Zompist Bboard Again

Thanks. As you may know from the CBB, my conlang, currently, spirantizes plosives before [ɑ̟] and [ʊ]. However, I'm changing the process regarding alveolar plosives to affrication to preserve distinct [t] and [d] in all phones relevant to *t and *d. While I know the causes may differ because of diff...

Currently, my conlang's base vowel system is /ɑ̟(ː) ɛ̠(ː) ə̹(ː) ɪ(ː) œ̠(ː) ʊ(ː)/, each of which has five possible tonal nasalizations bringing the total number of vowel phones to sixty (60). Does any natural language have [ə] or [ə̹] in stressed positions? I included [ə] because I may switch [ɑ̟] an...

Most English speakers dislike the double nasal *mn. Originally, the *m was, rather simply, elided to form "an't." However, the vowel, eventually, lengthened to the current "ain't." Speakers of Scottish English have borrowed the Scots word "amnae" and are, therefor, the ...

Before standardization into the CV(m) structure, the word for "military" was nakesh, which because nakes after a merger of s , ʃ , and ɕ . They lateralied that to ɬ to avoid confusing the sounds before introducing <v> for the moraic fricative. Later, they merged it with ɮ . Now that I thin...

I knew I was forgetting something. Anyways, I'll use nakev/nakeso as examples of my meaning for moraic (@ as the mora marker).

Nakev: na—ke@v
Nakeso: na—ke—so

My dislike of geminate moraic fricatives brings up an interesting interaction involving words like nakev ˈnɑ̟.kɛ̠ɮ , meaning military. Whereas words like the name Ohyn ˈœ̠.hʊ̃ maintain the moraic, logically, words like nakev can't because of gaining an <o> as an adjective and the CV(m) syllable stru...

I have the my conlang's sound inventory formatted with /phoneme(s)/ or [allophone(s)] above related <orthography(ies)> (cf. /m/ [ break ] <m>). When I post the table here, do I need to put each entry in its own set of identifiers (cf. /p b/ [ break ] <p b> or /p/ /b/ [ break ] <p> <b> and [m~n~ŋ] [ ...