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Apparently, Northwest Caucasian languages can be analyzed as having just two vowel phonemes , a higher and a lower one, but these at least have various allophones covering the vowel space, i.e. the high vowel is /i~ɨ~u/ and the low vowel is /ɛ~a~ɔ/ or something like that. This, however, requires po...

3 vowels is usually the minimum for natlangs, but you can go for what you want. Although there are languages with just two vowels, most notably the Northwest Caucasian languages (although, as gestaltist points out, these tend to have a number of phonetic realisations depending on the surrounding co...

How realistic is it for my conlang (derived from PIE) to do away with genders completely? How often do languages do this? I mean, at least English has that, and Armenian has, IIRC, been "genderless" since it started being written down. Bengali doesn't have gender either, does it? Can't remember mod...

My question to you: If you speak multiple languages, have you acquired any regional dialectal features, or lost any which you "should" have? More of a follow up question but do you mean: a) that we've picked up features from our second languages and started applying them to our first language b) th...

I like the combination of several layers of dualism with the idea of four or five elements. In some respects it feels almost alchemistic. Sorry for the late reply. Only just noticed it [:P] Thanks [:)] I was trying to go for something familiar (a handful of basic "elements"), but for something I've...

I'm assuming plain < ā > is already being used, so have you considered < a̋ > or < â >? I think I'll take the one with the circumflex. Thanks for that. And another question: can collective, singulative, singular and plural numbers exist and a same language? Would it be logical or naturalistic to us...

Sorry for my previous question, I don't know what I was thinking on. Next question: which letter would you use to romanize an stressed [æ] sound? First, an unestressed [æ] is spelled as <ä> in my conlang, and I use macrons to mark stress. Though I know <ǟ> is used in some languages' romanizations, ...

Hello I am new to this forum and am a bit confused about it. I have started creating a conlang, but am not sure how to present it here. Should I create a new thread and, if so, what should I put there? My conlang is currently on a spreadsheet. Thanks! I tend to thing it depends on what you have. Li...

I've just finished watching "Waiting For Godot" (after having somehow managed to get by without watching it for 12 years after my A-Level English Language teacher told us all to watch it if we would), and, honestly, I do have to wonder, is this a play that's open to at least some sort of interpretat...

Decided to map out what I have so far in Minecraft, and didn't expect to need this many maps [:P] https://i.imgur.com/iKwosJB.png And I've started building something else off to the right of that map as well... Oh wow, how many are there? I'll need about 16 to cover the entire ground area so far (s...

Decided to map out what I have so far in Minecraft, and didn't expect to need this many maps




And I've started building something else off to the right of that map as well...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑

07 Feb 2019 19:49

Can anyone tell me, what language and/or dialect the following three-line dialogue is in? And/or maybe translate it?

A: “Jeetchet?”
B: “No.”
A: “Squeet!”

If Urban Dictionary is anything to go by, "did you eat it", and then I'm not sure

I thought I'd set my challenge now. I don't think I'll have any set deadlines, just "whenever I think enough people have replied to respond myself", but here it is: https://i.imgur.com/CMNcM7Y.png 1: (a) /ˈkoul/ (b) /ʔaˈret/ (c) /huˈkeda/ 2: (a) /ˈpukul/ (b) /ʔaˈrat/ (c) /tuˈkadu/ 3: (a) /ˈʔukila/ (...

I'm not sure how come Hungarian orthography uses <s sz> for /S s/ I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that early on, < s > was used for both /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ while < z > was used for both /s/ and /z/, and it looks like that formed the basis for systems which tried to distinguish all four phonemes (II...

How essential is it to have a conpeople to speak a conlang? I’m working on a personal language that still strives to be naturalistic, and I’m starting to think I should have people who speak it. Definitely with Creyeditor on this one. Conlangs go well beyond "spoken by a fictional group of people"....

That's actually a really clever way of coming up with a winner. Objective, clear-cut, and even if all the data is there to start with, the use of "rounds" keeps everything ordered, and I suppose could even work if people join in late. I'd definitely be interested in seeing the whole thing laid out b...

I think Georgian roughly does this. The 1st and 2nd person markers for both the "subject" and "object" are prefixes, while the 3rd person "subject" is marked by a suffix, but I think the equivalent "object" was marked with a prefix. Georgian conjugation still confuses the hell out of me, so I can't ...

The closest real-world example I can think of might be Japanese and languages like Navajo, where there's almost no marking at all on nouns, but the verbs are highly inflected, but those are instances of isolating morphology on nouns and fusional/agglutinative morphology on verbs. Ooo, maybe Tocharia...

Interesting part came with the walk to work. I basically have to leave the house with wet hair if I'm going to work. It's that long that it could take around 30 minutes to dry with a hairdryer, which I don't have time for in the morning, and if I did that before going to bed, it would just end up a...

So it hit -5°C this morning in our part of North Yorkshire. Still no snow, and luckily no hint of a breeze (except around the more wind-tunnel-esque areas where it's basically impossible to not have a breeze), so it's not too bad at the moment. Um. Is that normal cold for you? (Let's see... hey! Th...