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- 28 Jun 2023 18:00
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282674
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Others have suggested something like retracted tongue root or velarisation to explain RUKI, iirc - i.e. something made /r/ sound like /k/. [the real question: why the hell would /i/ be treated like /r/, /k/ and /u/?] Re: the *i in RUKI, I've often wondered the same thing myself, but so far I haven'...
- 26 Jun 2023 18:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282674
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm interested in learning more about the pitch accent patterns found in the Ryukyuan languages, and how they differ from Japanese. I personally could not find too much on it. If you have any knowledge or resources about the Ryukyuan accents, I'd love for you to share! Most of my research lately (w...
- 23 Jun 2023 17:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282674
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm interested in learning more about the pitch accent patterns found in the Ryukyuan languages, and how they differ from Japanese. I personally could not find too much on it. If you have any knowledge or resources about the Ryukyuan accents, I'd love for you to share! Most of my research lately (w...
- 23 Jun 2023 17:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347714
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Isolation was usually given as the standard answer for Austronesian, especially Oceanic, in 'the olden days' but nowadays Vanuatu is usually given as a counterexample because languages diverged rapidly even though speaker communities were in constant contact and often on one and the same Island. Th...
- 24 May 2023 21:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 22511
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- 24 May 2023 19:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What is the newest word in your conlang?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 22511
Re: What is the newest word in your conlang?
Old Nyango /pəru/ - to want, to desire
- 25 Apr 2023 23:21
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Birthdays!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17706
Re: Birthdays!
Saturday was my 35th. And tomorrow my kid's going to be six months old. Time is going too fast.
- 11 Apr 2023 07:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1110
- Views: 282674
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm a little late to the penultimate dropped /l/ discussion, but I wanted to add something. I've noticed occasionally that some Americans will drop the l from wolf, pronouncing it identically to the word woof. I wonder if this is determined regionally, or if it is also seemingly random like the oth...
- 02 Apr 2023 02:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: tones for a protolang
- Replies: 3
- Views: 334
Re: tones for a protolang
Thank you both for your replies and the quick answers. @ Creyeditor: From a quick readover I'd say you've accurately assessed what I was asking and the system I was going for. (Also good to know the difference between Africanist and Chinese povs on this.) I'm going to sit down to dinner soon so I'll...
- 31 Mar 2023 21:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: tones for a protolang
- Replies: 3
- Views: 334
tones for a protolang
I'm not great with tones so I've mostly ripped of Mandarin with a couple tweaks for this. I do have a couple specific questions though. /a e o i u/ <a e o i u> /a_M a:_M a_R a:_FR a_F/ <a ā á ǎ à> Right now I have plain vowels and vowels written with macrons as having the same tone value (mid, no co...
- 24 Mar 2023 17:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: "cheating" in making a conlang
- Replies: 5
- Views: 420
Re: "cheating" in making a conlang
I assume you think I haven't done any of that in the 20 or so years I've been a conlanger. Granted, most of that was on the zbb under the name vampyre_smiles, so I understand if you thought I was a newbie making things harder on myself than needed. But, if any of that worked I'd think it would have ...
- 22 Mar 2023 06:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: "cheating" in making a conlang
- Replies: 5
- Views: 420
Re: "cheating" in making a conlang
It seems to me that carefully gathering roots from multiple source languages, creating a substitution cipher, and then enciphering the source words to produce results indistinguishable from randomly-generated roots (but with weird phonotactics!) would be an awful lot more work for no obvious benefi...
- 21 Mar 2023 17:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: "cheating" in making a conlang
- Replies: 5
- Views: 420
"cheating" in making a conlang
I know there isn't actually a way to "cheat" in making conlangs, as long as you don't rip off someone else's conlang and claim it as your own (but that's more akin to plagiarism I'd think). But the idea I had feels like cheating and I think I just need someone outside my own head to remind...
- 27 Jan 2023 20:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 347714
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
There was a period in Japanese's early development where words could have more than one high tone, as long as they were not next to each other. However, since that point, one or the other of the high tones dropped in different dialects. So for example, a four syllable word could have HLHL as its ori...
- 26 Jan 2023 19:55
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424707
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Hello, there is indeed at least one otherkin here I must have missed your intro earlier, so glad to welcome you to the board, criminalmammal!
- 17 Jan 2023 21:25
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 311511
Re: Romanization game #2
/p t k/ <p t k>
/s ʃ ɕ x/ <s sh c x>
/t͡s t͡ʃ t͡ɕ/ <ts tsh tc>
/m n ŋ/ <m n gn>
/l ɻ j w/ <l r y w>
/i u/ <i u>
/e o/ <e o>
/a ɑ/ <a ä>
next:
/p t~k ʔ/
/s/
/ps ts/
/m/
/i~j y u~w/
/e ø ə o/
/ɛ œ ɔ/
/a/
/s ʃ ɕ x/ <s sh c x>
/t͡s t͡ʃ t͡ɕ/ <ts tsh tc>
/m n ŋ/ <m n gn>
/l ɻ j w/ <l r y w>
/i u/ <i u>
/e o/ <e o>
/a ɑ/ <a ä>
next:
/p t~k ʔ/
/s/
/ps ts/
/m/
/i~j y u~w/
/e ø ə o/
/ɛ œ ɔ/
/a/
- 13 Jan 2023 19:01
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: How regular do sound changes need to be?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9676
Re: How regular do sound changes need to be?
I think one thing to remember is that these "irregular sound changes" are going to act more often on words/word parts that are used more often. For example, in Japanese, the ends of adjectives went from having -k- to -∅- when followed by -i or -u, and verbs ending in -ki in the infinitive ...
- 10 Jan 2023 21:41
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Last word you learned in a foreign language
- Replies: 116
- Views: 112693
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Mimi kikoenai (hard of hearing or deaf in Japanese)
I've been able to watch some Japanese dramas recently, and the one I started with is about a friend group where one of the characters lost his hearing just as they all went off to college. I'm not usually a drama person but the show is really good.
I've been able to watch some Japanese dramas recently, and the one I started with is about a friend group where one of the characters lost his hearing just as they all went off to college. I'm not usually a drama person but the show is really good.
- 09 Dec 2022 21:27
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: For English Speaker, Korean or Japanese? [ Question Thread ]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8901
Re: For English Speaker, Korean or Japanese? [ Question Thread ]
A friend asks me if I know any words that end in the Japanese symbol for N, and I mention all I can think of is Chan. But even though I mean that as just a word I found, it interpreted as my calling him Chan, which isn't something I generally do. In short: How easy is it to establish the distinctio...
- 26 Sep 2022 18:11
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 3392
- Views: 311511
Re: Romanization game #2
/m n/ <m n> /p b t d k ɡ/ <p b t d k g> /t͡s t̠͡ʃ/ <ts tsh> /f s z ʃ ʒ x/ <ph s z sh zh kh> /ʋ l j/ <v l j> /r/ <r> /i ɨ u/ <i y u> /e o/ <e o> /ä/ <a> Next, something Japonic based /m n ŋ/ / m b n d n z ŋ g/ /p t s k/ /j r w/ /i ɨ u/ /e əi ə o/ /a/