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Get out of my mind kodé! I was a few hours ago explaining to a friend how Celtic mutations work, because she asked me why there are so many h's in Irish, and I just got carried away. So I came up with this (and these are the actual words and pronunciations I used for the explanation). perro [ˈpero],...

Heptrion wrote:/p pʰ b t tʰ ʈ k kʰ q ʔ/ p ph b t th tr/rt* k kh q ’
/m n ɳ ŋ ɴ/ m n nr/rn* ñ ñh
/f v θ ð ʂ ʐ x ɣ χ/ f v s z sr/rs* zr/rz* x g xh
/j l/ y l
/a e ø o i u ø: o: u:/ a e ö o i u ő ó ú

* <Cr> when in onset position

Torco wrote:Did someone change their name to something aztec recently ?

I did, but that's irrelevant.

Yanyuwa /b d̪ d ḏ ɖ ɟ ɡ̠/ p th t s tr c k /ⁿb ⁿd̪ ⁿd ⁿḏ ⁿɖ ⁿɟ ⁿɡ̠/ b dh d z dr j g /m n̪ n ṉ ɳ ɲ ŋ̠/ m nh n nz nr ny ng /l̪ l ḻ ɭ/ lh l lz lr /r ɻ j w/ rr r y w /a i u/ a i u /ɟinaŋ̠uwuɡ̠ud̪uɖuwara nawini wuⁿɡ̠uɭi kawiⁿɡ̠a waɟalija ɡ̠iwamaralu najiɖi naɻidiɻidi ɡ̠iwaḻawu. puji aɖu ɡ̠awiⁿɡ̠a waɟalija...

Is there any reason why *e *o couldn't have been [æ ɔ] or so? That would resolve the problem of there being no /a/ (Seri has /æ ɑ i o/) and answer the question of why so many IE langs have low vowel mergers of some sort. Actually I’ve considered this for a while. It seems that the vowel system in l...

Syllable-final plosives except /t/ fricativize and assimilate in voicing to the following consonant. /eː ɜː/ > /jeː eː/ /ə/ > /ɜ/ pɹɜʃˈsuːz fɜˈʃi pufɨˈʒʷot tɨzˈzɒːx ʃaːnˈbiʃ ʃi aːˈʃʷoʃ jeː ow jɨˈtʼaːx xe xɜˈvi kɨˈsɹuːɣ ˈxuŋgʷɜ nas ˈniːmuː nuː ˈmeɣʒɨ mɛɣʷɜ mɔxʷˈʃʷaː njeːˈmiɹ nɨˈʒɹoː nɜˈɓix nuː nuz xɒ...

Metathesis of an unstressed central vowel with a following sonant. pʰ > f prɜʃˈtʰuːd fəˈʃi pufɨvˈʒot tɨdˈzɒːk tʃʰaːnˈbiʃ tʃʰi aːbˈʃoʃ eː ow jɨˈtʼaːk kʰe kʰɜˈvi kɨˈtʰruːg ˈkʰuŋgvə las ˈliːmuː luː ˈmegʒɨ ˈmɛvɣə mɔgvˈʃaːl njɜlˈmir nɨˈʒroː nɜˈɓik nuː nud kʰɒːˈkɒ: kʰɒːx raːˈnis ˈawkʼaː tʃiːˈro tʃʰuːx ˈtʃ...

aːː ɒːː eːː iːː oːː uːː > aː ɔː ɛj ej ɔw ow Ch > Cʰ h > 0 / V_{V,#} əi əu > ɛj ɔw pɛrʃˈtʰuːd pʰoˈʃi pupʰuvˈʒawt tudˈzɒːk tʃʰaːnˈbiʃ tʃʰi aːbəˈʃawʃ eː ow jiˈtʼaːk kʰaj kʰaˈvi kiˈtʰruːg ˈkʰungvo las ˈliːmuː luː ˈmajgʒu ˈmɛvɣo mɔgvəˈʃaːlə nɛjlˈmir niˈʒraːw nɛˈɓik nuː nud kʰɒːˈkɒ: kʰɒːx raːˈnis ˈɔwkʼaː ...

Has anyone tried to create a phonology that passes the test with 100%?

Add stress on the syllable two morae before the last consonant, or on the first syllable if there isn't one. Delete /i u/ adjacent to the stressed syllable, unless it is in the first or last syllable of the word. Reduce unstressed /a e o/ to [ə] (unless nasal) and /aj aw/ to /i u/ adjacent to the st...

/p t tʷ k kʷ q qʷ ʔ ʔʷ/ p t tw k kw q qw ’ ’w /b d dʷ ɡ ɡʷ/ b d dw g gw /pʼ tʼ tʷʼ kʼ kʷʼ qʼ qʷʼ/ p’ t’ tw’ k kw’ q qw’ /t͡s t͡sʷ t͡ʃ ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʷ/ ts tsw tcy tc tcw /d͡z d͡zʷ d͡ʒ ɖ͡ʐ ɖ͡ʐʷ/ dz dzw djy dj djw /t͡sʼ t͡sʷʼ t͡ʃʼ ʈ͡ʂʼ ʈ͡ʂʷʼ/ ts’ tsw’ tcy’ tc’ tcw’ /f s sʷ ɬ ɬʷ ʃ ʂ ʂʷ x xʷ χ χʷ h hʷ/ f s sw ...

/pʰ' tʰ' cʰ' kʰ' qʰ'/ Those are impossible. Also, you’re not understanding secondary articulations. They usually pattern as places of articulation, not as manners, that is, you’re far more likely to have /p t tˤ c k kʷ q qʷ p’ t’ tˤ’ c’ k’ kʷ’ q’ qʷ’ b d dˤ ɟ g gʷ/. There’s too many implausible ele...

When I noticed that the timeline ended in 2000, I imagined that you still had fifteen more centuries to develop. Then I realized this was set on Earth.

I'd suggest <sh zh ch j> versus <sch zch tch dj>. English speakers are familiar with most of these, except for <zch> and maybe <zh>, but they’d probably figure out the relationship between /S s\/ and /Z z\/ more easily than with <zj>.

But there can surely be no reasonable doubt that the vowels are different in 'Lennin' and 'Lennon', 'purest' and 'purist', or 'illusion' or 'allusion'! I distinguish the first and third (assuming Lennin , with which I am unfamiliar, is said the same as Lenin ), but not the second. I have lower midd...

KathAveara wrote:Assuming that Almea is in our universe, which is not guaranteed.

However, the Elenicoi managed to pass, so why not Morgan?

2+3 clusivity wrote:/m n ɲβ/ m n ñ
/p t cβ k kw/ p t c k kw
/b d ɟβ g gw/ b d j g gw
/s/ s
/j jβ w/ y ŷ w
/l/ l
/ɹ/ r
/i~a ɨ̞β~ɐβ u~ɒ/ i/a î/â u/o


adɐβlɒ amɐβjβi kandi ɹiwulɒɲβu kwɐβn

Adâlo amâŷi kandi riwuloñu kwân.

/p b t d k g/ p b t d k g /pf ts tʃ dʒ/ pf z/tz zh/tzh dzh /f v s z ʃ ʒ x h/ f v s sz sch szh ch h /m n ŋ/ m n ng /l j r/ l j r /a ɑ ɛ ø o~ɔ ɪ i y u/ a â e ö o i ie ü u /ai au ɛɪ eɪ ey øy/ ai au ei î eu öu ij after a vowel becomes j , iej becomes ij . Tö sin ti ganse lait uf keschtie, hon Jeisus pis...

Azerbaijani /p b t d tʃ dʒ c ɟ k g/ p b t d cz dz ty gy k g /f v s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ h/ f v s z sz ž ch gh h /m n l r j/ m n l r j* /æ a e ø o i y ɯ u/ e a é ö o i ü y u */j/ is i before a consonant and word-finally, except after /i/. bytyn insanlar hejsijjæt væ haglar baxɯmɯndan dænk bærabær væ ærkin azad ...

I'm going to guess that L means long vowel.

So, what happens to 21-30? Is there an irregularity that makes it difficult to choose a single form?

Rovaei: 1 alād 2 mish 3 zhiqid 4 dāw 5 xhat 6 thākwad 7 usak 8 kalash 9 āisan 10 sīm 11 tsilhan 12 zan 13 alāzan 14 mizan 15 zhizan 16 kalshilh 17 zaŋat 18 āsinilh 19 zanusak 20 sīmilh 21 zhidusak 22 tsinilh 23 zanilhan 24 zanilh 25 alāzilh 26 mizilh 27 zhizilh 28 zanilh tāw 29 zanilh xhat 30 zanilh...

Herr Dunkel wrote:/eri/ or /ari/ - the /h/ is dropped in enough sorts of English anyway.

The language disallows null onsets, and has no approximants. I would choose /ŋari/ or /fari/.

Oh, that sounds cool, Ketumak. If I may ask, how similar are you making your alternate earth to ours, with respect to history and language, I mean? Do you, for example, have an alternate Spanish that sounds just like Spanish, but isn't Spanish? (I've always loved that Idea. :D) I’ve had a similar i...

Similar question with no answers. How would Mthaduri borrow something like [aja]? I don't want it to be a'i'a with three consecutive glottal stops, and asha seems too distant. I’m borrowing foreign [w] as /b/, and [j] usually as a glottal stop when adjacent to something that would be borrowed as /i/...