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- 27 Jun 2022 11:19
- 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'm currently trying to develop a phonology where clusters don't occur except in very few cases, but there's also has a large number of a specific type of geminate - one where the first in the pair is effectively a standalone, syllabic consonant. E.g. /axxa/ is realized as [a.x.xa] (or probably mor...
- 18 Jan 2022 09:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The great Asta thread - not soon enough
- Replies: 39
- Views: 26158
Re: The great Asta thread - not soon enough
A number of body part nouns in combination with the adverbial suffix and replacing the noun class prefix with personal/possessive prefixes carry modal meanings that in English. The most common ones include: -awisəx 'think that' from xawəx 'mind'; -a‘yusəx 'want to, need to' from xa‘yux 'heart'; -ə‘...
- 06 Jan 2022 10:35
- 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 made up a nice pattern for words. Then I, for some reason, decided that it has to have aspirated nasals. But it wasn't easy to add them and still make the system look nice. They cannot appear as G because it is the sonorant position, but if they appear as C, aspiration of nasals works differently...
- 05 Dec 2021 12:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213582
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
My language Ronc Tyu has something like that too, with several different stages of grammaticalization appearing in the language simultaneously depending on the morpheme in question. The first stage is productive head-initial compounding, which can happen with almost any noun as the head (and both no...
- 11 Jul 2021 12:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Also: woah, unexpected syllabification. I'd always assumed it would be /kast.n/ and /leb.n/ as it would be in English. Again, a real tongue-twister you have there! I actually say [zIN], even though other people say it should be [zIN:] if monosyllabic. That also means <gähnen> 'yawn' and <gehen> 'go...
- 10 Jul 2021 20:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are there any documented languages with a syllabic ŋ? German has it in <sagen> [za:.gŋ] It's not phonemically a syllabic /ŋ/ though, it's an allophone of word-final /ən/~/n/ after velar consonants (also after /k ŋ/ as in <Balken> [bal.kŋ], <singen> [zɪŋ.ŋ], but cf. after non-velars: <Kasten> [kas.t...
- 27 Apr 2021 10:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Overcorrecting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1397
Re: Overcorrecting
I agree with Sal that the default situation would be "If speakers of Z learn B, they will not have the distinction, because B does not have the distinction to learn." However, I think it's plausible that at least some of these native speakers of Z might indeed preserve the distinction even...
- 17 Apr 2021 13:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 744
- Views: 216990
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I like this a lot. Especially this part: Although it might be reborrowed from a dialect or sister language where the glides are instead fortified (/w j/ > /p k/ in coda and /w: j:/ > /b g/) thus producing: abs-um (special possessive stem: abā- / abê- ) ags-im (special possessive stem: agā- / agê- )
- 13 Mar 2021 22:36
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1366
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Re: Other Creativity
Thanks a lot for this feedback, I'm glad you like it!
I play the guitar (on 90% of this album it's the one on the left ear).
Well, there are only four instruments in the band, and two of them are of the same type
I play the guitar (on 90% of this album it's the one on the left ear).
- 13 Mar 2021 13:12
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1366
- Views: 363023
Re: Other Creativity
My band has released its first album!
It contains six instrumental pieces in a style somewhere between post-rock, post-metal, progressive, and alternative. Maybe some of you might like our music... (I definitely do, but I'm of course biased )
It contains six instrumental pieces in a style somewhere between post-rock, post-metal, progressive, and alternative. Maybe some of you might like our music... (I definitely do, but I'm of course biased )
- 25 Feb 2021 15:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Typological voting game
- Replies: 186
- Views: 40965
Re: Typological voting game
Unbounded stress types B) Right/Right (second choice: C) Left/Left) Secondary Stress B) Secondary stress is not present Vowel length inventories First choice: A) /i ɨ u e a/ + /ei əɨ ou eː aː/ Second choice: E) /i ɨ u e a/ + /iː ɨː uː eː aː/ Chapter 20: Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives A)...
- 12 Feb 2021 09:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 50218
Re: Yay or Nay?
@Ahzoh how about largely keeping the original system but modify the /e/ to something else and change the length of the -i, -a and -u endings? I can't really do anything to the /e/ because as I have it's basically like /n/ is the plural marker in basic state while /:/ is the plural marker in constru...
- 10 Feb 2021 20:22
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1124
- Views: 293265
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I use a doubled perfect frequently too. So much that a good friend of mine regularly calls me out on that "because it makes no sense". Yeah, the doubled perfect is one of the things some people feel very critical of, like with what case to use after "wegen". It's a change I woul...
- 09 Feb 2021 22:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1124
- Views: 293265
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've been thinking about how I speak lately and now I've got some questions for my fellow German speakers here. I. Would you call the construction "ich bin tanzen" a progressive? If so, is there a difference for you between "ich bin am Tanzen" and "ich bin tanzen"? I f...
- 07 Feb 2021 09:12
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199485
- 01 Feb 2021 21:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Typological voting game
- Replies: 186
- Views: 40965
Re: Typological voting game
Chapter 13: Tone
B) Simple tone system (two-way contrast)
Stress
C) Predictable stress, weight-sensitive
B) Simple tone system (two-way contrast)
Stress
C) Predictable stress, weight-sensitive
- 27 Jan 2021 09:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Typological voting game
- Replies: 186
- Views: 40965
Re: Typological voting game
My vote for #131 Numeral bases is E: Extended body part system.
As for consonant inventories, what about merging C and H as the following?
C+H
/p t k k'/
/m n/
/s/
/w r j/
with /p/ allophonically realized as [h] in coda position and possibly also between vowels.
As for consonant inventories, what about merging C and H as the following?
C+H
/p t k k'/
/m n/
/s/
/w r j/
with /p/ allophonically realized as [h] in coda position and possibly also between vowels.
- 20 Jan 2021 16:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Typological voting game
- Replies: 186
- Views: 40965
Re: Typological voting game
Consonant inventory: H, A
H)
/t k kʼ/
/s h/
/m n/
/j w/
/r/
A)
/m n/
/p t tʼ ʃ t͡ʃʼ k kʼ ʔ/
H)
/t k kʼ/
/s h/
/m n/
/j w/
/r/
A)
/m n/
/p t tʼ ʃ t͡ʃʼ k kʼ ʔ/
- 06 Jan 2021 22:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Typological voting game
- Replies: 186
- Views: 40965
Re: Typological voting game
10: B) Contrastive nasal vowels absent
Consonant-inventory submission:
/t tʼ k kʼ ʔ/
/s h/
/m n r/
Consonant-inventory submission:
/t tʼ k kʼ ʔ/
/s h/
/m n r/
- 06 Jan 2021 14:18
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Clusters of Stops
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4176
Re: Clusters of Stops
Georgian famously has "harmonic clusters", which consist of a labial or coronal obstruent followed by a dorsal obstruent of the same laryngeal specification (e.g. voiced /bɡ, dɡ/, voiceless /pk, tk/, ejective /p’k’, t’k’/), and which behave like unitary segments in a number of morphophonol...