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tʰl or kl kʰl > t͡ɬ t͡ɬʰ or hr r > kʟ̥ gʟ > tɬʰ tɬ Does that mean /dl/ would also have to (not possibly, but necessarily) turn into /d͡ɮ/? If so, does that mean the language would gain an /ɮ/ too? There arent a whole lot of languages that use pharyngealized vowels, but I imagine that pharungalized ...

OK, I'm trying to get my phonology to a place that I like that's also plausible and that I can reconstruct my language a long way back diachronically because I'm into that stuff and read diachronic things about natlangs all the time. It's going to be very weird, however, and I don't want it normal, ...

I do not think a development of fricatives into affricates, outside of clusters like *ns, is well-attested at all. It's not? I thought that's the most common source of /t͡ɬ/... Then where does /t͡ɬ/ come from? /ll/ > [tɬ] (Icelandic, along with /nn/ > [tn̥]) *ta > /tɬa/ (Nahuatl) /tl kl/ > [tɬ] (va...

about aspirated stops, if one way they can arise is through gemination, but most languages with aspirated stops and affricates don't have aspirated fricatives, what normally happens to the fricatives? Can they just turn into affricates? They just stay geminates in most cases, I believe. /pp/ is [pp...

I'll offer help if it's non-binding and you don't expect a lot out of me. I'm not sure if I'll like the same language you'll like though, which is why I don't particularly want to be bound, as well as the fact that I'm working on my languages and stories. But I'll help you with input to not complet...

I'm not a native speaker of another language, but I imitate all sorts of accents all the time by listening to people talk and reading phonological info on languages and dialects, and with some of them I can even convince random people that I'm from different places, so I seem to be understanding thi...

I hope I'm not too late to this thread to post here, but, about aspirated stops, if one way they can arise is through gemination, but most languages with aspirated stops and affricates don't have aspirated fricatives, what normally happens to the fricatives? Can they just turn into affricates?

I'm not saying English has any German-style final obstruent devoicing, but I was just thinking about how much weird devoicing there is in English. For example, I say second as [sɛkn̩t], and when I was researching on the Internet to see if anyone else did that, I found that some people do too, and al...

I'll offer help if it's non-binding and you don't expect a lot out of me. I'm not sure if I'll like the same language you'll like though, which is why I don't particularly want to be bound, as well as the fact that I'm working on my languages and stories. But I'll help you with input to not complete...

American, age 18. I spent some time in Brazil last year, so I speak nearly fluent Portuguese, with the occasional error. I'm learning Russian, Latin and Farsi and might add Norwegian or Finnish to that sooner or later. My accent is northwestern US, except for my /æ/, which is a monophthong as in Br...

My conlang does not vowels and consonants either. It uses holes in the silence. The speakers make different kinds of holes in the silence by wielding their speech organs in different ways. The holes are the right shape for meaning to fit into, so the shape of the holes suggests the meaning. This is...