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If I understood some Tibetan developments correctly then certainly /kr/>/tr/ and /gr/>/dr/ can occur and in general the first set of sound changes are nothing more than basic POA assimilation. those are actually /kr/>/t`/ etc. similar to what happened in tsakonian, where (i think) /pj tj kj/ > /tS/...

language séher [sɤ́χɪɾ] child láncak (what does lacan mean)* [lántsɐk] want ben [pén] request kalmái +gen [kɐlmáj] this na [nɐ]~[n] that u ~[w] priest manc [mánts] bear(child) ḩummai [hʊmːáj] god aniebé [ɐɲɪpé] say, talk tev [tév] * -ak is probably going to be some sort of animate suffix. also fuck ...

And yeah, we sorta need a conference or something to create a new IPA. Having fifty tiny variations of the same symbol (e, hooked e, e with squiggle, e with accent, e with dot, e with two dots, e with accent facing the other way, e with hook facing the other way, e with line, e with a large coke an...

Also to go a bit off topic in my own thread, the Wikipedia article says Marshallese allows only closed syllables o.o That isn't as weird as you'd think, especially for Marshallese. My guess is that it's mostly CV and there's an approximant (which might not be pronounced) at the end of any word that...

Haha Ossicone ;] I'm a bit miffed about how I will add the definite article into my language. It's every simple, and I don't want to end up having a prefix that sounds like a particle o-o You could always make it some sort of clitic. My current conlang somehow ended up using CV clitics for pretty m...

and why do you care what languages i'm drawing inspiration from? I don't. It just seems to me lately that too many conlangers are somewhat inspired by Japanese, that's all. And I, personally, get tired of it. But don't take it in an offensive way, it's just the way I think. :roll: Really? I've seen...

Tharu: /p t k s x m n N l r j h a e i 1 u/ Enzielu: /p t ts ts_f ts\ ts\_f k f T s s_f s\ s\_f x m n v\ D_o l a E e i u a: e: i: u:/ Proto-Tharu: /p_h p t_h t t_w_h t_w k_h k k_w_h k_w s s_w h m n n_w N N_w l 4 j a e @ i 1 u/ Serhes Kettw: /p_h p t t_w ts k m n N f v s X h l 4 j H w a @/ So, just fr...

The English/Germanic consonant set is pretty standard over the world's languages in general. Ones that deviate too far from this basic set (excepting regular paradigm changes like aspiration instead of voicing distinction, the inclusion of ejectives, etc.) are the oddballs. Wait, what? Here's a lis...

There might also be /h/, which would probably be silent everywhere but word onset but still show up as part of the ablaut process. For example, /kɥan/ would be [kɥan], but /kɥhan/ would be [ky.an]. I'm not sure whether I want to do that, though; it'd probably depend on what I do with the ablaut. Se...

For some reason, I'm planning out the phonologies of each lang on my conworld (or at least each major lang on this concountry) before I do anything else with them. Meh. So here's the inventory of Pre-Proto-Arve (edit: Pre- ; Proto-Arve will probably look like Swedish), a blatant IE ripoff that will ...

Read about languages that you like. Read about a lot of languages and steal features that you like. If some features that you want to use don't work well with other features that you want to use, put them in separate conlangs. Hell, I have five conlangs in various stages of completion right now. Fir...

Non-reduced long vowels. (Including /æ/, which is long IMD even though it's a checked vowel.) How many people diphthongize /ɛ/?

Also, Faroese is way worse than English on that.

I'm assuming you mean strident vowels ? I haven't really seen any phonation fuckery in conlangs, for whatever reason. (Actually, the only conlang that I can remember seeing it in is one of mine, which has /a̤ e̤ o̤/.) Strident vowels could be fun, but all the natlangs that I've seen that have stride...

Yeah, the consonant inventory doesn't look all that Englishy; it actually looks like an average phonology with a few more fricatives thrown in. But it would be easier to tell if you put them in some sort of order, like /p b t d k f v θ s z ʃ h m n l r/. The vowel inventory, on the other hand, is Eng...

I prefer cases, mostly because I like nonconcatenative morphology and you can't do that with adpositions.

Turn your rhotic into /ʁ/. Or have other uvulars. I was thinking of having /lʷ rʷ/, which would be realized [ɫʷ ʁʷ]. But rounded consonants usually shift following vowels to /u/ in the development from the protolang. Here , here , here and especially here (starting with the last paragraph of page 2...

Working on a protolang. Need something that will lower vowels in adjacent syllables (for example, *tʰenʷa, *a_tʰenʷa -> tsenu, tsanu), and I'm not entirely sure what to use. I was thinking bunched r, but that's way too phonologically weird (and I already have a rhotic). What should I use? I don't wa...

I've just thought of another; when people use 'an' before a word beginning with a pronounced h, as in 'an humiliating defeat'. I do it because I frequently elide /h/. So "an historic" would be [{n.Is.toU.r\`Ik] which is more sonorous than [V.?Is.toU.r\`Ik] [{]? You'd really have an unredu...

What are all possible characters to transcribe /ʔ/ (the glottal stop)? I am leaning toward using <Ɂ ɂ>, but <ɂ> messes with formatting, particularly tabs. Is there any other capital/lowercase pair that i can use to represent it? Maltese uses <Q q>. Piraha uses <X x>. You could probably get away wit...

Aww. I've always liked <ẅ>.