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by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:42 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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 /...
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:59 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:52 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

Is it possible for /ʡ ħ/ to shift to the uvular side of things without merging with velars?
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:16 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Characterization of proper /ç/
Replies: 9
Views: 2888

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:31 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
Replies: 2452
Views: 413480

Re: The Innovative Usage Thread

I always pronounce "uvular" as [ˈʌlvjulɚ] even though there is only one <l> and it's after the [v].
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Wed Nov 29, 2017 1:29 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:43 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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).
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:15 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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/.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:50 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

How would I be able to make /ɹ̩/ and /az/ cognates?
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:23 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread

How could /j/ could become /cç/ before back vowels?
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:38 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
Replies: 16
Views: 5685

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Sun Mar 05, 2017 1:18 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499729

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...
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Sat Feb 04, 2017 4:13 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Music styles, etc
Replies: 61
Views: 26377

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"...
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:01 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Music styles, etc
Replies: 61
Views: 26377

Re: Music styles, etc

jal wrote:
Hahaha, what a bullshit. That's all so mainstreamy...


JAL
Yea... electro prog rock and dark bass are mainstream... or conspiracy rock...
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Sat Oct 29, 2016 11:29 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726143

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....
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:58 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
Replies: 6633
Views: 726143

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:28 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
Replies: 2278
Views: 499729

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...
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:22 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Replies: 812
Views: 203527

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 ...
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:51 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Replies: 812
Views: 203527

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
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Thu Feb 25, 2016 7:44 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Thu Feb 25, 2016 10:55 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Replies: 2827
Views: 613768

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?
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:06 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
Replies: 2452
Views: 413480

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.
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:57 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The letter Y in Western European languages
Replies: 9
Views: 2743

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".
by احمکي ارش-ھجن
Fri Feb 05, 2016 11:38 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: China Construction Kit
Replies: 13
Views: 5310

Re: China Construction Kit

Aldwinkle wrote:
a fairly well respected (white) specialist in east Asian history.
What is the relevance of him being white
Seems like a suspicion of bias on part of the specialist?
People can perceive outsiders to be biased against the thing they study while insiders are biased for it.