The CBB

With some inspiration from the definite articles of Mexico's Seri language and the directional verb prefixes of countless American languages (and the addition of many features I'm not sure exist in a natlang), I have crafted a massive, bloated "demonstrative" system for Metin that displace...

After a few years of pondering I have been considering the consequences of an interesting twist on the conpeople being ageless What if the advanced consociety that created these immortal people collapses and the people regress into the neolithic age? They'd inherit their eternal youth through reprod...

How would a biochemistry using fluorine as the dominant electron acceptor work? (say, the reactions occurring in photosynthesis and respiration wouldn't be C6H12O6+6O2><6CO2+6H2O but more like CH4+4F2><CF4+4HF. Important questions -What temperature would these fluorine lifeforms have to live at to p...

Thanks for this :). Resources on Romance "dialects are so hard to find.

Do sound changes where a final vowel is metathesized with a final consonant ever happen?
/hali/ to /hail/
/halu/ to /haul/
/tæmi/ to /te:n/
or final stops to fricatives
/kut/ to /kus/
/kud/ to /kuz/
/tlak/ to /tlah/

Are there any natlangs in which there are two gender systems going on at once without interfering with eachother? Say, the verbs have a bantu-esque subject agreement system while adjectives agree in animacy? Or are usch systems inherently unstable?

I've been mulling over my phonology for Metin far too long, and this is the current state of the phonology. p t l͡t ʈ c k k͡p q ʔ b d l͡d ɖ ɟ g g͡b bʰ dʰ l͡dʰ ɖʰ ɟʰ gʰ g͡bʰ qʰ h t' l͡t' ʈ' c' k' q' t͡θ' t͡s' t͡ɬ' t͡ɕ' ʈ͡ʂ' k͡x' t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ɕ ʈ͡ʂ d͡z d͡ʑ ɖ͡ʐ d͡zʰ d͡ʑʰɖ͡ʐʰ ɸ θ s ɬ ʪ ɕ ʂ ç x χ ð z ɮ ʫ ʑ ...

Do the k marker for dual and t marker for plural relate to eskimo-aleut at all?

A question: Where do uvular consonants come from if they weren't there before?

A question to conlangers good at historical linguistics:

How could a language with a sound inventory as small as Hawaiian (k, p, l, m, n, h, w, ʔ, a, i, u, e, o) become a language with a massive sound inventory like Ubykh or !kung?

Describe the sound changes you think would take place

txë is a verbal prefix indicating that the action is done with the entire body. It obligatorily gives the verb it is used upon an "a" classifier. The meaning of "txë-a-dheeh" is a bit more nuanced than the English translation, it indicates that whatever is holding on is holding o...

After reading "The navajo verb", I've been inspired to create a conlang with verbs as deeply complex as those of Navajo. Stem set: dheu Momentous Continuous Pr dheu dheeh Pa dhioq dhieh F dhies dheez S dhiol dhieh St - dhien Derived verbal themes "to climb" "to hang onto&quo...

This is my attempt at a vaguely polynesian language. Phonology Consonants: k ŋg (written g) h t nd (written n) p mb(written m) Vowels: i u a Vowels carry predictable non-lexical stress, marked with an acute á, í, ú. They never form dipthongs, however, ai and au coalesce to e and o, respectively. Eac...

Obviously, some of the aniimal-stage organisms (especially those of rapidly reproducing organisms like grass), would be no more than spores, but in regions that are k-selected (like tropical jungles), large/intellegent animal-stages that could outcompete for space to raise plant-stages would dominat...

After studying the reproductive cycle of ferns, I had an idea for the conbiology of shunozlo that would be a vegetarian's nightmare, animal-plants that reproduce by alternation of generations. For those unfamiliar, it works like this 1: The tetraploid, sessile, usually photo-autotrophic "plant&...

Even in classical European music, C# and Db aren't the same -- C# is slightly higher in pitch, and I bet it isn't any more difficult to tell the difference between C# and Db than between, say, /f/ and /θ/ in English. C# and Db are different in European music? I'll remember to keep them seperate whe...

I want to start a thread of allthe sounds you can produce with your mouth that can't be found in the regular ipa.
To start- an interdental-labial lingual stop: stick your tongue between your upper teeth and lips and make a plosive.

Never mind, found it, its called a lateral coarticulation, and is a common speech pathology, hence why it sound lispy, and they do occur in some languages. I overestimated how much people on this board knew, elector dark told me what it was.

No, the articulation is more palatal. Stick the tip of your tongue at the base of the BOTTOM teeth, not the top, and push the rest of your tongue to the top of your mouth (you have to open your jaw allot to do this.) if you try to make a palatal fricative in this position, it sounds like a bee buzzi...

I think this is an example, it said advanced togue root, but it doesn't sound quite like what I'm thinking of
http://pages.uoregon.edu/dlpayne/maasai/ATR.htm