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I personally like the sound of stop ejectives (fricatives and affricates not so much) Of my main conlangs (as in, the one I developped further than phonologic sketches) Nictian has a three-way distinction between stops: unvoiced, aspirated, and ejective/glottalized (in normal speech I set for a gemi...

I don't know if you did it on purpose, but you lack implosives. I considered implosive being classified same as ejectives, mostly for simplification of the process. I would consider to, instead of having a list of sounds, to instead have each sound be represented by a selection of choices. E.g. ins...

Greetings everyone, Recently I've been trying to work on a language evolution simulation program, and I've been considering what sounds to include in it. For my sanity, I've tried to find a balance between completeness and size. I came with an inventory to work with, and I'd like feedback. Is this s...

Prototype for the proto-language of a language family I'm working on.
/pʼ p b tʼ t d kʼ k g ʔ/
/ɸ β s z x ɣ h/
/r ʢ/
/ʘkʼ ǃkʼ ǃ̠kʼ ǂkʼ/
/ʘk ǃk ǃ̠k ǂk/
/ʘkx ǃkx ǃ̠kx ǂkx/
/ʘg ǃg ǃ̠g ǂg/
/ʘŋ ǃŋ ǃ̠ŋ ǂŋ/
/ʘqʼ ǃqʼ ǃ̠qʼ ǂqʼ/
/ʘq ǃq ǃ̠q ǂq/
/ʘqχ ǃqχ ǃ̠qχ ǂqχ/
/i u e o ä/

I finished reworking the declensions of my conlang Fa, with its heavy and exotic system of consonant mutations.
Example

Of course you can participate.

I'm relauching the thread, and precising some points on how it was supposed to work: This is not a suggestion/voting thread Anybody can throw any idea and this idea become part of the language (without voting or such) Current state of the language Phonetic inventory: /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ Fortis stops /p t k/ ...

k1234567890y wrote:btw, can we make the /-ʜ/ plural marker for pronouns only? (:

We can, but I thought such proto-language should be very regular?

k1234567890y wrote:proposal of the pronouns:
1st sg: /jæ/
2nd sg: /kʰæ/
1st pl: /jɑ-ʜ/
2nd pl: /kʰɑ-ʜ/

Seems like a good proposal. This gives a regular plural marker /-ʜ/ that also retracts the preceeding front vowels.

You described exactly what I intended, but I think I didn't explain it correctly since people assumed it was suggestion/voting based.

I had started such a project of diachronic conlanging, but it died quickly unfortunately.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5071

Actually, the idea for this topic was that I would apply suggested mutations as they came, not just use this as an idea dump.

Nachtuil wrote:/g/ to /ɣ/ intervocalicly
/G/ to /ʁ/intervocalicly
merge /g/ and /G/ to /g/ otherwise

That's funny, those are ideas I had in mind too.
Do you think the voiced codas (l and n) should be considered for "intervocalic"?

As an attempt to bring a more "natural" feel to a conlang, I'd like to mix in mutations and changes idea from other people. Alone I noticed I tend to always use the variants of the same phonetic mutations, so I hope to get more variations in that by asking a forum. So here's the proto-lang...

I want to show the script I made for my conlang Nictian.

I'm always partial to low-to-no cases (NOM and OBL, or maybe NOM, ACC and GEN, something simple like that) as well as only distinguishing singular and plural (or perhaps neither). As far as gender/classes, perhaps an animacy hierarchy? That would be nice and interesting to work with. Well, as I sta...

I suggest to go in order and not just throw random idea, it would be hard to sort that eventually.

The next target to tackle would be nouns, how does the language manages gender, number and functions.

What do you mean when you write [C/F/S] ?
Seems like a good structure otherwise, and the harmony ladder is a good idea.

In theory the plan was that each of the element of the list are made by somebody else and used as it is suggested. But since it already got started for the phonetics we'll take what's been made. The final inventory will be /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ Fortis stops /p t k/ Lenis stops /(t)s (t)ɬ k(x) (k)ʟ̝̊ ħ h/ Frica...

If one feels inspired, they are free to post a consonant inventory for this proto-language, there is no restriction for what to use.