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Visions1 wrote: ↑30 May 2024 18:08 So nobody wants to throw another guess at mine?
That's totally ok, but I need confirmation, as it's still technically my turn and I haven't yet posted the answer.

As for me, I confirm.

thethief3 wrote: ↑30 May 2024 07:18 *ɸuu
*kedi
*ɸen
*pito
*ɸio
*ɸɛn
*ŋi
*ken
*ɸĩ
*kin
*kẽnã
*ɸuu

My first, maybe in advance, guess: kwendau

I just came across this website and thought it could be useful for vocabulary creation: https://semdom.org/.

@Nel Fie: Thanks, great point, I didn't think about controlling your own brain patterns. If this is possible, then I guess it's just like any other language. I was working under the assumption that this is impossible. @Sal: Great points. 1. I agree that guessing the 'analysis' does not seem possible...

I was thinking about a 'telepathic' language recently. Science *here* has made some progress in 'mind' reading. You show someone a picture of a flower, you measure brain activity. You tell the person to think of a flower and you measure brain activity. Basically, you can tell when this person is thi...

Is the combination rarer than expected? Let's do some quick and dirty statistics languages with only the tap/flap: 768 languages with the approximant: 54 languages with both: 6 If there are 2286 laguages in total, that means 2286-768-54-6=1458 languages have neither. Doing a chi-square test (dirty, ...

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑26 May 2024 11:58

Creyeditor wrote: ↑26 May 2024 09:53 Is this element theory?

What do you mean by this?

It's an alternative theory to phonological feature. Elements being privative, written between pipes |...| and able to combine or stand as a segment on their own.

Welcome
You could use PHOIBLE to try to verify the claim: https://phoible.org/

Is this element theory?

When I have some more time I can point you to some languages that have been described like this.

I would say that this looks like a pitch accent plus word melody system, which has definitely been suggested before for some natlangs. I find the terms upstep and downstep a bit confusing because they usually refer to tonal registers (the overall pitch level that tones are relative to) and not to to...

Relative clauses Relative clauses in Kobardon are introduced with the particle ut at their beginning. They employ a gapping strategy, i.e. there is neither an overt relative pronoun in the relative clause, nor a resumptive pronoun. In place of the missing argument, there is just a gap. Note, howeve...

Fredauon Fun Fact #43: The nomadic people living in the very northwest of The Continent where integreated into the Wizard Republic early on. The traditional hospitality code was codified and each district has public ground for the nomads to camp with their auk herds. They usual trade with the sessi...

Any distinction could be coded with tones.

I though syncretism could exist of the SIM form and ANT or POST forms in either the counterfactual or the non-factual forms.

I would say Counterfactual anterior or posterior. You could also introduce syncretism into the system btw.

Just wanted to mention that human scientists have of course tried to classify smell. Wikipedia has a subheading of FIDOL factors in their article on smell with one possible system.

Fredauon Fun Fact #42: One main purpose of the state in the Wizard Republic is the (re-)distribution of resources. If one part of the republic has a drought and a bad harvest, the granaries will be opened and food resources will be redirected to the affected population. This 'tax' system traditiona...

Inspired by Greek Mythology and Gnosticism?

Creyeditor, are those glosses ? Did you, like, already have knowledge of linguistics before you began? I added the glosses retroactively [:D] As I said, the whole documentation was a German-Agrigropiapicz dictionary from Aa to Ab, a few additional words, and a few DinA5 pages of notes on grammar, m...

These are sentences in the very first conlang of mine, which did not have a name. I created it when I was 10 y.o., just grammar and words, no real phonology (it is basically the german phonology) Dlen snafi iwoforn. [dlɛn ˈsna.fi ˈʔi.vo.foʁn] Dlen snafi iwofor-n. INDEF.N eel forge-VERB An eel hamme...