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consonants:
/p t ty k/
/f s sh h/
/b d dy/
/r y w/

vowels
/i u/
/e o/
/a/

high tone marked with acute accent
low tone unmarked

Newbie question: When coming up with a romanization scheme for a conlang, is there an easy and not-too-confusing way of indicating that a vowel is both accented and long? hungarian likes to use the double accent: <ő ű> sometimes when long vowels are written as 2 symbols, both receive an accent: <áá>

is /anː/ -> /ãn/ plausible? and can it be generalized to any vowel/nasal?

Nishtigian has an evidential system that expresses five levels of evidentiality: visual and non-visual perception, reportative, inferential, and assumptious. The reportative only exists in the perfective aspect and the assumptious only in the future tense. Visual perception implies the speaker witne...

HazelFiver wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 5:28 am Does anyone else pronounce "experiment" with /iː/ for the second vowel? I haven't found this anywhere. I already know I don't speak proper English, and I've given up trying to. Just wondering.

somewhat:
[eksˈpʰi̯ɚmɛːntʰ]

Estav wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 3:46 am phonetician
Portuguese
overshare
oversharing

[ˌfoʊnəˈtʰɪːʃɪn]
[ˌpʰɔɚ̯tʃəˈgiːz]
[ˌoʊ̯ːvɚˈʃeɪ̯ɚ̯]
[ˌoʊ̯ːvɚˈʃeɪ̯ɚ̯iŋ]

nishtigian receives a 48.5 for phonology, and 23 for grammar. i assume the higher the score, the more european, right? also, does "7 or more vowel qualities" mean 7+ vowels in total with qualities' distinctions, or 7 contrasts? like if you have length, roundedness, and creaky voice and the...

great new jokelang idea:
inflect things according to zodiac sign/year

i think this is the most normal phonology gleb is capable of producing /m n ɲ/ /p b t d t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g ʔ/ /v s z ʃ ʒ x/ ɾ/ /ʋ l/ /i u/ /ɛ/ /a/ N E V E R M I N D C1)(C2)(C3)V(C4) C1: a labial consonant other than /b/; i.e. one of /m p f v ʋ/ C2: one of /m n f s x ɾ ʋ/ C3: a consonant V: a vowel C4: a co...

the p in receipt is silent. i thought having a /p/ sounded cooler and then found out

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:07 pm starting to (when pronounced like a single word)

[ˈstɜɚ̯ɾiŋ tɯ]

from a quick google search and look at wikipedia, it seems tagalog definitely has it.

is /pʃ/ > /ʙ/ plausible?

Vlürch wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:16 pm Does anyone else pronounce isle as /aɪ̯əl/?

i do, except in fast speech, where it comes out as [äɫ]

lmao /m n̻ n ɲ ŋ ɴ/ /b ɓ̰ t̻ d̻ ɗ̰̻ t d ɗ̰ ɗ̰̱ k g ɠ̰ kˤ gˤ ɠ̰ˤ/ /t͡s̻ d͡z̻ t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k͡x g͡ɣ k͡xˤ g͡ɣˤ/ /f s̻ s ʃ ħ/ /ɾ w/ /i u/ /e o/ /a/ (C1)V(C2)(C3)(C4) C1: a consonant V: a vowel C2: a consonant other than a stop or /ʔ ħ/; i.e. one of /m n̻ n ɲ ŋ ɴ f s̻ s ʃ ɾ w/ C3: a consonant C4: one o...

i hope this is the right thread: once i was doing a school assigment really quickly and the person next to me asked if i was just "copy and pasting." i had no electronics near me, all i had was a textbook. i had absolutely no idea what she was asking, but then she added "from the book...

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[kalˈvaːˌðos] (it looked spanish to me)
[ˈbʊlɨtʰɨn]
[hɑ̴ːɫ]