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- Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:42 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Huh? When did pharyngeals merge into velars in Hebrew? Didn't /ʕ/ become a glottal stop and /ħ/ become /x/ for most speakers? Also, apparently, Georgian Jews(?) pronounce /ʕ/ as [q']. Well, not into velar, but with them, such that there isn't a/x/ (except when /k/ is lenited in some dialects) nor /...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
No, my conlang will have /q X/, I'm just not sure how easily pharyngeals can spontaneously become uvular without merging into velars a la Hebrew, especially /ʡ/ which under most circumstances would probably become a glottal stop or elide.
- Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Is it possible for /ʡ ħ/ to shift to the uvular side of things without merging with velars?
- Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Characterization of proper /ç/
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2963
Re: Characterization of proper /ç/
I always considered it an sh-like sound, but it would be better to describe it like a /hj/ sound or the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth more than /j/ and without vibrating the thraot/h-like.
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425988
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
I always pronounce "uvular" as [ˈʌlvjulɚ] even though there is only one <l> and it's after the [v].
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Actually, that is a quite systematic process in my conlang family where pretonic vowels are elided. I was mostly looking for what specific clusters of consonants (aside from homo-organic clusters) can produce the gemination.
And I dunno how Japanese turn "to iu" into "tte", that's wacky.
And I dunno how Japanese turn "to iu" into "tte", that's wacky.
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
True, but I'm looking for more interesting ways (for instance I've come up with sː- from hs- and I imagine TO, where T = voiceless stop and O = obstruent, produces them too).
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
What are ways to develop word-initial geminates of obstruents (although they would be phonetically realized as tense)? Looking mostly for /p t d k s/.
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:50 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How would I be able to make /ɹ̩/ and /az/ cognates?
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How could /j/ could become /cç/ before back vowels?
- Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5817
Re: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
Being a broke bastard, I haven't gotten a hold of Universe Sandbox, so instead I've used various calculators to do astronomical stuff like figuring out the apparent size objects in the sky.
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 1:18 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 511896
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
I don't think anyone tried a Slavic-like phonology with clicks: /a e ẽ: i o õ: u/<a e ę i o ǫ u> /m n nʲ/<m n nj> /p b t tʲ d dʲ k kʲ g gʲ /<p b t tj d dj k kj g gj> /! !ʲ ʞ ʞʲ/<! !j ʞ ʞj> /f~ʍ v~w s z ʃ ʒ x xʲ/<f v s z sj zj x xj> /t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/<c dz cj dzj> /l lʲ r rʲ j/<l lj r rj j> /f v/ befo...
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 4:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Music styles, etc
- Replies: 61
- Views: 28064
Re: Music styles, etc
Yea... electro prog rock and dark bass are mainstream... or conspiracy rock... You can slap any name onto it you want, but there's really nothing extraordinary going on there. The names are far more rediculous than the music itself. JAL I think the world of music has long run out of "extraordinary"...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Music styles, etc
- Replies: 61
- Views: 28064
Re: Music styles, etc
Yea... electro prog rock and dark bass are mainstream... or conspiracy rock...jal wrote:Hahaha, what a bullshit. That's all so mainstreamy...احمکي ارش-ھجن wrote:https://www.maniacmusic.net/home/blog/6 ... ng-in-2016
JAL
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:04 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Music styles, etc
- Replies: 61
- Views: 28064
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 11:29 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763917
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Lonmai Luna: se batais fak dehekai imai pabel-bakon imai alen Lonmai Luna 1.SG decide abolish distinction of possess-kind imai alen Lonmai Luna I decided to abolish the distinction of possessive classes in Lonmai Luna Tsunutsan, tsi ilu husukʰaililenaukalaitak nalipaitsʰu? think-2SG.IMPF-INT | 2SG....
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:58 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763917
Re: Help your conlang fluency
uēṇe ḵau eioa Kenūaš-Eṇieua io ṭantiu mākkā.
[ɯe̞:ɳe̞ xaɯ e̞iɰ̊a ke̞nɰ̊açe̞ɳj̊e̞ɰ̊a iɤ̞ ʈantj̊ɯ ɦ̃a:kka:]
TOP human destroy Kenwashenyewa ADP world DEM.PROX
Kewashenyewa will destroy all of the humans on this planet.
[ɯe̞:ɳe̞ xaɯ e̞iɰ̊a ke̞nɰ̊açe̞ɳj̊e̞ɰ̊a iɤ̞ ʈantj̊ɯ ɦ̃a:kka:]
TOP human destroy Kenwashenyewa ADP world DEM.PROX
Kewashenyewa will destroy all of the humans on this planet.
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 511896
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Chweyawa, a language spoken by the Mwitsem, humanoid creatures from another dimension that lack lips and whose vocal cords are in the nasal passage rather than the larynx. /n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɦ̃/ /t ʈ c k/ /s ʂ ç x h/ /i i: ɯ ɯ: e̞ e̞: ɤ̞ ɤ̞: a a:/ NOTE: all of these vowels are voiceless Allophony: /VhV/ becom...
- Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:22 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 208938
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Here is some linguistic quackery by some guy named Jeremiah Leija. I dunno if you can access the page/post: https://m.facebook.com/groups/182815475260187?view=permalink&id=532418536966544&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_comment_reply¬if_id=1470965959927026 I hate biblical-literalism: it really spoils ...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:51 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 208938
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Here is some linguistic quackery by some guy named Jeremiah Leija.
I dunno if you can access the page/post:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/182815475 ... 5959927026
I dunno if you can access the page/post:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/182815475 ... 5959927026
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Eh, I just wanted to make a Romance language where the indefinate articles were uo and ua, but I don't wanna make Portuguese.
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630323
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
How can I go from n > 0 intervocalically? Preferably in as little steps as possible?
Would n > nd > d > t > ? > 0 work?
Would n > nd > d > t > ? > 0 work?
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 425988
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
I tend to convert "own" into a prefix, sometimes when there isn't an explicit possessive pronoun.
Can not remember examples where this occurred.
Can not remember examples where this occurred.
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:57 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The letter Y in Western European languages
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2815
Re: The letter Y in Western European languages
I don't see what the problem is here.
It is quite clearly coming from /y/ > /i/ > /i j/
There is a reason why romance languages tend to call the letter "Greek I".
It is quite clearly coming from /y/ > /i/ > /i j/
There is a reason why romance languages tend to call the letter "Greek I".
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:38 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: China Construction Kit
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5457
Re: China Construction Kit
Seems like a suspicion of bias on part of the specialist?Aldwinkle wrote:What is the relevance of him being whitea fairly well respected (white) specialist in east Asian history.
People can perceive outsiders to be biased against the thing they study while insiders are biased for it.