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Mi'kmaq?

Ojibwe?

(scroll down a few posts for the VVS fuckery) If you don't feel like reading all of this mess, just read the one on Tharu. That's the best one. The others are sort of boring. I've sort of run out of motivation (I have to convert the Proto-Tharu -> Enzielu sound changes from ASCA to VSCA format becau...

Hāňheliubľ:

šenšēṣn /ʃenʃeːʂn/ "I see it"
ịħnị̄ʔẹ̄ẹħn /ɯʁnɯːʔɤːːʁn/ "it is general knowledge that it hurts me"
škṣīni /ʃkʂiːni/ "your children"
kmŋhāmŋhā /kmŋ̊æːmŋ̊æː/ "their sheep"

Raydred wrote:By the way... I want to see a language with epiglottal trills. Maybe it'd get well along an orcish language. Too bad they hurt a bit if you do them too often.

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=35281

Oddly enough, though, I'm really not that big a fan of diacritics where i can help it and usually end up with digraphs, trigraphs or pretty odd othographies that came about through sound changes. These are fun. I like giving my langs small phoneme inventories with massive allophony and cluster redu...

LetoAtreides wrote:

roninbodhisattva wrote: Stops /p t dʲ k/ p t d k

It makes no sense to have only one voiced stop. What about using /tʲ/ instead ? Otherwise it's a great phoneme inventory.

I've seen natlangs with stop inventories like /p t dZ k/ or /p t d_j k/ before. It's weird, but not unrealistic.

If it ends in an alveolar plosive, of course it ends in a consonant, so why list -m? Excellent point, indeed...I worded it poorly. Even if the word is something like /su:.te:/ then -m would be used (because the /t/ is the last consonant) but I guess I wasn't sure just how to word that. "if the...

Itsuki Kohaku wrote:1. Not make unpronouncable words..

Heh.

Nuxalk: [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ]

Personally, I've found that phonemic orthographies, especially given the allophony described for this language, generally work better that more phonetic representations. This. It makes things a lot more interesting, anyway. As an example, five examples from one of my current projects: (the same fiv...

"To form the plural, add the ending -t, or -at to words ending in a consonant. If a word ends in an alveolar plosive, then the endings -m, or -em respectively"

If it ends in an alveolar plosive, of course it ends in a consonant, so why list -m?

Also, is there really no allophony at all?

None of mine have any words yet because I spent around a month on the phonology for one and I've spent all the time past that on the diachronics for the other.

This is the order that I usually use:

1. phonology outline
2. major properties of morphology and syntax
3. detailed phonology
4. morphology outline
5. syntax outline
6. translate a lot of things and add detail as needed

Mongolian romanization uses <l> for /ɮ/. There aren't really any other good letters to use for it, so...