Zompist Bboard Again

Say you're a Scythian who happens to get caught in an Assyrian raid around 1000 BCE. You're enslaved, you see this "writing" technology, and later you escape. Do you invent writing for Scythian? Probably not. It's an alien concept and it doesn't meet the needs of your culture. On the othe...

North Mekeo has six consonants: /b m v k ŋ ɫ/. Source on that? Wikipedia lists additional /t n s ʔ/ for just Mekeo. According to Jones' Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo , it has seven - /b g v z m ŋ l/. There's a lot of difference between the dialects though; the inventories are North: /b g v z m ŋ...

the opinions of not just the 48% who voted remain, but also some percentage of those who voted Leave but didn't want a hard break with Europe And also the nearly 50% of all Brits who did not or could not make their opinions known in the referendum. And speaking of, when did the referendum magically...

Can both ʂ and ɕ merge into s when following k or p, but not t? I'm not sure of any natlang precedent, but I think so. /t/ would be able to assimilate in POA (i.e. /ts tʂ tɕ/ → [ts ʈʂ t̠ʲɕ]) while /p k/ couldn't. That would make the t+S more distinct than the k+S or p+S (where S = /s ʂ ɕ/) and thus...

writing is artifact... as natural as computers... I think writing is a lot more natural than computers. Computers were developed by a relatively small group of people in only one case, occurring only after a long series of technological developments. Writing or proto-writing has been developed mult...

writing is artifact... as natural as computers... I think writing is a lot more natural than computers. Computers were developed by a relatively small group of people in only one case, occurring only after a long series of technological developments. Writing or proto-writing has been developed mult...

Brexit.

/m n ɲ ŋ/ <Pn Tn Cn Kn> /p b t d c ɟ k g q ʔ/ <P Pg T Tg C Cg K Kg R Q> /f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ h/ <F Fg Th Tv S Sg X Xg Z Zg Kh Kv Rh Rv H Hg Qh> /ts dz tʃ dʒ tɕ dʑ cç ɟʝ kx gɣ/ <Sc Sj Xc Xj Zc Zj Cc Cj Kc Kg> /l ɭ~ɽ~ɖ~ɖʲ ʎ ɾ r j ɥ w ɰ/ <Ty L Cy D Dr Cy Cw Kw Ky> /ɬʲ~ʎ̝̊ ɮʲ~ʎ̝/ <Tx Dx>...

Another way of looking at it is to take the word 'natural' to mean not just part nature generally, but part of our nature. As in, a behavior humans have an inherent, cross cultural propensity to do. In which case no, writing is clearly not natural. It's not natural for the majority of people, but i...

"gonna" "gotta" "gimme" "lemme" (I have the pin-pen merger, but "gimme" and "lemme" don't rhyme for me.) "walkie-talkie" "video" "radio" "movie" "blu ray" "toilet" "dictionar...

This way, only 35 symbols, all occurring on most keyboards, are used to romanise 69 sounds in a completely logical and aesthetically pleasing way. Logical, yes, but I’m not sure how aesthetic I think it is… I was sort of joking, although I actually do like the result. A random text: /kʼɨɲɑdʑ ɢʁɨʕeq...

I’m wondering how everyone will romanize this phonology: /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n jn qn> /p t k q ʔ/ <p t k qk 7> /pʼ tʼ kʼ qʼ/ <p7 t7 k7 qk7> /b d g ɢ/ <b d g qg> /ts tʂ tʃ tɕ kx qχ/ <ts rts cts jts kx qkx> /tsʼ tʂʼ tʃʼ tɕʼ kxʼ qχʼ/ <ts7 rts7 cts7 jts7 kx7 qkx7> /dz dʐ dʒ dʑ gɣ ɢʁ/ <dz rdz cdz jdz g8 qg8> /...

Mi memba dis tel. Fa fo-mi ahkayf, mi tahn dis wen 19 Janyuri 2016. Oba it insay nof rong rong, so minu nestahn im: Dis man sit lon, im a sat sat fo so. An olda bis kom wok, an tok se “Minu in won yu sat sat. Yu les as olda ting a dem yu won, an yu a go af dem.” Man-ya tok se “Mi won gut ay.” Volca...

[ˈhæstə] [ˈwɔnə] ~ [ˈwɔnʊw] [a̟ː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ a̠ː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ ɑː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ ɑː(ᵊ)ɰ] ([ɫ] does some wierd stuff to all my vowels) [wa̟ːᵊɫ ~ wa̠ː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ wɑː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ wɑː(ᵊ)ɰ wɪˑ ˈɻʷætɪ(t’̚) ~ ˈɻʷædɪ(t’̚)] [f(ə)ɻʷə ˈwa̟ːᵊɫ ~ wa̠ː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ wɑː(ᵊ)ɫ ~ wɑː(ᵊ)ɰ] [ˈkʰæɻʷᵊmᵊɫ] [ˈtʰe̞lᵊˌvɪʐᵊn] [wɯːɫmaˑt’̚ ~ ˈwʊ̠ːɰmaˑt’̚] [tʰwe̞n(t)iˈt...

[ˌgou̟̯nə ~ gənə ~ ənə] with the schwa being replaced by [ʊw] before a vowel. [ʃʊ(d)ᵊnt’̚ ~ ʃʊ(d)ᵊnʔ ~ ʃʊᵊn(ʔ)] [ʃʊ(d)ᵊn(t)ᵊv] [ˈstaːtɪŋtə ~ ˈstaːtənə ~ ˈstaːʔnə] (with [ʊw] again) [hæftə ~ hæftʊw] [vgɔtə ~ vgɔ(d)ə] (also [ʊw] or [vgɔᵊw]) [dɪdᵊnt’̚ ~ dɪdᵊnʔ ~ dɪᵊn(ʔ)] [kʰaːnt’̚ ~ kʰaːnʔ] [wou̟̯nt’̚ ...

Xwtek wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:29 am How do you see a phonology of a language with a given seed?

I think you have to download the offline version which lets you choose the seed. I've never worked out how to get it to work though.

This must be one of the most amazing orthographies I’ve ever seen. And what font are you using? I can’t see ꟃ, and I can’t find any fonts which support it either. But according to Wikipedia it looks like this: The ꟃ shows up in Symbola for me. _______________________________________________________...

Yeah, I suppose those are pretty unusual. One other unusual thing I forgot: my ‘aspiration’ for /t/ is actually mostly affrication, so resolute and said to himself should really be [ˈɻʷe̞zəˌɫʉːʔtˢʰ]~[ˌɻʷe̞zəˈɫʉːʔtˢʰ] and [ˈse̞d̚tˢə̆ɪmˌse̞(ɰ~w)f]~[ˈse̞d̚tˢəhɪmˌse̞(ɰ~w)f]. Ah, that makes more sense.

resolutely logarithm Iran Iranian nobly said to himself [ˌɻʷe̞zəˈɫʉˑt’ ̚lɪi̯] [ˈlɔgəˌɻʷɪðᵊm] [ɪˈɻʷaːn] [ɪˈɻʷæi̯nɪi̯ᵊn] [nɔʉ̟̯blɪi̯] [ˈse̞t’ ̚tʊw(h)ɪmˌsɛɫf] I have an Australian accent as well (although people often tell me I sound South African), and I was surprised to see how close my pronunciatio...

The reason there's [ɫ] in "resolutely" is because it's following a schwa. The velarisation/darkness isn't as strong as it is in the coda, but it is definitely darker than "logarithm." I probably should have been consistent and used [ᵊ] ([ˌɻʷe̞zᵊˈɫʉˑt’ ̚lɪi̯]). Interesting, I had...