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Maybe not at the phonemic level, but I can imagine a language with /β̞/ vs /ɰ/ contrast and anticipatory assimilation to the following vowel, contrasting e.g. /β̞u/ [ɰβʷu] and /ɰu/ [ɰʷu].

(Depending how common each of the phonemes is, it can end with a merger or not.)

Does it have a counterpart in English, though?

I'd say that “two plus two equals four” is a transcription of a methematical formula “2+2=4” and, as such, this type of diagrams isn't designed to deal with that. “plus” looks like a conjunction because infix operators tend to look like conjunctions. (In general, they have a similar role.) But then,...

All4Ɇn wrote: cieco "blind" and ceco "czech"
Both sound exactly the same in all 4 adjective forms as well as their nominalizations

I thought the former would have an extra onglide.

Define more accurate. More accurate in the sense that /w/ is more labial than it is velar articulation-wise. I mean it's the approximant equivalent to [k͡p]. You could call it a labialized velar approximant [ɰʷ] or a velarized labial approximant [β̞ˠ]. Whether you classify the phoneme as anything i...

Egerius wrote:That's why I do backups every now and then.

I have a different method of dealing with hardware failures: I never create anything I'd regret losing.

Ahzoh wrote:

Ear of the Sphinx wrote:

If gender is completely fake, where do transgenders relate in that?

I don't know.
If your username is completely fake, why do you use that instead of a random string of characters?

Non sequitur.

Bingo!

In Swedish, the natural third-person pronouns are 'han' (he) and 'hon' (she). They invented the pronoun 'hen' to disregard the gender. 'hen' is used when the gender is unknown and it is often used for homosexuals. It is also used for children, because they have not chosen their gender. So, if the P...

Konungr wrote:Wołaska

Jem ksiądz księdzu.
[jɛm kʲɕɔn̪t̪͡s̪ ˈkʲɕɛn̪d̪͡z̪u]
be.1SG-PRS king king.PL-GEN
I am the king of kings.

You have just commited a plagiarism. The Polish Language Council will soon hunt you down.

J_from_Holland wrote:I made this thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzmi6v0Ukh0

I didn't know you're Indian…

Esperanto is hated because it's so popular it distorts the general public's view of constructed languages. I seriously doubt the general public knows enough about Esperanto to care about it, let alone hate it. I'm not saying general public cares about or hates Esperanto*. I'm saying Esperanto is on...

Those are quite good points that I've never really considered. I guess it's fair to say that Esperanto was a good attempt for the time it was created, but (imo) has no right to still be considered one in modern times, the only reason it's popular is because it already is - if someone made it now, i...

Aleks wrote:Why is it that English has the /eɪ/ diphtong yet we have the /ɛ/ vowel and not /e/?

Matter of the analysis. You can analyze /ɛ eɪ/ as /ɛ ɛj/ if it makes more sense to you.

Mesenôngessi sîssûrebuê, mu melîavvesinî etesendê sîssûregetyû sesîdê.
I have invented a new language, but I am too tired to create a new thread about it.

English. [ɕ] (if I'm not mistaken) is like that in "shield" and "shard" so it's easy. As far as I know, [ɬ] isn't even in English, or my dialect (RP with a bit of South West) of English. No English accent that I know of uses [ɕ] for /ʃ/. In fact, speaking of Japanese, using [ʃ] ...

Adarain wrote:

Isfendil wrote: What is ithkuil?

A conlang made by John Quijada with the design goal to be as semantically accurate as possible, to the point of ridiculousness. http://ithkuil.net/

Sadly, Ithkuil has been taken over by a bunch of post-Soviet crackpots.

:bul: горелка means "gas burner", and its Ukrainian cognate горілка (formerly spelled горѣлка IIRC) and :pol: gorzełka means "distilled liquor". :rus: горелка means "gas burner" and used as a synonym for vodka in Southern Russia and Ukraine. A nitpick: it's :pol: gorza...

Seriously? Do you seriously think you're so wonderful and adored in this community that you're in a position to make topics shitting on other people's work because you're so much better than them? Is that your sense of how the internet works? Newbie comes along, posts twenty posts a day asking ques...

shimobaatar wrote:

Ear of the Sphinx wrote:Today I published these two:

http://akana.conlang.org/wiki/Ar%C3%B3s ... an/Lexicon
http://akana.conlang.org/wiki/Endayin/Lexicon

Impressive!

Thank you.

Today I published these two:

http://akana.conlang.org/wiki/Ar%C3%B3s ... an/Lexicon
http://akana.conlang.org/wiki/Endayin/Lexicon