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- 18 Dec 2019 21:08
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How common are these vowels
- Replies: 5
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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...
- 14 Dec 2019 18:17
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How common are these vowels
- Replies: 5
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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?
- 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
- 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...
- 21 Feb 2019 19:03
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romanization
- Replies: 7
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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...
- 20 Feb 2019 19:11
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Romanization
- Replies: 7
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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...