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For me, I have trouble understanding why German isn't considered polysynthetic; or at least polyagglutinative. I'm told that what look like very long words in German are just written that way; that actually they are phrases. That must be the answer, and I understand that; but I haven't seen the tes...

As soon as I saw the ů I knew it was going to be this. Great job with my romanization . I really like the allophony [ð̞~ɹ~j], hope to see more!

You forgot the pikachunese derogatory exclamation:
pikachuuu [pikat͡ʃuːː] ;)

riɫiː aɪ̯d seɪ̯ maɪ̯ daɪ̯əɫɛkt ɪz d͡ʒɪnɚɫ̩ əmɝikɪn tuːw æ̃ⁿd aɪ̯ kʰæ̃ⁿt ivn̩ ʌndɚstæ̃ⁿ djɔ˞ aɪ̯ pʰi̯ eɪ̯ ɡɑtʌ lʌv daɪ̯əɫɛkt͡s :p

:eng: "Caracol has been designated as an archaeological reserve and is not included within the park's total area." :con: «Caracol hu ser désigné cù une reçù archæologicu e n'i qua inğludé ì şero total di parc.» [karakol y ser desiɲe ɣy ynɛ rɛt͡sy arkeolod͡ʒiku ɛ ni ka inɣlyde i ʂɛro total ...

XXXVII wrote:Seriously though, in terms of pleasing orthography, French is really low on my personal list

I personally love it. I think it's one of few languages that have perfected the use of the script they use. But hey just my opinion ;)

Linguifex wrote: switching <o ó> or <é e>

Yeah, good idea. Sorta had my long and short O's mixed up.

/m n~n̥ ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k g ʔ/ <p b t d k/q g h> /ts~dz tʃ dʒ/ <z ci dj> /f v θ ð s z ʃ~ʒ ç~x ɣ h~ʰ/ <f/v w þ ð s/ß/ſ s/x sch ch gh h> /j w~ʍ/ <j/gi ƿ> /r̥~r~ʀ/ <r> /l̥~l~ł/ <l> /i y u/ <í y u> /ɪ ʏ/ <i ü> /e ø o/ <é ö ó> /ə/ <ë> /ɛ œ ɔ/ <e œ o> /æ ɐ ɐː/ <æ á áa> /a ɑ ɑː ɒ/ <ä a aa oa>

When you say "cyrillic-based", do you mean that it is written with the Cyrillic alphabet? Or did you base the phonology on natlangs that are written with the Cyrillic alphabet? I'm guessing the first, but I want to make sure. Definitely the first but there's definitely some Cyrillic natla...

So here's a cyrillic based one I've been working on Phonology: Consonants: Nasal: /m n ɲ ŋ/ <м н ниь нь> Stop: /p b t d k ɡ/ <п б/вв т д к г> Affricate: /t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ <ц/тс/тз зь/дз ч дж> Sibilant Fricatives: /s z ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ/ <с з ш ж щ жь> Non-Sibilant Fricatives: /f v ç x h/ <ф в ѓ х г̀ > Approxi...

If these are the only things you know about the conlang, you may want to post it in this thread , to get more feedback. If in the meantime, you have developed some morphology, syntax, pragmatics or semantics, I would like to know baout it [;)] Thanks. I thought about putting this in that thread but...

DesEsseintes wrote: Portuguese has some lovely-looking words such as nação and actually pretty much any word ending in -ção pl. -ções.

Same. I just love that combination

XXXVII wrote:

All4Ɇn wrote:Gymru or Ysgol?

I don't have any immediate feeling since I am not entirely certain of their meanings or pronunciations... but "ysgol" seems nice at first look.

Messed up with Gymru. It's Cymru and means Wales. Ysgol means school

syzygy I don't think I've seen this word before. Is it English? Sure it is. In astronomy it means three celestial bodies line up in a straight line. In math, or more particularly in abstract algebra, it means something else. Well you learn something new every day. So what do you think about Welsh w...

XXXVII wrote:syzygy

I don't think I've seen this word before. Is it English?

Some of mine are:

Halcyon
Libelle
Noir
Zinzolin
Papillon
Ethereal
Traum

I'm trying to think of more but those are the only ones that come to mind. Anybody have any from any language?

myukataph : the changing of an idiom or saying to make it appropriate for the species in question; to change a phrase thusly (Examples would be in the book Shrek when the ogres "hissed it over" instead of talking it over, or the Pokémon episode in which Meowth said, "I give this movi...

English Niijerj Niijerj IPA Canada Kanada [ka.na.da] USA Les Statos [le sta.to] Mexico Mexiquo [mɛx.i.ko] Cuba Kuba [kuba] Nicaragua Nicaragua [ni.ka.ra.ɡwa] Colombia Colombia [ko.lom.bja] Venezuela Venezuela [vɛ.nɛz.we.la] Bolivia Bolivia [bo.li.vja] Paraguay Paraguay [a.ra.ɡwɛ] Argentina Argentina ...

Currently there's only one in my conlang:
La Selladorȩ [sɛladɔ˞] which fittingly enough means something similar to a deep, dark pain that no one can understand but you

Quiyõn é la Selladorȩ
[kijɑ̃n e la sɛladɔ˞]
No one has my/the Selladorȩ

Currently all I have is the name of the language: Икротка̀ and the phonology and orthography. Phonology: Consonants: Nasal: /m n ɲ ŋ/ <м н ниь нь> Stop: /p b t d k ɡ/ <п б/вв т д к г> Affricate: /t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/ <ц/тс/тз зь/дз ч дж> Sibilant Fricatives: /s z ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ/ <с з ш ж щ жь> Non-Sibilant Fri...