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It's possible - almost any stop can become /j/ - but I'd think the opposite would be more likely: k > kʲ kʔ > k Consonants that are seen as 'stronger' in tend to resist change, then fall back into the newly vacant niche left by the change of the previous 'weak' variant. For example, Turkish and Ear...

Is it possible for palatalization to arise in consonant clusters with /ʔ/? (/kʔɔp/ > [kʔʲɔp]). If so, is it possible that palatalization could become phonemic if /ʔ/ is lost from the phoneme inventory? [kʔʲɔp] > [kʲɔp])?

I'd expect something like /sɔk.'aː/ to be resyllabified as /sɔ.'kaː/, unless there is a phonemic glottal stop or something like that before the second vowel (i.e., you have /sɔk.'ʔaː/) . Such a glottal stop can be weakened to almost anything , so why not to /j/? The only problem I have with this is...

I'd expect something like /sɔk.'aː/ to be resyllabified as /sɔ.'kaː/, unless there is a phonemic glottal stop or something like that before the second vowel (i.e., you have /sɔk.'ʔaː/) . Such a glottal stop can be weakened to almost anything , so why not to /j/? The only problem I have with this is...

How likely is it that a language will drop coda consonants to substitute them with /j/ which also brings syllable redistribution? In other words, is something akin to /sɔk.'aː/ --> /sɔ.'jaː/ be plausible? To clarify, this change is motivated by 1) two heavy syllables may not appear next to each othe...

I find /v/ and ejectives to the sexiest sounds to dip into my pallet. but labials are just icky and gross.

clawgrip wrote:Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, so I'll assume not, so in that case thank you.

I'm being quite the opposite of sarcastic. It is a really beautiful script

PRETTY SCRIPTY

This is is Demese, a protolang that has been in my head for more than a year now and has finally reached the drawing board. With that said, it has a huge "Work in progress" sticker attached to it so everything you see is subject to massive overhaul. The inspiration for this phonology was NA langauge...

Linguifex wrote:Next: fossil

Demese:

chogaggachipade
[t͡ʃɔgəgːət͡ʃɪpədɛ]
fossil, lit. monster-bone

Next: season

i was wondering. How would you all derive palatal phonemes from non-palatalization? Palatalization in proximity to some sort of front vowel or glide (/i/, /e/, /j/, etc.) is extremely common; you can make it phonemic through vowel loss, vowel shifts/splits, a large number of nativized loanwords, or...

i was wondering. How would you all derive palatal phonemes from non-palatalization?