interdental plosives
voiceless diacritic mark
apical sounds
funny rock
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interdental plosives
voiceless diacritic mark
apical sounds
funny rock
Qi csada U As drenl
Translation: I went to the store M
N.A(north assegartan): ey mån, wwats tuu pløs tuu
IPA: [ei 'mɑn w:a:ts tu: pløs tu:}
C.A(Central Assegartan): oui don no, foue?
IPA: [oi dõ no, 'fo]
S.A(South Assegartan: me neda, es et trei
IPA: ['me neda 'es et dre]
KN(Kanaa): ed fxx, zenk mei leder
IPA: ['ed fɤ: zeŋ mai leter]
WL (West Livorian): y, tanke iu
IPA:['y tʰan iu]
EL (East Livorian): ja
IPA: [ja]
future azeri?
Recently I am working on a separated wiki dedicated to my conlang, and I really need someone to give feedback to this wiki. I dont know if I am allowed to post the link here, so I have given it in my userpage.
If you have some time, I really hope that you can visit it and let me know if there is anything to improve/modify, and how far can you understand my conlang.
Thank you.
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What do think of this concept?
I wanna add it to my conlang
I was looking for an unique number system for my conlang, before discovering Xwarsa and its composite Base 10-20. I wanna know… How does it work?
Because I want to make a composite Base 4-16 for my conlang.
I'm making a conlang of a fictional alien race called the Inkish (based on rubberhose cartoons) which, when dying (except by age), arrive to a backroom-esque dimension called the "Noncolored room", where it's possible to enter an alternate timeline with inverted entropy (not the environment) to solve before-death mistakes and return to life.
I was wondering how it could influence the Inkish language, so I built its vocabulary with mostly palindromes. I want to take this at the next level and add 2 word orders: SOV (normal) and VOS (inverted).
Would you help me how to do this?
-S
It doesn't needs to be today, take your time…
If a native speaker of your conlang spoke English what would their accent be like? Write a response in IPA if you have one.
Does any one know what this popping sound would be in IPA? I thought it might have been ʘ but that’s produced differently with this I’m kind of flicking my lips to make the popping sound anyone know what it would be?
The sound is here
My goal is to Make a proto language with grammar and everything and change it over time to become a family of different languages I already have most of the sound changes I want for each language I mostly just need help with giving it grammar I don’t really know where to start this is the phonology for Proto-Kinwali which is the language that Elamang descends from
The vowels are just a e i o u
Thousands of years later the language changes and. is and splits in to a family of languages the first one I am working on is Elamang and it’s phonology is
The r is just a normal trilled r and the l is a normal l the vowels are a α e ε i o u
So basically I have the sound changes down I just don’t know how to develop the grammar for each of the three major languages (Elamang,Solah, and Quaṛaṭi) that the proto language splits into. Do any of you have any ideas how to develop different grammar systems for them I am working on Elamang first by the way here’s what I have so far on the page for Elamang.
What do you guys think of the phonology for my Conlang Elamang? Is it a weird phonology? I’m trying to make this Conlang naturalistic and I want some feedback.
I'm trying to create a new language with a language system in which the concept of duality is weird. I'm slightly wording this weirdly, so I'll just explain this in a few ways. I just want critiques of whether this is a good idea.
For example, the word for "darkness" in my language is pfi /p͡fi/. (Correct me I'm labeling this wrong, I'm new here) The issue here is that if you want to say "light", the opposite word for "darkness", the word is xa-pfi /xap͡fi/, which means "not-light" if translated directly. This only applies to nouns that have opposite terms, such as right and wrong, life and death, silence and loudness, etc.
I did not write the official draft on this wiki, but do you think this is an idea? Or maybe another way I can revamp and make this language better?
I don’t want to flood the thread with two posts, so I’ll just combine two questions into one:
1) How should I name my conlang?
2) How do I fix up the grammar of my conlang? I didn’t think that it would be this bad when I originally conceived the language, but it turns out to be egregiously convoluted. Writing and reading are a headache, and I don’t even know how listening would work… Despite this, I don’t want to violate the existing principles of the language too badly.
Um, yeah. Thanks in advance? (Let it be known that I have a healthy dislike for conclusions)
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What are some good ways to add ejectives through sound changes into a conlang that doesn't have them originally?
A minimalistic jokelang with only 5 phonemes and 29 morphemes.
I'm not a linguist but you guys probably are, so could someone give me a short, simple, easy definition of syllable structure with an example and also tell me how to make a syllable structure and stick to it?
That would be much appreciated
So, I've been working on and off on a conlang for a world of mine with 5 species of Keplerians. Keplerians are humanoids, and their main difference besides languages is their insides. But their mouth is basically the same as ours. So, I figured that any sound in the IPA will do, as long as I can pronounce it. Turns out, I can pronounce a lot of them, but not all. An example of what I can't pronounce is the Bilabial Trill. I just can't trill my B's like I can my R's. Here are my thoughts on the language:
Grammar
No grammatical gender, just noun inflection. To my logical brain, saying things like "okay Cat is going to be feminine while Table is going to be neuter and Barbell is going to be masculine" is biased, completely arbitrary, and wrong. If I tried to have this split, I would be super biased to put almost everything in Neuter, which, that kind of majority bias doesn't exist in natlangs, so why have grammatical gender at all? Plus, having adjective and/or verb agreement also seems arbitrary and not useful, at least to me. If I only inflect the nouns however, and I do it with a system such as the Animacy Hierarchy, that seems very natural and not completely arbitrary while still allowing some wiggleroom(ex. Plants are usually considered inanimate in languages, even though in ways, they are animate(phototropism, gravitropism, growth, some flowers opening in the morning and others at night, sunflowers following the angle of the sun), maybe my language puts them in a class of minimal animacy(not inanimate, but not obviously animate either))
Aglutinnative morphology, so a lot of compounding of nouns and other words, like Hungarian. Ex. their word for Pregnant might be the word for baby infixed to the word for mom, literally baby inside mother. And the word for Baby might be the word for Keplerian with a diminutive affix added. And the word for Child might be the word for Baby but with another affix added. So the word structure for Pregnant might be something like this: Mom - (Diminutive - Keplerian) - Mom
Phonotactics
Only intervocalic glottal stops, glottal stops at the start of words I can't pronounce at all and glottal stops between a vowel and a consonant or between 2 consonants are very hard for me to pronounce.
Very little to no umlaut(by this, I mean like the German umlaut, a vowel with 2 dots over it, it's very hard for me to pronounce, despite decent amounts of German exposure)
Writing System
Alphabet
Inspired by Arabic Script
Number system
5 being a very important number, probably a subbase of 5
Base 60 or Base 20, haven't decided yet.