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Time I updated this, I think. Alias(es): Nathan, Turelion , Pinetree, Jake/Jasch Stoltheit Location: Abbotsford, B.C. Canada Date of birth: May 13, 1992 Gender: Male Occupation: None at this time Rubber mat manufacturing labourer Interests: Linguistics, Dwarf Fortress Favorite music: Folk/pagan Meta...

DesEsseintes wrote:

Incorruptus wrote:

DesEsseintes wrote:What does [{] mean? Is it X-sampa?

[æ] and YES. :)

Thanks I'll try to learn X-sampa one day... It's just such an eyesore.

If you see some old fossil continuing to post X-sampa, you can always use this (link) utility to put it into IPA

Proto-Tlusa *ipug [iˈpuɣ] > Proto-Mhoran *ipúńh [ìpúɰ̝̃]

Incorruptus wrote:Humoring all of us...how, then, is Qapla' rendered?

[ħɑ.'ɬɑʔ], if i read these rules correctly.

Hey all. It's been a while, but I mad another phonology that will probably not go anywhere. I had Gaelic and Japanese on my mind when I created it, but i referenced neither during the process. Consonants Fortis N: m mʲ n ɲ ŋ ŋʲ -V: p pʲ t c k kʲ +V: b bʲ d ɟ g gʲ Lenis N: ʋ̝̃ ʋ̝̃ʲ ɹ̝̃ j̝̃ ɰ̝̃ ɰ̝̃ʲ -...

Since culture influences language, how would a corpocracy influence a conlang, grammatically? yes. Sorry, but I think you might have skipped over a word, Keenir. sorry; I saw the question, and the first thought in my mind was "what does Elvish rock music sound like?" "yes" (its ...

Ahzoh wrote:should I make an alternative script for my language using cyrillic?

Yea, duh.

Why did you have to ask?

Xing wrote:Anyone who counts them can have a free pdf copy of my dictionary

Does this make me a pirate for clicking the Download button?

Why not just stating what you mean to state by telling "him" or "her". Otherwise bypass this by saying "that/this person". (Your question is too short. I don't quite understand it and it doesn't look like you really read mine. :S) Well, you might not know which they ar...

...English has no body that control it's writing and as such it degenerates... ...keeping the language from degenerating... ...degenerated language... ...force the speaker to speak properly... Okay, stop. Languages change. They have done from the first day a caveman pointed at a lump of rock and na...

Often you have to resort either to conjunctions of more specific root words, or to use modifiers of more general words. Yes, but in normal English there no general word that both includes he and she. There are inventions like 'ze' but the amount of people that will understand you when you use them ...

Hey, does anyone know what happened to the Syntax Test Cases (link)? I was going to try out the syntax for my new project, but it seems to have disappeared. Perhaps it was mirrored somewhere before it vanished?

EDIT: Never mind. I found it on the wayback machine.

This is my current project, code named "Fantasy Language, Quite Anglo-Germanic" (FLQAG) Phonology Consonants /m n/ <m n> /pʰ p tʰ t kʰ k/ <p b t d k g> /f v θ ð s z ʦ ç~h/ <f v þ ð ſ(s_#) s z h> /ɾ~ɹ l/ <r l> /j w/ <j w> Vowels /aː~ɑː æ eː ɛ iː ɪ oː~ɒː ɔ uː ʊ/ <a æ é e í i ó o ú u> /aɪː~ae...

Inveterate scrapper. But not because I dislike my work - merely because other things distract me and I forget about my language, then inspiration strikes and I'm off on a new language.

Also do you need a whole table? How about rules like 'high vowels become non-syllabic before other vowels' and stuff like that? Because there are enough unpredictable alternations that simplified rules like that will be as useful as "<i> before <e> except after <c>" (w ei rd, anyone?).

In reference to the phoneme inventory I posted above, I made a preliminary chart for what the homonasal, homotonic vowel pairings are realised as.

Khemehekis wrote:What branch of Romance does Chalean belong to? Or is it in its own branch?

To my eyes it seems rather Hispanic.

Yet another Hubrisian Phonology (YAHP): Consonants (C): P: p pʰ~p͡f ʈ ʈʰ~ʈ͡ʂ k kʰ~k͡x F: f ʂ x N: ɳ(Nasal archiphoneme - intervocalically (and in isolation) ɳ, but neighbouring other consonants it assimilates their POA) L: ɻ ɭ w Base vowels (V): a i o u Vowel contrasts: a˦ ã˦ aː˦ ãː˦ a˨ ã˨ aː˨ ãː˨ (...

eldin raigmore wrote:

Trailsend wrote:At an ASL meetup last night, I discovered that one must be careful, in ASL, when one wishes to complain that most pizzas are not vegetarian, lest one end up complaining that most lesbians are not virgins.

Needs more seizure face.

OK, maybe my definition was a bit too strict. Let me say it like this instead, conworlds are governed by natural laws and only fantasy worlds may have supernatural concepts like magic, miracles, deities etc. (In fact, this is how I would define the difference between a conworld and a fantasy world;...