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I forgot to mention the party system that would be used in the government. As the USC would either be a republic or a constitutional monarchy, there would be political parties as there were in the OTL United States, and other OTL democracies. There are currently three distinct political factions in ...

I'm closing the vote now due to Hurricane Dorian. The posting of the results for the next round will be delayed until further notice. If all goes well, then the results will be posted on Saturday, September 7th. I am working on the next round of questions now. They should be posted shortly. Good lu...

The results are in! -- 218) How should sequences of /VN/ be realized in Modern Standard Brettaniot? a) /VN/ > [VN] 220) How will long vowels be pronounced adjacent to /ʁ/? d) /iː uː eː oː ɑː/ > [eɪ̯ oʊ̯ ɛː ɔː ɑː] after /ʁ/, and [ɪə̯ uə̯ eɐ̯ oɐ̯ ɑː] before /ʁ/ (proposed by cedh) 221) The year is 1900...

I'm closing the vote now due to Hurricane Dorian. The posting of the results for the next round will be delayed until further notice. If all goes well, then the results will be posted on Saturday, September 7th. I am working on the next round of questions now. They should be posted shortly.

The results are in! -- There was a tie for this question. It will be voted again. 212) How should the diphthongs in Modern Standard Brettaniot be realized? b) /ei oi ai eu ou au/ > [eɪ oɪ æɪ eʊ oʊ ɑʊ] -- 215) Will the approximant /l/ become velarized in any case? b) Yes, but only when adjacent to ba...

212. B
215. B
216. B
217. B

The results are in! -- 213) What should happen to vowels when preceding /r/ in Modern Standard Brettaniot? c) /Vʁ/ > /Vʁ/ (/Vχ/ before voiceless consonants) 214) It is 1880 CE. After losing the majority of their colonies, the other main European colonial powers (Spain, France, Sweden, and the Holy R...

212. B 213. C 214. B 212: D, /ɛɪ ɔɪ æɪ ɛʊ ɔʊ æʊ/ when unstressed and /eɪ oɪ ɑɪ eʊ oʊ ɑʊ/ when stressed 213: C 214: A An interesting thing that could happen is that people might pronounce ⟨ai ay oi oy au aw eu ew⟩ in some loanwords that originally had long vowels as diphthongs, like how some English ...

The results are in! -- 209) It is 1850 CE. Here is a map of North America. The French are currently going through economic trouble, and have offered to sell Quebec to Britain. Should we accept? a) Yes. 210) How should the new diphthongs be written? a) /Vi Vu/ - <Vi~Vy Vu~Vw> (basically a phonetic sp...

209. A
210. B
211. B

Artaxes wrote: ↑17 Aug 2019 10:02 209.a
210.b
211.b

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The sound changes from 207. question aren't listed. They are common innovations in all dialects or only feature of London dialect ?

They are just features of the Lundin dialect.

shimobaatar wrote: ↑17 Aug 2019 04:22 209: a
210: a
211: b

Didn’t we just vote against a spelling reform a few rounds ago?

Yeah, I'm just asking again now that we have six diphthongs. It's alright if you don't want a reform though.

The results are in! -- 203) It is 1830 CE. The Spanish Royal Family was executed by revolutionaries, and tensions between Spain and Britain formed due to their support of the monarchy. The Spanish revolution inspired revolutions throughout European colonies in the Americas, with most of Iberian Colu...

ɶʙ ɞʛ wrote: ↑03 Aug 2019 05:08 What about n > ɴ _{q, χ}, and then ɴ > ɦ?

Yeah. If you want to elaborate on it more, you could have any vowels adjacent to /ɴ/ become nasalized, and then the nasalization just goes away later on. For example:

/danqa/ > /daɴqa/ > /dãɦqa/ > /daɦqa/

206. A
207. E
208. A

shimobaatar wrote: ↑16 Aug 2019 04:55 206: a
207: a
208: a

Regarding question 208, I'm assuming these are the diphthongs we voted to reintroduce via loanwords?

Yeah. If you still don't want diphthongs to be reintroduced however, you're more than welcome to vote no.

The results are in! -- 203) It is 1830 CE. The Spanish Royal Family was executed by revolutionaries, and tensions between Spain and Britain formed due to their support of the monarchy. The Spanish revolution inspired revolutions throughout European colonies in the Americas, with most of Iberian Colu...

A little larger list of city names could be useful. Do Winchester dialect belongs to Northwestern or Southeastern group ? We do have a list of provinces, and the fact that gokupwned5 wrote "(The placenames in your proposals will be translated when the results are finalized)", I assume it ...

this_is_an_account wrote: ↑15 Aug 2019 05:20 203: B
204: B
205: D, the dialect of where ever the royal family lives.

The royal family lives in Vembelgar (OTL Winchester).

The results are in! -- 200) This question is dependent on the outcome of #199. If you voted no for #199, do not vote on this question. Who should be the heir to the Brettaniot throne? e) Maria Luisa, Holy Roman Empress - Daughter of Carle I 201) It is 1787 CE. A revolution against the monarchy in Sp...