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Proposal: tag for questions regarding the "europeanness" of features/conlangs

Questions about the "europeanness" or "englishness" of a feature, structure or conlang in my experience relatively often come up in conlanging, particularly in the context of such features or ...
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Challenges / conlanging puzzles

How much would it go against the spirit of SE to allow conlanging flavoured challenges here? Some possibilities (not a complete list) I could see working with the format of SE include: Reconstruction ...
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On going in depth, or: writing the best answer possible

Is Tolkien's Dwarvish really based on Hebrew? is a recent, interesting question, especially once the asker edited to expand upon the question. The answer, to quote it here, is Yes. According ...
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“Language change” and “diachronics” tags

In linguistics, diachrony refers to the description of a language as it changes through time, as opposed to synchrony, which only looks at one moment in time. One could consider diachrony the study of ...
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Should resource requests be on-topic?

I am wondering if resource request questions should be on topic, especially when resources are hard to find. For example, I've been wondering if there are any resources in English to learn Solresol, ...
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Tag proposal 'Script'

I am proposing the use of a script or writing or anything similar to tag questions that are mainly focused on the script of a language or the analysis thereof. The need for such a tag formed in my ...
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Controversial proposal: regarding subjective questions

There is one kind of questions which we thus far have not seen on the site, but which I expect will eventually crop up. This is the kind of questions which goes: “I have X and Y feature in my conlang, ...
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Is Esperanto on-topic here?

Esperanto is a language constructed by Mr Zamenhof in the 19th century, and actually spoken by around two million people. It also has its own Stack Exchange site already. Should questions about ...
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Should questions saying "how do you say [thing] in [conlang]" allowed?

I believe that in Area 51, it was discussed that questions in the format above would not be accepted. Are we still doing that?
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Do questions about specific conlangs have to be about "published" conlangs?

For example, if I had been creating Blarth, a conlang, and I had a question--could I ask that question here, or is it limited to conlangs that have been around for a while?
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How to tag different worlds/languages with the same race name?

Different worlds share the same races, but use different languages. For example Elves. Everybody who wants Elves in their world might create his own language, no matter if someone did it already. ...
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Do we need both the [klingon] and [klingon-language] tags?

I just got a suggested edit that added the klingon tag to a question where I had included the klingon-language tag. As of right now, klingon has one question in it and klingon-language has two. These ...
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Are questions asked in conlangs accepted on this site?

We anticipate conlang specialists on this site, and, most naturally, some of them are familiar with popular conlangs to an extent that they can express fluently and discuss various matters using that ...
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Language symbols generators list

A lot of conlangs use custom symbols/alphabet. One of languages designed by me does this too. Because it might be hard to locate generators for some less famous conlangs, we can link all of them here (...

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