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and maybe even /f/ -> /h/ (not sure, since it is labiodental and not bilabial) This is possible at any POA – bilabiality has nothing to do with it. It's just a common way cited by conlangers as a method to get rid of /p/ ([p]→[ɸ]→[h]), and familiar from Japanese. uh okay. though [ɸ] is less distinc...

The lang I was talking about in my op has /X/. I suppose I could do lenition of non-coronal fricatives, so: /X/ -> /ħ/ /x/ -> /h/ and maybe even /f/ -> /h/ (not sure, since it is labiodental and not bilabial) (the lang has /T/ and /s/ as well, but somehow changing those to /h/ sounds unlikely to me)...

Due to a recent diachronic conlanging project started in an article in the magazine of my local fraternity of linguistics students (I might post more about that somewhere else later), I started to wonder how these consonants actually come about. As far as I know, they are inherent in the phonologies...

Random facts on some googled site... "Language with the most words: English, approx. 250,000 distinct words Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname." The second one mig...

Standard Dutch: [r] in all situations (even word final) 't Gooi dialect (which has popularized to include most of the Western part of the country, and most urban areas): [r], but [r\] word finally. Leiden dialect: I'm unsure, but it sounds like they use [r\] in every situation... Brabants, Limburgs,...

Oh how cool would Roman legions be in hot air balloons, throwing burning sulfur onto the barbarian Gauls... :o I am digressing. I heard somewhere that if the burning down of a certain library (Alexandria? Somewhere in Babylonia? I don't remember) hadn't happened, we would have been in the modern age...

Couldn't hot air balloons be invented earlier? I assume they could make a large airtight cloth (or otherwise leather, though a bit expensive), light a fire and let a basket go up. If the culture would somehow overcome its fears it could be a relatively easy step to hot air balloon flights. These wou...

I can do [IdnI?] but [n=?] is an impossible cluster. why? it's just a syllabic [n] with a glottal stop at the end. try pronouncing unstressed /@nt/ and it'll probably come out as something like [n=?]. Nope, no luck. It's an impossible cluster (at least for me), or at least not anything I could imag...

I can do [IdnI?] but [n=?] is an impossible cluster.

"isn't", "doesn't" :> [Idn=?], [dVdn=?] also "of them" :> [Vb_dF=] or [Vbm] or something along those general lines, so this is probably representative of some sort of rule and not just random change of those two words. it seems to be limited to grammatical words, though. how can you pronounce that?...

Skomakar'n wrote:We have medvind in Swedish.

Perhaps this is the older word then? It would be interesting to see this in other Germanic languages (preferably Western, since that is what Dutch is).

This is an interesting thread. My native language is Dutch and I was born and bred in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, however my parents weren't. My mother wasn't a native speaker of Dutch (though she spoke it quite well) and was Brazilian, and my father came from the Noordoostpolder, which was quite recently (1...

Viktor77 wrote:All I want now is a free online dictionary in Spanish. Not Spanish to English, just a dictionary of Spanish in Spanish! Why are they so hard to find even in stores?

http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/

How is that hard to find? Just google 'diccionario español'...

The conlang I am currently working on doesn't go more exotic than /C/ and retroflex stops and fricatives (no /z`/ though), as well as a few vowels like 3\, but I'm planning to make it evolve from a proto-lang that makes full use of the linguolabial-retroflex spectrum, with the linguolabials eventual...