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那發狂的！要小心！
That's crazy! Be careful!
猶太語和德語看同， 但是不同的。 猶太語看的很有意思吧。
Yiddish and German look the same, but different. Yiddish looks very interesting, yeah?

Frinking BRILLIANT!

Jesus, how does this even make sense? I've been trying to find sources on this for ages.

Funny thing - my brother (possesses a Midwestern/Western hybrid, pretty much GenAm) heard the RP pronunciation of "auburn" when he was little, and for a time, said it as [ɔɹbən] or [ɔɹbɪn]. On-topic - I think the non-rhotacism and the /u/ realised as [y] or [ʉ] is what distinguishes British from Gen...

Arapaho has a square 4 vowel system with /i u ɛ ɔ/. Is that the one you were thinking of?

One cannot have phonological simplification without grammatical complication, and vice versa.

I'd really like to do something with Old Chinese (pref. the Baxter-Sagart). PIE is quite ridiculous - it makes Karlgren's OC reconstruction look sane.

Haha! I love this thread.

Velars become palatals before the /i/ and /e/ vowels and /j/. Meanwhile, the palatals become alveolar affricates.

I heard about this! It does seem like Michif, in a way, except with more than two sources: English, Warlpiri, Kriol, and another language (?)

I've been wondering this same thing too...

Wow... that is really quite interesting.

Sometimes I mix up Japanese and Tibetan, because I'm okay with Japanese and learning Tibetan, so I'll say things like Boku wa nagidu desu. or Ngä chichi ga yagshöre , ne? And Kuro no Mori, I have a similar problem - I put da after -i adjectives sometimes, but usually I just put yo or ne because the ...

Well I like implosives. Does anyone else?

I was thinking, dafuq? A velar trill?

I can't remember if I posted this already: Proto-Takayo: Phonology: /p t k s/ <p t k s> /ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg ⁿz/ <b d g z> /m n/ <m n> /w r j/ <w r y> /a e i u o/ <a e i u o> Phonotactics: (V)CV is the basic structure. Voiced prenasalized plosives do not occur word-initially. Vowel elision occurs preventing v...

Alien Language: p t t͡ɕ k q pʰ tʰ t͡ɕʰ kʰ qʰ b d d͡ʑ g ʁ ɓ ɗ m n ɲ ŋ ɴ θ s ɕ h ʔ w l j ʔm ʔn ʔɲ ʔŋ ʔɴ ʔw ʔl ʔj a i ɨ u I like this. Especially the glottalized (pre-glottalized?) resonants. Love me some glottalized resonants. Not so huge on the distinction between /ŋ/ and /ɴ/. Plus implosives, who d...

Wow. It does look like Khmer.

Nomadic reindeer herder language: /p t k/ /m n ŋ/ /f s ʃ x/ /w r l j/ /h/ Notes: /r/ is always [r], that is, trilled /x/ is [ç] before /i e/, /x/ (why the hell doesn't ZBB display uvular frics?) before /a/, and /x/ before everything else /f/ is in free variation between [f~ɸ] /ŋ/ is never word-initi...

Hm. Common sound changes:

p>ɸ/f>h/∅
r>j
Vŋ, Vn, Vm, etc.>Ṽ
k>x>h
g>ɣ>∅
b>β/v>w
s>h
sj>ɕ/ʃ
zj>ʑ/ʒ
tj, kj>tɕ/tʃ
dj, gj>dʑ/dʒ
n, d>ɾ

COYOTE:
kʰaɪ̯ɘʊt

Pharyngeals are okay, but epiglottals? No way. No way can I say those. I can do regular, aspirated, glottalised, voiced, and nasalised clicks, but all those combination/uvular clicks in Juu and its relatives are impossible. Vowels are mostly good, but like the OP, I have trouble distinguishing /o/ a...

Archi has both batshit phonology, being a Caucasian language, and a batshit grammar. The verbal morphology and the extremely fusional aspects of its grammar make it batshit insane in that department.

Also, Navajo. Verbs are insane, noun classifiers, all of that. However, the phonology's okay.

1. How do you pronounce "closer"? kʰʟ̥ɘʊsɚ 2. How do you pronounce "cuneiform"? kʰʲu̘nəfɔɹʷm 3. How do you pronounce hair, her and heir? hɛ̝ə̯ɹ hɚ ʔɛ̝əɹ 4. How do you pronounce fæktə̯ɹʷi fæktɔɹʷɪ̯ə̞ɫ sɛ̃t͡ʃɹ̩ʷi sɛ̃t͡ʃʰʊ̘ɹʷiən ɪ̃ntʰəɹɛst ɪ̃ntʰəɹʷɛstiŋ/ɪntʰɹʷɪ̞stiŋ ɪ̃ntʰɹʷɪ̞stiŋɫi 5. How do you pronou...

p t k
m n ŋ
w j
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i a u

ħ (just kidding!)