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Yes, exactly. Your first quote is the system I'm attempting to research.

Nice!

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I've added a whole lot of on Əktoś Duəmeuk's morphology to its Akana wiki page. Note you'll need to copy the address because the capital schwa breaks the internet. to http://akana.conlang.org/wiki/Əktoś_Duəmeuk

Norwegian and Swedish have (mostly) initial stress and a high-low pitch system that can appear (roughly) anywhere. In Danish the high pitch has been replaced by stød which is a glottalization thingy that's a bit hard to describe.

Cmd/Ctrl+F gives you search in Google Docs.

As far as I know, tripartite alignment does not exist for bitransitives, i.e. where the objects of a bitransitive verbs each have distinct cases from a monotransitive verb's complements.

What is it called when a language drops person marking while the verbs have the same subject?

Example:
He-sing and Ø-dance = He sings and he dances.

whereas
He-sing and he-dance = He sings and another guy dances.

Is there a term for this? Does this exist even?

Somebody already figured out Old Skourene and Wede:i are related. Someone know the thread?

@Vecfaranti, I think there's pretty much no distinction medially anyway because <b d g> /p t k/ medially become <v ð g> /v ð γ/ except after /l n (m?)/ as far as I've noticed where they're /p t/ and <ng> is /ŋ/. The guy I've been skyping with pronounces <hlj lj> as /ʎ̝̊ ʎ/ so I kinda thought the re...

Yeah, my bad about <au>, kinda slipped in; I was thinking of [œʏ]. As for voiceless segments I think they're also somewhere analysed as /h+C/. The stops are a bit of a mess. Word initially, aspirates contrast with tenuis: tá /tʰau:/ 'toe', dá /tau:/ 'coma'. Intervocalically and in codas, they do no...

What is the rule for pronouncing vowels in open syllables? I'm having a hard time discerning it from the text. Is it according to spelling, whether written double or single, or is there more to it? As far as I can see, it only depends on whether the following consonant is written double or single, ...

According to this article by Martin Haspelmath , a tripartite alignment with regards to ditransitives, is only attested in one language he could find. All languages with secundatives have identical nominatives and accusatives. In these cases, the nominative-accusative case is often termed primative....

Isn't it supposed to be sth. like: /p pp b bb t tt d dd k kk g gɡ/ /f v θ (ð) s ss h/ /m mm n nn ŋ/ /r rr l ll j/ /i ɪ ʏ u/ /ɛ œ ɔ/ /a/ /aɪ aʊ ɔʊ ɔʏ ɛɪ/ The allophony is sick tho Edit: added /ð/ in brackets to account for several compounds, not sure if that works but hey <Alþingi> has a medial /θ/....

It's interesting; almost no Icelandic grammar book lists only the minimal phoneme inventory of Icelandic. Several sounds which only occur in complimentary distribution with other sounds are always listed in Icelandic sound tables, such as the one on Wikipedia. The table seen there is half-way betwee...

A lot of old IE languages do similar things via perfectives.

zompist wrote:Sure. The classic example is /h/ and /ŋ/ in English.

Are there no places where /h/ and /ŋ/ contrast? Does this mean they could be analyzed as the same phoneme?

Oro Win, Wari’ and of course Pirahã, all from the Amazon, reportedly have a voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop /t͡ʙ̥/. Dafuq?

For some reason, /j/ and /w/ tend to be pretty stable adjacent to consonants but they can do whatever they want intervocalically.

Wikipedia has recordings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_lateral_affricate For the alveolar one, start by saying /l/ and sustain it, and try to make it unvoiced. For the latter, you can think of it as pronouncing a simultaneous /h/. Keep practicing the unvoiced /l/. Once you get th...

The use of wikitables, organized horizontally from labial to glottal, vertically from stop to approximant, à la IPA, on Wikipedia, seems to be the most standardized way.

The Argentinian change of intervocalic /j/ > /ʃ/, which is a bit strange, fits this bill (to make up for the fact that there is a /tʃ/). FWIW, there was an intermediate stage /ʒ/. Interestingly, there was a sex-linked opposition for awhile: men said [ʒ], women said [ʃ]. But women teach the next gen...

Nortaneous wrote:Big Nambas has linguolabials.

Apparently, so do a few other languages. New mission. Make conlang with linguolabials. Do we have any data on how they arise?

Now that it's morning I think I can do a better job of explaining. First of all, Spanish and Portuguese went the same way, /j/ > /dʒ/ and no dialects involve any intermediaries so there is no need to assume them. This is just your basic fortition. But how does an approximant go stop, you ask? Approx...