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Suomalainen Varis wrote:I see. I'm not sure if I'll use it at all, because I'm not sure if stress can really makes any difference. I know that for English, certain words have the same written form, but the only difference is on the stress.
Suomalainen Varis wrote:So, what's the point in English about having stress systems that distinguish certain words (for example: OVERflow, overFLOW) if English has a SVO? Isn't that possible to recognize the word only by its position in a sentence?
razlem wrote:I know of absolutely no one who uses Solresol. You might find one or two enthusiasts online, but I don't think there's a living community :/
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Toki pona is a constructed language containing less than 150 words.
Many of them have got multiple and very broad-scope meanings.[...]
But there also are many other possible interpretations. So I wonder if there is a way to use toki pona without that "riddle" solving aspect. I.e. to simply communicate. And I do know that this question is a difficult one, it even is
more difficult than it seems at first glance.
IpseDixit wrote:Would this be a particularly weird vowel inventory for a natural language?
/ɐ/ /e/ /o/ /y/
IpseDixit wrote:What about /ɐ/ /e/ /ø/ /o/?
IpseDixit wrote:What about /ɐ/ /e/ /ø/ /o/?
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Also, since I'm entertaining the idea of having another go at conlanging and one of the few things I know about my possible future conlang is that it will isolating, do you know some good books that explain how isolating languages work?
Ser wrote:Would you like me to write a post broadly comparing Mandarin, Classical Chinese and Ju|'hoan (a Kx'a language from the Khoisan area)? I'd find that fun at least.
Ser wrote:Would you like me to write a post broadly comparing Mandarin, Classical Chinese and Ju|'hoan (a Kx'a language from the Khoisan area)? I'd find that fun at least.
Ser wrote:Would you like me to write a post broadly comparing Mandarin, Classical Chinese and Ju|'hoan (a Kx'a language from the Khoisan area)? I'd find that fun at least.
Ser wrote:You already know some Indonesian
mizuz wrote:My conlang is still at a very embryonic stage but I'm planning to make it head-final and SOV (don't know if this is of any importance when it comes to relative clauses).
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