zompist bboard

ɬ → ç on acoustic similarity? I've generated some sporadically I want to clean it up without creating a new phoneme. /ç/ is already well established. There is /l/, but no /ʃ/. I don't see any precedent for it in the Index Diachronica, but if I recall correctly from an old post on John Wells's blog, ...

That spreadsheet says that occurs in only two Celtic languages, it occurs in Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx. Four. But for some reason the spreadsheet is only counting four of the six Celtic languages anyway... The data is pulled from the database of Eurasian phonological inventories . The databas...

Different languages of the same grouping often have similar sounds. This can give the family a distinctive 'feel'. While trying to sort out the aesthetics of a phonology, I found myself wanting to compare some groupings against each other. Since I couldn't find a paper with my desired data tabulated...