowels) don't contrast, are [ɛ...