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Malay language is an underrated source language for creole. But, Papuan Malay creator, please at least learn some Malay grammar first. You can't just flip the order of possessor and possessee. Also, in Standard Indonesia, (or at least the Javanese dialect of Indonesia) "Buku punya saya hilang&q...

It's actually a boring reduplication of "fe'e". On the other hand, it's quite amusing how anglophone calls a national language of Indonesia. Since the full name is "Bahasa Indonesia" (Indonesian language), they just shorten it to... "Bahasa", which just means language. ...

Any fusional conlang for reference? I failed to think of any other fusional conlang system. Sakha's morphology (the fusional part) is just a distance away from typical Indo-European verb conjugation (Person>Egophoricity(later, it also gets evidential), Number>Pluractional, with added layers of aggl...

Any fusional conlang for reference? I failed to think of any other fusional conlang system. Sakha's morphology (the fusional part) is just a distance away from typical Indo-European verb conjugation (Person>Egophoricity(later, it also gets evidential), Number>Pluractional, with added layers of agglu...

The similiarity in lifestyle has allowed the Bugs to domesticate the bloodmares : bloodmares treat the Bugs as workers and queens of their kind. Actually, you don't have to make both having a similar lifestyle. Humans are arguably eusocial, while cats are almost a solitary animal. Dogs, however, ha...

The similiarity in lifestyle has allowed the Bugs to domesticate the bloodmares : bloodmares treat the Bugs as workers and queens of their kind. Actually, you don't have to make both having a similar lifestyle. Humans are arguably eusocial, while cats are almost a solitary animal. Likewise, Bug cit...

In Māori, ⟨wh⟩ is [ɸ~f]. I intended ⟨wh f⟩ to be /ɸ f/. (Strictly speaking, it would have been better to use ⟨ƒ⟩, as Eʋe does, but I don’t particularly like that letter, so I used ⟨wh⟩ instead.) I'm interested in your actual phoneme assignment. That was my actual phoneme assignment: ⟨wh f⟩ /ɸ f/. A...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:54 pm In Māori, ⟨wh⟩ is [ɸ~f]. I intended ⟨wh f⟩ to be /ɸ f/. (Strictly speaking, it would have been better to use ⟨ƒ⟩, as Eʋe does, but I don’t particularly like that letter, so I used ⟨wh⟩ instead.)

I'm interested in your actual phoneme assignment.

It's really long, I don't think we need it to be that long to showcase everything. Or maybe I'm just lazy, likely both. Anyway: /bɛk ã d̪i uːt dejeʃ, aj aːt a saqʃeʃfu beʃk-ʃɔp ɪn ˈowbani. aj aːt a ʁaːt ˈbaːznaʃ, a wãp waʃfa, ãːt a baʁ ˈfɛmaji. aj waːʃ a ˈɛpi mɛ̃. bat ˈkʲabu qɛ̃j̃ẽ tq maj ʃɔp w̃ã j...

In Indonesian, a national language can be funny: Bahasa Laos Laos/Galangal language Bahasa Thai Shit language I also remember a Christian gospel song getting misheard (actually by me as most people in Indonesia here views religion too seriously) as: Ajarilah kami bahasa cinta Cina-Mu. (teach us Your...

What does matriarchy have to do with agriculture? In fact, I had the impression that agriculture was correlated with patriarchy, although I know almost nothing about the subject. I actually mean that the fact that the culture is matriarchial means that the farming is pretty recently discovered. (Th...

Do you have any way to make the entire world monolingual? The world is extremely small compared to earth, but it's large compared to average language distribution. (It's about 7000 km2) My people are semi agrarian, meaning that they're doing agriculture during summer, but only hunts and gathers in ...

Do you have any way to make the entire world monolingual? The world is extremely small compared to earth, but it's large compared to average language distribution. (It's about 7000 km2) My people are semi agrarian, meaning that they're doing agriculture during summer, but only hunts and gathers in w...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:53 pm

Xwtek wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:41 am I have no idea about wh.

Hint: Māori.

Thanks, but that's no help, because Maori does have <w>, and it's pronounced as bilabial fricative anyway. (it would be too close to <f>)

⟨m n ng hm hn hng⟩ /m n ŋ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊/ ⟨p pp b bb t tt d c cc j k kk g⟩ /p pː~pʼ b ɓ t tː~tʼ d c cː~cʼ ɟ k kʼ g/ (unlike the rest of tense stop, <kk> is always ejective) ⟨l ł ƛ dƛ ƛʼ⟩ /l ɬ tɬ dɮ tɬʼ/ ⟨f s sh th x⟩ /f s ʃ θ x/ <r y wh> /r j */ ⟨a â aa ɛ e ə i ii o ô u û uu⟩ /a a˞ aː ɛ eː ə i iː o o˞ u ɚ...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:59 am Mice are so passé. Real programmers use head-mounted pointer devices.

What, plain old keyboard is way superior.

Isn't ı usually used for back unrounded vowel?

Twenty dollars? That's, like, Rp.300.000,00 here. I could've bought a rice cooker here. Also, for some reason, I get offended with Kirishima being drawn with a female OC. While I like Kirishima x Bakugou, I actually don't mind Kirishima being drawn together with another male canon character. Is this...

/p t ts tʂ c k ʔ/ <p t ts tr ch k '> /b d dz dʐ ɟ g/ <b d dz dr j g> /f s ʂ x/ <f s sh x> /z ʐ/ <z zh> /w r l j/ <w r l y> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /i u e o ɛ ɔ a/ <i/ii u/uu e/ee o/oo ae ao a> /ʊɔ ɪɛ/ <uo ie> For tone, I assume that 3 means high tone, the same syllable cannot carry more than one tone,...

How about this: Back in the old days, I had a successful bake-shop in Albany. I had a good business, a plump wife, and a big family. I was a happy man. But trouble came to my shop one year in the guise of an ugly old woman. She entered my shop a few minutes before closing and said: “I wish to have a...