Today, George and William have an interesting discussion on the phenomenon of “zonal” auxiliary languages,  which seek to unite a region rather than the whole world.

Top of Show Greeting: Ponuhi

Links and Resources:

– Germanic auxlangs

– Slavic auxlangs

– Dnghu

– Afrihili

Feedback:

Email:

Dear George, Mike and DJP (et al),

Perhaps it’s not a topic worthy of an entire episode, but I thought I’d ask, and maybe sometime in feedback you’ll tell me a better way to go about learning.  Can you guys do an episode on tone?  I’ve studied (English,) German, French, Czech, Japanese, and Korean, so tone has never come up.  I can almost hear them, but I can never produce them with any degree of fluency.  There are a few sounds that I don’t think I am articulating correctly (e.g. pharyngealization) so I never include them in my conlangs.  The same is true with tone.  I remember William repeatedly suggested we write a two-tone language, but I couldn’t find any good examples to listen to online.  Could you guys maybe do a practicum?

Sincerely,

Robert Marshall Murphy

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