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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

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Birdlang wrote:
Linguifex wrote:
alynnidalar wrote:Here's question number one... I've never used nasality before and I'm not very familiar with how it works in practice. Would it be more likely that there's a nasal version of all the vowels, or only of /i a u/, or has somebody got a third idea? The problem, if I want to use ogoneks, is that there isn't a u-plus-diaeresis-plus-ogonek or i-plus-diaeresis-plus-ogonek character, and I always prefer avoiding combining characters. I dunno. I'm just spitballing here.
Nasalization tends to reduce contrasts in vowels so just /u a i/ being nasalized would be more likely. Nasalizing all of them isn't beyond the pale, but if you're going for interesting stuff happening with phonetic environments in the morphology you may wish to have fewer nasal vowels.
Plus, there is no single I and u with diaresis and umlaut.
Depends on your font: <ü̈> and <ï̈> do exist in some fonts with four dots above aranged like this <::>
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

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Aren't diaeresis and umlaut two names for the same thing at this point in typography?

Also, while I understand your issue with combining diacritics, in a lot of placse ų̈ and į̈ will look just fine, IMO. But, I guess it depends on if you will regularly be using the characters in environments in which they will be rendered properly or not. I know I would look for alternative were my chosen medium one in which they would always be way off-kilter or, worse yet, stupid little boxes. (It's bad enough that "macron below" and o-ogonek don't appear on my phone!)
Creyeditor wrote:Depends on your font: <ü̈> and <ï̈> do exist in some fonts with four dots above aranged like this <::>
ü̇ and ï̇, with three dots, look very Tolkein-esque...
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

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/m n ɲ ŋ/
/b t d tʃ dʒ k g/
/s ʃ h/
/β ɾ/

/i e a o u ɪ ɛ ʊ ɔ/

-(C)V(C); allowed codas are /n ŋ t h β ɾ/
-velars merge with palatals before /i ɪ/
-only /ɪ ɛ ʊ ɔ/ or /i e o u/ can appear in a word together, but /a/ is neutral
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Teddy wrote: -only /ɪ ɛ ʊ ɔ/ or /i e o u/ can appear in a word together, but /a/ is neutral
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Nice to know that's actually a considerable rule.
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It's pretty common in Africa as a [+-ATR] feature thing on the vowels.
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A decedent of Tjarvejani called [mɑɸømyɺidˡi] :
/p t k/
/m n ɲ/
/ ɸ v θ s ʃ x h/
/t͡ʃ/
/ɺ~dˡ /
/j ʍ /


/i y u ɯ o ø e a ɑ/
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It seems you have a hole where the unrounded /o/ should be. Not that you have to, it just seems to mess up potential harmony, which I believe the mutha-Lang has. I suppose it could have lost that...but I'm rambling [:x]
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Another Tjarvejani descendent called Karpashqonwu:
/p t k kʷ q/ <p t k kw q>
/m n ŋ ŋʷ/ <m n ng nw>
/ f s ʃ x xʷ ɣ / <f s sh kh hw gh>
/ɹ/ <r>

/u o ɒ/ <u o a>
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Shemtov wrote:/u o ɒ/ <u o a>
What happened to the front vowels?
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DesEsseintes wrote:
Shemtov wrote:/u o ɒ/ <u o a>
What happened to the front vowels?
6000 years.
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Why is the a rounded, and why no rounded front vowels?
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Teddy wrote:/m n ɲ ŋ/
/b t d tʃ dʒ k g/
/s ʃ h/
/β ɾ/

/i e a o u ɪ ɛ ʊ ɔ/

-(C)V(C); allowed codas are /n ŋ t h β ɾ/
-velars merge with palatals before /i ɪ/
-only /ɪ ɛ ʊ ɔ/ or /i e o u/ can appear in a word together, but /a/ is neutral
[bɪkɔh] [tʃɪʊma] [digesa]
How is it romanized?
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/m n ŋ/ <m n ng>
/p mb t nd k ʔ/ <p mb t nd k '>
/s z x ɣ/ <s z h g>
/r l j w/ <r l y w>
/ǀ ǃ ǁ/ <c q x>
/gǀ gǃ gǁ/ <gc gq gx>
/ŋǀ ŋǃ ŋǁ/ <nc nq nx>

/i u e o a/ <i u e o a>
/iː uː eː oː aː/ <ii uu ee oo aa>
/m̩ n̩ z̩ r̩ l̩/ <m n z r l>

/naɣaː z̩te ŋǁwoʔem siːru ǃexn̩ʔe mbaːwotr̩x/
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An idea, with quick romanization:
/p t ʈ k pʰ t ʈʰ kʰ/ b d dr g p t tr k
/m n ɳ ŋ/ m n nr ng
/j r ɽ ɹ w h ʔ/ y r rr vr w h '
/s ɕ ts tsʰ tɕ ʂ ʈʂ x/ s x z c j sh zh hx

/i u ɛ̝ ə o̞ a/ i u ey e o a
/iː uː ɛ̝ː o̞ː aː/ ii uu ee oo aa

/a a˦ a˨ a˩˥ a˥˩/ a aq ax al ag

/ɳiŋ˩˥ wa˦ ʈʂo̞ː˥˩ maː˨ kə/ Nringl waq zhog maax ke.
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I don't know if it's ANADEW or even naturalistic... but I just decided to eliminate all variants of /i/ from my phonology. That includes any diphthongs that rely on the /i/ and even using [y] as a glide. Results are encouraging.
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Sasquatch wrote:I don't know if it's ANADEW or even naturalistic... but I just decided to eliminate all variants of /i/ from my phonology. That includes any diphthongs that rely on the /i/ and even using [y] as a glide. Results are encouraging.
Lacking a /j/-like semivowel or part of a diphthong is ok. If you have /u/ or /y/ (or something similar), I think /i/ would be there. Yanesha' is a natlang with only /a e o/, but /e/ is in free variation with /ɪ/.
Of course, if this is an artlang, you can do anything.
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Raston Arve:
/pʰ p tʰ t cʰ c kʰ k/
/ts tʂ/
/s r̥ r ʂ ç j x xʷ χ ʀ h/
/m n ŋ l j v/
/a ɛ ɞ ʌ ɔ e ø i y ʊ u/
/ɒə̯ eə̯ øə̯ iə̯ yə̯ uə̯ ʌi̯ œy̯ ɔu̯ eu̯/

Numbers:
[hʌi̯ tsem bɔʔ tʂal høŋ ˈhysɐ hʊˈr̥em hʊˈѵɔʔ rʌts hʊi̯çɪj]

Vähkätton Arve:
/pʰ b ts tᵡ d tʃ dʒ kʰ g/
/f v s z ʃ χ ʁ h/
/m n r ɬ l j w/
/a ɛ ɜ ɔ e o i ɨ u/
/aː ɛː ɜː ɔː eː oː iː ɨː uː/
/ja: je: jɜ: jo: jɜ jɨ woː/

Numbers:
[ʔɛː tsem bat tsal hon ˈʔɨɬjɨ hɨˈsem hɨˈvat rɜts ˈjɜʃi]

Gjerdou Arve:
/p t ts kʲ k ɢ/
/f s χ hʲ h/
/m n r l j w/
/æ ɑ ɒ e ə o i ɨ u/
/æː ɒː eː əː oː iː ɨː uː/

Numbers:
[ʔəː tsem pɒt tsæl hon ˈʔɨfæ hoˈsem huːt rets ˈʔəse]
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

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An idea, with quick romanization:
/p t ʈ k pʰ t ʈʰ kʰ/ b d dr g p t tr k
/m n ɳ ŋ/ m n nr ng
/j r ɽ ɹ w h ʔ/ y r rr vr w h '
/s ɕ ts tsʰ tɕ ʂ ʈʂ x/ s x z c j sh zh hx

/i u ɛ̝ ə o̞ a/ i u ey e o a
/iː uː ɛ̝ː o̞ː aː/ ii uu ee oo aa

/a a˦ a˨ a˩˥ a˥˩/ a aq ax al ag

/ɳiŋ˩˥ wa˦ ʈʂo̞ː˥˩ maː˨ kə/ Nringl waq zhog maax ke.
The numerals are:
/jə˦ ɳiu̯ sum˩˥ ʂiː˥˩ ʔa kʰjuʔ ʈʂiʔ˨ skə˦ kiːp˩˥~ʂə/ <yeq nriu suml shiig 'a kyu' zhix' skeq kiipl~she>
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Dezinaa wrote:
Sasquatch wrote:I don't know if it's ANADEW or even naturalistic... but I just decided to eliminate all variants of /i/ from my phonology. That includes any diphthongs that rely on the /i/ and even using [y] as a glide. Results are encouraging.
Lacking a /j/-like semivowel or part of a diphthong is ok. If you have /u/ or /y/ (or something similar), I think /i/ would be there. Yanesha' is a natlang with only /a e o/, but /e/ is in free variation with /ɪ/.
Of course, if this is an artlang, you can do anything.
I don't think I'd call it an artlang since that implies some sort of aesthetic goal. What would you call a language that's just for giggles?

I'm fairly certain the /e/ would end up with /ɪ/-like tendencies under the right circumstances. I'm actively tweaking the phonotactics to reduce that temptation.
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As far as I know, "artlang" doesn't necessarily imply anything to do with aesthetics. I've understood it to mean a conlang that's made, as you say, "just for giggles".

Other people might define it differently, though.
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