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How do languages make lemmata from root words?
(Google tells me the plural of "lemma" could be "lemmas" or "lemmata", so i chose the latter. Please tell me if it's wrong.)
From reading online and offline sources, I've ...
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Should non-sibilant fricatives be treated like plosives or fricatives?
I don't like ending my words with plosives, because my native language tends to not audibly pronounce them. I prefer to stick to fricatives and nasals for codas. However, I'm unsure where non-sibilant ...
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Breaking out of the 'derive everything' trap?
Conlang guides often recommend you derive words wherever you can, only generating new roots when no form of compounding can work.
Problem is, as the 'natural meta language' demonstrates, most words ...
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Is this lojban sentence grammatically correct?
Is "ta se klama" grammatically correct?
Could I say "That is gone to" in lojban, without adding a zo'e to my sentence?
Or would it have to be "That is gone to by something&...
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For writing a grammar, benefit of linguistic vs "readable" terminology
I am writing a grammar for my conlang. I imagine finishing it and hiring a grad student or somebody to read it for comments, but otherwise, realistically, it probably has no other audience than myself ...
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Can the suffixes of an agglutinative language include morphemes which are also part of the base verb/noun word forms?
One thing that makes it hard to imagine how agglutinative languages could work is how they can handle when the suffix is also included in the base verb/noun word forms.
So say we are translating "...
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Are there things that commonly end sentences other than verbs?
I'm copy-pasting this from the linguistics board because someone recommended that and I'm not getting any replies there. I'm not expecting much given the luck I've been having on here, but w/e.
I've ...
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Is it natural to declare laterals and rhotics as a fortis/lenis pair?
I've sought for justification for the phoneme inventory of my conlang, but finally, I think I found one, at least for consonants.
순음 Labial
설음 Coronal
반설음 "Semi-coronal"
치두음 Front Sibilant
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What made Tolkien's diachronics purposefully not naturalistic?
Somewhere else I heard that Tolkien's languages had some purposeful non naturalistic diachronics with stuff like elvish languages having the elves make some purposeful changes to them partially due to ...
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Syllabic plosives
Fricatives and Sonorants can be in a nucleus of a syllable. Can plosives also act as a syllable? If so, do any of your conlangs have this feature?
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I am constructing my own language and I need one more consonant [closed]
I am constructing my own language and I need one more consonant other than BCChDDz, FGHJK, LLyMNNy, PRSShT, and VYZZh.
C is Ts, Ch is as in China, Dz is Italian soft J/G, J is Dy/Dj/DZh
W is too ...
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Translate into quenya
I want to translate those sentences in quenya :
One ring to show our love,
One ring to seal our love,
One ring to spread our light,
And forever to make us bright
This gives with latin letters the ...
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How does this phoneme inventory look? [closed]
How does this phoneme inventory look and any roles for them? Like, how should these be used, what they look like, and how hard it may be for people to comprehend:
a - [a]
ā - [aː]
å - [ø]
ä - [ɛ/ɑ]
â -...
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Is there a good reason not to reverse the letters 𐑓 and 𐑝 in Shavian?
In the Shavian alphabet, the letter 𐑓 makes an f sound and 𐑝 makes a "v" sound. It seems reasonable that these two letters should be reversed, since 𐑝 looks like an f. To stay consistent ...
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A conlang with a 'compressed' writing system?
I'm making this since now I think an 'abjad' isn't what I actually had in mind. I was thinking of a system where the vowels don't have to be written, because they're always obvious. Essentially, my ...
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