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Revamping the entire djakhetian language. That's a big thing to take on I think. What about aidisese? Since Aidisese is a descendant of Djakhetian... Oh, wait, you're right. That means I'm revamping the entire language family. Which is a bit of a bummer since in the past few months I've worked quit...

Revamping the entire djakhetian language. That's a big thing to take on I think.

Lao Kou wrote: Next: flippancy

Djakhetian:

sakhpet
/sax.'pet/

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cynical

I'm pretty lazy too. I just take the name of their nation-state (or state, in pre-modern times) or the "academic" term for the culture in question, more often than not the Imperial Aidisese pronunciation of it (Aidis is the most powerful culture/country/economy/whatever in my conworld) (th...

The Aidisese imperial bureaucracy basically has a meritocratic system that's more or less similar to that of the imperial Chinese one - imperial examination system that determines people's knowledge. However, in Aidis, the imperial examination system is, particularly in the more modern eras, closely...

Western Slavic?

Question: Is this reasonable for a click inventory? /ǀ ǀʰ ǃ ǃʰ ǁ ǁʰ / I'm trying a (proto-)conlang with clicks, and I've learned that there tend to be several groups of clicks in a language (and often in funky clusters), so I'm just wondering whether what I have is plausible enough (just ot make sur...

@sangi39: Is it a Sino-Tibetan language?

I'm curious if people who hate prefixes for "all words begin the same" also hate suffixes for "all words end the same". I'm actually very much okay with suffixes. I dunno. Maybe unconsciously suffixes don't have the same oomph that prefixes do. It may just be Indo-European bias....

MrKrov wrote:I'm curious if people who hate prefixes for "all words begin the same" also hate suffixes for "all words end the same".

I'm actually very much okay with suffixes. I dunno. Maybe unconsciously suffixes don't have the same oomph that prefixes do.

2-4 wrote:My English teacher calls it dictation.

Oh, yeah, that's the word!

I was never good at pulling vocabulary out of my head, in any language.

I'm not a native speaker, but frequently when I'm pronouncing Vietnamese words, I'll just leave out the schwa in those triphthongs i.e. rượu [zɨ̰w˨˩]. I'm pretty sure this kind of reduction occurs in Southern dialects and I don't think anyone would correct me or not be able to understand if I prono...

Vietnamese is said to have triphthongs. The one I can think off the top of my head is the word for wine, <rượu>, or /ɹʉəu˧ˀ˨ʔ/, if I am correct (don't ask me about the tones - I'm just using Wiki). That said, even though some Vietnamese try to prescribe the correct pronounciation, I think most of u...

Vietnamese is said to have triphthongs. The one I can think off the top of my head is the word for wine, <rượu>, or /ɹʉəu˧ˀ˨ʔ/, if I am correct (don't ask me about the tones - I'm just using Wiki). That said, even though some Vietnamese try to prescribe the correct pronounciation, I think most of us...

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Are there any cultures in real life who have never really held misogynistic beliefs and were basically egalitarian? It seems that nearly cultures no matter where they were from are/were misogynistic/sexist. Anyway, I'm asking this because I'm making a conculture who has always been egalitarian but ...

I tend to avoid prefixes as often as I can, for some reason. I don't like them. I don't like them because they're at the beginning of words. I don't want a lot of my words beginning with the same sounds. Heh, I'm the exact same way--prefixes make all the words sound alike at the beginning to me, so...

Wondering if anybody is phobic towards any conlanging features. I tend to avoid prefixes as often as I can, for some reason. I don't like them. I don't like them because they're at the beginning of words. I don't want a lot of my words beginning with the same sounds. That also means by default I ten...

A while back I developed an astrology for the Aidisese, although it had blatant similarities with Western astrology in terms of its mechanics. I basically had 13 constellations, which I developed from some star maps I printed off. I'll paobbly have to change that now that the year for my conworld ha...

How did the nomads adapt to the desert? Did they gain any evolutionary advantages, or did they use their intelligence to adapt? Does the apostrophe in Hra'vakh and Vakh-vi'aka stand for a glottal stop or something? (Just wondering - a lot of people put apostrophes in for no reason, so it gives me a ...