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My conlang has six vowels. They are the same as Spanish plus schwa. How could I represent them since vowel harmony is based on height? Should I have a separate letter for each phoneme or just condense it to three vowels /a e o/ and have their sounds depend on vowel harmony? There is also nasal harm...

My conlang has six vowels. They are the same as Spanish plus schwa. How could I represent them since vowel harmony is based on height? Should I have a separate letter for each phoneme or just condense it to three vowels /a e o/ and have their sounds depend on vowel harmony? There is also nasal harmo...

I am trying to create a vowel system, but I don't really know what vowels I like other than [ɐ], [ʊ] and [y]. Personally, I feel that vowels like and [e] are too close together and a lot of languages seem to have both of them. The same goes for [o] and . Also, I don't know if I prefer [e] over [ɛ] ...

I am trying to create a vowel system, but I don't really know what vowels I like other than [ɐ], [ʊ] and [y]. Personally, I feel that vowels like and [e] are too close together and a lot of languages seem to have both of them. The same goes for [o] and . Also, I don't know if I prefer [e] over [ɛ] ...

I am trying to create a vowel system, but I don't really know what vowels I like other than [ɐ], [ʊ] and [y]. Personally, I feel that vowels like and [e] are too close together and a lot of languages seem to have both of them. The same goes for [o] and . Also, I don't know if I prefer [e] over [ɛ] o...

Could you have multiple forms of vowel harmony in one language like say ATR and nasal harmony, or is that a no-no?

Hello. I think it looks like a nice start. One thing I'm wondering about is what kind of suprasegmental features the language has? Does it have phonemic pitch, stress, etc? If stress is not phonemic, what are the rules for assigning phonetic stress? Some advice about how to present your phonology: ...

Hello. Namasan is my current conlang and I want to know how it sounds to other people before I get too committed to the phonology and vocabularly. Below is the phonology. /a/-ɐ /e/- e /i/- i, y /o/- o /u/- ɯ Consonants: /b/- b /d/- d /g/- g /h/- h, x /j/- tʃ /k/- k /l/- l /m/- m, ɱ /n/- n /ng/- ŋ /n...

Thanks for all the responses! I have one more quick question. Idk if I want Namasan to be agglutinating, fusional, or isolating. Most of the world's languages are agglutinating and it may be very interesting. Isolating languages also look cool, but they seem to limiting. Most of my early conlangs we...

Well, I haven't made much progress as keep starting over.

I was struggling with having nasal harmony while have words that had nasal consonants that do not nasalize vowels. I just decided that pronouns are not nasalize do.

If you don't have any articles in your language, how would you mark gender for nouns? As Micamo said, you can perfectly fine leave the nouns unmarked for gender. In fact, rather than thinking how to mark gender on nouns, you should decide where else in the grammar is gender important. Strictly spea...

If you don't have any articles in your language, how would you mark gender for nouns? I know I could use an affix and maybe a particle (idk about the latter) to mark a noun's gender. The only issue is if I make the masculine suffix -o and the feminine suffix -a and there are no articles, the nouns w...

Please correct me if I am wrong. I am in no way qualified to do so. Namasan has nasal harmony, two separate forms of 'we' (inclusive and exclusive) and alienable and inalienable possession. So far, so good. [:)] Also, is there any correlation between word order and whether a language is nominative ...

Chinese is predominantly SVO, not English-y, and does topic/focus stuff. Yeah, I like Chinese as it is pretty unique compared to European languages. Another concern about the SVO word order is that Namasan was inspired by Austronesian languages (or is it Austroasiatic), which have a SVO word order ...

I'm trying to decide the word order of my conlang, Namasa, and I am debating between VSO, SVO, OSV. English is my native language, so I feel like SVO would make it to English-y. I have also borrowed influences from Spanish since the conlang has extensive verb conjugation like Spanish. It also places...

The only issue I am having is that I want the word 'mizhuk' (the 'zh' is pronounced as a voiced 'th' and the 'u' is the same as the Japanese 'u') but according to the grammar rules, the /i/ will have to be nasalized, but I don't want it to be nasalized in that particular word. This would be inconsi...

Hello, I'm new! [:D] My current conlang uses nasal harmony so that anytime a vowel comes right after a nasal consonant, it is nasalized along with all succeeding vowels. The nasalization only stops at a consonant that is not a nasal or liquid, and therefore no vowel coming after the blocker are nasa...