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I've been doing some thinking lately about how Tim Ar writing developed (as well as the writing for my eight-phoneme conlang, but that's another matter). Proto-Tim Ar-O had no native writing system (at least in this iteration), and I therefore envisioned the speakers constituting a state like the In...

Rau sfeqsforonfe [sfɛqs̩fʷoʁʷõfʷe] → Common Caber sơfecsơfohofe [səfɛksəfɔxɔˈfɛ] → Central Caber seyseojoe [sɛjsɛɔxɔˈɛ] Rau hekskihsou [xeks̩kixsɯ] → Common Caber hecsơcihsư [xɛksəkixˈsɨ] → Central Caber jeysesijsi [xɛjsɛsixˈsi] Rau fumenssous [fʌmẽs̩sɯs] → Common Caber fơmesưs [fəmɛˈsɨs] → Central ...

[sə̂ kʰaʔánit pə̀βíŋ ŋomə́t ʔəŋə́ʔ || pàɣùl əkʰaʔáə sêŋ tə̀βam tâ nə́ jə̀. ə pàtə́m téŋ ʔâʔ ʃə́ʔ ʃá téŋ ʔə̀k ŋə́ ||] Modified Kikuyu tone shift: Level tones move one syllable to the right; initial syllables take a mid/neutral tone. Contour tones drop the second part of the contour. V0 → Ø / V0ʔ_ ŋ →...

Kadín sukezubuňúʔə [sukɛzubʷuŋu:ʔə] → Common Caber sucezubunuơ [sukɛzubunuˈə] → Extreme Southern Caber sfesfwonfai [sfkesfwonˈfɛ] Kadín fökikišásu [fʷœkikiʃa:su] → Common Caber feciciśasu [fɛkikiɕaˈsu] → Extreme Southern Caber hekskijhsu [hekskixˈhsu] Kadín umönésus [umʷœnɛ:sus] → Common Caber umene...

Currently unnamed eight-phoneme challenge language /p t k/ /s/ /w j/ /a ə/ 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar – 1 2. Phonemic voicing – 0 3. Phonemic voicing only on stops and ...

The war you mentioned sounds more like the Anglo-Mysore Wars with tanks. I cannot recall hearing of the Anglo-Mysore Wars before! I'll have to read up on them, but just from your description it sounds more along the lines of plausibility. Here's a rough climate map of the world; the color scheme is...

Looking at the expenses of WII, I don't think that either side could keep on fighting for 40 years. The German economy was going under massive inflation towards the end, and whichever side is not fighting on a home front (the colonialist Jädawan) manages to keep its infrastructure for making weapon...

http://i.imgur.com/yno6BnQ.png Top row: tag 'pain, injury', rưf 'gain', sac 'lose', u 'lean on', pabaz 'compose' Second row: zư 'grind (using a millstone)', maz 'drag', ǧe 'dark (hue or tint)', maơǧ 'light (hue or tint)', wair 'barb, thorn, spike' Third row: deơc 'hurt, cause pain', cưǧ 'measure, w...

I'd like to head any potential flamewars off at the pass before we begin, so here's a little out-of-universe background on the Tlar Canà: Before I decided to make two separate continents instead of one supercontinent, I had conceived of the patriarchy/matriarchy split as occurring on the northwest a...

jal wrote:

Pogostick Man wrote:Not sure if this strictly speaking belongs here, but here goes anyway.

Seems like venting to me. Valid.

jal wrote:

It seems that even though I have a Bachelor's, nobody wants me

Bachelor in what?

Linguistics.

Not sure if this strictly speaking belongs here, but here goes anyway. So I'm having trouble finding a job. Most of the several hundred résumés I've put out have either said something to the effect of "we are not hiring you for this position" or have not responded to me at all. I think I've gone on ...

Philip Glass, "Part 2" from Music in Twelve Parts (the version where "Part 1" is slow).

Someone called "chridd" or "chri d. d." has made a searchable version of the Index Diachronica in both online and Unicode PDF form. I plan on releasing v.11.0 sometime this week (if possible; I have just started a new job) and plan to render it in XeLaTeX to make it Unicode-searchable from the get-go.

Biosphere – "In Triple Time", off of Dropsonde.

Tropylium wrote:Welsh does seem to have word-medial ll and rh too though; no idea where those came from.

Dunno about /r̥/, but *l → ɬ / _t.

Frislander wrote:The audience would laugh at anything, including the death of Polonius.

To be fair, Polonius' death is pretty funny—at least in the original. Did he say "O, I am slain!" in this production as well?

Also—why am I often the one who has to talk down suicidal people? It gets incredibly frustrating.

I second kodé—good to hear you're out of inpatient.

On my end, I survived day one of my new job.

Travis B. wrote:The hospital twisted my arm on this one, implying that I was not going to get out unless I allowed them to talk to my parents.

If you can, talk to a lawyer about this. I'm not one, but to my layperson's estimation it seems like there could be grounds for a lawsuit here.

Proto-Triconsonantal Language /n/ /p b t d k g q ʔ/ /s/ /w l ɹ j/ /u ʊ o ɔ a ɛ e ɪ i/ 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] – 0 2. Phonemic voicing – 1 3. Phonemic voicing only ...

Information in this post is from this article . Proto-Yeniseian to Ket p w {dz,dʒ} → h b d / #_ {p,w} → Ø / ! _# b → v / _V (conditioning beyond this uncertain) b {d,dz,dʒ} → p t / _# d → {d,r} / V_V {r,r1,l} → l(ʲ) {ts,tʃ} → t {dz,dʒ} → {d,r} / V_V s → ɕ / _V[+ high] or _E ? sq → sː rʲ → lʲ (→ l / ...

For tones, I follow the Wikipedia article's convention: The shorthand T D N refers to onsets of voiceless obstruents, voiced obstruents, and resonants, regardless of the place of articulation; NT and ND refer to the prenasalized ("softened") stops. *z *ɣ belong with the Nʰ/Dʰ group; *ʒ, with the D g...

If I got stuff wrong, jump in and correct me. I'd like to write up some stuff on Min later today. Old Chinese to Early Middle Chinese From Wikipedia contributors (2016), "Historical Chinese phonology". Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia . < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Historical_Chinese...

I have lost pretty much all the respect I had for my maternal aunts at this point. I really, really want to give them a piece of my mind.

Vijay wrote:I don't think that change is particularly odd. Didn't that also happen in Icelandic and Faroese?

I classified it as "odd" because the sequence /tl/ is in general dispreferred among languages.

The information in this post is from Fortescue, Michael (2011), Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary . These rules are probably jumbled up somewhat chronologically and for the most part only deal with consonants. I'm going to begin with a note on an alternation that possibly goes back to Proto...