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Very nice guide, Iv'e made a start on following the guide to create my own. I have two questions: What is the other methods other than the diacronic method that was discussed here? Most of the roots in such a language just coincidentally need to have 3 consonants, or am I missing something in my und...

Zaarin wrote: I'm positive I've seen this change in a North American language, but unfortunately I can't tell you which one.

Please tell me when you remember where!

Can gemminates become ejectives? I asked DJP and he said probably but didn't know any examples. Then I did a little query search in the index dicronica, but to no avail there either.

i u e ø ə o a Do you know of any natural languages with this system? I don't, and it breaks a universal. Of course not all "universals" are truly universal, but as far as I can remember I've never heard of this one being broken in a natural language: that, disregarding schwa, no height row on the c...