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- Sat 21 Apr 2018, 06:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
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...
- Tue 10 Apr 2018, 01:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 13534
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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:...
- Sat 07 Apr 2018, 12:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: La Ziunga: a taste of a romlang
- Replies: 21
- Views: 605
Re: La Ziunga: a taste of a romlang
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...
- Thu 29 Mar 2018, 04:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Cool and weird things in your conlang
- Replies: 13
- Views: 614
Re: Cool and weird things in your conlang
It’s one of Linguifex’s if I’m not mistaken.
- Tue 27 Mar 2018, 03:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
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...
- Mon 26 Mar 2018, 18:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
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.
/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.
- Fri 23 Mar 2018, 05:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay IX
- Replies: 158
- Views: 8188
- Thu 22 Mar 2018, 06:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 13534
- Views: 712563
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In my conlang Manchi, stops have a five way distinction. Voiceless, voiced, voiceless aspirated, breathy voice stops, and prenasalised stops. How realistic is this, and what should i change? Osage has a five-way distinction in labial stops. There are a handful of other languages that have five or s...
- Tue 13 Mar 2018, 09:26
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Something nice and symmetrical, based on a gleb phonology (the retroflexes are my own).
/m n ɲ/
/ᵐb ⁿd ⁿd͡ʑ ⁿd͡ʐ ᵑɡ/
/b d d͡ʑ d͡ʐ g/
/p t t͡ɕ t͡ʂ k/
/ɸ s ɕ ʂ x/
/r l j w/
/a i u ɯ/ + length
or
/a i ɨ u/ + length
/m n ɲ/
/ᵐb ⁿd ⁿd͡ʑ ⁿd͡ʐ ᵑɡ/
/b d d͡ʑ d͡ʐ g/
/p t t͡ɕ t͡ʂ k/
/ɸ s ɕ ʂ x/
/r l j w/
/a i u ɯ/ + length
or
/a i ɨ u/ + length
- Sun 11 Mar 2018, 04:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay IX
- Replies: 158
- Views: 8188
Re: CBB Conlang Relay IX
Google Translate stuff Great idea, Reyzadren! [:D] gestaltist - Nakarian = Yoruba DesEsseintes - Núta = Igbo Two closely related languages in succession. Interesting. Not only for buildings, but for homes, water and colleagues, but we do not know when you are in the city. He had a good light, and h...
- Sat 10 Mar 2018, 06:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
It's... really weird, but I could scrounge up at least tenuous precedents for all of its gaps/outliers from various languages around the world. It actually seems a bit Iroquoian. I agree re the Iroquoian feel. Tuscarora with a Cheyenne-inspired v instead of w. I could definitely get behind this. It...
Re: Naduta
I like the idea of using the complement form as a noun directly without a further nominaliser a lot.
“The one swimming saw the one from the mountain.”
etc.
“The one swimming saw the one from the mountain.”
etc.
- Thu 08 Mar 2018, 14:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 13534
- Views: 712563
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Proto-Plains has the following inventory: /p t s ł k χ ʔ/ /p’ t’ t͡s’ t͡ɬ’ k’ q’/ /m n l j w/ /m̰ n̰ l̰ j̰ w̰/ (/χ/ is the uvular fricative if it isn’t displaying correctly.) Syllable structure is CVC with any non-glottalised (i.e. neither ejective nor creaky) segment allowed in coda. In its develop...
- Mon 05 Mar 2018, 08:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Lovely.Frislander wrote: ↑Sun 04 Mar 2018, 17:58Language 2
/t k kʷ ʔ/
/t͡s/
/f s x xʷ h/
/m n/
/w ɾ j/
/i iː u uː/
/a aː/
The length distinction between vowels only occurs in the stressed syllable. Syllable structure is (C)V(F), where F is one of /h n ɾ/, or alternatively any consonant may occur geminated intervocalically.
- Sat 03 Mar 2018, 04:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Non-pulmonic consonants
- Replies: 17
- Views: 712
Re: Non-pulmonic consonants
I think a lot of conlangers toy with ejectives, implosives and clicks. Currently two of my conlangs contain ejectives. TLFKAT has an ejective counterpart to every plain stop and affricate, labialised or no, for a total of 28 phonemic ejectives. Ejective vs plain is the only distinction in stops ever...
- Tue 27 Feb 2018, 07:40
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Start off with /a e i o u/ and harmony between /e i/ and /o u/, then e u → ə ɨ.Porphyrogenitos wrote: ↑Tue 27 Feb 2018, 07:10A vowel harmony idea I just came up with. Plausible? Not sure. It seems intuitive.
harmony class I: /i ə/
harmony class II: /ɨ o/
neutral: /a/
And yes, it feels good.
- Mon 26 Feb 2018, 04:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Comments, questions, suggestions? I have to say i like this inventory a lot! And i really like /ʟ/, and all the other laterals, especially /ʟ̝̠̊ʷ/. I can't say anything about how realistic it is(I wouldn't know). Thank you! Yes, the profusion of laterals is meant to be the most salient feature of t...
- Sun 25 Feb 2018, 03:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 4872
- Views: 360424
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Having grown a bit tired of Núta after the relay*, I’ve been toying with TLFKAT over the last week or so. I have many ideas about the morphology, but in the beginning I was convinced that I was satisfied with the phonology, which hadn’t changed since mid-2016. *I still fully plan on returning to it....
- Sat 24 Feb 2018, 13:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay IX
- Replies: 158
- Views: 8188
Re: CBB Conlang Relay IX
The big handedness is definitely somewhat on me [:D] . I put "a big handful of the villagers" to mean "many of the villagers"... and then never explained that sense of the word fo "hand" anywhere. [xD] Lol! That was one of the weirdest sentences for me in the relay as gestaltist’s Nakarian sentence...
- Sat 24 Feb 2018, 09:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay?
- Replies: 2774
- Views: 171192
Re: Yay or Nay?
etxxellp → etxellp etxxellp → etxxelp etxxellp → etxxeyellp Oh, I like these ideas! I like all three options, actually, so my first thought was to just use a different one in each daughter language, but then I remembered that the whole point of this is to make the protolanguage less clunky, so I'll...