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I think calling them underspecified for length would make much more sense. Or opposing stable and unstable vowels wrt length. Thanks, I think that makes sense. But should they be grouped with the short or long vowels? I mean, grouping them separately seems like the most convenient way to go about i...

Something weird I came up with, that I have a feeling is similar to something I've posted before: /m͊ n͊ ɲ͊ ŋ͊/ /m̥ʰ n̥ʰ ɲ̊ʰ ŋ̊ʰ/ /ᵐb ⁿd ᶮɟ ᵑg/ /pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ/ /ʔ/ /ⁿd͡ʫ/ /t͡ʪʰ/ /s/ /j h/ /h̃/ /ɾ~ɺ/ /a i u/ /ã ĩ ũ/ /ḁ i̥ u̥/ /ḁ̃ ĩ̥ ũ̥/ Syllable harmony: 1) the denasalised nasals can only occur before ...

I'd be interested in alt-future a posteriori collablangs, especially if conculture stuff was involved. You know, you'd take a real language and then have it be influenced by conlangs and detail the interactions between its speakers' culture and concultures; maybe even roleplaying with characters lik...

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chinchin(ちんちん) Because of that, these will probably always make me laugh: :chn: 親親 (qīnqīn) - "darling" and 津津 (jīnjīn) - "overflowing (of water); delicious (of food); interesting (of words)". [xP] :eng: free could in theory be a borderline auto-antonym in certain contexts; for ...

That seems to be a fairly commonly held belief, but it's really only true for young, urban and/or highly educated people I guess, but I'm fairly certain pretty much literally everyone, including the vast majority of old people, know some English even if they can't really form coherent sentences the...

A similar situation would exist among many minorities in Finland; Finnish itself is similar to Welsh in having a standard variant that differs in many ways from the colloquial varieties, and people from linguistic minorities (with the exception of some monolingually Swedish-speaking areas) tend to ...

What natlang does this griuskant sample audio recording sound like? I'd say a cute cross between some Iranian language, some Slavic language and some Turkic language with a dose of Japanese and Korean thrown in. Sounds really nice. I don't really hear anything Scandinavian in it since that would ju...

This could go in either this or the morphosyntax thread, but the idea started from "grammatical auto-antonyms" and how they could be handled in a cool way, so I'm posting it in this thread. "Read" and "write" being the same word, distinguished only by whether the subjec...

Could be... It should also perhaps be noted that it's one thing to learn the symbols in isolation, and quite another to actually learn how to read whole words fluently. The former I don't recall struggling much with in Cyrillic (although I had at least one friend who took like two years of Russian ...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑24 Apr 2018 13:09Šyndyruohtinan

Huh, so the <т> is kind of in its cursive form while the other letters aren't? Weird.

... Okay, those are all good points. I guess I've lost sight of how different it is, haha. In any case, expecting normal people to find learning a whole new alphabet easy is a bit unreasonable, IMO. I guess that's also true, and it could be that I'm just naturally good at learning writing systems; ...

Where is Finnish written with Cyrillic? I've never seen such. Even Karelian is written which Romance. It's not, but you can find stuff online. Usually it's in contexts where Russians are learning Finnish, in which case an absolutely awful orthography is used, including <я ё ю> for <ä ö y>, and prob...

As for cultural appropriation... well, name a conlang based on a real language which isn't guilty of that? The only question is whether that appropriation is, in some way, offensive or whether it is a homage. If I 'appropriate' Anglo-Saxon to make a conlang have I insulted anyone? If somebody makes...

Is it more likely that /g/>/ɣ/ or /ɣ/>/g/ I'd say /g/ since it's a more common and "basic" sound, but you could still have [ɣ] as an allophone; for example, you could have /g/ be realised as [g] word-initally and word-finally but [ɣ] intervocalically. Same thing with /d/: you could have [...

I figured I should probably post a thread about this since it's probably the conlang I've worked the second most on, which is really saying a lot about how easily I get bored of them and move on to a new one. Anyway, it's the one I came up with to participate in the conlang magazine collab ( here's ...

Interesting, and I especially like the idea that there would be widespread folk etymologies. Will you use complicated and/or rare hanzi at all? Not saying you should/shouldn't or that it'd be better or worse either way, just asking.

Iyionaku wrote: ↑18 Apr 2018 14:27So yes, chances are high that I wish random Chinese people to get diarrhea if they show me the way.

The way? Da wae?

Sorry, I just can't not think of that every time I see/hear the words "the way".

One of the conlangs I worked on a few weeks or months ago has no plain pulmonic stops except for /q ʔ/, only ejective and implosive ones and coarticulated pulmonic ones; it's supposed to be spoken by so-called giants who live in the sky, so I thought it makes sense for the /p t k/ and /b d g/ to hav...

So, I finished one page but am getting kinda bored of this conlang (that's how quickly I abandon my conlangs, haha) and don't really know if I feel like doing more at least now. It looks really bland and stuff, and it ended up being kind boring; no humorous huge misconceptions like I first intended,...