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I'm not sure how to phrase my actual question but I'm thinking of working with a conculture where most individuals are hermaphroditic but there are cultural limits about who can mate with whom. Some of these limits are based on physical attributes but which do not actually limit the ability to produ...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑31 Dec 2021 14:36 WHAT?

WeepingElf, they previously made a whole screed about "Westerners aren't ABLE to pronounce 'non-Western' phonemes" with no evidence either about why or how this would be true, and only a lot of circular reasoning based on nothing. If not a troll, they are a crackpot.

I grew up Catholic and in the way of a child, I was fairly devout for a time. But then I came to some doubts about the premises of the religion as presented to me. So I tried to learn as much about other religions as I could and did some soul searching. I became a believer of an animist and/or polyt...

What are some interesting or less common phonemic contrasts that could be used in conlangs? For example, voiced/voiceless or aspirated/unaspirated are common for consonants and rounded/unrounded, backedness, openness and tenseness are all common for vowels. But what are some that aren't used as ofte...

Affricates are more likely because any kind of nasalization and fricatives do not go together well. Thank you for concretising something I’ve felt for years. [:D] At first I wrote 'don't like each other', but people IRL laugh about this formulation [;)] Thank you. I know irl, Old Japanese supposedl...

Would prenasalized voiced stops becoming prenasalized voiced fricatives before high vowels seem realistic?

I have no idea about Solresol, but if you want colours and notes... why not have initial consonants mapped to colours, vowels to notes and final consonants to their softness/hardness (whatever the technical term is)? Sticking to 12 notes per octave for simplicity's sake, and 12 colours just because...

I've been trying to learn about reduplication because I'd like to use it in my conlang, but I'm wondering if there much difference cross linguistically for root vs stem reduplication. This is an important distinction in my conlang's case because, being based on Old Japanese, verbs and verbal adject...

I've been trying to learn about reduplication because I'd like to use it in my conlang, but I'm wondering if there much difference cross linguistically for root vs stem reduplication. This is an important distinction in my conlang's case because, being based on Old Japanese, verbs and verbal adjecti...

If your language doesn't use <y> or <w>, you could always just use them for schwa and then make a little note. The people who care would have cared anyway and the ones who don't wouldn't anyway.

Created a small inventory of sounds cats make and the closest analogous sounds in humans for my ongoing Japanese based "cat lang".

I don't know if tenshi from Japan would be considered goddesses (the natures of kami and divinity in Japan are a little fuzzy and don't always line up with Western conceptions), they are usually considered more analogous to angels. But if they count as minor deities, there is the folk story of the t...

I'm deriving a conlang from Old Japanese (and Middle Chinese to an extent). I have no proof that the phonemes represented by i2 and e2 would be rounded, but I've decided to interperate them as such. What are some fun sound changes I could use so that syllables with i1/2 and e1/2 result in different ...

I have to concur about the dots below version. It looks more unified and consistent especially with creaky voice and stress being separate.

If you're interested in the science, the article links to this book: The Introvert Advantage I'll take a look when I can get my Kindle set up :) ... Also, you said you get a rush from personal achievements. Do these include major achievements and milestones in your conlanging/conworlding journey? I...

I don't think this is quite accurate. I know anecdotes don't translate to data, but in my own experience, I'm a chaser of novel situations, foods, locations, etc, but I'm also extremely introverted. I love people that I am close to, and in the moment speaking with a small group or one on one about i...

Shemtov wrote: ↑26 Jul 2021 19:06 I'm asking if it's possible for the adjectives to mark gender and number and not case, even if nouns decline for all three.

I don't see why not, especially if they tend to stay near the nouns they modify. But I don't know if it's attested anywhere.

I read a book series (which I would name but it is an erotica when it's not being historical fantasy) that had mostly Western history/religion/etc but "a little to the left". So, of course there were also analogues to Jews and Roma in the world because there was no reason to not include th...

I've also noticed that devoiced vowels don't occur when the vowel is accented (directly before the pitch drop), which makes sense considering that would make it more marked than other vowels in the word.

Ok thank you. I was thinking something of a combo of the second and third options Cedh mentioned in his post, possibly with some amount of four. So it sounds like there is some possibility for it to happen, though I haven't decided how much direct contact the learning group would have while learning...