The CBB

Borrowed one of the paleo-hispanic alphabets("Tartessian") and made a grammar out of it. The result is pretty cool. Maybe it's all in my head but I think it looks more real then when I sit down and put something together out of the blue. Initial stress and should be spoken fairly monotonou...

Now... are you going to make a release without bug testing it? In true corporate fashion.

It's a fair guesses as far as I'm concerned because it all boils down to that we don't know.

Ceresz wrote:That's beautiful, Xing.

Yeah, that gave me a hit of the nostalgic.

Chagen wrote:I find it interesting how dental fricatives are rare phonemes yet they appear in even these tiny invenstories. Especially that one that has only /ð h/--I didn't even know that was possible.

Maybe because the fricative inventory was more expansive in the past but then suffered a number of mergers?

"I see you well".

Aha, thank you to you. You seems cunning about this. What about lacking a plural and only have singular and dual and some other way to indicate plural?

How common is it for a language to mark the singular instead of the plural and/or dual?

I seriously need input on this. /p[p] t[t] k[k]/ /c[tS]/ /s[s] dh[D] z[z] gh[G]/ /n[n]/ /r[r/] l[l]/ (j[j]) a e ä CV* all stems ends in a vowel often ä e is a schwa. no distinct lenght in consonants and vowels /l/ is restricted to conjugations¨ /n/ is not in the stem onset clusters is in the form of...

Lose the voiced/unvoiced stop distinction then. Small changes can make great stuff.

Remove both the bilabial stops or both the nasals and remove one of the inter-dental fricatives.

I think I found a way to quickly emulate the development of a real language, it still needs some more thinking but I think I know where I am heading.

Fleur wrote:[...]
Aha, tack.
Ah, thanks.
[...]

It's a bit anglophonic to use "ah" here. Onomatopea of this type isn't really used in Swedish so "aha" would be better.

[...] En av mina avlägsna släktingar från Sverige åker till London snart så jag ska öva svenska med han henne och han hon kan öva engelska. One of my distant relatives from Sweden is coming to London soon so I'm going to practise my Swedish with her and she can practise English. [...] han,honom=he,...

Systemzwang wrote: är-passiv is not really smooth swedish. it sounds like someone who is incapable of keeping english interference out of their swedish would come up with.

That's the way I, as a native, have learnt to speak Swedish, so I dunno how it would be said otherwise. It only exists in that type of phrase,

1) The man eats.
Man-en ät-er
2) The woman is seen.
Kvinna-n är sedd.
3) The man eats the food.
Mann-en ät-er mat-en
4) The food is seen by the woman.
Mat-en är sedd av kvinna-n.

I can speak (my mouth and tongue are free) & I can speak (I know the language)
Jag kan prata.
I can speak (I am permitted to do so)
Jag får prata

Tanulnom kell spanyolul azon célból, hogy tanuljam Quechua-ul, mert nincs semmi szer a nyelv tanulásért angolul. I must learn Spanish in order to learn Quechua, because there aren't any resources for learning the language in English. Du kan kunde lära dig rumänska för att lära dig spanska för att l...

Fleur wrote:Jag vill att lära mig polska... :(
I want to learn Polish... :(

No need to use "att" here -- the reflexive apparently serves that purpose.

I have a felling that you cheated but whatever,

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