Brinolia’s Linguistic Learning

Habitat - “ dwelling in rainy forests, marshes, and damp caves.” Biology - “ Bullywugs have green, gray, or mottled yellow skin that shifts through shades of gray, green, and brown, allowing them to blend in with their surroundings.” “ These frog-headed amphibious humanoids must stay constantly moist”  Usually have 4 fingers/hand “Bullywugs are usually about the dimensions of a dwarf, but can vary wildly, standing 4'-7', and weighing 100-300 lbs. Your size is Medium.” “ Bullywugs are able to live for about half the amount of time humans do. They are considered mature at age 12, and typically live to be 50-60 years old.” — OR — “ Bullywugs emerge from their tadpole stage to fend for themselves after 6 to 8 weeks, however only one percent of bullywugs reach adulthood, living up to about 70 years if they don't die a brutal death.” Can breathe underwater and in the air.  Cultural norms - “ Bullywugs consider themselves the right and proper rulers of the swamps. They follow an...

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Let's record the next couple months of yppah yadhtrib names today starting w/ acinaD!  Show me your Bullywug consonant and vowel charts and tell me about your thinking behind those. Share with me what you learned from the David J. Peterson video this week.  Show me your Bullywug phonetics and phonotactics so far and talk about what needs to happen next. (Here's a tool for phonology building that you might like to explore) Create a blog post telling about Bullywug characteristics (culture, tendencies, biology, habitat). You can copy-paste from other resources. This is just a post of references we can return to as we discuss your language. Finish your phonotactics first draft (it can always be revised later) Let's watch some frog sound videos for inspiration / comparison 🐸 Re-read pp. 50–56 in The Language Construction Kit   and fill in the Lexicon spreadsheet for Bullywug . Create 25–100 words from the Swadesh list  and put them in a blog post . Does your languag...

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To be up to date, make sure you have posted/published your phonologies for Mandarin, Koine Greek, and Spanish (indicate the sounds you missed, maybe with a different font color). Also post your answers to the related questions. Also, please take a stab at vowel charts for your three languages and compare them to an online source, to each other, and to English). We'll hopefully record our yppaH yadhtriB video today. ++++++++++++++ Let's finish looking at diacritics. Watch these: Part 3: Vowel diacritics Part 4: Consonant diacritics Part 5: Review / less useful diacritics  (optional) ++++++++++++++ We're going to start applying our phonological learning to creating a new spoken language. Watch the next section (from ~15 mins till the next natural subject change) of  this video on creating a language in 1 hour . In it, David J. Peterson leads people through the process of choosing sounds for a language. I want you to make your own choices (rather than following what they are d...

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