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The Tehemne are early agriculturalists who subsist largely on a grain similar to maize, supplemented with copious hunting and gathering. This story is used to explain the questions of "why do we eat so much grain?" and "why do we wear clothing?". The grain, they say, is because ...

Why you don't consistently use x?

Also, initial and antepenultimate is very different, unless your language have a maximum of 3 syllables.

mèþru wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:04 pm Who provides the food if there are no or few villagers?

No, Orc in Asent'o is a minority, villager there are mostly human. Villager orc usually lives far uphill on Grawgdaw. Orcs usually go down to find more profitable jobs as a warrior or being enslaved.

(Honestly I have a muscular fetish). How to justify a race that is as muscular as a bodybuilder. (or at least a portion of that). For my world, it is that orc, especially that lives in Asent'o (I didn't decide the name yet). The reason is that orc is build to withstand cold, especially freezing temp...

I have most of my verb structure for my first polysynthetic language, Venusian, but almost no roots to speak of at this stage. Also, I’m not sure how I should go about deriving participles or verbal nouns, or even if I should. Here’s the extent of the morphological and phonological sketch I have: P...

Another tips, you can shift the meaning of the word of "taken" to nine. The shift is "one taken (from ten)" > "taken". Also "one added (from five)" > "added" for 6.

@Salmoneus Thanks. Your answer also answer one question about why Orcs still don't wear clothes even if humans that live in lower altitude (hence hotter) almost always wearing clothes. Grawgdaw are one of the hottest place that is filled by Orcs. Hotter than that, the place is filled by humans. Orcs...

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:37 am from a quick google search and look at wikipedia, it seems tagalog definitely has it.

It seems like Tagalog is heavily influenced from Spanish, though.

Well, do Aldeia and Rascana also tend to be shirtless (I initially thought that two cultures can't possibly do that)? If one of them do, Telpahke could also follow. On the other hand, I think your pronoun is too many. Japanese probably only use 5-6 pronouns normally in a single person-number categor...

Rkou people live on Grawgdaw mountain ranges, where the climate here is subtropic, despite the proximity to equator (Like Mexico City). It has similiar latitude and altitude to Mexico City. Despite Rkou people (an orcish race) are pretty resistant to cold, is it realistic for the males of that race ...

Has relative pronoun attested to come from other sources? Particularly could relative pronoun come from logophoric pronoun (Asent'o's relative pronouns are originally this, and in Classical Asent'o, the relative pronouns still serve another usage as logophoric pronoun. It developed into relative pro...

Pannonian /p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tʂ tʂʼ dʐ tɕ tɕʼ dʑ k kʼ g/ /f v s z ʂ ɕ x ɣ h/ /m n ɲ ŋ/ /l ɭ ʎ r j/ /a eæ̯ oɒ̯ e ø o i y ɯ u/ + length Ejectives are partially from geminates, partially from pre-apocope word-final voiceless consonants, and partially from former glottalized register/pitch. /ɣ/ w...

Tropylium, I really like Glaire and, in general, games like that with small phonologies. - - - - - - - - - - Aexozu [aɪ̯.xo.zʉˑ] m n p b t d k ts dz ɸ β θ ð s z x ɣ h l ɾ iˑ ʉˑ ɪ o a The vowels [a ɪ iˑ o ʉˑ] are written <a e i o u>. I use <f v r> for /ɸ β ɾ/ but otherwise use the IPA symbols for co...

Javanese speaker (well, not so native, actually. But I'm ethnic Javanese) here. Javanese people is even more extreme than Japanese. Almost every non-loaned content word (and grammatical words too, and even suffixes) changes when the situation changes. It's almost as if you're speaking different lang...

Bessunire wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:01 pm Next: cirjozja [ciˈɾʲou̯sʲə] to do mighty deeds

Rkou : [krø:k] (Hero) from < *[kro:k] to do a mighty deeds.

(The massive sound change is because Rkou has neither fricative other than /h/ nor palatal consonant. Also, I dropped the unstressed vowel, as Rkou's words are usually monosyllabic.)

Risla wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:21 am Any languages with only one prenasalized stop? Bonus points if it's /ᵐb/.

Rennelese /ŋɡ/

Make velar segments to /j/, (bi-labial segments to /w/: instant diphthongs. You could also do /C$/ > /ʔ/ > creaky voice on the vowel; and then break it, as in Khmer . Your first ideas look like what my original sound change did, but I ditch it because it wasn't realistic. Final consonant in syllabl...

Vijay wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:13 pm Look at nasalization?

Other than that? There is already nasalization in proto-Asent''oan

I need to make vowel split based on historical final consonant on syllable. Any suggestion?

missals wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:27 pmBut what consonant is [ɨ̯] likely to become?

For me, it is /ɹ̪/.