http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonologic ... _of_FrenchA protected /j/ (not preceded by a vowel), stemming from an initial /j/ or from a /dj/, /ɡj/, or /ɡ(eˌi)/ when preceded by a consonant, becomes /dʒ/.
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- Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /j/ to /dʒ/ in Romance
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5261
Re: /j/ to /dʒ/ in Romance
- Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:39 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Spanish "masculine" girls names
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5348
Re: Spanish "masculine" girls names
María de la conceptión is one such name, usually used in the shortened form Conchi or Conchita. I'd find it really weird to have the word "concepción" in my name.
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Modern Polish phonotactics finally deciphered!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4082
Re: Modern Polish phonotactics finally deciphered!
Polish doesn't have any syllabic consonants. Those are all single syllable AFAIU.CatDoom wrote:Wow! Are all of those pronounced as one syllable, or are some of the consonants syllabic?
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ versus /nj/ and /lj/ in Romance
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3568
Re: /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ versus /nj/ and /lj/ in Romance
I repeat my question from above (where I was not being facetious).
In every dialect of Spanish I have heard, historical /ʎ/ has become [j], [ʝ], [ʒ] or [ʃ] and I have never ever heard it pronounced [ʎ] except on this one audio course I tried from the seventies.
In every dialect of Spanish I have heard, historical /ʎ/ has become [j], [ʝ], [ʒ] or [ʃ] and I have never ever heard it pronounced [ʎ] except on this one audio course I tried from the seventies.
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ versus /nj/ and /lj/ in Romance
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3568
Re: /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ versus /nj/ and /lj/ in Romance
Who does, these days?tezcatlip0ca wrote:Of course, we have no /ʎ/ phoneme.
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461637
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Aesthetically, I simply cannot accept that a 1st person pronoun was h₁éǵh₂m.
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:02 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 788866
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
I got this crazy red Canadian jacket from a brand named Mackage on a quick trip to New York. I like it.
- Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:18 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
- Replies: 97
- Views: 39093
Re: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
And it's down again.
I wonder if there is any way to migrate the forum to some other host. This is a pretty shitty situation. But I guess we'd need Serafín for that if it's even possible.
I wonder if there is any way to migrate the forum to some other host. This is a pretty shitty situation. But I guess we'd need Serafín for that if it's even possible.
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 898734
Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
Cedh and I are currently working on the common ancestor of Proto-Mbingmik and Proto-Rompian/Ronquian. Obviously we can't reveal anything about it because the reconstruction of PR is currently underway. Note that you can't assume anything regarding PR from the choice of Proto-Mbingmik as a relative –...
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:29 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
- Replies: 97
- Views: 39093
Re: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
I contacted prophpbb on their Facebook page. They said:
prophbb wrote:I am waiting for further news MD our admin is based in the US and I am in the UK - I have just woken up and hope I hear something soon
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:57 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: SCA2 questions
- Replies: 87
- Views: 29998
Re: SCA2 questions
Nice!zompist wrote:OK, should be fixed.
1. Insertions should work at the end of the word.
2. Blanks at the end of vocabulary items are removed.
Does it replace spaces at the end of sound changes as well? If there's a space after a rule, it is treated as invalid currently.
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:56 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
- Replies: 97
- Views: 39093
Re: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
It seems to be somewhat permanently down and since the entire domain is down, the support site is down. I hope you guys weren't saving any important data only on there…
- Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:28 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
- Replies: 97
- Views: 39093
Re: Conlang Reconstruction Game 2014: we have a forum
Aaand it's down again.
Serafín – if you're out there – any chance you could make someone else admin whenever you get a chance (and the board is back up)?
Serafín – if you're out there – any chance you could make someone else admin whenever you get a chance (and the board is back up)?
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Phonoaesthetics
- Replies: 66
- Views: 22368
Re: Phonoaesthetics
Icelandic has that kind of assimilation. In fact, we have a couple of /ŋ/ < /kn/ situations 
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:41 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 461637
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Oh, sorry, completely misunderstood. I didn't realise YOU were being facetious when you called him a demi-god, and I didn't realise Elf WASN'T being facetious when he linked to a guy with that name. Because 'Melchert' is actually a name that could easily be the name of, literally, an Anatolian demi...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:50 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Phonoaesthetics
- Replies: 66
- Views: 22368
Re: Phonoaesthetics
PIE had prevocalic *gn and *kn which could have easily changed to a prevocailc ŋ but it didn't happen anywhere as far as I know. Why? I would guess areal influence. Prevocalic ŋ is not fashionable in the IE area.
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: [l]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2230
Re: [l]
I think [n] and [d] are most common, but fricatives are possible as well [z] or [ð] for example, especially to "balance" out an asymmetric fricative system. Say a language has [f s x] and [v z ð ɣ] – [ð] would be likely to be lost. [l] is one possibility, or [ɹ], or [l] via [ɹ].
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Wenetic Scratchpad- NP: Gods above.
- Replies: 82
- Views: 35113
Re: Wenetic Scratchpad- NP: Gods above.
vec wrote:But I'm excited for more.
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:26 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Flaidish errata/questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4151
Flaidish errata/questions
You give the pronunciation of Syxesteer as /'səks əs tir/. However, later you say "Flaidish vowels are not reduced to schwa, unless they're written with y or final -a. Thus Muncham = /mʋnčæm/ not /mʋnčəm/; nolleck is /nɔlɛk/ not /nɔlək/." Shouldn't the capital's name thus be /'səks ɛs tir/? The docu...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:53 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Do some italians pronounce 'z' as /θ/?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2311
Re: Do some italians pronounce 'z' as /θ/?
Friulian looks very interesting. I wish the Wikipedia article was better.
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:48 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10185
Re: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
You already have tsunka - bug; insect; worm; nyolo - ant; insect; and nyamu - mosquito; fly; gnat. but I'm going to suggest more specific terms: a'i - worm hyesua - beetle and perhaps suggest you perhaps remove some of the semantic tax on a few of those bug-words. Also, some anatomical terms: kisua ...
- Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Body-part typology
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1584
Re: Body-part typology
Spanish and Japanese don't distinguish fingers and toes. I bet there's a wealth of interesting typologies out there. But for a list of them, I can't help you.
- Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:01 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10185
Re: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
pyotsi - tail fin (of a fish)
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:09 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10185
Re: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
pamua – lack, be without, be in need of
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Recent Sound Changes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2074
Re: Recent Sound Changes
Icelandic off the top of my head: Höggmæli : b, d, g > [ʔ] before n so höfn 'harbor' [hœʔn] rather than [hœpn] Frication of k before n: læknir 'doctor' [laixnır] rather than [laihknır] Loss of phonemic voiceless n: hnútur 'knot' [nutʏr] rather than [n̥utʏr] Intervocalic voicing of s: lesa 'read' [l ...