cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25662741

I'm thinking about conlangs for creatures with different phonetic possibilities than humans, particularly birds with both syrinx and larynx. Does anything like the IPA already exist for these sounds?

I hope this practice tool will help.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19732693

Hello.

Gamified Language Learning Tool in Godot 4.x

I was working on this several months ago, but decided to completely restart and try again two weeks ago. Had a lot of business to take care of so could only do a few sessions of work.

Primary reason as to why I scrapped the first project was because I could not figure out a proper "green theming" and colors for the various Android screens. What it looks like on my computer can be totally different. I had the same issue with F

Here's my idea of what a completely hummed language could look like, refined from my post on c/neography a couple weeks ago (here). It only uses 4 or so different sounds, /Ɂ/, /h/, /m/, /ɴ/, /m̰/, & /ɴ̰/, all but two of which can have any combination of 5 pitches to make an arbitrary number of tones.

I won't go into much detail on how exactly the writing system works since it's mostly unchanged from my first post about it. Tones are made by stacking pitches from top to bottom, alternating between the left and right sides. The bottommost pitch is always on the left. Words are read from top to bottom and left to right. A diagonal line can be added above the horizontal bar tones connect to to show that a tone uses /ɴ/ instead of /m/. A bare vertical line lengthens the last pitch of the previous tone and an arch connecting two tones marks something between an affricate and a diphthong, as opposed to having a slight pause (but not a glottal stop) betwe

A few years ago I came across a conlang that was created by people speaking different languages together. I think the goal was to create a more "natural" company. Anyone know what it could be?

I'm indecisive about how to best distinguish dental and palatal phones in my WIP Indo-European cloŋ in the script of the Romans. The full consonant inventory and their current orthographic values are in the image above.

Some options I'm considering:

• t̪ c d̪ ɟ θ ç n̪ ɲ - The phonemes in question.
• t tc d dg s sj n gn - Their current assignments.
• t tj d dj s sj n nj - All Js. Looks nice and intuitive, but a bit monotonous.
• t ć d ǵ s ś n ń - The choice of diacritics is another matter. Looks clean, but they might fall victim to English speakers treating them as meaningless decorations.
• p t b d f s m n - Quasi-etymological. Looks okay, and makes it easier to spot cognates, but misleading and unintuitive.

Edit: I have no idea how to get tables working in Lemmy, so for now I've replaced the table with a screenshot from the Reddit thread.

Example sentence from a new section on case-stacking affixes:

Ẓulá mu eňtyarka bzmarulye’na äšgulayâ ro.
‘see’-DYN-[default C_A]-OBS ma/NEU-IND STEM2-PRC-‘written.page’-MSC/COA-THM ‘rat’-G-RLT-TPF1/3-RLT-PRN CPT-‘capture’-DYN-[default C_A]-RTR-REC 1m/BEN-ERG
‘S/he looks at the book about the rats I captured.’

transafiŝita el: https://lemmy.ml/post/837623

Simple:

• Patr'o: ĝeneralseksa patro.
• Patr'in'o: ina patro.
• Vir'patr'o: vira patro.
• Vir'patr'in'o: interseksa patro

Instru'ist' enhavis viran sencon; sed nun tio enhavas ĝeneralseksan sencon.

Simply:

• Patr'o: for parent
• Patr'in'o: for female parent
• Vir'patr'o: for male parent
• Vir'patr'in'o: for intersex parent

Instru'ist' used to have a male sense; but now it has a unsexed sense.

Original comics

The text on the right is the title text.

Gloss

(Lemmy parsed these dotted gloss as links, smh)

Ponytail: ! this-prize-nom.mt.sg Nobel-gen.mt.sg you-dat.wo.sg weexclusive-nom.plaward-ind.prs.prf

Hairy: ! that-nom.sg be-ind.prs.cnt rock-nom.ea.sg

Ponytail: . yes but if you-nom.wo.sg look-sub.prs.prf other-angle-abl.mt.sg,

Text:

. NASA start-ind.prs.prf award new-prize-acc.mt.sg people-dat.ea.plwho-nom.pl say-ind.prs.prf world-computer-net-dat.mt.sg infind life.acc.wo.sg fire-star-gen.fi.sg number-picture-dat.fi.pl

Title text:

. fire-star-gen.fi.sg life-acc.wo.sg find-gen.ea.sg topurpose,make-sub.prs.prf picture-machine-acc.mt.sg and it-acc.mt.sg send-sub.prs.prffire-star-dat.fi.sg . that-when-dat after searchfor-sub.prs.prfdog-acc.ea.pl and plant-acc.wo.pl picture-dat.fi.pl in

Translation note:

• NASA is an organization so its name isn't translated if not necessary.
• "Mars" whose translation is literally "Fire star", is a calq

Entesùka [éntêska] is a personal conlang made by me. It doesn't try very hard to be naturalistic as much as it tries to be aesthetic. In this post I'll go over a translation I made of the first verse of this song.

English:

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we are too small for this home, too quiet
feel it burning in your bones
now feel your skin crawl as the flames leap higher
try to resist their call

  

Entesùka:

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Cefù reotài rir mâkjio Dam, tài kàire
Bor care mârào Tsenj
Kao, borxu Tsatsae kôikaotang, Tsikare
Pom rainjfùo Tsong

  

The word order is a simple, kind of boring SVO. The first letter of a sentence, and the first letter of every noun are capitalized.

Cefù reotài rir mâkjio Dam, tài kàire literally means "we are too small to this home, too quiet". Cefù means we. Tài means "to be too much of something". Verbs agree with their subject and objects - cefù in this context is human animate, so the verb gets the rèo pr