Zompist Bboard Again

In a somewhat similar—though not identical—way to how I unified CT and O into a single language family (Beheic), I’ve gotten 1 an idea of how to merge two of my other languages (to wit, Kgáweq’ and Täptäg, both now part of the Macro-Kgáweq’ family). I’m quite pleased. The recent discussion in the Li...

Spotify is discontinuing Car Thing. I’ll have to jailbreak it.

From what can a nominative case suffix or marker develop? Esp. if there were no nominative markers so far and there's few cases to begin with. Maybe a demonstrative or an intensifier? There’s a relationship with definiteness and accusativity…maybe indefinite > nominative? The World Lexicon of Gramm...

Loss of initial palatal stops [òːʑ.ʑé] 偽 | へうりぇう | きょーっじぇ | 허러 | kyōzzhe Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization "perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)" Assimi...

If you're orbiting a black hole, avoid the plunging region: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/world/black-holes-einstein-plunging-region-scn/index.html Responsible black hole owners will put up warning tape, but this is not always present. Standards have really deteriorated since we were young, haven'...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:11 pm

Man in Space wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:02 pm On Wikipedia just now, I have found a natlang (Bai) that spells /ɯ/ as e (/e/ is ei). I am quite astounded.

This is probably inspired by Hanyu Pinyin, in which /ə/ by itself is written ⟨e⟩ but is actually pronounced [ɤ] while ⟨ei⟩ is pronounced [ei].

Huh, TIL. This would make total sense.

On Wikipedia just now, I have found a natlang (Bai) that spells /ɯ/ as e (/e/ is ei). I am quite astounded.

*x > k / %_j [kjòːd.dʑé] 偽 | へうりぇう | ひょーっぎぇ | 허러 | hyōggye Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization "perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)" *sS > Sʰ [ka'tʰeə̯.ɲə]

By the way, what are those x 's supposed to signify? I tried looking up the extIPA for those but the page I got on the Wiki rendered much of such things as blocks. I interpret them as simply heterorganic affricates — e.g. [tx] is attested in Navajo. Not merely heterorganic but also heterovoiced aff...

Epenthesis between offglides and resonants

[xø̀w.gʎǿ]
偽 | へうりぇう | heowlyeo
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"

And now for something a little different… /m n/ m n /b t d c ɟ k g q/ b t d c j k g q /b x t x d x c x k x q x / b' t' d' c' k' q' /ɸ ʭ s ʃ x χ h/ f x th s ch kh qh h /β z/ w z /l ɹ j/ l r y /a e i o u/ a e i o u /ɛ̯a ɛ̯e i̯e ɔ̯o i̯u/ aa ee ii oo uu …but: yii yuu /i̯ei̯ i̯eu̯/

ç > x / _VK

[xỳw.ʎǿ]
偽 | ひゅうりぇう | hyuwlyeo
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"

Loss of first in a sequence of two like vowels

[çỳw.ɺʲǿ]
偽り | つわり | hyuweolyeo
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious"

People get sick of not having normal rounded vowels and semivowels. I don't think people are so cognizant of sound changes when they happen, or trigger them intentionally. Methinks Travis was merely phrasing it in an amusing manner. Final low-pitch vowels delete [çý.wǿɺʲ] 偽り | つわり | hyuweori "...

Fronting of central vowels after palatals

[çíᵝ.ɰᵝá.ɺʲì]
偽り | つわり | hyiwari
"lie, falsehood; (criminal slang) alibi, especially if dubious"

I was today years old when I realized that for me, I think I approach* [-ʃɪ-] in “associate” the noun and [-sɪ-] in “associate” the verb (plus a reduced vowel in the ultima of the former whilst it’s full in the latter). * I’m not 100% sure what is going on but I perceive some sort of nontrivial diff...

Initial high vowels devoice before voiceless consonants

[i̥.t͡sɨ́ᵝ.ɰᵝá.ɾʲì]
偽り | いつわり | itsuwari
"lie, falsehood"

Unmotivated /s/ → /ɬ/ is attested multiple times, although areally not that widespread; Yue Chinese, some Central Tai languages, Hlai, Tanoan apparently. In SE Asia /s/ isn't as stable as it ought to be, it keeps turning into /t/ or /ɬ/ or some bullshit along those lines. edit: MiS's push chain wou...

I was recently messaged about a few of Twin Aster 's languages by our esteemed friend Janko. In answer to his query, I have done some further work on certain aspects of the world of Twin Aster . A few things include: - PMJ acquires two new stop series: Dental stops /t̪ d̪/ ṯ ḏ (more properly "b...

*ts > *ɬ [ɬɑ' n ʒo:] tsanjô "our language" See this is what I mean by evil sound changes. I’ve actually seen evidence of a dialect of a language (I can’t recall exactly but ISTR it was Sinitic) that had *s > ɬ as a result of a push chain; since we’re only seeing one element of the shift, ...