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- Thu Aug 27, 2015 12:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 20160
Re: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
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 ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2015 9:40 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Phonology
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8318
Phonology
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, ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 20160
Re: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
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...
- Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 20160
Re: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
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...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:55 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang creation help request...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2425
Re: Conlang creation help request...
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...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Rules for accented sounds like
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1946
Re: Rules for accented sounds like
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...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:03 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 20160
Re: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
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?
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Devoicing in English
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3922
Devoicing in English
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...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang creation help request...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2425
Re: Conlang creation help request...
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...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
- Replies: 130
- Views: 70563
Re: Member Countries and Known Languages
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...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:11 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Categorizing Etihus
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7637
Re: Categorizing Etihus
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...