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Linguifex wrote: Next: p'ugunu [ˈp'ugunu] '(three or more) leaves'

Aretach: pygend [ˈpygɛnd] n. foliage

Next: kigeve [ˈkajgɛvɛ] n. wagon, cart

Orthography with more diacritics, or less diacritics? With more diacritics: Šapa ma hčēdit šaje, ču hapa pye-gûn uje. With less diacritics: Xapa ma hchédit/hcheedit xaje, chu hapa pye-guon uje. IPA: /ʃapa ma ɦʧe:dit ʃaʤɛ ʧu hapa pjɛ gu:ɔn uʤɛ/ Personally, I prefer digraphs over diacritics, but that...

I'm not an expert on English phonology so I don't know. but it's different for ʤ because it's homorganic. It's the heterorganic affricates that are problematic and need special justification because they are usually treated as clusters. As I said, under some analyzes, you can argue that d͜ʒ is a si...

Seemingly. I just don't want to be pelted with fruit if I label such combinations as affricates but maybe I am too concerned with convention. Well, labelling these as affricates should mean something in your language's phonology, e.g.: the language doesn't allow consonant clusters but allows these ...

gestaltist wrote: +1, I like it

Thanks!

Wals has a chapter on case affix position.

You could still go with a prefix case system if you wanted. It's not common compared to suffixing systems, but I personally don't think that's an issue.

(Can't answer the main question, sorry.)

A noun class system in a fantasylang that originated from protoscience and folk beliefs saying that living beings run on a sort of life energy, dividing nouns into animate and inanimate groups. Much much later, it's discovered that there are beings that run on a different type of energy. As the sema...

If you ask me, being able to enjoy Japanese media that wasn't translated is pretty practical in itself. :mrgreen: I can't really give a recommendation because I'm still unable to decide which language I want as my fourth, but what I'm trying (and failing) to do is to pick the one I like best and lea...

snip The thing is, new expressions and words come about in private conversations too. I coined new words with friends on the fly and while the odds of them catching on elsewhere are pretty slim, it's certainly not impossible- especially not if you have 1,000,000+ people coining words with their fri...

Konungr wrote: Next: breniakrzygowoń [ˌbrɛɲakʂɨˈgɔvɔɲ] masc. n. - tank (military vehicle)

kirrenach /ˈkɪɹɛnax/ n. airship

Next: dlahog /dlahɔg/ n. candle

This is the first conscript that I have ever made, and Initially I loved it, but now I see it as a boring conscript. I could maybe change it to make it look more interesting, but at the moment all the characters just don't seem to fit together very well. maybe someday, but right now this is just an...

I think it would probably be useful if I outline what my con-culture is like as this is very promising information. My con-culture is based on a man-made island in the pacific ocean. It is a very large mega-city about 80-100km across and is completely urban area (grassland and plant-life is achieve...

7) a
8) b
9) c
10) b

I usually just make words according to my aesthetic for that language, and then retroactively figure out what kind of structure they map to...

:con: Long Dau Andin'uami dinli uihe. /andɪnʔwami dɪnlɪ wihɛ/ 3P_exist_PRES_NEG here_LOC wifi_ACC We don't have any wifi here now. Dihidin hateluitinun. /diçɪdɪn hatɛlwitɪnun/ therefore 2P_talk_REFLEX_IMP Therefore talk to each other. The sentiment behind these signs is more often than not kind of s...

While doodling I came up with glyph-y things hat I thought were rather pretty: click The upper left one was the original, but I felt the middle loopy letter looked out of place so I revised it to the upper right version. Doesn't really have any meaning yet, I'm more looking at visuals feedback. Doe...

While doodling I came up with glyph-y things hat I thought were rather pretty: click The upper left one was the original, but I felt the middle loopy letter looked out of place so I revised it to the upper right version. Doesn't really have any meaning yet, I'm more looking at visuals feedback. Does...

Lao Kou wrote: Next: pídmanaliks [piˈdmanaˌliks] n. poster (advertisement)

peidane /pɛjˈda.nɛ/ n. painting, picture

Next: mebā /mɛbaː/ conj(?). that's why, this is the reason

Speaking of, I never understood the difference between 小さい　and 小さな etc. Do you happen to have an explanation, maybe? It's not quite so simple to answer. Looking it up, there are evidently 8 pairs of attributive-predicative/attributive-only adjectives: 大きい ōkii / 大きな ōki na 小さい chiisai / 小さな chiisa ...

I don't think I ever used /θ/ in a conlang until Nereifa (which I'm thinking of redoing too). Then again, I'm not a native speaker.