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I have a question about the phonetic inventory. Are all 199 consonants supposed to represent phonemes in your language? Is it the same for the 37 vowels? Breaking up the syllable structure to be prohibit consonant clusters is a good idea for the amount and type of consonants you are using. I notice ...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eXQMBX7qsDraDqrQKFbJjOnsIrlShuofsMIs9k4y5uM/edit?usp=sharing I see your custom font but your IPA, FFF and SSML sections are not showing but I don't really feel like installing something to see the language. : \ Perhaps you can find a way to present your langu...

I posted a very rough sketch of the timeline for the development of my lang from the proto-lang to the Classical stage here in my thread , in case that helps! I also got a lot more vocab than I've shown so far in the few example sentences posted. Wondering whether making vocab databases as k1234567...

Is this Proto-Bokisig still or a later version?

FWIW, the Proto-Bokisig word for spear is /ɣu.'pɛ.da/, derived from /'ɣu.pɛ/ "sting" + /da/ "hand" I am also curious what the next stage might look like but it depends on what part of the history of the language the events I've described occur at (the original loss of the Bokisi...

FWIW, the Proto-Bokisig word for spear is /ɣu.'pɛ.da/, derived from /'ɣu.pɛ/ "sting" + /da/ "hand" (also sometimes used to derive tools/instruments). I've not run it through the sound changes yet though, so it would need to be a fairly early borrowing! (Or I could just give you ...

No, jo̤, t h o . . . you've got an -o thing going on. I wonder if all three words will retain their original meanings after all those years! It's a good question! I suspect some of them may live on as suffixes only or in compound words. I have not made those decisions just yet :P The -o frequency i...

ʔokabe(F) -> ʔokaβe ->ʔõkawe -> õkowa -> o̰kwa 'okabez: possession (from 'oka , sack + -bez , suffix for things) Haha I enjoy some of these quite a bit like this one. (d)zipe(F) -> dzepa -> repa dzipe : spider ( dzipu is louse in Kankonian!) This is interesting! I guess it'll become more generalise...

I'm not a mod here no. Special user classes here have different coloured names, like Sangi39 One more thing: can a conlang be copyrighted? My impression is that works made in a conlang can be copyrighted but not the conlang itself. Hypothetically, you could go and sell a poetry book written in Dothr...

By the way! Welcome to the forum :)

I'm creating a realistic a posteriori language; does this sound inventory look natural? m n pʰ tʰ ʈʂʰ tsʰ kʰ t ts k b d ɖ dz g f ʃ s ʂ v ʒ z ʐ r ɹ l ɫ q χ h ʁ Allophonic alterations: ʈʂʰ~ʈʰ ɸ~f w~β~v ʒ~d̠ʒ Any advice would be appreciated. The thing that sticks out to me as jarring is that you have ...

Yeah, stress is marked by an apostrophe before the vowel of the syllable, not the whole syllable (as common in IPA), as I wanted to make it easier to refer to stressed vowels in the Sound Change Engine. The SCE I'm referring to is this nifty little tool: https://conworkshop.com/leashy/sce/ In the d...

After I started outlining some ways in which my conlang has changed over time from the proto-lang to the Classical stage, I want to go a bit deeper into that, based on the morphosyntactic alignment; a tiny quirk there has grown into a strange system that unfortunately might deter any potential lear...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_notation something used before the positional notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign-value_notation also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_numeral_systems So like the old Latin system? Ok, yeah I'm okay with sign value notation being the...

From greg to ja̤ ! A truly spectacular change! In The Power of Babel , John McWhorter mentions an Amerindian language in which the word for "water" reduced from something polysyllabic in its ancestor to something like aa or o . It's fascinating to see how the Txabao words would look mille...

a proposal: Damta did not have positional notation for numbers at all before the time equivalent to around 500 CE or something. I'm not familiar with the concept. Does this means that in the writing systems numbers just use different symbols for larger units and place them in a group without concer...

Shemtov, I like your new avatar.
I like the inventory and I am interested to see how you make use of your mutation series.

I decide to introduce Serial Verb Construction(which is an extension of the use of "manner" I have previously described) into Classical Sitr as a part of the syntax. Serial Verb Construction Classical Sitr has Serial Verb Construction, in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are strung...

ksapu: man Singular Nominative: ksapu -> sopi Accusative: ksapis -> sope Genitive: ksapao -> sopo Dative: ksapaeq -> sopa Vocative: ksapan -> sopa̰ Instrumental: ksapen -> sopḛ Oblique: ksapar -> sopa Plural Nominative: ksapas -> sopo Accusative: ksapasʔis -> sopokḛ Genitive: ksapasʔao -> sopoko̰ Da...

1 ku Probably related to “kus” (= “thumb”) 2 za Probably related to “zas” (= “foot/leg”) 3 uz etymology unclear 4 nam etymology unclear 5 hihin Reduplicated plural of “hin” (= “finger”), i.e. “all fingers” 6 nɛhin nɛ-hin = and-finger = “and (another) finger” (in addition to all fingers of one hand)...