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Languages with three vowel phonemes are normal.
But is there a language with only six (or eight) vowel phonemes half of which are nasal?
Nasals are probably unstable in small inventories where they can easily change to oral vowels with distinct qualities.

zyma wrote: ↑18 Jan 2025 20:08 Wikipedia's article on Japanese phonology has this section on the lenition of voiced stops.

Eye sea
It's possible that I've asked that before
Thank you

Are Japanese plosives sometimes pronounced as fricatives?
I think I have sometimes heard such pronunciation.
In which context does that happen? Is it to do with tones?

/ɲ/ <ny> is a young phoneme. 1) Word-initially it is usually the marker of diminutive. nemon 'a fish' nyemon 'a small fish' 2) Intervocally it derives from /n/ + /j/ and is always geminated. honyal [hoɲ.ɲäl] 'book' 3) Word-finally it is usually the marker of Oblique case. nemon 'a fish' nemony 'in a...

A somewhat uppdated version (with some ideas from Mongolian) consonants p' t' k' q' p t k q ɬ s χ ɮ z ʁ m n N ʋ j i u ə ä Its syllables would also begin CGV, where G is a glide {i u ə ä i u ə ä Its syllables would also begin CGV, where G is a glide {j, ʋ}. After /j/ closed vowels/i, u/ lower to [i, ...

A Romlang whose vowels develop a bit differently Classical Latin long mid-vowels merger with the closed ones. e: -> i: o: -> u Short closed vowels get near closed, and length opposition is neutralized. Later short ʊ merges with o. In trisyllabic words with penultimate stress deriving from a:, stress...

You could take inspiration from what Creyeditor did: A conlang where nouns and verbs take the same complex morphology: partial reduplicative CV prefix: nominal plural, verbal pluractionality final vowel mutation: nominal possessor agreement, verbal subject agreement lengthening of leftmost vowel: a...

Conlangs without a clear distinction between nouns and verbs are a genre. Some natlangs go at least close. Usually words used nominally are coded by an "article".
Which grammatical categories could apply to both nouns and verbs?

Pronouns Pronouns can be either stressed or unstressed. Unstressed pronouns are clitics of the verb but they do not affect its stressing. SG1 stressed: nano ['nɑ:no] unstressed: nan [nɐn] possessive: nān, naan [nɑ:n, nɑˀɑn] SG2 stessed: wōlun ['wo:.lun] unstressed: wōn [wo:n] possessive: lūn, luun [...

I'm thinking about a vowel system that resembles that of Mandarin.

i u
ə
ä

Its syllables would also begin CGV, where G is a glide {j, w}. But the diphthongs [je] and [wo] would be underlyingly /ji/ and /wu/, not /iə/ and /wə/.

But I have no syntax idea for the lang.

I am no expert of Basque. It appears in question and negative cluases. I don't know if it can be used in other irrealis contexts.

The basic syntax pattern is: [1) topic] [2) particles] [3) subject] [4) verb][5) adverbials] [6) objects] [7) adverbials] 1) The topic is often dropped if it is anaphoric. 2) The particles between the topic and subject are: jä marker of polar questions (It is usually dropped if the clause has more t...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_grammar The article -(r)ik, traditionally called a partitive suffix (cf. French de), replaces -a, -ak in negative-polar contexts, especially with indefinite noun phrases in negative sentences. It is never treated as grammatically plural. etxerik 'any house(s)' ...

The inspiration for Jiimon was Indonesian, though you wouldn't believe. So, I'm going to build an Austronesian alignment. Normal topic-comment clauses, (1 - 2) do not have those focus-voice markers. In those clauses all but the topic is focus. (1) Mukón pik-u ddinjjel. hunter kill-PST hare 'The hunt...

I always wanted to include an irrealis article in some conlang. It apparently exists in some natlangs, including Biak, where it is used in the scope of negation, e.g. "I never saw [a boat] here." and in hypotheticals, e.g. "If I had [an apple], I wouldn't be hungry." Isn't the B...

Incorporation Incorporation is not fully free in Jiimon. There is a small number of verbs that commonly incorporate nouns, and there is a small number of nouns that are commonly influenced into verbs. Most incorporation is simple. The noun precedes the verb. The verb loses its stress and vowel lengt...

lsd wrote: ↑03 Jan 2025 10:13

Omzinesý wrote: ↑03 Jan 2025 09:02 Can you link the wiki?

what do you mean...

I asked where High Valyrian is described?

lsd wrote: ↑03 Jan 2025 10:13

If I once make a scifi lang, it must have a Internet gender and a live gender.

why scifi, is it not as it works nowadays...

But noun classes have a lag to develop.

TBPO wrote: ↑02 Jan 2025 21:16 I suggest an analytic but very fusional language, with lots of roots differing only with inflectional things (number, gender/class, tense, agreement etc).

What do you mean exactly?
Can you give examples?

lsd wrote: ↑03 Jan 2025 08:21 - to the asexual gender of today's dark Malthusian world, between virtuality and non-reproductive sexuality,

If I once make a scifi lang, it must have a Internet gender and a live gender.

Can you link the wiki?