Conlanging & Linguistics

I love linguistics, and making conlangs. Well here's a blog for that. Most of my content will occur on other platforms such as Reddit or Discord.

[malacunen]

Another phonology/phonotactics/orthography for a conlang

This language has lexical vowel harmony with a contrast between "high" words containing [e] / [eː] and "low" words containing [a] / [aː]. Both high and low words can contain [ə]. [ə] is not effected by harmony, and blocks vowel harmony from spreading.

/k/ is written <k> at word boundaries (Word initially and finally) and <c> everywhere else.

Stress falls on the Ultimate syllable, and is generally denoted with a small increase in pitch, however its realization can vary by speaker.

Some speakers occasionally add an epenthetic [ɨ] between a some coda / onsets, especially those which have the same manner of articulation and voicing.

[malacunen]

My favorite pronoun system for my conlangs.

[malacunen]

Hello Conlangblr, I'd like to run a few ideas for a multiple base number system by you, and see which ones you all like most, or if you have any other ideas. Naturalism is the least of my priorities at this point.

I liked the idea of using multiple number bases in a conlang, as in, having two distinct number systems with different bases. The number bases I selected are base-6 and base-8, but I'd love to hear alternative ideas. Here are my ideas for how to split them:

1) Either by animacy, or some other noun class. I'd also need to decide which class gets which base.

2) My first idea is to use base-6 for smaller numbers, and base-8 for larger numbers as well as mathematics beyond addition. Base-6 would end up being used to count small sets, count money, and take attendance, as well as likely by children for games and such. (Base-6 would also be used for clocks, because base-6 clocks are just cool)

3) This one is a weird/fun one in my opinion, and I'm interested to hear what you make of it. One base would be used for cardinal numbers, while the other would be used for ordinal numbers. I can't really think of a natural reason for this, but once again, naturalism is the least of my priorities, and it just sounds fun.

I'd love to hear other ideas for splitting two number bases... this is the end of the post, I'm not sure how else to end it.

[malacunen]

My local news station sucks, and they're often not clear about what they're talking about, and they often leave out important context.

In an entire 5 minute story, the title was "Budget cuts to program may hurt program's caregivers.

Pretty standard title right? Problem is, in the spoken interview, they never actually mentioned what program, which caregivers, and for what. I watched from beginning to end. This isn't actually that unusual for this station either.

Anyways, my point is, I'm now under the assumption that the program / caregivers were for a geriatric home for sorcerers and alligators, as I have no evidence to the contrary.

[malacunen]

Quick question: Does anyone have a more detailed paper on Ubykh's vowels and their allophones? I'd like to know the specific height and backness of the base vowels, as well as the exact values of each of their allophones, as well as what specifically triggers them.

I've found some papers on the topic, but they're all too broad to the point that I don't know if Ubykh's /a/ is open, or near-open. I'm not even sure that a more detailed paper exists.

[malacunen]

Um...

[malacunen]

Yet another of my Conlang's phonologies. This time of Tolkaba [ˌtol.ka.ˈba]

There are 117 syllables total. I would have made a syllabary, but as it turns out, I'm awful at making scripts.

[pukicho]

People don’t talk enough about Ocean Spiders and IDK why, in fact it’s really hard to find any info on them anymore.

[plasmashark]

Do you mean crabs???

[pukicho]

No? I mean the fucking ocean spiders, the big ones?

[queerblackcloud-deactivated2022]

octopuses???

[pukicho]

NO, the ones that stand out of the ocean? Really

[robinthefoolish]

Oil rigs?

[pukicho]

Why can’t i find any pictures for this, these fucking things:

[imalazyhippo]

What the fuck is that

[pukicho]

It’s not a fuckin crab, I’m pretty sure this is common knowledge

[pukicho]

If it doesn’t stick out of the ocean then I don’t wanna hear it

[malacunen]

[malacunen]

A few words in my really old scripts. Functionally they're awful, but aesthetically there's something there, possibly, maybe.

[malacunen]

Sounds and stuff of a thing

It's been a while, so here you go. This is another phonology and orthography. The orthography is largely inspired by Basque, as that's what I'm learning. To be honest the orthography is just to stand in until I finish the syllabary. (Which makes this a romanization, not an orthography, but shut up, I'm too lazy to edit the document tonight.)

I'm considering killing /r/. Thoughts?

[datarep]

10 bands of latitude and longitude with equal populations

[nightwingblues]

ask and ye shall receive @nebula-nights-reblogs

[malacunen]

I'd legit buy this as a clothing design without the map underneath.

[malacunen]

A chart detailing several morphosyntactical alignments. This does not include nonstandard alignments such as Fluid-S. Please ask me if you would like a post about those as well.

[boss-of-armadildos]

Honestly, everyone should follow Justin Rye and call “transitive“ the much more sensible “Monster Raving Loony Alignment”

[conlangery]

Those “nonstandard alignments” are usually nom—acc and erg—abs hybrid systems, which are more common than pure erg—abs systems

[malacunen]

True, I guess I meant nonstandard alignments as those that are not so easily conveyed using this chart/notation, which I suppose more points out a flaw in this chart rather than anything about those alignments in particular. Massive fan by the way.

[malacunen]

Chart 1: A worksheet for students to practice constructing syllabograms in my conlang. The syllable structure is C(L)V(N). Onset & nucleus are mandatory, and form the body of a syllable. The nasal codas can be written as a diacritic, or a seperate character to the right of the syllable.

Chart 2: This is a table of various sound changes and assimilations that the nasal codas go through based on the onset of the proceeding syllable. The nasal codas fully assimilate to proceeding voiced stops.

[malacunen]

Die Nutella, or Das Nutella? Is Diehard a Christmas movie? Is it Diehard or Dashard?

[malacunen]

I did it. I developed a completely uncontested phonology of English that works for every dialect. Mail my nobel to [Address]. I think this also counts as a linguistic universal as well, so you can mail my nobels in one envelope or two, either works for me.

[malacunen]

Listen..... okay?

Also I couldn't find a style guide on whether I could leave the NP out for a sentence like this, probably because if you're creating a syntax tree for a single noun, you need to re-evaluate some choice.

[malacunen]