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*p' → b pː w /_ I don't understand the thought behind turning voiceless plosives into approximants. :/ One of my iffies. /p'/ isn't a voiceless plosive, but an ejective. Is *p' → *p → w not possible? Both are bilabial at least. I probably should have said so, but C is a younger language than A or B...

A very simple phoneme inventory for my proto-lang, Proto-Anrulin. Things may change, since I'm still in the phonology-planning stages of the Anrulin family. http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g403/nathaniel_williams2/AnrulinPhonology.png Not 100% on the four vowel system, but I think Sumerian had t...

*p → f p u /V_% (the % is syllable boundary, right? I'd really like a better explanation of sound change notation...) I though it was $ but I'm not completely sure. :/ *p' → b pː w /_ I don't understand the thought behind turning voiceless plosives into approximants. :/ One of my iffies. /p'/ isn't...

Not exactly a quickie, but I'd appreciate it if someone helped me with this. I'd like to know if these sound changes for these plosives would work together. Some are obvious that they'll work, but others I'm not too sure. The parent language is called Proto-Anrulin, and the three daughter languages ...

In my high school French class (first or second year), we had our usual short oral presentations. It was on likes and dislikes. So, one guy got up there, completely clueless, and started off with "Je m'appelle soccer (My name is soccer)." Cue the entire class laughing. I have no flippin' clue what h...

quiet: [kʰʷəːɪʕ] or [kʰʷɑɪjɪt] I believe you have a typo here. /ʕ/ is the pharyngeal approximant/fricative, and here you must be trying to transcribe the glottal stop, which is written /ʔ/. They're very close in appearance, but sound vastly different so it's a bad thing to get them confused. :) I k...

for me it produces a minimal pair barred /bɑɹd/ vs. bard /bʌɹd/ What do you have for <bird>? Do <warrior> and <worrier> contrast? <war> and <were>? <far> and <for>? Yeah, [bɻ̩ˠd], [wɔɻˤ], [wɻ̩ˠ], [fɑɻˤ], [fɔɻ̩] (unstressed [f͏ɻˠ]). [f͏ɻˠ]? Huh. Who knew Zalgo was a language nerd? quiet: [kʰʷəːɪʕ] o...

Caleone wrote:

Nate wrote:/a i ɛ u/ are allophones

[a i ɛ u] is what I think you mean. Phonemic sounds, that is that stuff in your phonology chart, go in these > // whereas phonetic sounds, the actually produced sounds in a certain environment, go in these > [].

Ah, thanks. Still bit of a newb, I guess. ^^;

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g403/nathaniel_williams2/Phonology.png /a i ɛ u/ are allophones (I'm so glad that I'm posting this to people who actually know what these words mean) of /æ ɪ ə ʊ/ respectively, when followed by two consecutive consonants not seperated by an apostrophe <'>, or <h>...