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Vowel length was lost in all Romlangs, so this change would need to have occurred in many other words. Perhaps it is indeed a typo, in the map itself, and there is only /ŋ/, not /ŋn/. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Italic_languages says that /ŋ/ is a reflex of intervocalic /n/ and that it is ...

So the stops and affricates, taken together, are /b d tʃ k/. That's interesting. Voice onset time tends to be longer after stops further back in the mouth, so a setup like that makes sense in and of itself. But you have a lot of fricatives: /f v θ ð ʃ ʒ/ plus the glottal /h/. I think it's still plau...

I cant post pictures of any of this, but: My first conscript ever was for "Manni", a conlang spoken by people who live in very cold climates on planet Teppala and are close to nature. The phonology was simple, with I think 4 vowels and maybe about 15 conosnants. Even though this was over 20 years ag...

I was living at my parent's house, kind of, but it was different and it wasn't their house ... and the street light across the road had some kind of warning light underneath that was flashing. And then a little while later it started arking electricity through the air and it hit the front two rooms...

I read some of the PDF and I can see the argument for calling /ʕ/ a semivowel, and that if it is a semivowel, it's certainly a semivowel of a low vowel such as /ɑ/. And that analyzing it as a semivowel fits in perfectly in a language that already has semivowels /w j/ or at least one of those. I agre...

next: seafood Tautisca: wodina edu , lit "water food" = all food items that come out of the water; Tautisca doesn't distinguish food from the sea and food from ponds, lakes, rivers etc. as separate classes. Sorry, I forgot. Is Tautisca a Germanic language run through Latin--> Romance sound changes,...

Next: to feel; sense; understand Kala: sato - sense; perceive; be aware of; detect next: to meet by chance; to come across Poswa: I could do this a few different ways but I want to streamline as much as possible and have a single exact word for things like this, leaving open the possibility of usin...

i think in the USA, children born in the early 1970s were most likely to have grown up during the time when phonics had fallen out of favor in the US public school system, and are more likely to have trouble with foreign words and even irregular English ones. My sister is a good example of this, but...

Only print book I've ever read cover-to-cover is A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan : a language created for women for expressing the female perspective. by Suzette Haden Elgin, which I bought in 1999 or 2000. It is not the same dictionary and grammar that's online in various places across the...

You could try adding an adjective-forming suffix -i , then do /ai ei oi ui/ > /e/ in final syllables, then /e/ > [ə] > /0/ in final syllables. This would get you most but not all adjectives to end in consonants, and also get rid of final -e on other words unless it is restored by analogy. This sounm...

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It could be a way of noting a true /θ/ as opposed to the less common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless ... _fricative , if a lanuggae contrasts both.

I interpret it as neither of those, but rather not commenting on whether or not we currently have any bombs, and simply stating that it is important that the supply exists. I agree. But if I had to express the meanings of sentences #1 and #2 in a clear and unambiguous way, I'd have to reword #2 sig...

One of my coworkers has a name spelled Weijun. Now, the standard Mandarin pronunciation of this name is obvious, as are a number of approximations or guesses that English speakers might use, but for some reason everyone who works here pronounces his name [waI.ju:n]. I have no idea how they would ha...

I must have missed this thread. I'll just post a few links: http://www.frathwiki.com/Religions_of_Teppala Not much there, it's more about the names of the gods than the religion itself. http://kneequickie.com/archive/Tarwataf This page is much longer, but it's for just one religion and if I was rewr...

3. Plosives The main issue here is /g/ and /ɉ/. As this will show, if a language is missing any plosives in the back (where /g/ hangs out), generally the one it'll be missing is /g/, rather than /k/. Personallly, if you're gonna put a palatal plosive in, I'd have put /c/ in over /ɉ/, (or better yet...

Pole, the wrote: Would it be plausible to have /θ/ → (fortition) /tθ/ → /tx/ instead?
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yes, I should've thought of that first,sorry.

I'm on phone only for time being,sorry for messy typing.

Me again. Im moving to here so this'll probably be my last post here for a while. ---- Oct 7 I was eating in a mall at a Chinese restaurant called Nemimhati , and wanted to try teriyaki chicken but I was hesitant for some reason I dont remember. ----- Oct 8 (These three dreams are all from the same ...

People often use "arachnophobia" colloquially to refer to something that is not a serious problem, but it seems that fear of spiders can be something disruptive enough to qualify as a phobia under the APA's definition. If "there are no adults in the world with trypophobia severe enough to affect th...

I was socially isolated until my middle teen years because I was in special education and interacted more with adults than with other students. Therefore I didnt have to deal with peer pressure because I didnt have many peers, and those I did have were in the same situation as I was. In elementary s...

Trypophobia is not an official phobia recognized in scientific literature. For many (though perhaps not all) who have it, it's probably not even a real phobia, which the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says must interfere "significantly with ...

Warning to anyone who doesnt know what it is and are not sure if you have it ..... beware before you google search it because youre going to see nothing but shock images even in the normal search results (not image search). I think Im a mild trypophobe, in that it doesnt bother me much in daily life...

How would you approach the following ones? /θ/ → /tx/ θ ---> ṭ (dental) ---> t (known from some AmEng dialects) ---> tʰ ----> tx Any preeixisting /t/ would have to be sheltered from the change by a Duke-of-York sound shift, since /tx/ without bare /t/ would be very peculiar. /ks/ → /x/ Similar. ks-...

I was in a classroom, with chairs that had been donated by Loyola University, whose legs were shaped like capital L's and were not sturdy enough to reliably sit on. Several of the chairs had already collapsed, but we seemed to have some chairs with normal shapes also available. There was a woman who...

Somebody here may have dreamt of Steven Pinker and Noam Chomsky recently, since I sometimes use Google search instead of bookmarks to get here and the link that showed up for the dream thread had a built-in query string of "Pinker+Chomsky". Although now that I use the internal search, it seems to be...

"'za" from "pizza". ...Seriously? Is that pronounced as spelled, or as /sa/ by analogy, or...? It's even a word you can play in Scrabble . I've always heard it pronounced with a /z/. Ive actually used it in Scrabble before, and I might have even won because of it once (way too long ago for me to re...