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You are my intended audience. However, this particular portion of the discussion would have been better suited for the Scratchpad topic with reference to my post here as it's not essential to my question. I just posted the vowel system as a reference tool for the person who, hopefully, answers my qu...

/ᴇ/ is from Sinology and Koreanology for the true-mid front unrounded vowel, and /ⱺ/ is a non-standard way to transcribe the true-mid back rounded vowel. ᴀᴕᴀᴛᴜɴ's an alien language so why would their linguists always use our standard transcription for sounds?

Before Azhtrunja's unification, several Drow names (Baenrae, Lael, Trissae, etc.) were analyzed with an [ae̯] diphthong. What are likely outcomes for its monophthongization considering ᴀᴕᴀᴛᴜɴ's /ɑ ᴇ i ⱺ ʉ/ vowel system, including intermediate steps?

Added a base 1,000 measurement system. It's noted as base 1,000 because the prefixes equivalent to 1000−2/3 (centi), 1000−1/3 (deci), 10001/3 (deca), and 10002/3 (hecto) are rarely used artifacts of a previous time.

Aʻatun is officially Romanized in small caps because the local script is single-case. As long as this topic isn't too far out of date, I'll add new words to this post demarcated by a triple em-dash (———) and the date. It should be presumed that each prefix below has been combined with each unit belo...

Thanks. Could /ʈ͡ʂ~c͡ç ɖ͡ʐ~ɟ͡ʝ/, or does the difference in sibilance between, for example, /ʈ͡ʂ c͡ç/ preclude such a relationship?

Can /c͡ç/ survive without phonemic /c ç/? What about /ɟ͡ʝ/ without a phonemic /ɟ/? There's been a /j→ʝ/ merger in Aʻatun and, possibly a /ç→ɕ/ merger as well.

Once upon a time, Aʻatun only had the alveolar, retroflex (/ɽ/ due to the flap's absence), and uvular trills. However, the voiceless bilabial, voiced labiodental, alveolar nasal, retroflex nasal, and uvular nasal trills were added through, for the lack of better terminology, "sound economy.&quo...

Do the following results for the diphthongs seem reasonable, noting that the palatal onglide palatalizes the preceding consonant and the labiodental onglide is only present in coda? ai > ɑi > ɑː > ɑ au > ɑʉ > ɑ(ː)ᶹ > ɑⱽ > ɑ ei > ᴇi > ᴇː > ᴇ eu > ᴇʉ > ᴇ.ʉ (alternatively, eu > ᴇʉ > ᴇ(ː)ᶹ > ᴇⱽ > ᴇ) ia ...

Is /ɑi>ɑ/ or /ɑi>i/ plausible? If so, how, including intermediate steps? Same for /ɑʉ>ɑ/, /ⱺi>i/, and /ⱺi>ⱺ/?

My question is very similar to the one that was just answered. However, Aʻatun's vowel system is /ɑ ᴇ i ⱺ ʉ/ (/ᴇ ⱺ/ being true mid vowels), and they simplified vowels by harmony/sound similarity (/ɪ>i/, etc.). What are some possible evolutions/monophthongizations for rising and falling diphthongs in...

I know the topic's about today's accomplishment(s), but I forgot to post that Aʻatun has a working phoneme inventory as of yesterday. Forgive me?

Here's the working phoneme chart accompanied by its Romanization. Notes on the chart below: (Parenthetical) phones are allophones ([ ɳ ʈ ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ɽ ʂ͡ɽ ɽ͡r ] of [ n t tʳ sʳ t͡ʃ r ] when sharing a syllable with [ ʉ ]; [ ɴ q ɢ q͡χ χ ʀ ʀ̃ ] of [ n k g k͡x x r r̃ ] when sharing a syllable with [ ⱺ ɑ ]) As...

Thanks again. A few of the names in the setting have <mr nr> sequences. Could both of these assimilate into [ ʀ̃ ] before [ ⱺ ɑ ] (usually [ ɑ ]), or would they have to be [ ᵐʀ ᶰʀ ] as [ r̃ ] is the only nasal trill in the IPA?

ᴀᶥᴀᴛᴜɴ [ˈɑ.ʔɑ.ʈʉɳ ] is both the home galaxy and official language of the Skaran Empire. The language used aspirated, tenuis, and ejective stops. Speakers aspirated or ejected [ p t d s z k g j ] before mid vowels [ ᴇ ⱺ ]. Eventually, aspirated consonants evolved into, sometimes different, fricative...