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Some Danish dialects do some weird things with high vowels with stød. In a lot of places these changes got, or are getting fully or partially reverted though. Source is http://jyskordbog.dk : Midvestjysk + Sydfanø + Rømø (also Sydsamsø and Vesthimmerland, though with unlabialised k, and only in coda...

a ą ã ą̃ b b̶ d ḏ dh d̶ e ę ẽ ę̃ é ę́ ẽ́ ę̃́ g g̶ h i į ĩ į̃ j ɉ k k̕ l ḻ m n ṅ o ǫ õ ǫ̃ p p̓ r r̃ ṛ s s̱ š t ṯ th t̕ ṯ̕ th̕ u ų ũ ų̃ w y z ẕ ž <a ą ã ą̃> /a ã a̰ ã̰/ <a e é i o u> /ɑ e æ i o u/ <b b̶ d ḏ dh ɉ d̶ g g̶ > /b ɓ d d̪ ɟ ʄ ɗ g ɠ/ <p p̓ t ṯ th t̕ ṯ̕ th̕ k k̕> /p t t̪ c t' t̪' c' k k'/ <l ḻ...

Could it work simply adding weight-insensitive trochaic rythmic stress, adding offglides to the long wovels in stressed positions (currently codas aren't permitted), shortening unstressed long vowels, and then have unstressed vowels harmonize to a preceeding stressed vowel in tenseness (possibly wit...

Digging around in my bookmarks I found this book: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9Pulva5QNqOZXdjOWl6T3BpSW8 Apparently if we extend the concept of tone to register, these features seem to coincide: High pitch, modal voice, unvoiced onsets, retracted tongue root (leading to lax, low vowels) vs. L...

/ɕilĩ:/ <Shilĩi /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ñ ŋ> /p pʰ b ɓ t tʰ d ɗ ʄ k kʰ g kʷ kʰʷ gʷ Ɂ/ <p ph b bh t th d dh c h k kh g kw khw gw q> /ᵐb ᵐp ⁿd ⁿt ɲɟ ɲc ᵑɡ ᵑk ᵑɡʷ ᵑkʷ/ <mb mp nd nt ñc ñch ŋg ŋk ŋgw ŋkw> /f v s z ʃ ɕ ʒ ʑ x ɣ h ɬ ɮ/ <f v s z š sh ž zh x gh h lh ll> /mpf mb͡v nt͡s nd͡z nt͡ʃ nd͡ʒ ŋk͡x ŋg͡͡ɣ nt͡ɬ nd...

How could on reasonably get rid of a tone-system like /V˦ V˩ V˥˩/, while still maintaining some distinction between the types? Would going to something like /V V̰ Vː/ work? If we are starting with a small vertical vowel system like /ɨ ə ɐ/, would it then be possible to have something like this? ɨ˦ ə...

I personally don't actually have too much of a problem with the interdentals: they are uncommon and do morph a bit, but they're not ridiculously rare: they have a worldwide distribution, and they're found in quite all over the place in North-America (e.g. Halkomelem, Arapaho, Tuscarora, Tanacross a...

Do ejectives ever spontaneously become affricated to increase their volume/further differentiate themselves from non-ejectives? I.e. do languages with ejectives tend to have ejective affricates with no non-ejective equivalent? I'm just curious, since I've noticed that for me, at least, /t͜s' t͜ʃ' t...

Welcome to the board. Treat yourself with some tea and pickles (I'm too lazy to go find pictures). What you got there looks quite interesting. It has a rather european feel to it, not that anyhting is wrong with that. I actually like the way you handled it. If that is what you are comfortable with, ...

Promised system of locatives and demonstratives. The terminology is very ad hoc and probably all sorts of wrong. The basic structure for locations and directions (first type) (examples: he ran towards the house , she sat in the boat : directive complement (specifier) Basic structure for objects at c...

Cue PM from Janko and the sudden desire to make a number system: Hybrid quinary-vigesimal system. Numbers go into the "derivational morphology" slot on nouns. Used vocab: dri - hand ghvà - (hu)man -7i - nominal conjunction cllitic (usually on both element, but not in the number system) -t'lhà - addi...

So I have had several sheets of messy personal notes laying around for some time and I thought I would share it to get some feedback on it. A lot of it is subject to change. Inspiration is all over the place, though mostly Northern North America. Phonology : /p pʰ p' t tʰ t' k kʰ k' q qʰ q' ʔ/ <b p ...

The vowel inventory stands out to me. Vertical vowel systems are fun (I have a WIP project with one) and attested. The thing about your system is that it has only front vowels, and vowels ususally like to fill out space. I would expect it to quickly shift to either a Sepik style /ɨ ə a/, a more tria...

/p b t d ʦ ʧ k/ <p b t d ts c k> /m n ŋ/ <m n ŋ> /s ʃ h h̃/ <s z h x> /ʋ j ɰ/ <v j g> /i ɨ ɑ u/ <i u a o> /ĩ ɨ̃ ɑ̃ ũ/ <ĩ ũ ã õ> /ɑ ɑ́/ <a á> (nasal: <ã â>) /nuhínmɑjɑ̃ dɑ́sɨ̃ ɨʦɑ́hɑĩ ʧiʧɑ́inɑk dik jɑ́kĩ imɑ́ sɨ́nʧitɑ ɑ́ɨnʦ íhɑŋ ʃiŋ pɨnúmɑŋ nɑŋkɑ́ ɨ́mɑ nunɑ́ʃ jɑ́kĩ ɑʋímitkɑt | nunṹ dɨkɑ́s ɑtí imɑ́ sɨ...

/m n ɲ/ <m n ñ> /p b t d k ɡ/ <p b t d k g> /f v s z ʃ ʒ ʁ/ <f v s z š ž r> /l j ɥ w/ <l j x w> /i e ɛ ɛː u o ɔ y ø œ ə a ɑ/ <i e æ ææ u o å y ø ö ë ä a> /ɛ̃ œ̃ ɔ̃ ɑ̃/ <ẽ ô õ ã> /ɔ̃alɛselafənɛːtʁuvɛʁt/ Õälæseläfënæætruvært Something I have been messing around with: /p pʰ p' t tʰ t' k kʰ k' q qʰ q' ʔ...

/pʰ~p͡xʰ p~p͡ɰ b~bɰ tʰ~t͡x t~t͡ɰ d~dɰ kʰ~k͡x k g c ɟ ʔ/ <ph p b th t d kh k g ch c '> /pʰʲ~pç pʲ~pʲj bʲ~bʲj tʰʲ~tç tʲ~tʲj dʲ~dʲj/ <phy py by thy ty dy> /kʷ~k͡xʷ kʷ gʷ/ <khw kw gw> /ɓ ɗ t' tʲ' k' c'/ <b' d' t' t'y k' c'> /m~mw n~nɰ ŋ ɲ/ <m n ŋ ñ> /mʲ~mʲj nʲ~nʲj/ <my ny> /ŋʷ/ <ŋw> /ɾ~ɾɰ ɹ~ɹj~ʐ̺~z/ <r ...

/m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ñ ng>
/b (d) dʒ/ <b (d) g>
/p t ts tɬ tʃ k/ <p t ts tl tc k>
/pʰ tʰ tsʰ tɬʰ tʃʰ kʰ qʰ/ <ph th tsh tlh tch kh q>
/f s ʃ χ h/ <f s c x h>
/r/ <r>
/w l j/ <v l j>

/i u ɪ ʊ ɛ ɔ a/ <i u y w e o a>

High and low tones with high tones more marked than low <V́ V>

So I recently found out that some danish dialects have gone through this lovely set of changes: iː yː uː > iˀ yˀ uˀ (the developement of "stød") More vowels than just these and in almost all dialects including standard Danish. Occured via a pitch accent system, had a rather complex conditioning envi...

I, at some point, sat down and tried to work out the climate of your conworld for reasons that now escape me and assuming that the big map you posted is an equirectangular map then you probably wont have a rainforest in that area. You would probably have a humid subtropical climate, and it will prob...

Seems mostly reasonable though there are a few things: Your west wind drifts are too far north and south. Assuming that the map is equirectangular they are hanging out near 70 degrees rather than their home in the forties and fifties. Unlike on earth you have plenty of space for some east wind drift...

A minor addition: not ALL currents are closed loops, as far as i know. e.g. the Gulf Stream in northern Europe doesnt loop back around to the southwest. Instead, once in a while a current just slips underwater and then flows very slowly along the depths of the ocean. You are right that most of the ...

There are 3 things that drive ocean currents: differences in water temperature, differences in salinity and differences in air pressure. I the last is probably the easiest to begin with but the other two creates interesting effects as well such as The Denmark Strait Cataract where warm water from th...

opipik wrote:Saaroa.

Correct. It is an excerpt from a text about how to make a mat from plants. As said i had no idea about how hard it would be but I would have expected it to at least take a few guesses

Here is a new sample text. I have no idea about how difficult this is going to be. This is a coherent text, not a collection of example sentences. Kialhalhamuaku n kana tuasikame. Maacu a tuasikamena ia, muasakiamana umaala kana tapaena. Mulalengese tapaena mangetelhe paari. Tualheisa usua aari a aa...

So searching the internet for things that might make sense in this case i stumbled upon the Rajaguma inscriptions, better known as the Myazedi inscription, and one of the 4 languages of the inscription only one is extinct, so i'm going to go ahed and guess that it's Pyu, also becuase the small text ...