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I just had to scrap a feature from my latest conlang (which... doesn't have a name yet, because I'm bad at naming stuff), because although it felt super cool in principle, in practice it didn't quite work. Now I'm sad, so I'm here to look for other people who shared my pain. So here's my question: w...

In Italian, there is a famous song by Angelo Branduardi called "La fiera dell'est" (the fair/exposition of the East), which starts with: Alla fiera dell'est, per due soldi un topolino mio padre comprò. which means: at the exposition of the East, my father bought a little mouse for a coupl...

Hey, I hope this is the right place to post it.
I noticed that every private message I try to send gets stuck in the outbox.
I'm trying to reply to an important PM I got, but the system just won't send it.
Is there something wrong with my account? Can a mod/admin check?

I think a custom font is the only way, since you can't really modify the UNICODE standard "locally", although it would be super cool. You say it would only work for an alphabet because you need to associate one character to one symbol, but think of it, how many abugidas are there in the wo...

Okay guys, it's quite time you heard from me... it's been five months since my last post. The problem is I have some doubts about some features but I haven't really got to see my grandma yet, and since things aren't looking good in terms of lockdown in Italy I might not be able to see her before Chr...

C'è ancora qualcuno qui? Quattro anni senza nemmeno un post
Dai non posso credere di essere rimasto l'unico italiano del forum, fatemi compagnia ahah

I'm trying to create a conlang in which the lexical meaning of each word is somewhat encoded into the word's pronunciation. My goal would be that if two words sound alike, there is a high chance that they mean something similar; it should thus be possible to understand what a word means just by hear...

I try to pronounce my conlangs as much as possible, but I realize that I'm pretty limted in the number of phonemes that I can actually pronounce consistently. I especially have problems with palatalized/velarized/labialized/aspirated consonants and with most vowels that aren't present in my mother t...

Yes, as far as I know, the difference between Basque <s> and <z> is very similar, if not identical, to that between Emilian <s> and <z>. Judging on the info I can get, the only difference seems that the Emilian <z> is pronounced by holding the tip of the tongue a bit closer to the teeth, whereas the...

LESSON 12 ADJECTIVES I just realized I haven't introduced adjectives yet, so let's get them out of the way quickly! Adjectives in Emilian, at least in their dictionary form (masculine singular), aren't marked in any particular way, much like nouns. bêl - beautiful brót - ugly nǒv - new żǒven - youn...

[θ] and [ð] are common realizations of /s̪/ and /z̪/ for some (say, 10%) speakers of dialects that have these sounds. However, to a native speaker it will sound like a lisp (which it mostly is, for those speakers: they usually have difficulties with /ts dz/ in Italian as well). The difference, in my...

So before the next lesson is ready, how about we finally find out how Emilian actually sounds? Here is a recording of myself speaking Emilian. The transcript is just below. Enjoy it! https://voca.ro/oBxbf2PuOiu Bounasîra a tót! A gh'îva dal teimp da pěrder e a j ò pinsê ed druvêrel par fêrev un àudi...

That makes a lot of sense! Would I add a euphonic <e> to all unstressed object pronouns, not just for "you?" For example: Et n'em vàd ménga. = You don't see me. Al n'eg vàda ménga. = He doesn't see her. La n'eg vàda ménga. = She doesn't see him. A n'es vdî ménga. = You all don't see us. I...

Your question makes sense. The rule is: Unstressed subject pronoun + negating particle + unstressed object pronoun + verb + ménga/brîṡa Thus the correct answer to your question is 1, although /tv/ is a "difficult" cluster, so an <e> will most certainly be inserted - an et vàd ménga . There...

:fin: muuttaa /muːtːɑː/ - to change or it changes :ita: muta /mu(ː)ta/ - it changes The Finnish word is from muu (other, different) + the causative verbalizing suffix -ttaa , where muu is from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu (couldn't find an etymology up to Proto-Uralic), whereas the Italian is from Latin mu...

LESSON 11 PREPOSITIONS. PART 2 In the last lesson we've seen how Emilian prepositions can be roughly divided into two categories: those that are composed of just one word (i.e. the "prepositions proper") and those that are made of an adverb + one or more prepositions (the "prepositio...

Thanks, Kanejam, for replying in my stead.
I've been stuck writing the next lesson for a while - it's coming out very long - so that's why you haven't heard from me during the last month.
I'll be back ASAP. Tgnî bôta incàra un pǒc! (hold on for a little longer!)

:con: Lohet (note: in glosses, square brackets mark an infix inserted in the middle of the word they follow) Tün a injak e injak e injak esa, Xiyan Po, esdeyan dayi Mancu ida Peicin, eswoldu fersöüli nünmuvü fan a ijkayali e deyanli apisölik eka. /tyn a in'dʒak e in'dʒak e in'dʒak esa ʃi'jan po es'd...

Okay guys, tt's been a long time. Not that this thing of me taking forever to write a lesson is new. You already know all of my excuses by heart and I even made a post about them, so let's just get down to business! LESSON 10 PREPOSITIONS Oh God we made it to lesson 10. Double digits, b*tches! Prepo...

This isn't my first post about Darezh, but my previous one is a few years old and I've greatly updated the language over this time, so I felt like making a new one wouldn't be a bad idea. Darezh is a language based on one simple concept: all of its core roots are entirely monosyllabic. By "root...