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- 17 Feb 2021 07:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 237
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I recently feel like making a maximally a-priori "SAE" language (phonology and grammar) which, ironically, is outside of my comfort zone. That got me thinking about a maximally SAE non-SAE phonology. If I've done everything correctly, which I almost certainly haven't, this should score 100 on that ...
- 30 Jan 2021 20:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25495
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Japanese had a lot of /k/s disappear at one point of its development, especially before /i u/ (tho /k/s were reinserted before /u/s in most dialects, or some verbs and adjectives had forms with a /k/ and forms with it dropped). Question: could there be a similar sound change for /t/ in some languag...
- 12 Dec 2020 09:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25495
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So, I noticed some natlangs where /b/ is the only voiced stop. I'm wondering what could have given rise to this asymmetry, as I want to incorporate it into my own phonology. One podcast I listen to says that in Arapaho, it's because the /m/ shifted to /b/ or something like that. Yet, there are some...
- 07 Dec 2020 00:34
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25495
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How could the three affricates and the three sibilants have arisen? I find Slavic/Romance k => t͡ɕ change a bit boring. High German had t => t͡s but such an unconditioned change doesn't create interesting morphological alterations. Consonants p t t͡s t͡ʂ t͡ɕ k q <p t c č ć k q> s ʂ ɕ <s š ś> m n ŋ ...
- 17 Feb 2020 19:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Californian Polynesian
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3773
Re: Californian Polynesian
There are Polynesian languages whose consonant inventories have been expanded by language contact. Rennellese: /p t k ŋg ʔ s h β~mb l~ð ɣ m n ŋ/. Basic vocabulary in Rennellese has /ʔ h/ but specialized vocabulary doesn't; specialized vocabulary has /ð ɣ/ but basic vocabulary doesn't. Words with /ɣ/...
- 05 Feb 2020 21:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25495
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Since some of the reconstructions for Old Japanese vowels involves both rising and falling diphthongs, I'm considering having palatalization of both consonants before rising palatal diphthongs (I'm not sure I'll do anything with velarization or rounding), and consonants after falling diphthings (wh...
- 31 Jan 2020 19:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Jäzik Panúski
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10765
Re: Jäzik Panúski
There are Slavic languages that developed front rounded vowels. They can be reconstructed as intermediates in at least Czech and Ukrainian, and are preserved in some present-day Slovenian dialects. Some sound changes that led to the development of front rounded vowels in various Slovenian dialects: ...
- 19 Jan 2020 09:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25495
- 17 Jan 2020 13:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
- Replies: 106
- Views: 6964
Re: Eskêl (Carpathian Bulgar) Scratchpad
In fact, no language written in Cyrillic has such orthographic depth as English or French; the deepest might be Chechen and Ingush, but that could be due to the "deficiency" of their orthographies designed by Soviet experts (i.e. they might've failed to notice some oppositions in the vowel system l...
- 08 Jan 2020 23:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 399
- Views: 25495
- 08 Dec 2019 04:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 237
- Views: 18474
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Ontena Gadsup I... I-... I don't even. I HAVE BEEN LIVING A LIE Papuan languages sometimes get like that. Kobon has a voicing contrast in affricates but not plosives - its full consonant inventory is: tɕ b d dʑ g ɸ s x h m n ɲ ŋ l ʎ w ɾ ɽ j /x/ varies freely between [x kx kʰ], so there's that, but ...
- 12 Nov 2019 19:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 237
- Views: 18474
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
I'm not sure about this, but I seem to remember that no languages distinguishing a front and a central /a/ is precisely the reason why no separate symbols for the two exist in IPA. However, a language that does distinguish them may have been discovered since the invention of the IPA. The Hamont dia...
- 27 Oct 2019 23:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9941
- 22 Oct 2019 15:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Languages with interesting phonotactics
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9941
Re: Languages with interesting phonotactics
Allowing /s/ + stop clusters to begin a syllable is actually one of Indo-European peculiarities , since these clusters also go against the sonority hierarchy. In that context Western Romance languages which put a vowel before these clusters are actually making things more normal! It's not that weir...
- 16 Sep 2019 06:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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- 24 Aug 2019 20:09
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 1076
- Views: 71911
Re: Romanization game #2
Speaking of which, part 2: /p t k m n j l w h a i u e o d t͡ʃʼ ʙ ŋʘ↑ʼ k͡ʟ̝̊ːʷ gǂ͡˞χˀ ᶣɞ̂ˑ ʬᴙ!!/ Let's keep it simple and assign sounds to letters in alphabetical order: <a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v>. So a hypothetical example sentence /ŋʘ↑ʼuk͡ʟ̝̊ːʷaʙi gǂ͡˞χˀaʬᴙ!!o pi t͡ʃʼehiŋʘ↑ʼu/ ...
- 24 Aug 2019 08:44
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
the only language I know of with *tʰ > r̥ is Nivkh, and Nivkh doesn't object at all to /r̥/ in clusters
- 24 Aug 2019 08:44
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Romanization game #2
- Replies: 1076
- Views: 71911
- 16 Aug 2019 06:14
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 792
- Views: 209468
Re: False cognates
:eng: quick Old Chinese 霍 /*qʰʷaːɡ/ - quickly, suddenly Maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but they do have similar meanings and velars and uvulars aren't that different. Also, even though I don't know of one, I wouldn't be too surprised if there was some English dialect where "quick" is pronounced [kw...
- 16 Aug 2019 06:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 1545035
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is there a way to get [fˠ → ʍ], with [ʍ] being a true fricative? Woleaian had *f *pʷ > f ɸʷ (and Proto-Micronesian *f patterned as palatalized - cf. *f > ɦʲ in Marshallese), and Irish Gaelic has vʲ/w - so yes, you can just do that Does any natlang feature (a set of) preglottalized (voiceless) nasal...