I think Navajo is usually described like this, from what I can remember
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- 20 Mar 2024 14:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- 23 Feb 2024 11:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 881
- Views: 275379
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
I still am sometimes confused by the Insular Celtic definite articles resembling Germanic and Romance indefinite ones: :irl: an , :wls: yn etc. vs. :eng: a(n) , :fra: un etc. :hun: Hunagarian too with a ~ az for the definite article, with the same " a before a consonant, the other form before ...
- 17 Feb 2024 16:58
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Does my take on Godzilla break the Law of the Conservation of Energy?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 662
Re: Does my take on Godzilla break the Law of the Conservation of Energy?
And the LORD slaughters a host of catgirls... what There is a saying I have found several times on the Net: Each time real science is drawn into the discussion of a fantasy story, God kills a catgirl. Please be mindful of the catgirls. At least for me, this oddly kind of hits on the point, i.e. God...
- 14 Feb 2024 14:34
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Is it alright if I don't evolve my language?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 340
Re: Is it alright if I don't evolve my language?
I'm going to steal my reply to a similar question posted over in "Conlangs" on Facebook: "I can't imagine it's any sort of "sin", no, or even a bad thing. As long as you're happy with the language, and you think it all makes sense the way it is, that's the main thing Persona...
- 10 Feb 2024 01:12
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: help needed - evolving proto phonology.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 583
Re: help needed - evolving proto phonology.
There's a lot you can to with /θ/, and you could probably make that a dialectal feature in the daughter language, e.g. one dialect has [t] where another has [ s ] *Some instances of /tɕ dʑ ɕ/ could come from palatalisation as well of /t d s/, e.g. /ti/ > [tɕi]. If you have a sequence like /tiha/ > ...
- 09 Feb 2024 22:48
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: help needed - evolving proto phonology.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 583
Re: help needed - evolving proto phonology.
FROM ts tʃ dʒ qχ pʰ p b t tʰ d q qʰ ɢ ʔ ɸ θ s ʃ ɾ ʒ ʁ h m n ɴ ɾ ɰ ɹ Vowels: i e o ee oo u a (C/PA)V(C) TO ts tɕ dʑ p b t d k g ʔ l ɾ m n ɲ ŋ v s ɕ x j ɰ Vowels: i e o ɛ æ ɔ u a (C/PA)V(F) So one big change you is for plosives to no longer be permitted in syllable-final position, which could be very ...
- 08 Feb 2024 00:49
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 311685
Re: Romanization game #2
...x χ(?????)... Unfortunately the font the CBB uses doesn't seem to allow for the distinction between Latin <x> (in the first instance representing a velar fricative), and Greek chi <χ> (in the second instance representing a uvular fricative). It can be a bit of a pain, for sure When I view the bo...
- 08 Feb 2024 00:24
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 311685
Re: Romanization game #2
Unfortunately the font the CBB uses doesn't seem to allow for the distinction between Latin <x> (in the first instance representing a velar fricative), and Greek chi <χ> (in the second instance representing a uvular fricative). It can be a bit of a pain, for sure
- 05 Feb 2024 23:12
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: My friend is in need of help.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 334
Re: My friend is in need of help.
Just because there has been a report (more of a "just in case" report, nothing negative) I thought I'd just step in quickly You are right, as far as I understand the rules at least, there's nothing explicitly against this particular kind of link to other pages. And if they are your friend,...
Re: İrıbėt
The name İrıbėt has a very Hebrew feeling to it with a nice touch of Turkish. I am not so sure about your example sentence; so my question is: what parts of İrıbėt syntax and morphology are similar to Hebrew? (If you have time: What about syllable structure/phonotactics, phonological processes/allo...
- 19 Jan 2024 02:50
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Is my idea for the number of individuals in Destoroyah accurate?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 623
Re: Is my idea for the number of individuals in Destoroyah accurate?
I had no idea until this post that there were two new metric prefixes added to either end of the scale in 2022. Now the IEC needs to add robi- and quebi- as binary prefixes. I tend not to use them after a point. Kilo-, mega-, and giga- for bytes, kilo- for grams, centi- and milli- for litres, and k...
- 14 Jan 2024 19:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Is my idea for the number of individuals in Destoroyah accurate?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 623
Re: Is my idea for the number of individuals in Destoroyah accurate?
Ok, so seeing as literally no-one’s responded in almost 12 hours, I figured I’d make a change to make it easier to calculate, for myself or others: the subquantum prawns now have a mass of 5*10^-438 quectograms, which is a far cry from the much smaller 5*10^-4375 quectograms and might actually be c...
- 13 Jan 2024 18:18
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194060
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
After a little over nine years of living with my mum and my brother (after marriage ended, neither of us could afford the rent on the flat on our own, so we both had to move back in with family), I can finally ( I think! ) move out on my own I've got two houses to go view on Wednesday and I'm excit...
- 13 Jan 2024 18:18
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194060
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
After a little over nine years of living with my mum and my brother (after marriage ended, neither of us could afford the rent on the flat on our own, so we both had to move back in with family), I can finally ( I think! ) move out on my own I've got two houses to go view on Wednesday and I'm excit...
- 11 Jan 2024 12:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656605
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I really want to know the answer to question 3. I remember that you could build desserts that solely consist of Oasises in Civ IV. At least for the Sahara and Middle East it looks like it's maybe about 0.05% (Wikipedia has 1million hectares of oasis for the Sahara and Middle East. Google says the S...
- 07 Jan 2024 03:40
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: You
- Replies: 946
- Views: 262743
Re: You
A little over 3 years on, let's see how things have gone: To anyone new to the CBB, hello, I'm one of the Moderators. Welcome to the Board, if you've not been welcomed already. Hope you have a nice time Alias(es) : Sangi39 Location : Darlington, County Durham, UK (recently moved from North Yorkshire...
- 04 Jan 2024 01:18
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194060
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
W...Wha...What happened? Is it archived? It's still running, and at least three users have been able to post in the past few hours (from what I can tell), it just seems to be running so slow, somewhere in the background, or running into an issue, that every so often it's unable to either load image...
- 03 Jan 2024 23:00
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 762
- Views: 194060
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
It apparently was of no use - the ZBB has fallen, perhaps forever. I'm partly able to access it. I'm getting the 500 Internal Server Error fairly consistently, but most of the time clicking a link does still successfully direct to a new page, although sometimes it's slow to do so, or is missing ico...
- 02 Jan 2024 21:15
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
- Replies: 898
- Views: 432065
Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Either way, thank you for everyone who a) tried to reply reasonably* I don't think I always replied very reasonably... I'm sorry for that, but I hoped I could turn it into a reasonable discussion (in the first thread, at least, at the beginning). But... I don't think I was much more civil than Olig...
- 02 Jan 2024 01:39
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
- Replies: 898
- Views: 432065
Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Oligey is finally banned! Happy new year everyone! I'll just repeat what I said above: Said it before, and Ill say it again, this Board is excellent as far as behaviour and attitude goes. Feels like we get maybe a dozen reports a year, tops, unless someone really starts playing up. Most discussions...