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Interesting tone system. I like it. Simple yet quirky. Here are some comments, perspectives and questions. 1. Instead of atonal, many descriptions use the term toneless. I think it might also make sense for you to distinguish contour tones (falling on a single syllable) from complex melodies or mel...

What is needed to sustain a permanent settlement in the mountains. I'm thinking of a small village rather than a whole kingdom like the Incas. Obviously, there should be substenance farming, but what else is needed, and why would mountain people choose to rely primarily on farming as opposed to herd...

I'd take a look at Mass Effect, which is the Quarians, who are space nomads. Historically, nomadism is common in places where permanent settlements aren't very feasible, such as the soil being too poor for agriculture or the temperature is just too extreme (see the Bedouins or Sami.) For space nomad...

Yilcho is my most recent conlanging project. It's also my first real attempt at trying to make a tonal conlang, so I figured I should share what I have for any feedback. Let's begin with the phonology: /m n/ /p t t͡ʃ k/ /b d g/ /s ʃ h/ /l j w~ʋ/ /a aː e eː i iː o oː/ Allophony: - All non-palatal con...

One more question about tone: So, a register tone language will have tone be carried over the whole word. Some allow contours in long vowels or heavy syllables. Do these contours affect the whole word to? Say the word /ma.naː.ka/ has a falling tone on the second syllable /naː/, would the high tone s...

There are natlangs that have word-tone melodies like HL oor HLH (where H is a high tone and L is a low . In some languages these yield contour tones like /kânà/ HL.L, /kâná/ HL.H. In other languages contour tones might be more restricted, yielding /kánà/ H.L and /kâná/ for these melodies. Yet other...

So, another question about tone: Rising and falling tones seem to occur in contours, does that mean that if a language has either of these, then it will have contour tone? Like, if you have a word /ka.na/, which of course has no heavy syllables, does this mean it cannot have a rising or falling ton...

So, another question about tone: Rising and falling tones seem to occur in contours, does that mean that if a language has either of these, then it will have contour tone? Like, if you have a word /ka.na/, which of course has no heavy syllables, does this mean it cannot have a rising or falling ton...

So, another question about tone: Rising and falling tones seem to occur in contours, does that mean that if a language has either of these, then it will have contour tone? Like, if you have a word /ka.na/, which of course has no heavy syllables, does this mean it cannot have a rising or falling tone?

So, I want to make a tonal conlang, but I am unsure about which tonal melodies I want to use. I hear some languages have things like high-falling, low-rising, etc.

I want to keep mine fairly simple, and curious as to what the tendencies are for tonal melodies?

I generally don't use SVO word order unless I am making an analytic conlang. I'm a native English speaker, so I avoid it because my own language uses it. I am trying to change that, though. Also, I dislike consonant clusters at the start of words, but I am okay with them in the middle of words. I'm ...

I'm thinking of making a conlang that uses vowel harmony. Despite all the years I have been conlanging and studying linguistics, it was never something I really messed with, but now I kinda want to use it in a conlang. I have an idea for a height-based system with /e a o/ for the low vowels and /i ə...

Would a lexical pitch accent automatically make a conlang seem Indo-European, as it supposedly existed in PIE and languages descended from it (Ancient Greek, Sanskrit?) Japanese seems to be the one exception I can think of. I have heard of some African languages being described as having pitch accen...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑19 Mar 2022 18:09

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022 05:39 /n ŋ l ʔ/ are the only consonants that can occur as a word final coda.

What about word-internal codas?

All of them, except for the glottal stop, can be word-internal codas.

Chitol is language spoken by tribes of hunter-gatherers. Its phonotactics is technically CVC, but the language prefers open syllables (CV). Most consonants can be geminated intervocally. /n ŋ l ʔ/ are the only consonants that can occur as a word final coda. /m n ŋ/ /p t t͡s~t͡ʃ k ʔ/ /s h/ /l w/ The ...

Does the accent tend to be based on syllables or moras? Wikipedia's article and many other articles I could find focus on the syllable, but I know Japanese is more mora focused. I think there are more descriptions of mora based systems because it's easier to find evidence. Do things like peak delay...

So, I am working on a conlang with a pitch accent. Actually, it's two languages with different rules for the accent, since I am testing out which version I like better. One is based on Japanese's system, while the other has pitch falling on the stressed syllable (but there is weight sensitive stress...

So, I hear that French puts stress on the final syllable of a sentence. Is that correct?

Are there any other natlangs that do something similar?

I'm asking because I intend to use something similar in a conlang.

I've only created conlangs for human speakers, but I have been wanting to make something for a non-human race, but still close enough to human to have the same speech organs, like elves, for example. However, I think elvish are overdone for conlangs, and wondering what some other species I could mak...

So I read that French stresses the last syllable with a full vowel at the end of a phrase, instead of just having word final stress. Is this correct, and are there any other languages that do something like this? I suppose this question would be better suited for natlangs, but I kinda want to implem...