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- 04 Feb 2021 01:06
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 793
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Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
:pol: jak się masz? - how are you? :tib: (Amdo) jəχ sha ma - widow A bit of a stretch since they'd be used in totally different contexts, but... I'm also not sure if the <sh> of Amdo Tibetan is [sʰ] or [ɕ], probably the former tbh but it's still similar enough that I think it kinda counts as a false...
- 23 Jan 2021 20:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 436
- Views: 23808
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I figured I'd post to say that on Reddit, I was told it really is just "[number]番のロッカー" but the user also explained that there's a nuance difference from "[number]番目のロッカー", that the the former may be more likely to actually have a number on it while the latter may be more likely to refer to a locker...
- 22 Jan 2021 02:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 436
- Views: 23808
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Even in English, the idea of fog "rising" is confusing. When mists begin, they rise, and so if a mist got thicker you could loosely say it was rising. However, fogs fall, or descend. If someone told me the fog was rising, I would probably assume they meant the fog was lifting (i.e. getting less thi...
- 21 Jan 2021 06:51
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 436
- Views: 23808
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In Japanese, what's the standard counter (or I guess it's not really a counter, but I'm not sure what the right term is) for things like locker numbers? There are a results on Google for "[number]号室のロッカー" and also just "[number]号のロッカー", but not many for either like I'd expect if either of them was t...
- 30 Dec 2020 16:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25886
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
maybe from /w/. I dont know of any such languages offhand Southern Ryukyuan languages have /b/ where other Japonic languages have /w/, so presumably /w/ -> /b/ is the exact shift that happened. Some argue it was the other way around, that Proto-Japonic had /b/ and it was lenited to /w/ except in So...
- 04 Dec 2020 19:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: A (Very Rough) Galactic Empire Population Model
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2437
Re: A (Very Rough) Galactic Empire Population Model
This is really cool! If you call this "very rough", I can't even imagine what a "polished and detailed" version would be. [:O] Since you mentioned "exotic food" and "sealed habitats on inhospitable planets", I assume you're factoring in that inhabitable planets have different ecosystems? Wouldn't th...
- 02 Dec 2020 21:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 240
- Views: 18731
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Just something random with potential to get tongue-twistery: /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p t k/ <b d g> /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ <p t k> /t͡s t͡ʃ/ <dz j> /t͡sʰ t͡ʃʰ/ <ts c> /s ʃ/ <s x> /ʋ j h/ <v y h> /r l/ <r l> /a~r̩~ɬ̩~s̩/ <a> /i~r̩ʲ~ɬ̩ʲ~ɕ̩/ <i> /u~r̩ʷ~ɬ̩ʷ~s̩ʷ/ <u> <a i u> are [a̠ i u] after /pʰ tʰ kʰ t͡sʰ t͡ʃʰ r l/ and...
- 26 Nov 2020 01:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: My unnamed Con language (edited version 1.3)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 796
Re: My unnamed Con language
Then the rest I will get loan from various languages (esp. arabic, persian). You might want to consider that usually the words in the Swadesh list are not borrowed from other languages. That's not absolute by any means, though, sometimes some of even the most basic native vocabulary can be replaced...
- 26 Nov 2020 01:30
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pangaea (NSFW description)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1789
Re: Pangaea (NSFW description)
Actually, not true. Sòme people may view sexuality that way, "dirty or immoral" but I think they're very much in the minority. Quite the opposite, the Church understands sexuality itself, as with all things, when rightly ordered of course, to be beautiful and good. What ìs understood to be dirty an...
- 25 Nov 2020 12:40
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Pangaea (NSFW description)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1789
Re: Pangaea (NSFW description)
Also obviously not everything can be acceptable, that's why I said "as many things as possible". Why not everything? Not everyone in any society is going to agree with how permissive they've grown legally and socially even if they're actually pretty conservative societies (as can be shown by trends...
- 23 Nov 2020 11:47
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 1076
- Views: 72203
Re: Romanization game #2
/p b t d k g ʔ/ <p b t d k g q> /f v s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ h/ <f v s z sŷ zŷ kŵ gŵ h> /t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ <c j cŷ jŷ> /m n ɲ/ <m n nŷ> /l j ʎ w ʕ/ <l y lŷ w qŵ> /r/ <r> /i u/ <i u> /e ə o/ <eŷ eŵ oŵ> /ɛ ɔ/ <e o> /a/ <a> Next: /m n ŋ/ /b t d k q ʔ/ /s ʃ/ /j w x χ h/ /r l/ /ɑ æ e ə i ɯ o ʌ u/ I'll always cringe a...
- 23 Nov 2020 09:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: 挧熕話 (Ulduga kele) — Ural-Altaic conlang in East Asia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1040
Re: 挧熕話 (Ulduga kele) — Ural-Altaic conlang in East Asia
I had to move these from the first post since the maximum length was exceeded again when I added a bunch more vocabulary, and I'd really like to keep vocabulary and grammar (and phonology) neatly in the first post. At some point I'll have to figure out a better way to go about this, but... eh. I wan...
- 22 Nov 2020 19:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 240
- Views: 18731
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
This is almost exactly the kind of vowel system I like to use at the moment. That kind of vowel inventories are nice, but in practice I personally can't handle speaking anything that distinguishes /ɛ ɔ/ from /e o/ since I can't pronounce either pair consistently except in isolation (and not even th...
- 18 Nov 2020 16:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 240
- Views: 18731
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Yet another "Standard Average European except it has a few quirks so that it can pretend not to be Standard Average European" phonology: /m n/ <m n-nd> /p t k/ <b d g> /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ <p t k> /s ʃ/ <s x> /ʋ j ɦ/ <v j h> /r l/ <r l> /ɑ ɛ e i ɨ ɔ o u/ <a e ie i y o uo u> /ɑ̆ ɛ̆ ĕ ĭ ɨ̆ ɔ̆ ŏ ŭ/ <à è iè ì ỳ ò...
- 12 Nov 2020 13:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25886
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are there any effects that a consonant backing would have on surrounding vowels (or possibly tones)? Well, at least uvular and retroflex consonants can cause backing and/or lowering of vowels. So if you had eg. /qaʂe/, it being eg. [qɑʂə] would be more likely than eg. [qæʂi̞]. AFAIK some languages ...
- 07 Nov 2020 02:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Question for a phonetically simple interlang
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1586
Re: Question for a phonetically simple interlang
anyone know how to write this so it isn’t understood as a tag for bold text? Use a zero width space, you can copy it from eg. this page and then paste it after the b, i, s or u: [b] [i] [s] [u]. Of course, you can also add it to your keyboard if you want to be able to type it (at least on Windo...
- 05 Nov 2020 21:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 748
- Views: 127156
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
Even stupider idea, which almost certainly has already been thought of several times... a language spoken by time travellers with the following tenses: hesternal distant past (yesterday, but in the distant past) hesternal recent past (yesterday, but not really yesterday) hesternal immediate past (ye...
- 05 Nov 2020 10:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 748
- Views: 127156
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
A language that has prefixes on verbs for a bunch of stuff (not sure what all categories would be included, but a lot). Also obligatory prefixes to mark possession on all nouns but suffixes to indicate whether it's inalienable or alienable, with inalienable as the default (and unmarked), although no...
- 04 Nov 2020 09:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Question for a phonetically simple interlang
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1586
Re: Question for a phonetically simple interlang
There's no reason you couldn't have /p~b/ even without any (other) voiced stops, because the bilabial stop is the one that would be crosslinguistically the most common to be the only voiced stop, while /f/ is less common. A stop inventory of /b t k/ would be perfectly naturalistic, and if you have i...
- 03 Nov 2020 20:09
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 1076
- Views: 72203
Re: Romanization game #2
/p b t d c ɟ k g k͡p g͡b/ <p b t d ḱ ǵ k g ḳ ġ> /ɸ β s z h/ <f v s z h> /t͡s d͡z t͡ɬ d͡ɮ/ <c x ċ ẋ> /m n ɲ ŋ ŋ͡m/ <m n ń ñ ṅ> /ɹ l ɫ j ʎ ɰ w/ <r l ł y ĺ v ṿ> /r/ <ŕ> /i u/ <i u> /e ø ɤ o/ <e ö o ọ> /æ/ <ä> /a/ <a> Next: /m n ŋ/ /p b t d k g ʔ/ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ /ᵐb ⁿd/ /t͡s d͡z t͡ɕ d͡ʑ/ /t͡sʰ t͡ɕʰ/ /ⁿd͡z ᶮ...