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{{Userpage
{{Userpage
|name=Robert Marshall Murphy
|name=Robert Marshall Murphy
|conlangs=[[Proto-Austronesian Hebrew]], [[Stilio|Parseltongue]]
|conlangs=[[Weddish]], [[Stilio|Parseltongue]], [[Proto-Polynesian Hebrew]], [[Syrenian]], [[Semitic Korean]]
|natlangs=[[English]], [[Korean]], [[Ancient Greek]], Biblical [[Hebrew]]
|natlangs=[[English]], [[Wikipedia:Korean language|Korean]], [[Wikipedia:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]], [[Wikipedia:Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Wikipedia:Aramaic language|Aramaic]], [[Wikipedia:Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Wikipedia:Akkadian language|Akkadian]], [[Wikipedia:Ugaritic language|Ugaritic]], [[Yiddish]]
|otherlangs=[[Na'vi]] language, [[Latin]]
|otherlangs=[[Na'vi]], [[Koǧan]], [[Syrunian]], [[Klingon]]
|interests=Philosophy, theology, quantum physics
|interests=Philosophy, theology, math
|birth=San Angelo, Texas, U.S.A, 1978
|birth=Planet Earth
|profession=Upper school (high school) math teacher
|profession=Upper school (high school) math teacher
|more=Feel free to contact me about anything
|more=Feel free to contact me about anything
}}
}}
Hi, I'm a 34 year old grad-school ([http://covenantseminary.edu seminary]) student who just got into conlanging.  I'd love to chat any time, so feel free to email me anything you like.
I'd love to chat any time, so feel free to email me anything you like, any time.


== Scratch pad ==
I mainly like IAL (International Auxiliary Languages), which part of [[Universal Languages]] project.  These 15 languages are (not all by me):
So, I'm attempting to conceive of a proto-lang that is completely nuts. Basically, I want to start somewhere very unnatural and make it as natural as I can. Semitic language begin with tri-consonantal roots.  What if some kind of tri-vocalic root system arose?  What would the inherent properties of the vowels be?  What would left open for completion in the verbal and nominal systems?  The easy way would've been to just come up with more than 20 vowels (plain, nasal, long, unrounded, etc.) and less than 10 consonants, to parallel the 30ish consonants and 10ish vowels of Proto-Semitic.  But taking a step back towards the naturalistic, I saw vowels don't behave like that.  Vowels affect thing around them (assuming they're in charge) or they get affected by the consonants around them.
# [[Dan'a'yo]] - 1.5 billion people in China, Japan, the Koreas, and part of Vietnam (combination of sprachbunds)
# [[Neo-Sanskrit]] - 1.4 billion people on the Indian subcontinent (Indo-Aryan)
# [[Interlingua]] - 800 million people in the Romance-speaking world (Romance of Indo-European)
# [[Folksprak]] - 500 million people in the Germanic world (Germanic of Indo-European)
# [[Kintu]] - 450 million people in the Bantusphere (Bantu of Niger-Congo)
# [[Indo-Malay]] - 380 million people in Maritime Southeast Asia
# [[Guosa]] - 340 million people in West Africa (combination of sprachbunds)
# [[Interslavic]] - 300 million in the Slavisphere (Slavic of Indo-European)
# [[Middle Semitic]] - 290 million speak the Arabics and Israeli (and Syriac) (Semitic of Afro-asiatic)
# [[MSEAL]] - 233 million (combination of sprachbunds)
# [[Dravindian]] - 230 million (Dravidian)
# [[Zens]] - 200 million (Iranian of Indo-European)
# [[Jalpi Turkic]] - 170 million (Turkic)
# [[SEDES]] - 117 million from the Horn of Africa sprachbund
# [[Balkan]] - 60 million people in the sprachbund
I have a naturalistic auxlang with a rich history for my personalang, called [[Weddish]].  Like a lot of my personal projects, it is a Jewish language.  I also imagined some fictive histories.  A big project is [[Oceanic Hebrew]], which has [[Austronesian Hebrew]], [[Polynesian Hebrew]], and a minilang called [[Neo-Oceanic Hebrew]].


So I looked into vowel harmony, and I thought, "I should have consonant harmony" and not just of the mutational variety either.  The next big decision is to make everything voiced.  Most likely, this is because my biggest conlang is all unvoiced, but I also think the language is pro-singing, i.e. pro-voiced.  The four biggest categories for consonants that we would want vowels to spawn are
[[File:Caucasus Flag.svg|thumb|Perhaps I will make an IAL for the Caucasus.  A polypersonal IAL would be cool.]]
* nasals
* stops
* fricatives
* approximants
'''Nasalization''' is easy enough to understand.  (Pre-)'''Glottalization''' might explain stops.  Approximants are often co-articulated, e.g. /j/ is just palatalization, /w/ is labialization, etc.  '''Fricitivization''' is not a word, but Chinese linguists were so eager to add ɿ, ʅ, ʮ, and ʯ that there must at least be some linguistics who think it ought to be.  /i/ and /j/ are related, as are /u/ and /w/.  It is disputed, but rhotic approximants come from rhotacized vowels, and /e/ might be related to /l/.


I am pretty good at a Chewbacca impression, and I get it by co-articulating everything with a uvular trill/approximant.  This can be done with any other voiced approximant and will all the vowels (though /i/ is most difficult). 
{{Universal Language}}
 
Lastly, some consonants can only be made by getting the tongue all the way out of the mouth.  This could be called (and I'm totally making this up) '''Advanced Tongue Tip'''.  This could be thought of as having two degrees, one dental and one alveolar.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|
! Nasalization || Glot. || Fric. || Labial. || Uvuv. || Velar. || ++ATT || +ATT || +RTR || Palat.
|-
! Glottalization
| {{No}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! Fricitivization
| {{No}} || {{No}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! Labialization <br /> a.k.a. Rounding
| {{Yes|m}} || {{Yes|b}} || {{Yes|v}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! Uvularization
| {{Yes|ɴ}} || {{Yes|ɢ}} || {{Yes|ʁ}} || {{Yes|vʶ}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! Pharyngealization <br />a.k.a Velarization
| {{Yes|ŋ}} || {{Yes|g}} || {{Yes|ɣ}} || {{Yes|w}} || {{Yes|ɣʶ}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! ++ATT
| {{Yes|n̪}} || {{Yes|d̪}} || {{Yes|ð}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|ðʶ}} || {{Yes|ɫ̪}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! ATT
| {{Yes|n}} || {{Yes|d}} || {{Yes|z}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|zʶ}} || {{Yes|ɫ}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! RTR
| {{Yes|h}} || {{Yes|ʔ}} || {{Yes|ž}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|ř}} || {{Yes}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! Palatalization
| {{Yes|mʲ}} || {{Yes|bʲ}} || {{Yes|vʲ}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|ɴʲ}} || {{Yes|ŋʲ}} || {{Yes|ʎ}} || {{Yes|nʲ}} || {{Yes|hʲ}} || {{NA|}}
|-
! Ø
| {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|ʀ}} || {{Yes|ɰ}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|ɻ}} || {{Yes|j}}
|}
"Yes" means a consonant is underspecified.
 
Considering only RTR for a minute, here are the basic vowels (ATR on the left, RTR on the right):
{| class="wikitable"
|
! Front || Mid || Back
|-
! High
| i ↔ ɪ || || ʊ ↔ u
|-
! Mid
| e ↔ ɛ || ə* || o ↔ ɔ
|-
! Low
| æ ↔ a || || ɐ ↔ ɑ
|}
Nasalization and rounding will be considered separately.  Rhotacized will be the same as "schwa-ified".
 
Finally, a Ph.D dissertation I found delineates articulation thusly:
# Front
## Suction
## Continuant
## Strident
## Lateral
# Labial
## Round
## Labial
# Coronal
## Anterior
## Distributed
## Coronal
# Dorsal
## High
## Low
## Back
## Dorsal
# Back
## Nasal
## ATR/RTR
## Radical
## laryngeal (creaky voice)

Latest revision as of 09:11, 24 May 2025

Robert Marshall Murphy

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Birth: Planet Earth
Profession: Upper school (high school) math teacher
Natural languages: English, Korean, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Yiddish
Created conlangs: Weddish, Parseltongue, Proto-Polynesian Hebrew, Syrenian, Semitic Korean
Other conlangs: Na'vi, Koǧan, Syrunian, Klingon
Interests: Philosophy, theology, math
More information: Feel free to contact me about anything

I'd love to chat any time, so feel free to email me anything you like, any time.

I mainly like IAL (International Auxiliary Languages), which part of Universal Languages project. These 15 languages are (not all by me):

  1. Dan'a'yo - 1.5 billion people in China, Japan, the Koreas, and part of Vietnam (combination of sprachbunds)
  2. Neo-Sanskrit - 1.4 billion people on the Indian subcontinent (Indo-Aryan)
  3. Interlingua - 800 million people in the Romance-speaking world (Romance of Indo-European)
  4. Folksprak - 500 million people in the Germanic world (Germanic of Indo-European)
  5. Kintu - 450 million people in the Bantusphere (Bantu of Niger-Congo)
  6. Indo-Malay - 380 million people in Maritime Southeast Asia
  7. Guosa - 340 million people in West Africa (combination of sprachbunds)
  8. Interslavic - 300 million in the Slavisphere (Slavic of Indo-European)
  9. Middle Semitic - 290 million speak the Arabics and Israeli (and Syriac) (Semitic of Afro-asiatic)
  10. MSEAL - 233 million (combination of sprachbunds)
  11. Dravindian - 230 million (Dravidian)
  12. Zens - 200 million (Iranian of Indo-European)
  13. Jalpi Turkic - 170 million (Turkic)
  14. SEDES - 117 million from the Horn of Africa sprachbund
  15. Balkan - 60 million people in the sprachbund

I have a naturalistic auxlang with a rich history for my personalang, called Weddish. Like a lot of my personal projects, it is a Jewish language. I also imagined some fictive histories. A big project is Oceanic Hebrew, which has Austronesian Hebrew, Polynesian Hebrew, and a minilang called Neo-Oceanic Hebrew.

Perhaps I will make an IAL for the Caucasus. A polypersonal IAL would be cool.
Universal Languages
AFRICA SEDES (Horn of Africa), Middle Semitic (Semitic languages), Kintu (Bantu languages), Guosa (West Africa) Universal Language.png
CENTRAL ASIA Jalpi (Turkic languages), Zens (Iranian languages), Dravindian (Dravidian languages), Neo-Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan languages)
EUROPE Interlingua (Romance languages), Folksprak (Germanic languages), Interslavic Slavic languages, Balkan (Balkans)
FAR EAST Dan'a'yo (CJKV), MSEAL (Mainland Southeast Asia), Indo-Malay (Maritime Southeast Asia)
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