Toraya (虎屋) is the name of a Japanese sweets manufacturer. They specialise in top-quality seasonal wagashi (和菓子). Yum.

Something short and sweet: I suppose one could add ejectives at some PoAs, and replace /p/ with /b/ (as is all the rage), but for now I’ll leave it like that.

I like having both of /θ q/ in a 13-consonant inventory.

Oh vowels! Uhm, /a i o/?

/m n w/
/p t k/
/ɸ s x/
/a i u/

/w/ is [ŋ] in coda

I have a couple of questions this time. 1. What are the universals and tendencies of dependent-marking languages? I've read that they are always nominative-accusative and usually place the adjective before the noun, but I think Chechen is a dependent-marking ergative language, according to Wikipedi...

Red Crag... I read Lao She’s Four Generations under One Roof 四世同堂 Sì Shì Tóng Táng and promptly promised myself never to read anything from that era again. Apart from the fact that it was simply badly written, the Communist propaganda really ground my gears. Admittedly, Lao She was forced to incorp...

Amazon delivered my copy of Red Crag ( 红岩 hóngyán [/b] ) this afternoon. It's a Communist classic which Chinese friends of my generation had to read coming up in China. Back in the day, those who cared in the expat community passed around a copy in English translation to possibly gain some insight....

...snippets I enjoyed those four passages very much and am a great fan of your writings about your conworlding/langing, and therefore wondered if you’ve written any short stories or such that can be read online? If so, would you be willing to post some links? If not, just out of curiosity, are you ...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑

Wed 16 May 2018, 19:08

It's part of the reason why almost everybody is terrible at almost everything (statistically speaking).

I love this sentence, and I couldn’t agree more with this evaluation. It’s just that I would never have been able to articulate it as well.

I don’t, which is probably why my conlangs never get anywhere.

shimobaatar wrote: ↑

Wed 02 May 2018, 21:44

What's stopping anyone from setting the parameters and also participating? Have there been rules against that in the past?

Nothing, and no.

I’m here to state my genuine interest, along with my likely failure to participate.

Creyeditor wrote: ↑

Sun 29 Apr 2018, 12:46

I also want to take part, probably with De̤tselo.

Isn’t the whole point to come up with a new language?

My conworld is a type B lakeworld. I know this now thanks to Sal.

nasals: /m mˠ mʲ nˠ nʲ nʷ ŋ ŋʲ ŋʷ/ plosives: /p ɓ pˠ ɓˠ pʲ ɓʲ tˠ tˠʼ tʲ tʲʼ tʷ tʷʼ k kʼ kʲ kʲʼ kʷ kʷʼ/ resonants: /w rˠ rʲ rʷ lˠ lʲ lʷ j ɰ/ vowels: /a ə ɨ/, with a great variety of allophones syllable: (C)V(C), all words end with a consonant in the underlying form. note: velar consonants are inhere...

Rearranging the Sōkoan consonant inventory this morning yielded this: nasal m n ŋ plain p t t͡s t͡ʂ k voiced b d d͡z d͡ʐ g aspirate ɸ tʰ t͡sʰ t͡ʂʰ h~x sibilant s ʂ lenited β ɾ ɣ glide j This is fun for several reasons: - the fricatives /ɸ h/ now pattern with the aspirated affricates and not with the...

So if I have /a ə/ as my only two vowel phonemes, I'm guessing I'm gonna need a fairly large consonant inventory to make up for the small vowel inventory? I know I can have allophones as /e i o u/, but they only occur as a part of palatalization and labialization. My current consonant inventory is:...

I’m intrigued by several things: 1) Many nouns seem to have shifted from feminine to masculine gender, that is if il is masculine and la is feminine. I cannot see any phonetic motivation for this, so I wonder if it’s due to influence from a contact language? 2) The sound changes seem complex. Initia...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑

Thu 29 Mar 2018, 03:47

Never heard of Çuvvaccoçim. How old is that conlang?

It’s one of Linguifex’s if I’m not mistaken.

Consonants for something still in its earliest conception: /m n ŋ/ /m̥ n̥ ŋ̊/ /ᵐb ⁿd ⁿd͡ɮ ᵑɡ/ /p t k/ /ʰp ʰt ʰk/ /ɸ θ ɬ h/ /l j/ To be served with 5 to 7 vowels and their manifold diphthongoid spawn. I love it! Could I use a modified version? (I would be adding more nasals and removing the preaspir...

Consonants for something still in its earliest conception:

/m n ŋ/
/m̥ n̥ ŋ̊/
/ᵐb ⁿd ⁿd͡ɮ ᵑɡ/
/p t k/
/ʰp ʰt ʰk/
/ɸ θ ɬ h/
/l j/

To be served with 5 to 7 vowels and their manifold diphthongoid spawn.

kiwikami wrote: ↑

Thu 22 Mar 2018, 07:26

Why do I find this so amusing?

Because it really is very amusing.