Pwo scratchpad

[DV82LECM]

Onset:
/m mʷ n ŋ/
<m mw n ng>
/p pʷ b bʷ t~s k~x/
<p pw b bw t k>
/t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/
<c j>
/f fʷ v vʷ/
<f fw v vw>
/w l/
<w l>

Nucleus:
/i u e o a/
<i u e o a>
/ai au ae ao/
<ai au ae ao>

•/Cʷu Cʷo/ are phonetically [Cʷʊ Cʷɔ].
•/t/ and /k/ spirantize to [s.] and [x], written <s h>, before high vowels, ex. /noku/ [noxu]; word-initially, [x] may tend to [h].

(C)V(V)

ai [ai] "water"
pwo [pʷɔ] "speech/to speak"
nohu [ˈnoxu] "blood/to bleed"
mwele [ˈmʷele] "house/to reside"

Grammar coming soon.

[Arayaz]

Looks nice. If I may say, it has your touch.

[DV82LECM]

Looks nice. If I may say, it has your touch.

Oh, well, thank you. Also, you got me quite intrigued by what *exactly* you mean. A slavishness to coarticulation, four diphthongs (for some reason), the prospect of nasalization, quirky allophony, and a bizarre love affair with my clusters?

I didn't know I had an any sort of noticeable aesthetic.

[thethief3]

Wouldn't *t be better analysed as *k if its always a glottal stop?

[DV82LECM]

Wouldn't *t be better analysed as *k if its always a glottal stop?

Perhaps, but it did evolve from /*-t/, as did /*-n/ into /-ɴ/. They are qualitatively more akin to archiphonemes /N Q/, but I wanted a slightly less-extreme transcription, hoping the implication still obvious in the distribution of the finals. Thus, leaving /-l/ the only true final consonant.

[Arayaz]

Looks nice. If I may say, it has your touch.

Oh, well, thank you. Also, you got me quite intrigued by what *exactly* you mean. A slavishness to coarticulation, four diphthongs (for some reason), the prospect of nasalization, quirky allophony, and a bizarre love affair with my clusters?

I didn't know I had an any sort of noticeable aesthetic.

Eh, it’s hard to quantify precisely. Part of it is probably the presentation, too. But it’d be difficult for me to explain the specifics, I guess.

Wouldn't *t be better analysed as *k if its always a glottal stop?

Plus, this way all the finals are coronals.

Edit: Oh, this was my 1,700th post! Forgot I was near the milestone.

Edit: Fixed the formatting.

[DV82LECM]

[quote=Arayaz post_id=334287 time=<a href="tel:1722908533">1722908533</a> user_id=4764]
Looks nice. If I may say, it has your touch.

Oh, well, thank you. Also, you got me quite intrigued by what *exactly* you mean. A slavishness to coarticulation, four diphthongs (for some reason), the prospect of nasalization, quirky allophony, and a bizarre love affair with my clusters?

I didn't know I had an any sort of noticeable aesthetic.

Eh, it’s hard to quantify precisely. Part of it is probably the presentation, too. But it’d be difficult for me to explain the specifics, I guess.

Wouldn't *t be better analysed as *k if its always a glottal stop?

Plus, this way all the finals are coronals.

Edit: Oh, this was my 1,700th post! Forgot I was near the milestone.

[/quote]
Very astute about the desire for only final coronals. Also, congratulations on being old as dirt by the board's standards.

[Arayaz]

Very astute about the desire for only final coronals. Also, congratulations on being old as dirt by the board's standards.

I am NOT old as dirt — well, it depends where you’re sourcing your dirt, I suppose. But thanks nonetheless!

[DV82LECM]

I am NOT old as dirt — well, it depends where you’re sourcing your dirt, I suppose. But thanks nonetheless!

Okay, I see you got here in 2022, so I rethink what I said. It's just that 1700 posts/replies is absurdly impressive. I have been here for some time and only have a little over 300. (My claim to some fame is a post in Skasti with over 1000 edits.)

[Arayaz]

I am NOT old as dirt — well, it depends where you’re sourcing your dirt, I suppose. But thanks nonetheless!

Okay, I see you got here in 2022, so I rethink what I said. It's just that 1700 posts/replies is absurdly impressive. I have been here for some time and only have a little over 300. (My claim to some fame is a post in Skasti with over 1000 edits.)

Well, thank you. I’ve noticed that post, by the way, and calculated that you must have edited it multiple times a day on average, which is an impressive accomplishment. (Even my table of contents post has only been edited 125 times.)

[DV82LECM]

I am NOT old as dirt — well, it depends where you’re sourcing your dirt, I suppose. But thanks nonetheless!

Okay, I see you got here in 2022, so I rethink what I said. It's just that 1700 posts/replies is absurdly impressive. I have been here for some time and only have a little over 300. (My claim to some fame is a post in Skasti with over 1000 edits.)

Well, thank you. I’ve noticed that post, by the way, and calculated that you must have edited it multiple times a day on average, which is an impressive accomplishment. (Even my table of contents post has only been edited 125 times.)

I literally made Skasti while homeless, sitting near the Colorado River. I had nothing but time. That said, this site is actually why. I would edit, then the site insisted I "had to be logged in," destroying my progress. About a third of my 1000 edits was a site bug.