Zompist Bboard Again

Retroactively added a missing syllable break. /j w/ → /d͡ʑ ɡw/ after a sonorant in the same word, which assimilates thereto when nasal. Remaining /j/ elides after /ɕ ʑ/; /ɥ/ in the same environment becomes just /ʷ/. The romanization gets a minor update to reflect the above. 他在家说方言，在学校说普通话。 Cā sài x...

If your goal was to ask us what we call these, don't read any further. If your goal is to know what these are called, there's something called Google . You should try it once :). This is a little condescending. I tried Google to see if there was a technical word for it that wasn't coming to me (as ...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:46 pm Do you have some example images?

I circled some examples of what I'm asking about:

What do you call the roof over a porch or a verandah?

I have a funny thing where i find farenheit more intuitive above ~60°F/15°C, and celsius more intuitive below. This is because i grew up in California, where colder temperatures were relatively rare, but when i went to college, i started making an effort to personally metricize, and spending the wi...

I'm a bit late to the party here, but I wanted to provide my input. Note that in the computing world, "micro" is commonly written with "u", by its graphic similarity to "μ", particularly in the case of "us" for microseconds. I've always found this annoying. If...

...which is a text we've apparently already done, albeit in Latin instead of Spanish. Ah, well, too lazy to come up with anything else.

I think that's run its course now. Let's do Spanish this time: En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarm...

Vowels that don't become high tone are perceived as mid tone. Vowels nasalize before a nasal consonant; nasal consonants then elide except before a vowel (the exception does not apply before a pausa). Front nasal vowels merge to /ɛ̃/ and rounded nasal vowels to /ɔ̃/. /ã ə̃/ do not change. Obstruent...

Also (I may or may not decide to have this in the same language family as above), how common are languages like Ancient Greek and Mandarin Chinese where a coda consonant can be a sonorant, but not a stop? Umm, doesn't Ancient Greek permit non-sonorant codas, e.g. in the word polis ? (I assume you m...

Also (I may or may not decide to have this in the same language family as above), how common are languages like Ancient Greek and Mandarin Chinese where a coda consonant can be a sonorant, but not a stop?

Let ERGVERB stand for any ergative verb in a language that does not mark grammatical voice. Suppose a speaker of such a language wants to make a distinction between what in English would be "He ERGVERBed" and "He was ERGVERBed." Are there ways to do that besides recasting the lat...

So I have a phonology that starts off with a syllable structure of CCVC and only five vowel qualities: /a e i o u/. Germanic-style umlaut ends up adding /ɛ œ ø y ɔ/, the umlaut also creates a new consonant phoneme /ɥ/ from a conditional merger of /j w/. All ten vowels have a length distinction, thou...

I have [ɲ c cʰ cʼ] as allophones of /ŋ k kʰ kʼ/ before front vowels /e i/. I also have the phonemes /q qʰ qʼ/, which causes a following vowel to allophonically retract (in the case of /e i/, to [ɛ ɪ]). Is it plausible, therefore, to have [cɛ cɪ] as an allophone of /qe qi/, for example (converting th...

Is it attested for there to be distinct words for "to be" and "to be so"? I don't want to give my language dedicated words for "yes" or "no," and I want to give them pro-verbs that they can use to respond to polar questions instead. (They can also employ echo ...

What do you call the point where a river stream turns into a river delta? (Cairo is near an example of what I'm trying to get at, if it helps.)

How's this revision? Consonants Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal/Velar Uvular Glottal Nasal m /m/ n /n̪/ ṇ /n̺/ ng /ŋ/ Tenuis plosive b /p/ d /t̪/ ḍ /t̺/ g /k/ ġ /q/ ʼ /ʔ/ Aspirate plosive p /pʰ/ t /t̪ʰ/ ṭ /t̺ʰ/ k /kʰ/ q /qʰ/ Ejective plosive pʼ /pʼ/ tʼ /t̪ʼ/ ṭʼ /t̺ʼ/ kʼ /kʼ/ qʼ /qʼ/ Tenuis affricate ...

OK, I've decided I don't like how the underbar looks on consecutive consonants (I have to use such a sequence in the conlang's name), so let's try an underdot instead and see how that looks.

Adding h in Mandarin does kind of the opposite, turning alveolars into retroflex. But only for affricates, which you seem to have solved already. Doing it for plosives strikes me as a little weird. You could use C and J for dentals, but... nah, that's no good either. I think the only way to do this...

I don't like having c j represent dentals, either, even if I reassign /j/ to y to free up j . I don't think that leaving the h for the remaining dentals is the worst solution in hindsight (some dialects of English pronounce the dental fricatives as dental stops, if I want a justification), but I agr...