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Re: Let's create a tonal language!

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fluffykitty wrote: November 21st, 2020, 5:12 pm
BokaBB wrote: November 21st, 2020, 4:58 pm Should we remove /ə/ then?I didn't quite understood what you meant with ,,Okay.". If not,we need a way to write it. Maybe a digraph?
Yes, let's remove it.
BokaBB wrote: November 21st, 2020, 4:58 pm The links with the pronunciations of the rare sounds MUST be in the spreadsheet.
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BokaBB wrote: November 21st, 2020, 4:58 pm I think we need to make at least some words, just to mark that we began this seriously.
Not necessarily. For Hunting's project we didn't make any words or affixes until around page 5.
Okay if you say so.
Let's discuss some phonotactics.
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What about write tones like this?

á = high tone
a = low tone
aá = rising tone
áa = falling tone

/a/ = a
/e/ = e
/i/ = i
/o/ = o
/u/ = u

/b/ = b
/c/ = c
/d/ = d
/f/ = f
/g/ = g
/j/ = j
/k/ = k
/l/ = l
/m/ = m
/n/ = n
/p/ = p
/r/ = r
/s/ = s
/t/ = t
/ʈʂ/ or /tʃ/ = ch?
/v/ = v

/x/ = h?
/ɣʷ/ = w?
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Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: November 21st, 2020, 7:33 pm What about write tones like this?

á = high tone
a = low tone
aá = rising tone
áa = falling tone

/a/ = a
/e/ = e
/i/ = i
/o/ = o
/u/ = u

/b/ = b
/c/ = c
/d/ = d
/f/ = f
/g/ = g
/j/ = j
/k/ = l
/l/ = l
/m/ = m
/n/ = n
/p/ = p
/r/ = r
/s/ = s
/t/ = t
/ʈʂ/ or /tʃ/ = ch?
/v/ = v

/x/ = h?
/ɣʷ/ = w?
I don't think anything special yet,but let's ask people.
You made mistake with /k/. It will be k,sure.
Instead of x we now have a similar sound with some w above. We shall label it x and /ɣ/ with w shall be written as y.
I have no problem with the rest.
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Fixed typo with /k/, but the sound /ɣʷ/ sounds closer to /w/ for me.

This system of tones was used by Láadan:

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á = high tone
a = low tone
aá = rising tone
áa = falling tone
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Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 4:58 am Fixed typo with /k/, but the sound /ɣʷ/ sounds closer to /w/ for me.
But we also have /w/ and x is actually x with w above.
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I didn't know we already have /w/.
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I don't think we should have both /w/ and /ɣʷ/. They sound too similar.
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fluffykitty wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:06 am I don't think we should have both /w/ and /ɣʷ/. They sound too similar.
But I am not sure will the language still be natural - like.
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What do you think, should this language be monosyllabic or not?
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BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:35 am But I am not sure will the language still be natural - like.
I've heard good things about using sound changes to make a naturalistic conlang. Maybe we should try that here.
BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:43 am What do you think, should this language be monosyllabic or not?
Probably not.
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fluffykitty wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:45 am
BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:35 am But I am not sure will the language still be natural - like.
I've heard good things about using sound changes to make a naturalistic conlang. Maybe we should try that here.
BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:43 am What do you think, should this language be monosyllabic or not?
Probably not.
Probably we should try that.
Do you accept Entity Valkyrie 2's suggestions?
Also, what is your native language? You either never said that or I forgot.
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BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:47 am Probably we should try that.
Okay. This might be useful.
BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:47 am Do you accept Entity Valkyrie 2's suggestions?
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BokaBB wrote: November 22nd, 2020, 5:47 am Also, what is your native language? You either never said that or I forgot.
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So will we have 3 or 4 tones?
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Please start being here again.
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I don't think anyone here's really interested in this language.
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fluffykitty wrote: November 24th, 2020, 5:47 pm I don't think anyone here's really interested in this language.
You are proving the opposite I think.
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Let's make this!
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In the tonal languages often not all words are tonal. Even Chinese has some non-tonal words.
What we should do here?
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BokaBB wrote: December 23rd, 2020, 3:05 pm In the tonal languages often not all words are tonal. Even Chinese has some non-tonal words.
What we should do here?
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Common words should probably be tonal.
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Schiaparelliorbust wrote: December 23rd, 2020, 3:15 pm
BokaBB wrote: December 23rd, 2020, 3:05 pm In the tonal languages often not all words are tonal. Even Chinese has some non-tonal words.
What we should do here?
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Common words should probably be tonal.
No doubt,if not all.
Phonotactics?
Also, please improve the quality of our sheet.
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