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/t k/ /s h/ /m n/ /r l/ /i u/ /e/ /a/ CVC* syllable structure. Acceptable internal clusters: /mm nn rr ll st sk ht hk/. Permitted word-final codas: /n s r/. /h/ is elided intervocalically. Syllable nuclei may be /a e i u/, or a diphthong /ai au eu/. Stress is ultimate with a word-final coda, penulti...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑04 Oct 2024 16:15 Today I went to the Wikipedia page for Navajo grammar and learned that the legends were true.

Of which legends do you speak?

As a teenager, I have heard and used bro increasingly outside of the vocative, without articles, such as the sentence: “bro just went crazy” I've increasingly heard this as well. At first mostly among "popular" people, chiefly men, but I'm now hearing it from nerdier types. I wonder how c...

I don't know what I'll think when I'm older, but at the moment I wouldn't want to live that long either. I don't want to slowly decline over decades, each day more tired than the last ...

Here's a second language derived from that proto. (ʷʉ ʲɨ rather than ʷə ʲə) p t k b d ɡ f s x > b d ɡ v z ɣ v z ɣ / V_V pʰ tʰ kʰ > f s x ŋ > ɣ ʷʉ ʲɨ > u i x ɣ > ∅ / !_V[stressed] x ɣ > h r / _V[stressed] C₁C₂ > C₂C₂ [hr] durevə "water (nom.)" durevi "water (acc.)" durevuzə "...

Now some sound changes from that. (ʷə ʲə rather than ʷʉ ʲɨ) Nʷ > w̃ intervocalically; > w otherwise f x > h Kʷ Pʷ > P sʲ xʲ > ʃ ə > ∅ / V[+stress]C[-aspirated]_ ə > a / V[+stress]{CC, C[aspirated]}(C)_ Cʰ > hC / !_V dʷəheh "water (nom.)" dʷəhefʲ "water (acc.)" dʷəhefsa "lake...

-(s)ə Nominative noun -(s)ʲə Accusative/oblique noun -(s)ʷəsə Nominative augmentative noun -(s)ʷəsʲə Accusatuve/oblique augmentative noun -(s)ʲəkʰə Nominative diminutive noun -(s)ʲəkʰʲə Accusative diminutive noun -n-ə First person imperfective verb -n-ək Second person imperfective verb -n-ʲə Third p...

Another one /p t k/ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ /b d ɡ/ /f s x/ /m n ŋ/ Stressed vowels: /i u e o a/ Unstressed vowels: /ə ʷə~ʷʉ ʲə~ʲɨ/ Root structure: (CV[unstressed])CV[stressed](C) Roots are ambiguous as to part of speech; the suffixes they receive clarify that. *dʷəxef: dʷəxefə "water (nom.)" dʷəxefʲə...

This is evil. I love it.

Should I add the words "nectarine" and "amaranth" under the More Plants section of my Landau Core Vocabulary? This is a question that never got answered. For everyone's reference, here are the plant words in Part IV: plant* female (plant) male (plant) bush flower, blossom, bloom...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Sep 2024 16:13 I see that Arayaz was the only one who made exactly 31 posts in Lexember.

I wasn't consistent with doing one per day, though. It's a coincidence that I ended up at 31.

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑22 Sep 2024 07:16 How do you pronounce preglottalized consonants? Are there any examples?

AFAIK it's simply e.g. [ʔm], [ʔn], etc.

Feel free to take me out of parentheses in the list.

I'm unfortunately too young to have any sort of degree. Wikipedia is basically my background as well ─ and the CBB, if that counts, as it was my first introduction to other conlangers.

TBPO wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024 16:56 Is this conworld dead?

Functionally so, as its creator is inactive.

The distinction between the common perceptions of a religion and an ideology is often simply that a religion includes a theist cosmology.

lsd wrote: ↑18 Sep 2024 09:50 on a human scale,
as long as you don't leave the ground
more than 20km away,
the world IS flat...

That's clearly irrelevant to the question.

How likely is it for /ɨ ə a/ to shift directly to /i o a/ as a full vowel system? A height-based three-vowel system (e.g. /ɨ ə a/) probably has a lot of allophony going on that makes it unlikely that the vowels would entirely shift over. I'd say it's possible, though, for those to become their prim...

TBPO wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024 15:38 You're also interested in philosophy!?

Yep! I saw your philosophy thread, but I don't remember whether I posted in it.

I know we say there's no necroposting on the CBB, but it kind of annoys me when threads last posted on when I wasn't yet two months old are revived.