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It should probably be pointed out that the group of people who make conlangs, and the much larger group of people who learn conlangs, actually have very little overlap, so far as I'm aware. Conlangers may have looked at famous conlangs, and maybe know a bit about them, but they tend not to be enthu...

Something like: /p pʷ (p) pʲ (tɕ) t tʷ tp tʲ tθ k kʷ kp kʲ tɕ/ /b bʷ (b) bʲ (ʑ) d dʷ db dʲ ð g gʷ gb gʲ ʑ/ /m mʷ (m) mʲ (ndʑ) n nʷ nm ndʲ ndð ŋ ŋʷ ŋm ɲ ndʑ/ /h~x hʷ f (hʲ >)ç (ɕ >)s/ /ɦ~ɣ w v (ɦʲ >)j (ʑ >)z/ Phonemes in parentheses show mergers, explaining current gaps, or that those sounds became o...

I don't think I'd consider it unnatural, but you'd need a good diachronic justification, particularly since both co-articulations frequently stem from the same historical environments. oh definitely. I was thinking something along the lines of Slavic, but with several rounds of labialisation, inste...

Is anyone aware of any languages that distinguish labialises velar stops and labial-velar stops, and/or labialised alveolar stops and labial-alveolar stops? Frislander must be busy, or he would have responded to this. Enindhilyakwa distinguishes /k͡p kʷ/, and you might want to check if Yele does to...

Is anyone aware of any languages that distinguish labialises velar stops and labial-velar stops, and/or labialised alveolar stops and labial-alveolar stops?

I got in touch with Ossicone when the board was up for me, but the threads still blocked, and they said this: The hosting changed the php version which was not compatible with the version of phpbb being used. I'd assume that since this particular issue seems to be sorted now, I wouldn't expect any d...

@sangi: to my mind that all hangs together unusually well! Thanks [:D] A great, coherent philosophy, congrats. One question: is this how things really are on Yantas or is this just a set of beliefs of one culture? If the latter, how does it correspond to reality? If the former, I'd imagine every cu...

So I got to thinking about, as per usual, how death might be handled on Yantas, more specifically amongst people living in the Kusan Empire (or at least in some Kusan society in general at some point), and I'm going to try and pull together the ideas that have been going through my head, hopefully i...

Depending on how "recently" you're looking for, there's open-syllable lengthening in Middle English, vowel length is allophonically determined by syllable structure in the modern North Germanic languages as well. I can only thing of English, though, as being a language where this vowel lengthening b...

Thanks sangi39! I've got yet another question on pitch accent. Imagine a language where accented vowels are high and the rest are low. This language then undergoes the following changes: V́V → V̂ VV́ → V̌ V → V̌ / _V́ V̌ → V́ V̂ → V Here are some example words that go through these changes: /ta.ta....

Rotokas-esque pa pi pu pã pĩ pũ ba bi bu mã mĩ mũ ta si tu tã sĩ tũ da di du nã nĩ nũ ka ki ku kã kĩ kũ ga gi gu ŋã ŋĩ ŋũ paː piː puː pãː pĩː pũː baː biː buː mãː mĩː mũː taː siː tuː tãː sĩː tũː daː diː duː nãː nĩː nũː kaː kiː kuː kãː kĩː kũː gaː giː guː ŋãː ŋĩː ŋũː a i u ã ĩ ũ aː iː uː ãː ĩː ũː As ...

I've got some more questions on pitch accent languages. Imagine a language with a root /ˈá.rak/ that takes an obligatory class suffix -/in/, which yields /ˈá.ra.kin/. There is also a case suffix -/wə/ that moves the pitch from the root to the class suffix, yieldinɡ /a.ra.ˈkín.wə/. There is another ...

Considering the vast distances involved in space travel, does the original Creole (Andwomedan) evolving into a sprachbund in which all current languages are related to that language's generative dialect (Batïkïþy [vɑ̟ˈtɪː.kɪː.ɬʊ]*) in some way make sense at all? For example, one dialect may have [ɪ...

Considering the vast distances involved in space travel, does the original Creole (Andwomedan) evolving into a sprachbund in which all current languages are related to that language's generative dialect (Batïkïþy [vɑ̞ˈtɪː.kɪː.ɬʊ]*) in some way make sense at all? For example, one dialect may have [ɪ...

From what I can tell looking through Wikipedia, the aspirated voiced stops from Proto-Indo-Iranian merged into the unaspirated voiced stops in Proto-Iranian, while the aspirated voiceless plosives became voiceless fricatives, as did the unaspirated voiceless plosives when followed by another consona...

I need suggestions for fricatives and/or approximants that might compliment this sound inventory (or at least not look out of place): /m n nˡ ŋ ŋᶫ/ /p b t d tˡ dˡ k g kᶫ gᶫ/ /l ʟ/ I suppose I can always fall back on /f s x w j/, but I've done that for most/all of my conlangs and I'm looking for som...

Hopefully this won't be too difficult to read through: https://i.imgur.com/nsiLZH6.png https://i.imgur.com/VpjNfAm.png J: (a) /mikḭ/ (b) /ɛmikḭ/ < *ɛmikḭ . Presumably there was some sort of initial vowel, I'm just assuming for the moment that it was *ɛ K: (a) /amikeʔə/ (b) /amɪkɪʔa/ < *amikeʔa A: (a...

Urgh, currently having fun with HMRC (the department of the UK Government in charge of taxes). Apparently I didn't pay enough tax... 6 years ago! And a letter has only just appeared through my door about the matter. Because it was 6 years ago, though, I'm not just being asked to pay the additional ...

My conlang derives the names concept-based deities, such as those for temperance and benevolence, directly from the associated word. For example, kypy [xʊ.fʊ], meaning temperance,becomes Kwÿpy [ˈkʷʊː.fʊ] via labiovelarization and compensatory lengthening. However, ïnta [ˈɪ̄̃ː.θɑ̟], meaning benevole...

I was going to watch The Man From Earth again (I think I've watched it every year since it came out in 2007) to find that a sequel, The Man From Earth: Holocene , was released last year (and uploaded by the creators to file-sharing sites, hoping people might pay through donation later, which is an i...