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What's the phoneme inventory of Laze?

Short / long or lax / tense?

In addition to intervocalic lenition there's syntactic doubling. In Tuscan, la casa [laˈhasa] but a casa [akˈkasa]. If Tuscan had lost /l/ from the article like Portuguese, initial mutation would be contrastive.

Why haren wez tryingō to maxken Xenglishos morê phoxnexticos? Withros thed poᵗweir xofo dlinguixsticos wez canxʷ xadd morê sijlentt dlephtters hinsteaxds. ʷIdeʰalslych xofo coursse wez'ʷˡdₘ wrijten desxʷregtlych hin PIH hbⁱut this mustt beh hinteroduwced hin estaxges.

/p k r~n/
/a e o i u/

/ioroa arkaoor paraikueiap epporkukaik̩ eikapirparko rikakkaoapir/
[tsoɾo̯a aŋˑaoːn paɾai̯su̯ei̯ap epːoŋguxai̯t ei̯saɸimˑaŋgo nisakˑao̯aɸin]

What is the phonemic form of [fandrombəŋgə]? /ɸəəɴrəw ə ɴɸəɴxə/? There also seems to be a random phonemic /t/. Is this an allophone? There is a phonetically rendered [t], which makes sense to your diagrams. Would you shed light? oops You know what, I was going to put that! I even had originally put...

DV82LECM wrote: ↑29 Jan 2024 02:41 What is the phonemic form of [fandrombəŋgə]?

/ɸəəɴrəwəɴɸəɴxə/?

There also seems to be a random phonemic /t/. Is this an allophone? There is a phonetically rendered [t], which makes sense to your diagrams. Would you shed light?

oops

/ɴ ʔ/ /ɸ s ʃ x xʷ/ /m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ /r j w/ /ə/ Syllable structure: (C)(ə)(ɴ|ʔ) + extrametrical initial glottal. ɴ may not appear before a nasal. ʔF > P ɴF ɴw ɴr ɴj > MB mbw ndr ɲɟ əə əjə əwə > a e o ɴ > ɦ̃ / V_V Vɴ > Ṽ / _# ɨ is epenthetic Kʷə Kʷɨ > Ko Ku [ɸaʔ xotɨ jaⁿbwuoⁿbəⁿdro xondə̃ seiteiʔ kʷiʔomb...

I have one conlang that could be analyzed as having 60 consonants - my usual analysis has 30, but labialization being preserved through Cə~CV- reduplication means doubling that could be defensible. kø̀ɶ̯tsʌʔ > kœˈkø̀ɶ̯tsʌʔ /kʷə-kʷea̯ɦtsʌʔ/ iχsxœtɬuɔ > ɪʔiχsxœtɬuɔ /ɨ-ʔiχsxʷœtɬʷɯʌ/ tsʼwàpœn > tsœˈtsʼw...

Hlu: Khoe Jjim tamakhueya abweddaen kiphiyopa. [kʰɤ ʄim tɒˈmɒkʰɯjɒ ɒᵐbweˈɗæn kiphiˈjopa] khoe Jjim toemakh-ueya a-bo-yddae-n kiphiyop-a DEF Jim eye-PL.3 PF.3-CAUS-be_closed-ADV listen_to_music-3 Ziwan: Jjitmp jot fqp motfqx kvt jje wqtjzn syxdvp yuwqnx. [ndʑi˥m̩˩ tɕo˥ fɔ˩ mo˥fɔ˥˧ kʰv̩˥ ndʑe˧ wɔ˥tɕə̃...

once again revising Hathic Western Rau: /p b t̪ d̪ t d k g q ʁ ʔ/ /s̺ x ꭓ/ /m n ŋ/ /a e ɤ o i ɯ u/ /˥ ˩ ˩˥/ Eastern Rau: /p pʲ t tʲ kʲ q/ /β βʲ ð ðʲ j ʁ/ /θ θʲ ɬ ɬʲ s sʲ xʲ ꭓ/ /m mʲ n nʲ ŋʲ ŋ/ /a e ʌ o i ɯ/ /˥ ˩ ˩˥/ Old Rau: /p b t d ts dz tɬ dɮ k g q ʁ/ /s̺ ɬ x/ /m n ŋ/ /a ɑ eæ oɒ e o i ɯ/ /˥ ˩ ˩˥/...

Kastas ... sucks and I'm probably killing it DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS In the earliest written records of Rau*, the consonant inventory is superficially similar to that of Old Kangshi, the source of the Rau script. All Old Kangshi consonants except /z r/ are also attested in Rau, and two consona...

You're doing that Hmong thing, aren't you, with the illegal coda consonants to mark tone? And also that Thai Romanization thing where they use <v> and <x> as vowels? I haven't seen those Thai romanizations, although I vaguely remember Google doing something odd with <x>. I had a conlang with a roma...

'Polysynthesis' is a vague typological term. The languages of the Swamp Continent generally come close in various ways. Hlu has extensive verbal morphology, but doesn't really have polypersonal agreement, obligatorily marking only subject and benefactor: noechuehmaehlaeboqwiyayalekhi [nɤȶʰɯm̥æɬæɓoʔw...

Üdj wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022 15:38 If I have a labiovelar series, would it be realistic to have /x͡ɸ/? I have not found it in any natlang.

If you mean labial-velar, I don't think it's attested to have a fricative that patterns with /kp gb/. If you mean labiovelar, having an /xʷ/ that patterns with /kʷ gʷ/ is.

On the other hand, is there anything in the phonetic/articulatory nature of /ɮ/ that makes it unstable and more likely to become /l/? I don't think so. I'm sure there are examples of ɮ losing frication, but I don't know of any - offhand the only developments I know of are ɮ > ð as an incipient shif...

congealing commute glossolalia /p t k (ʔ)/ /β r ɣ/ /m n ɲ ŋ/ /θ s x/ /ɛ a ɔ e ɤ o i ɯ u/ /θ/ is a true dental [θ], not an interdental. /s/ is apical postalveolar. /r/ is typically a tap. /x/ is [x]~[h]. /u/ is rare. /ɛ ɔ/ and /e o/ may form harmonic pairs Permissible word-internal (maybe also -initi...

How do you evolve stress in a conlang? I want my conlang to have a lexical pitch accent a la Japanese or Ancient Greek. I'm thinking about having it start out with a standard stress accent, but overtime the things that distinguishes the stressed syllable from unstressed (like length) disappear over...

There are a number of languages in the world. Due to failings of virtue, the important ones are less documented than the obscure ones. One known important language is Zzyxwqnp , the arguable official language of the empire (loose confederation) of Zzxzzyx , the origins of which are lost to the sands...

If you really want to do odd shit you could make a separate descendant of Roland Pooth's PIE