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Frislander wrote: ↑18 Jan 2025 23:54 /p t k ʔ̃/
/b b̃ d d̃/
/s h̃/

/i e a o u/

Nasalisation is contrasts on vowels. Vowels are automatically nasalised before nasal consonants.

Non-nasal /b d/ lenite to [v r] in intervocalic position. /b̃ d̃/ nasalise to [m n] before nasal vowels.

Syllable structure is CV.

Very nice

That sounds cool. I've heard it suggested that Romanian was a late palataliser like Dalmatian, only since it didn't diphthongise the hell out of its vowels (which protected e.g. CĒNAM → /kai̯na/ in Dalmatian) it's mostly disguised. Your tone system makes sense; the only alternative I could see would...

/p pʰ b bʱ f v/ p ph pp pph f ff /pʷ pʷʰ bʷ bʷʱ fʷ vʷ/ b bw bb bbw v vv /t tʰ d dʱ s z/ t th tt tth s ss /tʷ tʷʰ dʷ dʷʱ sʷ zʷ/ d dh dd ddh z zz /ʈ ʈʰ ɖ ɖʱ ʂ ʐ/ c ch cc cch x xx /ʈʷ ʈʷʰ ɖʷ ɖʷʱ ʂʷ ʐʷ/ j jh jj jjh q qq /k kʰ g gʱ x ɣ/ k kh kk kkh h hh /kʷ kʷʰ gʷ gʷʱ xʷ ɣʷ/ g gh gg ggh hf fh /θ ð ʃ ʒ θʷ...

Definitely not a cringe Gaelicised Romlang

Saènde Hildegarde, majestresse i abhadesse, preche por noias. Èamen.
/ˈsɛɲdʒə ɪdʒəˈɟaʁdʒə, mɐdʒəʃˈtɾeʃə ɪ ɐˈdʒeʃə, ˈpɾeɟə pʊʁ ˈnis. ˈɛməɲ/
"Saint Hildegard, teacher and abbess, pray for us. Amen."

lsd wrote: ↑05 Jan 2025 11:54 shouldn't it be Capo Verde....

No, it shouldn't. That would mean "I castrate vegetation".

I learned that the second word of "Cape Verde" is pronounced /ˈvɜɹd(i)/ in English, and I'm suprised by how weird that feels to me. I've always pronounced it /ˈvɛɹdeɪ̯/, under the influence of Spanish (admittedly, the wrong colonizer). But /ˈvɜɹd(i)/ just sounds ugly to me [xD] It'll alwa...

:con: Ärque Iusmanäñur eṇukuen erǵont aeje. [ˈi͡uzmanæˌŋuɾ ˈeɳukʷen ˈeɾd͡ʑoⁿt ˈae̯xe] ius-m-anä-iñu=r e-ṇ-ukue-n erǵo=nt a-ije CONT.PPL-go.PL-foot-tree=1.IPFV REAL-strike.SG-fall-FACT head=3.PFV AGT-branch "I was walking in the forest when a branch fell on my head." lit. "Walking in t...

Ärque

Äraöḷestui eułerbünguintant.
[æˈɾaø̯ɭestʷi ˈeu̯ɬeɾˌbyᵑɡʷiⁿtaⁿt]
ä-ra-aöḷe-astui eu-ł-erbü-angui-nt=ant
PAT-1SG.POSS-hover-car COMPL.PPL-do.with.hand.SG-stuff-eel-3.PFV=EQU
"My hovercraft is full of eels."

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:con: Ärque Ärque is intended to be as pithy as possible, although I couldn't quite get it down to two words; we'll have to live with three. It is however quite different in formation from Micamo's original - literally, "the party having been delayed, I was informed by the host (dissapointingly...

:con: Ärque Iphanänt oerqhaethue eumpuovuöđümel iusmbonttuoeṛiaöt, uphasncuiti, iphetlen asncuitaethue. [ˈipʰaˌnænt ˈo͡eɾqʰae̯ˌtʷʰe ˈeu̯ᵐpʷoˌβʷøðyˌmeɫʷ ˈi͡uzᵐboⁿtˌtʷo͡eʁʲaø̯t | uˈpʰazⁿt͡su͡iˌti | ˈipʰeˌt͡ɬen ˈazⁿt͡su͡iˌtae̯tʷʰe] i-ph-anä-n=t o-eorqha=ethue eu-mpu-ovuö-ađü=mel ius-mb-onttuo-äṛiaö=t, ...

:con: Ärque Oehildengardusantu elva äyak żovedunkuö. [ˈo͡ehiɫʷdeˌᵑɡaɾduˌsaⁿtu ˈeɫʷβa æˈjak ˈʐoβeduˌᵑkʷø] oe-hildengardu=santu elva äya=k ż-ove-d-unkuö VOC-Hildegard=saint teacher abbot=CONJ IMP.do.SG-prayer-IMP-1PL.OBL "Saint Hildegard, teacher and abbess, pray for us." Imperatives are som...

:con: Ärque The most poetic and concise way to say this in Ärque would be: 1a. Enćax almuoreospa. [eˈⁿtɕaχ ˈalmʷoˌɾe͡ospa] e-nć-x almuo=r=eospa REAL-hold.PL-EXCLAM apple=1.IPFV=excess "I over-appleshave." ("I have too many apples") 1b. Eśax almuoreospa. [eˈɕaχ ˈalmʷoˌɾe͡ospa] e-ś...

:con: Ärque Ełorqhion ozant aulmbo osqui. [eˈɬoɾqʲʰon oˈd͡zant ˈau̯ɫʷᵐbo ˈosqʷi] e-ł-orqhio-n oza=nt a-eulmbo o-asqui REAL-do.with.hand.SG-word-FACT letter=3.PFV AGT-priest OBL-king "The priest wrote the king a letter." Here Ärque uses noun incoporation, in this case for two different reas...

:con: Ärque Aempuovuön apiurnċas axio. [ˈae̯mpʷoβʷøn aˈpʲuɽɳʈʂas aˈχʲo] ae-mpu-ovuö-n apiu-ornċa=s a-oxio NEG-break.SG-mouth-FACT cucumber-salad=3.IPFV AGT-horse "The horse does not eat cucumber salad." Ärque displays syntactic but not phonological noun incorporation; a direct or oblique o...

give it austronesian alignment go on

since it is a language with semantic primitives, and is therefore not based on any language or linguistics... That's a bold claim! Many people have tried to make a language entirely distinct from human languages, but there's bound to be some unconscious bias in there. Our understanding of semantic ...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑29 Dec 2024 01:50 Is it possible for a phoneme to have a certain realization only in a specific register?

Yes. Casual registers of Australian English tend to make more use of /t/ → [ɾ] and /t k/ → [ts kx] for instance (and the use of register is not as conscious as in many other languages).

Results First I'll provide a quick summary with just the initial text and the final text. It's an excerpt from the start of chapter 17 of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep , one of the classics of hardboiled detective fiction. A moon half gone from the full glowed through a ring of mist among the hi...

lurker wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024 13:35

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑22 Dec 2024 05:41 And qaataa has passed it on to me! In record time. I'll work on the translation now and we'll have the full results before Christmas.

ho ho ho!

As my boss would say, 'tis the Season for Hoes.

Usually at this stage I give up and move on to a new project.