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Suppose you want to make three conlangs that belong to the same language family, and you have preset phonologies- two are vaguely based on Mongolian, the third on Slavic languages. How would you go about reverse engineering the sound changes from their common proto-language ancestor? In semitic, ph...

But what if you did something more radical. I'm not talking about just substituting written language characters- what if you actually used a phonetic cipher on english, then change how the grammar is arranged. Say you change word order, and/or turn prepositions into postpositions, glue particles on...

Suppose you want to make three conlangs that belong to the same language family, and you have preset phonologies- two are vaguely based on Mongolian, the third on Slavic languages. How would you go about reverse engineering the sound changes from their common proto-language ancestor?

I've been switching between /ʃ/ (English and German) and /ɕ/ (Japanese) for ages, but it only very recently occurred to me that they weren't actually the same sound. I don't know how I went this long without noticing it.

Here's my phonology suggestion: Inventory: Stops: /p t k/ Ejectives: /p' t' k'/ Fricatives: /ɸ β s ʃ ʒ h/ Nasals: /m n~ŋ/ Approximants: /l w/ Rhotics: /ɾ~r/ Stops are aspirated when word-initial and followed by a vowel and unaspirated otherwise. Vowels: /a ɑ u i~ɪ ɛ/ Diphthongs: /aj ɛj au/ Consonant...

You could make adjective endings depend on gender, and your verbs could inflect for gendered person (2SG.MASC would be a different inflection than 2SG.NEUT, say). If you have any other non-affix particles for nouns, those could have different forms too.

Trilled /r/. It took years of practice to be able to do it occasionally. I still can't do it consistently.

I also struggle to hear the difference between aspirated and nonaspirated consonants, and I have to pay really close attention if I want to do nonaspirated ones.

1 While Géarthnuns, as was pointed out by Des eons ago, has its own very Englishy romanization of <ou> for [aʊ] ( born of a time, and too late to revise it now ) , I still find <i> for [aj] rather jarring. I let it in a few words up-page with " maihagagörs ", but of the fourteen possible ...

How long do we have to post inventories?

I'm... actually not sure what you mean. The macrons? No, those are long vowels. Just an aesthetic choice on my side. And no, it's a pretty agglutinative language. He means in the gloss, the practice is to separate affixes from roots/stems with hyphens, not dots. Dots are used if a meaning is fused ...

I'm... actually not sure what you mean. The macrons? No, those are long vowels. Just an aesthetic choice on my side.

And no, it's a pretty agglutinative language.

Konungr wrote:
Next: morzecheździarz [ˈmɔʐɛˌxɛʑd͡ʑaʂ] masc. n. - pirate, sea raider

meryde /mɛˈɹydɛ/ v. to steal, to rob

Next: divalesti /dajvalɛstaj/ n. carnivore

Xillia isn't on PC, though? Zestiria and Symphonia are, and Berseria will be very soon, but they didn't announce any other PC ports. Unless I somehow missed it... Sample time! This is the conlang I'm developing based on words from the cypher. Hokūlulunve san, usaibāmi yaunu edin'esun. /hokɯːlɯlɯnβɛ ...

Next: tqdqn̄tqdqn̄ [|͡ʭn̄|͡ʭn̄] interj. hey! easy there!; wait for it! TQDQ is a coarticulation of [ǀ] (tenuis click) and [IPA unknown] (dental clack); the [n̄] may be pronounced with lips either rounded or unrounded kede /kɛˈdɛ/ interj . exclamation indicating surprise or shock Next: mihade /ˈmajh...

Nope, sorry. The one I'm working on is Long Dau , from Tales of Xillia . Never heard of that , but I have heard of that . That is my favourite game of all time. Long Dau is a cipher spoken by a character in it. (It's identical to Melnics, a cipher used in Tales of Eternia from the same series.) As ...

Nope, sorry. The one I'm working on is Long Dau, from Tales of Xillia.

I'm doing that right now, actually. I'm using a cipher to get words from English, then adapt and shorten them if the result is awkward, and then plug it into a non-English gramnar frame. (I'm doing it because I wanted said cipher to be an actual conlang rather than a cipher, and since the creators w...

Not an expert, but syllabic n and separate vowels as opposed to diphthongs or long vowels are far more pronounced in singing than in speaking in my experience. It's particularly obvious in the -tai form. I've never heard anyone say the vowels separately in speech, but it happens all the time in sing...

Lao Kou wrote: Next: fshírhabs [fʃiˈXabs] n. abdication (of a throne, position)

shirhade /ɕɪɹˈhadɛ/ v. to abandon, to discard

Next: onkidstide /ˈɔŋkɪdstajdɛ/ n. diviner, seer

Aretach

Kirferag hel kirgenyr havid haskydne.
/kɪɹˈfɛɹag hɛl kɪɹgɛˈnyɹ ˈhavɪd haˈskydnɛ/
LOC.hole under LOC.ground Hobbit PAST(distant).dwell.3SG
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.