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You could keep your current system and add lexical tone, effectively multiplying the amount of valid roots.

Quite a cool idea. Gave me food for thought. :)

I'm greatly enjoying this thread. :) I'm wondering if 20 years for a complete collapse of the Pianar civilization isn't too quick? Or is this whole region smaller than I imagine? (I think you tried to upload a map but all I see is a marker of an image that failed to load.) One small suggestion: can ...

Great stuff Torco. This is the kind of worldbuilding I enjoy reading about. I hope this thread is continued.

If you need inspiration for further posts here, I'd like to know about:
- the machines left by the terraforming AI
- human cultures on the hemisphere facing away from the gas giant

Ch’eweyõw̌e has always been one of my favorites aesthetically, and it’s only improving with each iteration. I love the rules you came up with. :)

I agree with all of you actually. I may have been a bit unclear. What I mean is that if you advertise your language as an exolang, I'd expect it to have some features which you consider to be alien or which showcase the "exo" part in any way. So far, all the ideas Shemtov listed could easi...

It sounds like a weird coincidence that your aliens have the exact same vocal tract as humans. I agree with Sal that this seems a "weird human language" and not a proper exolanguage. I'm not going to acknowledge it in any works I would write (it's common to have humanoid aliens in scifi a...

It sounds like a weird coincidence that your aliens have the exact same vocal tract as humans. I agree with Sal that this seems a "weird human language" and not a proper exolanguage.

I love the morphophonology you're getting here, especially the plurals. :) Can't wait to see more grammar and what patterns you get.

Good luck with the project! I agree with Sal that what you're describing doesn't really sound like pluractionality - but marking subject number on the verb only is perfectly OK of course. a, e, o aː, eː, oː All diphthongs allowed. It isn't all diphthongs, surely? Or is your plan to distinguish /a̯e/...

I don't understand some of the stockpiling. Yeah, it's bizarre, isn't it. And I guess stockpiling UHT milk makes sense in theory, although personally I think civilisation would have to entirely collapse, down to the sticks and stones level, before I'd start putting that on my cereal. UHT milk is th...

Glad you're posting this. I am not following the lessons linearly but looking at how Emilian diverges from Italian is a lot of fun.

My roleplay setting's Elvish language has the six vowel system /ɐ ɑ ɪ ɨ ø̞ ɵ̞/. Is it more logical to Romanize it with unmarked central (/ɐ ɑ/ as <a ä>) or peripheral (/ɐ ɑ/ as <ä a>) vowels? This vowel system isn’t particularly naturalistic anyway so I’d go with a romanization that works best for ...

/m n ɲ/ <m n ñ>
/b t d k~q g/ <b t d k g>
/f v θ ð s ɬ z ɮ x~χ ɣ~ʁ h h̃/ <f v þ ð s ł z ƶ x ǥ h ħ>
/r l j w/ <r l y w>

/i iː u uː eː oː ɛ ɔ a aː/ <i ī u ū ē ō e o a ā>

Next:
/ɓ t d kʼ g ʔ~h/
/m̰ n/
/s ɬ/
/β̞ l ɣ̞/

/æ e ɑ o/
/æ̃ õ/
/e̞ː o̞ː/

I’m really enjoying this. Sounds like Qutrussan is right at home on Earth. It’s even more fun than the previous iteration.

Welcome back. Good luck with the project.

Are you seriously romanizing the schwa with an underscore? Or was it a typo?

Wiktionary alleges that English 'rusk' (stale bread crushed and used as filler in making cheap sausages) is derived from Spanish 'rosca' (the arc-shaped trajectory of a football struck with side-spin). Etymology is a strange land. It becomes a bit less strange if you remember that 'rosca' also mean...

I didn't participate because I felt the survey was skewed too much toward providing info on a single conlang. I have several I care about and they don't share much in common.

This thread made me realize I just passed the five year mark of active conlanging. Time flies, time flies.

I apologize for the radio silence. I realized I didn't like where the project was going and made significant adjustments. I also included way more diachronic work on grammar this time around. I will come back here as soon as I'm confident I won't be making any more changes to the baseline.

jimydog000 wrote: ↑03 Feb 2020 07:01 Whistled sibilants. Yay or nay?

Always yay!