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I'm trying to come up with a vaguely dwarvish naming conlang as well, and I'm trying to throw ablaut and consonant mutation at it [:P] [makes best attempt at David Attenborough voice ~ ] And thus another squadelphious conlang idea takes root into fertile LARPish soil, tentatively sending forth its ...

So I appear to have agreed to go LARPing for the first time in about five weeks. I've settled on being a fighter (played one before in DnD), and a Dwarf (never played a dwarven character before in anything, since I typically go for Orcs). It's been a week since then, and I think I've taken the back...

So I appear to have agreed to go LARPing for the first time in about five weeks. I've settled on being a fighter (played one before in DnD), and a Dwarf (never played a dwarven character before in anything, since I typically go for Orcs). It's been a week since then, and I think I've taken the backs...

I'm going to agree with basically everyone in the support for Sal's reply to this question. 1) Diachronic conlanging can, in and of itself, be pretty fun on its own (I enjoy it particularly because it can go along with world-building and history. Having a proto-language (or several) means you can fl...

Are there other natlangs that have different forms of adjectives depending on whether they're used attributively or predicatively? I'm sure I know examples, I just can't think of any right now. Are they always a few irregular forms (like English my vs. mine and lone vs. alone) or are there any lang...

A little over 50 years now, Apollo 11 launched, setting three people off into space, two of them to eventually take the first steps of our species on the Moon. All I can think is "wow, people did that thing. Humans. Just... people being people".

They used to feature quite heavily in the "pic of the day..." thread before it had to be locked (and, in part, triggered the changes to the House Rules a couple of years ago). I've got five of them, so they make up a fair chunk of my non-conlanging/conworlding life. I recall! His Holiness, the Bear...

The setting is a relatively new extrasolar colony, about a hundred years old. The initial colony population was about 35,000 people. One complication is the time, 20,000 years in the future. Anyway, the story revolves around the only survivor of the one pre-FTL colony ship (it was a sleeper ship) t...

The can drop their tails and they will grow back, as far as I'm aware, but it looks like in this case it's scabbed over a bit, and then sort of healing from the inside out, which is pretty good. I was told by the vet that there was a chance he might just drop it, but luckily he hasn't. I did get a ...

The can drop their tails and they will grow back, as far as I'm aware, but it looks like in this case it's scabbed over a bit, and then sort of healing from the inside out, which is pretty good. I was told by the vet that there was a chance he might just drop it, but luckily he hasn't. I did get a b...

I had to have a quick check, and it doesn't seem like "coronal-dorsal" co-articulated consonants really seem to exist, except maybe very, very rarely (and they seem not to contrast with consonants at either end of the articulation, or pattern as if they belong to another "series" of consonants, e.g...

I had to have a quick check, and it doesn't seem like "coronal-dorsal" co-articulated consonants really seem to exist, except maybe very, very rarely (and they seem not to contrast with consonants at either end of the articulation, or pattern as if they belong to another "series" of consonants, e.g....

It's warm up in Yorkshire, so got my summertime folk metal playlist going, so a random assortment of Arkona, TrollfesT, Korpiklaani, Turisas, Alestorm, and Equilibrium, with a hint of Skálmöld, Týr, In Extremo, and Dalriada.



Throwing together a playlist as I go

I am currently playing around with a language with where /tʃ dʒ k/ go to [ʃ ʒ x] in word final position while /t d/ are unchanged in final coda. (The language lacks g and /p b/ don't go in coda). I'll probably keep doing it anyway but does anyone know of language that has word final lenition of onl...

I am currently playing around with a language with where /tʃ dʒ k/ go to [ʃ ʒ x] in word final position while /t d/ are unchanged in final coda. (The language lacks g and /p b/ don't go in coda). I'll probably keep doing it anyway but does anyone know of language that has word final lenition of onl...

Vowel tone-to-length conversion may have been touched on before, but I don't feel it looking it up. Is a system deriving current vowel length from past vowel tone, such as [é è e → eː eˑ e], plausible? IIRC, in languages like Burmese, the "higher" ending tones also appear alongside a lengthening of...

Vowel tone-to-length conversion may have been touched on before, but I don't feel it looking it up. Is a system deriving current vowel length from past vowel tone, such as [é è e → eː eˑ e], plausible? IIRC, in languages like Burmese, the "higher" ending tones also appear alongside a lengthening of...

yangfiretiger121 wrote: ↑

23 Jun 2019 01:11

Is the uvulo-epiglottal stop, [q͡ʡ], subject to the back vowel constraint?

As in "it only appears adjacent to back vowels" or "causes front vowels to back", it doesn't seem to. The one example given by Wikipedia of it in a word is [q͡ʡíìq͡ʡ] in Somali.

Had to take my leopard gecko to the vet earlier today. Fairly large, deep cut on his tail that I feel crap for missing, but the vet said he should be fine as long as the wound is kept clean (which it already seems to be, which is a start).

Thinking about something like this, at least for consonants and clusters: /m n ɳ ŋ/ /p t c k/ /b d ɟ g/ /f s ɕ x/ (which are voiced between vowels, appearing as [v z ʝ ɣ]) /ɹ j w/ So, onset clusters have to be completely made of consonants of the same POA (more or less), and they appear in just one ...