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Some Qiangic languages have uvularized or velarized vowels. I'm not sure that's much more than a question of nomenclature, since the name seems to relate to the allophonic process by which vowels are lowered, backed (and slightly derounded in the case of rounded vowels, it seems) when adjacent to o...

As with Pabappa, I've never come across "velarised vowels" and would suggest that they probably don't exist, at least in the same way the velarised consonants (consonants pronounced with the back of the tongue raised up towards the velum) do. However, as Creyeditor points out, vowels can sort of be ...

STP/Discworld's Hex, although as usually tends to be the case with the Discworld, exactly how Hex works isn't really explained, although it's mostly a lot of wordplay and stuff based around computer-related jargon, like Hex's power source being powered by a waterwheel inside a sheep's skull (RAM), a...

Hello, I am interested in calculating lexical similarity between languages and dialects. I wonder what type of mathematics (calculus, algebra, etc.) would be used for these calculations. Did I put this in the right board? Anyways, thanks for reading this. There's lexicostatistics, I think, which ba...

I don't think the 'why' matters, does it? My point is that Vasconic is known from Aquitanian inscriptions - which I can't find solid details on but apparently are from the 3rd to 5th centuries? - and then from fragmentary sentences in Basque from the 11th century, with nothing in between. The fact ...

I'm with Sal, again, on the "already done" point. That hasn't stopped people making Romlangs, Germlangs, Slavlangs, etc. in areas that people have already tried putting them. Different histories and factors will have different affects on how languages might develop, giving conlangers freedom to take...

IIRC, the Celtic languages in Spain aren't attested beyond around the 2nd Century AD, presumably as a result of romanisation in the region, although that's just the written languages, so maybe there was a hold out population somewhere, but honestly it's probably easier to just say they weren't ther...

It probably depends a lot on what else is going beyond "Brittonic language spoken in northern Spain", e.g. how its speakers interact with the presumably native population, how neighbouring groups interact with them, the "status" the language holds (and the history behind that), etc. IIRC, the Celtic...

Is Old/Middle Chinese not occasionally reconstructed with post-initial /j/ that was basically lost everywhere.

Did you mean a chain shift, /l/ > /ɫ/, then /ʎ/ > /l/? That's more than realistic, as well as /ɲ/ > /j/ after the chain shift. Phase 1 happened in Polish, and phase 2 happened in Romanian. Are there any language that did both though? It would more than satisfy my mind, if there are examples of the ...

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29 Oct 2019 16:01

Did you mean a chain shift, /l/ > /ɫ/, then /ʎ/ > /l/? That's more than realistic, as well as /ɲ/ > /j/ after the chain shift. Phase 1 happened in Polish, and phase 2 happened in Romanian.

Thank you! Polish! I knew somewhere in my head there was an example of /ʎ/ > /l/

One more thing: can a conlang be copyrighted? As far as I'm aware... probably not. Assuming there even is a consensus (which likely varies from country to country anyway, and might even tie into how those countries handle things like fanfiction), it seems to be that, as with natlangs, you can copyr...

Okay... so I think it is time for me to introduce my conlang-in-progress. I am working on a modern "re-construction" of the Khotanese "Saka" language (extinct during the 11th c.). Backgrounds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Khotan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_language I guess I shou...

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27 Oct 2019 16:27

Btw, has somebody made a sound change database?

They have indeed! It's called the Index Diachronica, which you can find here as a PDF by language and here as a searchable site fro individual phonemes.

I once again made the phoneme inventory first and started thinking about morphological processes later. So I have the consonant inventory below, and would like to have a Welsh-style system of word-initial consonant mutations. Ideas on how they could form a complete system? pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ b d ɟ g m̥ʰ n...

So, BabyMetal. I quite like them, although a few of their songs aren't to my taste, but they're always doing something new anyway, so that's bound to happen. Their latest album though seems very "mixed bag" and muddled (a few fairly "dancey" songs, followed by an Indian mix, then a piratey song, a c...

Less on the lines of phonology, but I just wanted to share my favourite thing from up here in Yorkshire, which is the word "gizzit", a contraction of "give us it" where "us" means "(to) me"

Can anyone guess which scale this is supposed to play? [;)] https://i.postimg.cc/d1YYX4rm/IMG-20190915-105814.jpg I don't know enough about scales to guess a name, but is that four whole tones, a two-third tone, and a one-third tone, and then two more whole tones per octave? 0 : 261 : C 200 : 293 :...

Planning on adding a star fort to the ever-growing build on Minecraft: https://i.imgur.com/7rarOZS.png The main castle is getting repurposed entirely as basically a gigantic barracks area, under the direct control of an emperor (who basically acts as the supreme military leader of the nation), while...

Can anyone guess which scale this is supposed to play? [;)] https://i.postimg.cc/d1YYX4rm/IMG-20190915-105814.jpg I don't know enough about scales to guess a name, but is that four whole tones, a two-third tone, and a one-third tone, and then two more whole tones per octave? 0 : 261 : C 200 : 293 :...