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Help needed!
Support for describing exactly which sounds a (spoken) language has is being added to CALS. The phoneme-data is from UPSID, but UPSID was before unicode and used ASCII symbols and not very ipa-ish descriptions of the sounds. Thus, it has been necessary to figure out which UPSID ASCII symbol goes with which IPA symbol.
This is where you can help! Head on over to the secret sound-lab and comment on those sounds whose IPA symbols or descriptions are off!
Pinned: 2010-09-05 17:29
Major power outage
At about 12:50 CET/10:50 UTC today, half the city went off the power grid. Unfortunately, the CALS-server (and your humble admin) was in the wrong half. Power was back again at around 13:50 CET/11:50 UTC and so far there seems to be no damage to any equipment. If you attempted to make any changes just before this happened they were not saved, as there were large power spikes just before lights out.
Pinned: 2010-08-06 14:32
2010-09-08 08:53 Changed language: Enamyn
2010-09-07 17:20 New language: Enamyn
peter added Enamyn to CALS.
(And that's how you greet someone in Enamyn.)
What defines your conlang?
By adding your language here, and answering the questions by choosing a single value for each relevant WALS-feature (e.g. it's not a goal to answer every single one of them!), you might discover new things in your conlang, or grammar gaps that need to be filled somehow. By reading the descriptions of each feature at WALS, you also get a crash course in linguistic typology and universals – but be warned, some of those papers are overly scholarly...
CALS challenges
- Pick some features and values at random, then try to make a language out of that.
- What would the most average conlang look like? Should it be updated to stay the most average?
- Contrary, would a conlang with many rare and unusual features be usable at all?
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