Hi, Roger has been transferred to a Re-Hab home here in Holland. I thought I'd give you his address and phone number in case you would like to get in touch...
More ramblings on the Ethiopian natlang Hamer. As far as I've been able to figure out, there's no writing system for it, either de facto or de jure. I reckon...
The current standard dialect of Tirelat has 7 vowels: front /a/ /e/ /i/, central // /y/, and back /o/ /u/. I notice that the back vowels /o/ and /u/ only...
One of the problems with my languages is that they don't have much of a history. As a consequence, they tend to feel artificial and overly regular. I'd like to...
I've been trying to increase my touch-typing speed recently and, as well as the usual "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" nonsense, I decided I...
I'm blind, a description would best for me. Nicole Andrews Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist Tweet me @greenNovelist ... From: "Virginia Keys"...
The vocalization apparatus of birds is completely different from ours. Yet, some bird species are not only capable to produce a wide range of different sounds,...
It's been a long, long time since I've posted to the list, which is typical for me. This time I'm wondering what lexical and linguistic software is out there. ...
I'm sorry to have to enquire about something already posted: (A couple of months?) back, someone posted a link to a sort of conculture check-list, a series of...
As stated in the text, yes/no questions in Hamer are identical in lexemes and word order to affirmative statements, with a rising pitch on the word being asked...
Hallo! Today I wish to speak of two Albic names I have recently discovered. The first name is _Madar_, which means 'middle island' in Old Albic, and has been...
Can anyone recommend a site from which I can download the Tengwar font for WordPerfect? I'm rather paranoid about downloading sites! Does anyone know if any...
For Asirka, I have been thinking about days of the week. I was thinking of deriving the names from the biblical creation narrative. I'm not sure though how...
Mev Pailom* is very verb-oriented; there are small classes of prepositions, grammatical particles, and pronouns, and everything else so far is regularly...
Can anyone confirm what the maximal syllable is for German? CCCVCCCC ("Strumpfs") is ringing a bell from the dim and distant past, but I'm far from certain....
I've got a basic phonetics question. Cross-linguistically, in ordinary non-hyperarticulate speech, how long is a segment? I imagine it varies by segment: so...
Evertype would like to announce the publication of Donald Broadribb's translation of “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” into Esperanto, “La Aventuroj de...
I mentioned a while ago that I was working on a lang with a 2d writing system. Well, I think it has finally gotten off the ground :) It's definitely not much...
I just had a lot of ideas from a lot of widely varied sources all come together and spontaneously generate a really nice bit of grammar, and thought I'd share...
Hello conalngers, I was on a personal project and perceived that OU/OW was the only digraph/diphthong to have two different pronunciations. As long as I ...
Conlang List, On an off-topic note, I recently entered my artwork into the 3rd Ward Open Call art competition. There are a few prizes to win, but I'm really ...
A quick straw poll: I have a RomLang where some elision of final vowels could leave me with word final /kw/. This is a phonotactic no-no, but I can't decide...
Fredrik Ekman did an e-mail interview with Paul Frommer about his work on Barsoomian for the upcoming John Carter. We actually got permission from Disney to...
I find grammar, morphology, and pretty much everything about language that I've learned except for phonology to be absolutely fascinating. However, as someone...
Hi all, there's a video recording of my talk on conlangs at the Amsterdam Nerd Nite last year on YouTube now, prominently featuring Dothraki (among other...
