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Based on something Gleb gave me:

/p t k q/
/b d g/
/ɓ ɗ/
/f s/

/i u ɛ ɔ a/
/ɛ̃ ɔ̃ ã/

Now for a little twist:

/ɓ ɗ q/ → [m n ŋ] | _ /ɛ̃ ɔ̃ ã/

And also

/ɓ ɗ/ → [w l] | /i u ɛ ɔ a/ _

I will never do anything with this but hey.

Nice phonology. I've always been a fan of that shape of vowel system, and /ʉ/ is highly based. Is there going to be much morphophonology?

What's an "orange-blue" morality?

Nice tone section. I think the melody mapping and the melody inventory is very naturalistic. I also like the low raising at the word level and the word-final low boundary tone. I was wondering if similar stuff happens across word boundaries or at the end of a phrase. Your tone dissimilations are a ...

/p t k/ p t k /ɸ s ʃ h/ f s x h /t͡ʃ/ g /m n ŋ/ m n q /l j w/ l y w /ɾ/ r /r/ z /i iː u uː/ i ei u ou /e eː o oː/ e ea o oa /a aː/ a ai Next: /b t ɖ k q/ /pː tː ʈː kː qː/ /m n ɳ ŋ ɴ/ /v s ʂ x ʁ/ /ɸː fː θː ɬː sː r̥ː ʂː çː xː ʍː χː/ /w l ɾ ɻ j/ /i u a/ /iː uː aː/ The fortis versions of /m n ɳ ŋ ɴ, w l...

Phonology I've finally pretty much settled on Ai phonology. It's fairly similar to other (natlang) Lakes Plain languages but with a few extra shifts to add some spice. The tone system is my own but it's vaguely similar to that of Abawiri or the possibly-related Skou languages. Ai has five consonant...

I now have a provisional verb slot template for Ai ⋕===========================================================================================================================⋕ ǁ W O R D ǁ ⋕==============================================================================================================...

Some more Stubby sisterlang ideas expanded from the Romanisation game: /p t tɬ tʂ tʃ k kʷ/ p t tl rt ty k kw /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ m n rn ny ng ngw /w r l j ɻ/ w rr l y r /e o a/ e o a /aː/ aa Syllable structure is probably CV(m n ɳ ɲ ŋ ŋʷ w l r j ɻ) with some CC clusters prohibited. All odd-syllable words...

/m n ɳ/ ⟨ m n d ⟩ /t t͡s c k q/ ⟨ t z c k q ⟩ /ɸ s ç x ⲭ/ ⟨ f s x j h ⟩ /r j ʎ/ ⟨ r y l ⟩ /iː uː/ ⟨ í ú ⟩ /ɪ ʊ/ ⟨ i u ⟩ /e o/ ⟨ é ó ⟩ /æ ä ɒ/ ⟨ e a o ⟩ Next: /p t k/ /m n ŋ/ /w r ɻ j/ /i ɨ u a/ /manpanuru mam jirapkirŋu wiraɻti ɻunimtimapkan rirukak wiɻamp mparwarirnaptuɻaw ŋiwiɻa. ɻirirtaɻ ŋaptarna...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑28 Feb 2024 12:18 Fredauon Fun Fact #20:
The Other Continent (known locally as Moab or Woab) is famous on Fredauon for [...] the preponderance of sign languages.

Are there a lot of deaf people, or is it just very noisy with all the volcanoes and storms?

/p b t d ʈ ɖ k g/ p b t d ṭ ḍ k g /s z ʂ ʐ h/ s z ṡ ż h /t͡s d͡z/ ċ c /m n ɳ/ m n ṇ /l ɭ j w/ l ḷ y w /ɾ ɽ/ r ṛ /i u/ i u /a/ a Next /p t tɬ tʃ ʈʂ k kʷ/ /m n l ɲ ɳ ŋ ŋʷ/ /w r ɻ j/ /e o/ /a/ /eː/ /ɻema keŋa leteja wowjontera pawelterŋa wawemɳeŋwe. keŋa rewawporejlaraterŋa ɻeː tʃewenjeŋa mejema jememe...

I don't think it's actually all that common for polysynthetic languages to have noun classes; they're characteristic of dependent-marking languages, while polysynthetic languages tend to be strongly head-marking. But as Bininj-gun-Wok shows, it's still possible. But Bantu languages have noun classe...

I don't remember if we have discussed this before. Which languages have both incorporation and noun classes / genders? How do they interact? What happens to noun class markers when the noun is incorporated? In general NI tends never to bring any modifiers, bound or otherwise, with the noun, so noun...

/p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g ʔ/ p ph b t th d k kh g ' /ɸ θ s x h/ f þ s x ħ /t͡s t͡sʰ d͡z/ c ch ʒ /m n/ m n /l j w/ l j w /r/ r /i ɨ u/ i y u /e o/ e o /ɛ/ æ /ɑ/ a Next: /p k q t ɖ k̺ t̻ t̠̻ c/ /m ŋ ɴ n ɳ ŋ̺ n̻ n̠̻ ɲ/ /ᵇm ᶢŋ 𐞒ɴ ᵈn 𐞋ɳ ᶢ̺ŋ̺ ᵈ̻n̻ ᵈ̠̻n̻ ᶡɲ/ /ʟ ʟ̠ l ɭ ʟ̺ l̻ l̠̻ ʎ/ /k͡ʟ̝̊ q͡ʟ̠̝̊ t͡ɬ ʈ͡ɭ̝̊ k̺͡ʟ̺...

Some slight modifications: Stubby gets an archiphoneme Q which can appear in C₂ or C₃ position. It can follow any coda, but it can only precede stops, so we get the following geminates: pp kk tt thth tyty dnh dn dny dlh rr *yy is missing; it became tyty . The sonorants other than r got pre-stopped;...

Are they similar to Earth fruits in size and taste? Or are they restricted to weird little berries?

A Stubby-Holder sister language, moving slightly away from the Australian aesthetic. /p t̻ t k/ p th t k /v s̻ ɣ/ v sh g /m n̻ n ŋ/ m nh n ng /d̻n̻ dn/ dnh dn /l̻ l/ lh l /d̻l̻ dl/ dlh dl /ɾ ɹ/ rr r /w ð̞ ̻ j/ w yh y /e o a/ e o a th sh nh dnh lh dlh yh → [c ç ɲ ɟɲ ʎ ɟʎ j] tj sj nj dnj lj dlj y / _ ...

Project Stubby-Holder [/size] This is a project inspired by, but not obligatorily conforming to, Australian languages. I haven’t seen many other Australian-inspired conlangs (the only one I can think of is this one which I'm a big fan of) despite the fact that they’re very interesting and unique. M...

/b t d k g q ʔ/ b t d k g p q /f θ s ɕ x ħ h/ f z s x j c h /t͡ɕ/ tx /m n/ m n /l j w/ l y w /r/ r /i iː y yː u uː/ i ī y ȳ u ū /e eː ø øː o oː/ e ē œ oē o ō /a aː/ a ā If /oeː/ occurs with any frequency then it can be written oë to distinguish it from /øː/. Next: /d/ /m n ɲ ŋ/ /w ɾ ɹ j/ /∅/ /i u a/...