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by Teck
18 Dec 2019 21:08
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How common are these vowels
Replies: 5
Views: 1570

Re: How common are these vowels

Thank you everyone for the input! I greatly appreciate it! I was wondering how common creaky and nasalized vowels are and whether there are any languages that have short, long, nasalized and creaky vowels? According to WALS, it seems that nasal vowels contrast with oral vowels in around 25% of langu...
by Teck
14 Dec 2019 18:17
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: How common are these vowels
Replies: 5
Views: 1570

How common are these vowels

I was wondering how common creaky and nasalized vowels are and whether there are any languages that have short, long, nasalized and creaky vowels; or if there are any combinations with only three possible?
by Teck
24 Feb 2019 16:27
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Romanization
Replies: 7
Views: 3747

Re: Romanization

Thank you both for helping me with this. I think I have all the information I need for now
by Teck
23 Feb 2019 11:13
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Romanization
Replies: 7
Views: 3747

Re: Romanization

Something I've found helpful, although I'm sure you've already done this, is looking at the orthographies of natural languages written in the Latin alphabet, or the romanization systems used for natural languages written in other scripts, to see how certain speech sounds tend to be represented. Tha...
by Teck
21 Feb 2019 19:03
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Romanization
Replies: 7
Views: 3747

Re: Romanization

I'm guessing you asked about /ʂ ʐ x ɣ/ in particular because you have <s z> for /s z/, but <sh j> for /ʂ ʐ/, and <k g> for /k g/, but <ch gh> for /x ɣ/. I don't think these are problems, personally. <k ch> for /k x/ reminds me of German. Yes, I asked because I'm not really familiar with the IPA (sa...
by Teck
20 Feb 2019 19:11
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Romanization
Replies: 7
Views: 3747

Romanization

I'm working on my first real conlang and was wondering whether my romanization makes any sense (especially for ʂ ʐ x ɣ) and if there could be improvements. /m n ɳ ŋ/ <m n gn ng> /p b t d k g q ʔ/ <p b t d k g q ‘> /f v s z ʂ ʐ x ɣ h/ <f v s z sh j ch gh h> /ʙ r/ <w r> /l/ <l> /ɪ ɛ/ <i e> /ʉ ə ɐ/ <uu...