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by HoskhMatriarch
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 ...
by HoskhMatriarch
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, ...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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?
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...
by HoskhMatriarch
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...