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Is Mánnìkà tonal? I love how it looks, it's so strange compared to the others.

Wightish would be, because of its distance from other related languages, be one of the most innovative Romance languages, if not the most innovative. That's not quite how it works, though - isolated, peripheral languages are generally more conservative, not more innovative. However, it is of course...

Thank you all for your help. As per usual you are all very knowledgeable and have a lot of resources. I should give a bit of context, though I am happy with all of the resources I have been given. I think the context would help narrow stuff down. Remember the old British Romance Language thread? I d...

Recently, as in two days ago, Catralian reached 259 words. All are various meanings of wīr. It can mean worm as in the animal, worm as in to squirm, and it can mean struggle as in a fight. I don't remember why I added all these words.

Hi. I presume that you read the title. My main issue is that I don't know where to find sound changes or a Proto-Romance dictionary (assuming Proto-Romance isn't Vulgar Latin, because if it is, then the first issue applies.) I'm aware that Romlangs have a reputation for being something beginners do,...

I know I posted this in the discord, but in P.I.P, the word for boring and useless is *āwān₂as₂. The word comes from the Christian youth organization Awanas.

Why do, in some old documents, Russians call the Tlingits "колюжах" meaning thorns? I'm very confused.

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑05 Oct 2020 15:20 Next:

téne, pl. tèno
An inanimate, countable noun.m

Stick

Next, please:

Clārum
A verb of perception

Take your time, we'll be happy to see what's in store .

I’ve been wanting to do a restrictive phonology for a while, and I recently came up with one. It’s inspired by the Lakes-Plain languages of Papua New Guinea. /t tː k kː/ [t d tː k kː ʔ] <d d t g k g> /m n/ [m n ŋ] <m n n> [ɾ] <d> [ʃ h] <d~t g~k> /i iː u uː/ [ɪ i ʊ u] <i ee u oo> /e eː/ [ɛ e] <e ei> ...

This is a thread for birthdays! If you are going to celebrate, are celebrating, or have already celebrated your birthday, post it here!
I just turned 15 yesterday. It feels mostly the same, I’m a little disappointed.

Catralian takes its aesthetics from Latin, but its grammar is something I came up with myself. The influences on grammar from real-world languages are too many to count.
Kumarian is inspired by Tamil, Sinhala, and Japanese in particular.

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑05 Sep 2020 14:43 Your writing system isn’t Tamil; what is it?

It's the Sinhala writing system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_script.

Birdlang wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020 12:07 former student (graduated vocational and high school this year).

Congratulations on graduating high school! Let's hope I can do the same .

PHONOLOGY It should be noted that all Kumarian samples are in Germā's idiolect, and so may not be representative of the rest of the language. Consonant Inventory IPA | Romanization | Sinhala Script /p b t d ʈ ɖ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g q~qʰ/ <p b t d ṭ ḍ c j k g q> <ප බ ත ද ට ඩ ච ජ ක ග ඛ> /m n ɳ ŋ/ <m n ṇ ng> <...

Though I am determined to keep the project a-priori, I have thought of an interesting direction I could take this language. I could make it either a descendant of Tamil, or a divergent Dravidian language. The people of Kumari Nadu were supposedly Tamil.

I kind of botched the last attempt at this language, so I'm overhauling it and starting a new thread. It's still the same backstory, but the language is going to be changed to better suit my goals. My goals for Kumarian are: - Look and sound like languages of India (Tamil, Sinhala, Hindi, etc). - In...

This is a very interesting concept, and I'm excited to see more! Where did you find resources for Proto-Iroquoian?

Thank you for your input! I was already working on the South American scenario, trying to reproduce a Proto-Chon language to work from. I'm thinking now because of your last suggestion, however. What if there was an earlier, smaller people in Tierra del Fuego, who were pushed out of South America by...

Wow, I feel like I was pretty rude in these posts. I've dropped the project for now, but I might pick it back up someday. I thank everyone who contributed to this thread.