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How do you see a phonology of a language with a given seed?

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Birdlang wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:27 pm This time for Pigeonese

I'm interested in romanizing your language. You should put the phonology on Romanization Challenge Thread.

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This is actually Sakha my conlang. I want to edit the scratchpad, but I had no further material. (It seems like I'm stuck in phonology phase)

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The orthography is far from phonemic, as it distiguishes a certainly phonemic. I don’t understand this sentence. What do you mean by ‘it distinguishes a certainly phonemic’? Specifically, if it helps you, the problem is that you are using an adjective (namely ‘phonemic’) as if it were a noun, and t...

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<a b c c' č č' d e g h i j k kh k' kw kwh kw' l ɬ m n o r s š t th t' tɬ tɬ' u w x xw z ø> The vowel letter may carry an acute accent, grave accent (which is usually replaced by acute accent except in dictionary), and ogonek. The ogonek is independent of accent. The orthography is far from phonemic,...

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You might consider, however, why or whether your species would lose their fur, assuming their ancestors were mammals. Fur is pretty good in a 10°C climate, naked skin less so. If they have no fur, however, I'd expect an insulating layer of fat, like walruses. (Or maybe a high metabolism that genera...

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Xwtek is hairier than horse and this may cause chafing problem even worse. Hmm, I think hair might actually decrease chafing. This is why people have pubic hairs. Or so I've heard. Thanks. That factor and the fact that Native American are sometimes seen wearing loincloth while riding horse, I decid...

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Do you think my usage of definite article is good? Because Grammarly keeps complaining about that. Napa dalem sampun ndamel definite article kantos leres? Grammarly lajeng-lajengan komplain. Apakah Anda berpikir penggunaan definite articleku benar? Karena Grammarly terus-terusan komplain. 単刀直入に言えばあ...

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Also, is there any improvement using pants instead of (short-flapped) loincloth when riding a horse (Or in this conworld horse-dog, i.e. pony-sized dog. In Sakha, this creature is called xwtek)? If your thighs are naked, wouldn't they chafe against the animal? Okay. Then people are wearing pants wh...

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Richard W wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 3:44 amIt is.

Thanks.

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Richard W wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:09 am Source of what?

Is Weera Ostapirat's thesis is the Proto Kra one? If so, I must have overlooked one.

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Qwynegold wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:53 am Paha, which was posted about in the other thread. It means bad or evil in Finnish.

It means hip in my own language (Indonesian).

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people were covered with grease and carry around a fire Uh... I see a problem with this plan. Oh, a nice catch. I actually tried to emulate how Fuegian (I use term Fuegian because I saw both Yaghan and Selknam also use the same strategy) fight cold. I probably miss something. Probably not grease. B...

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Bilabialized bilabial consonant? How is anyone supposed to pronounce it? Did you actually mean Labiovelarized consonant? I expect it means with lip rounding, though it wouldn't be a surprise if they're also velarised. Weera Ostapirat's thesis writes the clusters /pj/, /pw/ and /pɣ/ for Paha (contra...

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Xwtek wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:59 am I think the conlanger of this world is a smartass. Why do you have two language family with similar names? Austronesian vs Austroasiatic. Even worse that there is Palauan (an Austronesian language) and Palaungic languages (an Austroasiatic subfamily)

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Bilabialized bilabial consonant? How is anyone supposed to pronounce it? Did you actually mean Labiovelarized consonant?

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I decided that my con-culture went shirtless because many of the monsters are bigger than people, and magic can bypass even metal armor (which is unavailable), let alone leather armor (which is available because of dragon typically have strong skin, so it's usually used to craft an armor). Also, is ...

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No guns either. I want my culture to look somewhat barbarian, except without any metal armor. (Barbarian is often depicted wearing a metal armor only protecting certain parts of the body, like shoulder and limb, but with torso exposed) I thought by having no metal armor whatsoever, it's more justifi...

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The "fixed" orthography, however, is not much different from the original orthography. /(p) t k/ <p t k> /ᵐb ⁿd ᶮdʒ ᵑg/<mb nd ñj ŋg> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ñ ŋ> /ɾ~ɾ̥~r~ɹ~l/ <r> /ɸ~β~f~v ð ʃ ɣ h/ <b d s g h> /w j/ <w y> /i e ɛ u o ɔ a/ (written as in IPA) Length is marked by doubling the letter. I...

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How do you justify fighting shirtless without armor, but having a metal weapon? My justification for my culture is, well, it's too early. Sakha doesn't have any technology for making any metal objects, and it has to be imported. Only the best and richest people have any metal weapon (mostly lance, r...

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