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Consonant: +---------+---------+-------+---------+-----------+ | m | n | ɲ <ñ> | ŋ | ŋʷ <ŋw> | | p̰ <p> | t̰ <t> | c̰ <c> | k̰ <k> | k̰ʷ <kw> | | p̤ <b> | t̤ <d> | c̤ <j> | k̤ <g> | k̤ʷ <gw> | | ɓ <bb> | ɗ <dd> | | | | | ⁿp <mp> | ⁿt <nt> | | ⁿk <ŋk> | ⁿkʷ <ŋkw> | | f <f> | s <s> | | x <h> | | | | l...

Yalensky wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:02 pm Any violations of universals can always be retroactively justified with an appeal to the language's literal alienness.

Qapla'!

Except for no velar, rover and OVS word order, klingon is not that strange, though. Language that outright bans imperfectives is outright strange.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't a language that cannot express imperfective impossible? A language may form its imperfective solely periphrastically or a language may collapse perfective and imperfective into one. But there is bo language that bans imperfective

I have suggestion. If you're going to have Austronesian-esque conlang, you should have /ŋ/. And particle conparative (Yes, like English than)

敝 bi4 'my (humble)', as in 敝舍 bi4 she4 'my humble house', 敝校 bi4 xiao4 'my humble school', 敝姓 bi4 xing4 'my humble family name'. It's not a proximal in Classical Chinese, but it's the inspiration for the humble proximal in Nakka. Note, that it is personal pronoun. It is very common for personal pro...

What non-SAE language that has comparative infection of adjective. I thought it is exclusively European. When I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European, it says that it is more common that particle comparative. That is despite that particle comparatives is also used as strategy ...

masako wrote: ↑Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:21 am https://footballbatsandmore.wordpress.c ... ogoglyphs/

At 350 glyphs...working on more

Is it japonic?

A while ago I had this ridiculous idea where every single noun and pronoun occupies a unique place on the animacy hierarchy, meaning sentences can always have totally free word order without any additional marking since the higher-ranking NP is always assumed to be the agent unless inverse marking ...

I use passive voice when the object is proximate (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obviative). Otherwise, I use active voice, with proximal argument fronted.

How you distiguish /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/ and /ɪmˈpɔɹt/. For me it sounds like [ɪ́m.pɔ̀ɹt] and [ɪ̀m.pɔ́ɹt]. Is it the only difference? Does Russian English (that have low tone at stressed syllable instead) heard like the stress is on all unstressed syllable and unstressed syllable lost stress?

Word packing: phonologically concatenative, there is exponence of case and number in nominals and pronouns, and also tense and polarity in verbs {Japanese}. In other words, in older typology this is a fusional language. There is mildly high flexivity, with several classes among both nominals and ve...

The passive voice has a place in scientific discourse, but otherwise it is generally avoided because it sounds clumsy, contrived, and awkward. But then, it will also be awkward if I changed what is the most salient of the two just to avoid using passive voice. The genetic code is the set of rules u...

Is non-English language on topic? Because I don't know how to pronounce the first w in wgiibwaadaa (this is Ojibwe). I can't pronounce it without inserting vowel (either [u] or [ə]) or pronouncing it as [u] instead.

Cappadocian is derived from PIE and is a fictional relative of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, etc. Aside from the choice of sound changes, most of it is already set in stone, or at least constrained: the PIE 1pl middle ending was *-medʰh₂, so Cappadocian's 1pl middle ending is going to be whatever happens...

When I write, I found that active voice is preferred over passive. Why?

Currently, I use passive voice when the object is more salient than the subject. Example:

Genetic information is encoded by DNA. (We are talking about genetic code, not DNA)

Rkou: tairdgoo- [tɑɪrdɡɔː] ː to regret, to feel guilty, to feel remorse. (taɪrd- to be guilty, -goo- derivative suffix that means to feel V.) tairdrä'k- [tɑɪrdræ̰k-] : to remorse, to repent. (This one with -ræ'k- to avoid V-ing) next: (this should be a single word) merciless to enemies, but caring t...

That's cool, If only it is available for free.

I decided to revise the phonology. 1. Rkou will get voiced plosives but will lack nasal consonant. So the consonant inventory becomes p t k ʔ b d ɡ r w h There is no longer nasality constraints. However, voiced plosives becomes nasal consonant the consonant directly adjacent to the consonant is nasa...

I am confused with your conjugation. Can you give the verbal template? Well that's the problem - in IE there is really no verbal template per se outside of root + derivation + inflection, since all the inflectional categories of verbs are marked in a single inflectional suffix. However I will eluci...

I am confused with your conjugation. Can you give the verbal template?