Zompist Bboard Again

Welcome! The gherkins and tea will be arriving shortly... I was wondering whether we still did that! I’m glad we still are. You can actually get quite far with a language without figuring out its context — for my most well-developed language, I still know absolutely nothing about the world it’s spo...

Welcome! The gherkins and tea will be arriving shortly... I tend to find I create languages (really most of the time language sketchs) based on some particular thing or other that I have had the idea to work with after having read about it. My currently most developed conlang Asta , for example, spr...

At the time, people were fed up with Blair (and Brown), but the three Tories since have gotten progressively worse. Retrospectively, Blair wasn't all that bad: he did introduce devolution and House of Lords Reform in his first term and improved the NHS. He later jumped shark with the Iraq War dossi...

The sample texts are generally the most useful as they're the ones that are most consistently being read by native speakers (the only exceptions being the ancient languages for obvious reasons). The phrases are frequently either the channel hos (who's alright but rather frequently misses out some bi...

Yet again we are being shown that our governments are full of far more wilful stupidity and anti-intellectualism than we thought, and wishing that we'd got a Corbyn government (because this is a situation where not being pro-business is the only good position). This is a hard one to judge. I agree ...

Yet again we are being shown that our governments are full of far more wilful stupidity and anti-intellectualism than we thought, and wishing that we'd got a Corbyn government (because this is a situation where not being pro-business is the only good position).

I'll specifically guess Ikema Miyako and Kott.

Are we counting Bougainville as an independent country now?

Apparently the lockdown rules which apply to everyone else didn't apply to the PM's most senior advisor Beelzebub, a.k.a Dominic Cummings: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/23/new-witnesses-cast-doubt-on-dominic-cummingss-lockdown-claims I suspect Boris will try to just weather this bec...

I'm passing by this thread while reading something applicable, so here's an example given in IPA: Xaːnædn̩ʲ kyrtʃ irnæː. Neg ykʏ̆sn̩ kʉːg neg kʉːn ysʏ̆næːsn̩ʲ tataːd̥ gøbdɛːd̥ bæːdɐɢ̥ bolnæː. "Odaː ykʏ̆dʒ-od̥sn̩ kʉːg gøbdɛːd̥ bæːxɐ, jaːksn muː xøwtæː kʉːnbtʃ?" "Ʉːnlæː daln̩ tawn̩ ars...

I'm kinda having a massive problem placing the US in my head right now. On the one hand I utterly despise the regime in place there and the sheer amount and dominance of hind-bound conservatism in its political system, completely skewing comparative political discourse in the western world (like the...

ɲā pjāŋ tə̀màŋ mā. ɲā kúʔ và. çwè də̀ pɨ̀. àŋjā. àŋjā mjɛ́màŋkɔ̄ n̩tū. n̩tū mjɛ́màŋkɔ̄ tʰái n̩dì kāŋ. tʰái tʰàŋ sànà. tʰáŋʔ də̀ ʃwì də́ʔ plū plà, plū pí plà. ʃwì də́ʔ plū plà plā bə̀tà plà plū plà àŋ jɛ́ŋ, àŋ kə̀mwàŋ, ú θì, àŋ θàŋ θà. pʰúʔ də̀ pʰā nāŋ lə̀kwālò, nāŋ lə̀kwālò də̀ àŋ lə̀kwālò. ɲāpū àŋ...

OK, so there isn't a voicing contrast it stops it seems, <jm> I think probably implies a voiceless nasal, <ng> seems like a velar nasal?, I'm guessing the diacritics on vowels are contours and the marks afterward are tone levels. The lack of retroflexes appear to rule out much of the eastern branch ...

OK, so the <gü> seems pretty indicative of a Spanish-majority region, so let's provisionally say Latin America?

Also are the punctuation marks tones?

Anyone enthusiastic about Boris' murky message? I have to say, we're not really interested in when wild oats Johnson of all people thinks it's time for our son to go back to school. Especially because my wife has chest problems anyway and had a bad case of pneumonia a year or two ago, and our son n...

It's a Tonda language, either Komnzo or Nen (since these are the only Tonda languages I know that don't write the schwa) - and since it has too many vowels for it to be Nen I'll just guess Komnzo. Wow guess I should read up on more Tonda languages to pick ones that aren't so distinctive, well done ...

cedh wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 8:53 amPapuan?

Yes

Oceanic? No Are you entirely sure this isn’t a conlang? (I’m sure it’s not, but it looks so strange that I feel like I have to ask.) I must say the punctuation is odd. Or is this just Frislander's view on applying European punctuation rules to non-Latin script languages? So, is it normally written ...

Yes. (Which variety, though?) Well given the absence of orthographic <l> this appears to rule out Northern and Western, so Eastern perhaps? Anyhow, next language. bänema kwaŋatrikwé... nzefé. fenz ane maneŋonathrth... kwosifr kabeaneme... bthan kabeyé. trikasi zrethkäfé. bthan kabe fthé fenz yonasi...

Tarahumara?