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multilevel glosses exist

apparently not

mea culpa

Bad Latin with an unsatisfyingly regular and agglutinative verbal system. Also written in an eclectic superset of the latin alphabet, with a runic version to simulate ~native orthography~ that I forgot to document so I can't decipher it myself anymore. Oh yeah also in excessive simulation of Ancient...

/p t tʲ ts tsʲ ʈ tʃ k ʔ/ p t tʼ ts tsʼ ṭ c k ʔ /b d dʲ z~dz zʲ~dzʲ ɖ dʒ ɡ/ b d dʼ z zʼ ḍ j g /m̥ n̥ n̥ʲ ɳ̥/ mh nh nhʼ ṇh /m n nʲ ɳ/ m n nʼ ṇ /f s sʲ ʂ x h/ f s sʼ ṣ x h /ʋ l lʲ ɭ ɽ~ɻ j/ v l lʼ ḷ r y /i u/ i u /e o õ/ e o ǫ /ɛ ɔ ɛ̃/ ẹ ọ ę /a ɑ̃/ a ą a à aa àà /ki˥mɛ̃˩ ʔʋal˥ɡiː˩ kɔ˥joː˥ ʔdʲaɡ˩ mi˥tʲaː...

eleven

Jalve /p t tʲ ts tsʲ ʈ tʃ k ʔ/ /b d dʲ z~dz zʲ~dzʲ ɖ dʒ ɡ/ /m̥ n̥ n̥ʲ ɳ̥/ /m n nʲ ɳ/ /f s sʲ ʂ x h/ /ʋ l lʲ ɭ ɽ~ɻ j/ /i u/ /e o õ/ /ɛ ɔ ɛ̃/ /a ɑ̃/ There are two tones. All vowels can be short or long. Syllable structure is roughly CCVC. /ki˥mɛ̃˩ ʔʋal˥ɡiː˩ kɔ˥joː˥ ʔdʲaɡ˩ mi˥tʲaː˥ ʋaʔ˥ za˥n̥ʲɔ˩/ /stɔ˩...

What explanation do you advance for your flipout on the topic of whether competent speakers of English can generally be expected to know the word "yarn", then

The internet is obzhash as fuck again today.

Anyway, sirdanilot, did you even have a point other than <I FEEL INSULTED BECAUSE OF A PASSING INSINUATION I MIGHT NOT BE GREAT AT ENGLISH WHICH CONFLICTS WITH MY EXTREMELY INFLATED SENSE OF SELF-WORTH>

It's anglo-centric? Look, pancakefucker, if you can't speak the language you can't speak the language, regardless of whether it's English or Dutch or Chinese. And who fucking cares if you're probably well above average in English compared to other L2 speakers in at least the Netherlands given that E...

well, you sound like a presumptuous asshole

also hey have you considered that non-natives considering themselves competent are largely not competent

Hmong Daw: /pʰ p pˡʰ pˡ tʰ t ʈʰ t cʰ c kʰ k qʰ q ʔ/ <p b pl bl t d tr dr q j k g kr gr x> /ᵐpʰ ᵐb ᵐpˡʰ ᵐbˡ ⁿtʰ ⁿd ᶯʈʰ ᶯɖ ᶮcʰ ᶮɟ ᵑkʰ ᵑɡ ᶰqʰ ᶰɢ/ <mp mb mpl mbl nt nd ntr ndr nq nj nk ng nkr ngr> /tsʰ ts tʂʰ tʂ/ <c z ch zh> /ⁿtsʰ ⁿdz ⁿtʂʰ ⁿdʐ/ <nc nz nch nzh> /f v s ɬ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ h/ <f v s lh sh r hy y h> ...

mesdames et messieurs, le meilleur shitpost qui a jamais été shitpostu sur le board

Rui wrote:It's certainly not [pɔ], etc., it could be [pu̯ɔ~pʊ̯ɔ] o_o Is this another dialect difference?

UO in those words is pretty common in Dongbei standard. Colloquial forms IME generally have no rounding at all: be pe me fe

I was surprised to see that German and Hebrew have fairly similar phoneme inventories—apart from some minor things… This is not at all surprising if you consider the history of modern Hebrew. The language was artificially revived and initially spoken exclusively as an L2, mostly by German Ashkenazi...

Sure but using "aliens" as a reason to "I'll make a human language but stupid" isn't exactly the most creatively deep endeavour you might undertake

bashkir

what do you want, I'm a product of my times

zompist wrote:the models and the kit and the tools provided by its founder

next time just make a webpage that says "read typology books pleb" and save yourself a bunch of work hth

The most simple possibility is that the /q/ was just always there since time immemorial. I mean, why could /k/ and /t/ 'have always been there' but not /q/? Because that view is naive and does not take into account the question of distribution. Sound changes don't act on inventories of phonemes, an...

That Shapsug Adyghe thing is, however, not sourced, and I couldn't find anything else about this supposed fricative in Shapsugh with the cursory search that I did. I'd put that on the suspect list until somebody finds where that claim is from.

Owiowim ayusahampoy ntewaisempiwehkam uwauwapwaŋ ntewainup ho ŋkitenwib.
Even though your various relatives may be strong, they are not stronger than my grandmother.

Japanese doesn't have a uvular nasal, it's just overloading the symbol for underspecification. See also Burmese. Anyway, for fricatives, velar fricatives often back if there's no contrast. If you want an entire series you can generally do backing before low vowels, which I am sure has happened in a ...

By which I mean, you don't give anywhere near enough information about the structure of words in your language for anybody to be able to give you good and useful answers. Lists of consonants really aren't enough material for that; you'd need at least a description of the vowels, syllable structure, ...

that question is hilariously malformed

What can the sje-sound turn into? I am working on a language family and the protolang has that phoneme. The sje-sound is ɧ and its romanization is a j with stroke from Unicode. as well as ingressive fricatives (s and z) and what can uvularized sounds turn into? I have uvularized b, y, z, v, f, s, h...