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by LinguoFranco
22 Jan 2023 08:48
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282939

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So lately, I have been interested in vowel harmony systems based on advanced tongue root, and it seems fairly straightforward. From a non-linguist's perspective, it seems that ATR is really just a harmonic contrast between tense and lax vowels? I know retracted tongue root is a thing, where vowels a...
by LinguoFranco
21 Jan 2023 02:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Anyone have any tips for consonant clusters? Most of my conlangs tend to be CVC, but I want to make a syllable structure that is more complex. The thing is, I'm picky with phonotactics, and I want to know if there are any rules or tendencies when it comes to clusters aside from perhaps the most well...
by LinguoFranco
12 Jan 2023 02:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

How unusual is it, cross-linguistically, to have syllable weight determine stress, but having no phonemic long vowels? WALS has 18 of the 239 languages with weight-sensitive stress marked as "Coda Consonant" (as opposed to "Long Vowels" or "Long Vowels and Coda Consonants&q...
by LinguoFranco
11 Jan 2023 16:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

How unusual is it, cross-linguistically, to have syllable weight determine stress, but having no phonemic long vowels?
by LinguoFranco
30 Nov 2022 19:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So, what if you had words like /'kaː.po/ vs /'kam.po/? It'd be allophonic, then, right?

Like, the stressed vowel is only long if the stressed syllable is open. If it's closed, then it's short.
by LinguoFranco
30 Nov 2022 18:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Does it still count as phonemic if long vowels can only occur in stressed syllables, or would that make it allophonic? I have heard some languages claimed to have long vowels, but that these vowels are always stressed or are only found in stressed syllables. As long they aren't predictably long in ...
by LinguoFranco
30 Nov 2022 17:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Does it still count as phonemic if long vowels can only occur in stressed syllables, or would that make it allophonic?

I have heard some languages claimed to have long vowels, but that these vowels are always stressed or are only found in stressed syllables.
by LinguoFranco
29 Nov 2022 07:39
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1110
Views: 282939

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So, I heard that the Gheg dialect of Albanian has phonemic vowel length.

Are long vowels in Gheg tied to stress in any way, and can more than one long vowel occur in a word?
by LinguoFranco
26 Nov 2022 07:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 735
Views: 207508

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I finally setting on phonotactics and a prosody system that I am actually happy with, after so many revisions and scrapped projects.
by LinguoFranco
25 Nov 2022 07:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Have You Made a Polysynthetic Conlang?
Replies: 20
Views: 1836

Re: Have You Made a Polysynthetic Conlang?

I've made a few sketches of polysynthetic conlangs, but scrapped them pretty early due to boredom. I don't think it had anything to do with polysynthesis itself, I think it's just my ADHD that leads me to abandoning most of my projects before making any real progress. The closest I've come is with m...
by LinguoFranco
25 Nov 2022 03:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'm toying with making a conlang with height based vowel harmony: vowels in a word must agree with each other based on height. I came up with a pretty simple system that distinguishes high and low vowels: High: /i ə u/ Low: /e a o/ One thing I want to do is have a neutral vowel that is opaque, so th...
by LinguoFranco
07 Nov 2022 20:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Qayaba Language
Replies: 6
Views: 496

Re: The Qayaba Language

I like the allophony section. Two questions: Is /kp/ a cluster or an allophone of another phoneme? It shows up in slashes in the allophony section but not in the inventory. Second, does [ts] as an allophone of /t/ before /i/ merge with /ts/? So, does [ts] from /i/ also have [tʃ] as ist allophone? A...
by LinguoFranco
07 Nov 2022 00:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Qayaba Language
Replies: 6
Views: 496

Re: The Qayaba Language

Looks solid to me - I'll be looking forward to seeing more! I assume the second 'x' in "x~χ" is an uvular fricative? You might have to use a different symbol, the "long x" from the IPA sadly doesn't work on the CBB. Also, does the ';' in "/ka.;siː.bi/" stand for anythi...
by LinguoFranco
06 Nov 2022 02:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Qayaba Language
Replies: 6
Views: 496

The Qayaba Language

Qayaba is my recent conlanging project, one that I feel particularly inspired about, so I figured I'd share what I have so far. It has an agglutinative morphology and CVV/CVC phonotactics. Only /n l/ can occur in the coda. Otherwise, syllables are either CV or CVV. Below is an overview of the phonol...
by LinguoFranco
29 Oct 2022 10:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So, if you have a register tone language where contour tones can only occur in syllables with a long vowel, does that mean a rising or falling melody is impossible in a morpheme that lacks long vowels?
by LinguoFranco
27 Sep 2022 08:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Replies: 76
Views: 22543

Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?

I just made the first ever word for my new conlang: /su.'ka/. It means "tree."
by LinguoFranco
20 Sep 2022 02:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347960

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

How do you evolve stress in a conlang? I want my conlang to have a lexical pitch accent a la Japanese or Ancient Greek. I'm thinking about having it start out with a standard stress accent, but overtime the things that distinguishes the stressed syllable from unstressed (like length) disappear overt...
by LinguoFranco
09 Jul 2022 18:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yilcho Conlang
Replies: 5
Views: 640

Re: Yilcho Conlang

The tone system was lightly inspired by Hausa, which, iirc, has no rising tone. Right, that makes sense. The difference being that Hausa allows Low-High-sequences inside word tone melodies, IIRC. I could see one of two things happening: 1. The stem keeps its falling tone, while the falling tone suf...
by LinguoFranco
08 Jul 2022 18:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Yilcho Conlang
Replies: 5
Views: 640

Re: Yilcho Conlang

Interesting tone system. I like it. Simple yet quirky. Here are some comments, perspectives and questions. 1. Instead of atonal, many descriptions use the term toneless. I think it might also make sense for you to distinguish contour tones (falling on a single syllable) from complex melodies or mel...
by LinguoFranco
07 Jul 2022 20:27
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1938
Views: 656690

Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

What is needed to sustain a permanent settlement in the mountains. I'm thinking of a small village rather than a whole kingdom like the Incas. Obviously, there should be substenance farming, but what else is needed, and why would mountain people choose to rely primarily on farming as opposed to herd...