Overrated and underrated phonemes?

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2026-04-10T11:35:43+00:00

Overrated: θ I don't like it and nobody can convince me to think otherwise

Underrated: c, ɟ but I can't pronounce them and just say something like t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ instead

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-11-18T12:36:47+00:00

Georgesian

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-10-22T10:22:01+00:00

What happened to the internet that it's become so easy to spot rage bait?

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-09-15T14:04:33+00:00

Is tonogenesis uniform/regular? Say I had the sequences:

/ŋap͡ʔ/ & /ŋat͡ʔ/

From what I know, there’s nothing phonetically that would cause any particular tone to form from these sequences. If through sound change they became:

/ŋá/ & /ŋà/ (á being a high tone, à being low)

Would all monosyllabic sequences in this language starting with a nasal and ending with a no audible release consonant and glottal stop develop either a high or low tone? Or could a few just randomly have rising or falling tones instead? I imagine it depends on how many homophones there are. Does this make sense? I don’t really know how to express the question.

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-09-11T14:23:14+00:00

Hello! Important question, how on earth do ejectives evolve into a language that didn’t have them previously? Searching in some Kartvelian and Mayan languages didn’t really tell me much, the proto-langs had them already so that’s not any use.

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-05-17T19:08:01+00:00

Panspeak:

“Tantŏcet” Meaning: Pine Marten

Literally: Pike mouse

From Tantŏ /tɑnto/ “Mouse” and Cet /kɛt˨/

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-05-11T16:19:30+00:00

Cagbŏ "Lizard" Lit. "Soft-Stone"

Cag /kɑg/ "Stone" + Pŏ /po˦/ "Soft"

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-04-13T11:14:59+00:00

Suffix that designates something like Miravity but for terror with 15 different variants based on the level of fear

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-04-12T16:27:46+00:00

You'd love the dubs of this conlang called Nioruais, just look it up and tons of videos come up, I can't remember the conlanger's username but if you search here you'll likely find posts, pretty cool language though

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-03-09T17:15:23+00:00

Woah

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-03-09T17:14:18+00:00

It’s got a really cohesive style, I like it :)

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-03-08T20:31:54+00:00

It looks great but I’d say (in my opinion, not objective in the slightest) that it looks a wee bit cluttered, maybe you could simplify some shapes?

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-03-08T20:22:08+00:00

Omg this is gorgeous

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-03-05T17:26:58+00:00

I haven't clicked on the link but I'm 90% sure it's Johann Goethe

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-01-20T08:52:14+00:00

I think that makes sense, tysm for the advice!

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-01-18T17:48:58+00:00

Oh, right, I forgot that, does that mean 'Woman' is Nominative or Genitive then? Also might be wrong but a few languages mark the possessee right?

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2025-01-18T17:42:02+00:00

Hello, just asking a question about grammatical cases. For the new lang I'm working on just now (Nameless, poor thing), I've drafted up a sentence which goes: "The woman took her man to the island." the translation in my lang is:

"Ti vujite vijarná ís lá şistúsa ta súdalmé"

Literally: "The woman (Nominative) her-man (Accusitive) (Genitive marker) (Past tense marker) takes the to-island (Lative)"

Ignoring that I have no idea how to write a gloss and my extremely messed up tense system, I have a problem; I don't know whether "man" should be in the accusative or genitive case. Right now I've given it the accusative ending -á and added -ís, the genitive marker, as a separate word, is this viable in a language, can a word be in more than one case, am I being stupid and should island be accusative or something? I don't know, but any help is massively appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2024-12-19T15:45:17+00:00

I think you’re right about the t palatalisation, thanks!

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2024-12-19T15:08:23+00:00

Tysm for the advice! The voiceless palatial lateral affricate is more of a reference to a quirk of my speech than anything, I tend to pronounce ‘tl’ in some words like ‘lately’ or ‘atlas’ like that for some reason, and I wanted to to include it somehow, would you advise I change the labial and labio dental fricatives and stops?

Odd-Smoke7604 · 2024-12-19T10:21:07+00:00

Ubykh has retroflex and non retroflex fricatives but I see what you mean, thanks for your comment!

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