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How about geminate vowel > geminate consonant > fortition.

OK, my personal reserve of sound changes is not doing what I want. I looked at the correspondence library and made some notes, but I thought I'd ask more directly in case anyone has ideas. For Hanying, I'm starting with short words, so most sound changes will make them even shorter. So, what ones d...

Allophones Consonants Directly adjacent to a nasal vowel, or in the same syllable as one, /b d g/ becomes [m n ŋ] Directly adjacent to a rhotacized vowel, or in the same syllable as one, /t d n r/ becomes [ʈ ɖ ɳ ɽ] Cluster /pʔ tʔ ʈʔ kʔ/ becomes ejectives, even if it is actually on different syllabl...

Neither diacritic or digraph /p b t ɖ q ʔ/ <p b t d k '> /tɬ tʃ dʒ/ <z c j> /v ʂ x ɣ qχ/ <v s x h q> /l r/ <l r> /m n ŋ/ <m n g> /w y/ <w y> /ɪ ɛ a u o/ <i e a o u> IPA: qaʂtaxvɪʂ waʔ ram loʂ ʂaɖ xuɣ ʂɪdʒlax qɛtboɣ loɖ. Okrand: qaStaHvIS wa' ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD. mine: kastaxvis wa' r...

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:04 am how do you pronounce internet?

In Indonesian, I pronounce it [ɪn.tər.nɛt̚], but in English, I pronounce it [ɪn̠.t̠ɹ̠.nɛt̚].

Phonotactics Initial Rkou allows all consonant to begin the syllable. Plus these cluster: {p, t, k, b, d, g, r}{r, h, w, ʔ} The constraint is that identical consonant cluster is disallowed, and /w/ cannot be in the same cluster with /p, b/. Final Rkou allows all nonglottal cluster to end the syllabl...

I just watched my hero aca. The quality has declined, though

Standard Asent'oan has simpler phonology. So I will post here: /m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ /p t tɬ tɕ k kʷ ʔ/ /b d dɮ dʑ ɡ ɡʷ/ /pʼ tʼ tɬʼ tɕʼ kʼ ḱʷʼ/ /f s ɬ ɕ x xʷ h/ /r l j w/ /a i u e ə o/ Phonotactics: CV(N). Asent'o is the lingua franca for nortwestern part of Mataka continent. So it is spoken by human, orcs, ...

mèþru wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:26 am I'm pretty sure that passive-heavy nominative-accusative languages still can be easily defined as nominative-accusative

Not if passive is more common than active voice.

How does nounlike adjective works? Probably because of my native language, I associate adjective as verb. As I want to make Rkou grammatically strange, I decide to make adjective nounlike. (In contrast of Asent'o that adjective is conjugated for person, number, aspect, and mood). However, Rkou's dec...

Lithuanian /m mʲ n nʲ/ mw my nw ny /p pʲ t tʲ k kʲ/ pw py tw ty kw ky /b bʲ d dʲ ɡ ɡʲ/ bw by dw dy /t͡s t͡sʲ t͡ʃ t͡ɕ/ tsw tsy txw txy /d͡z d͡zʲ d͡ʒ d͡ʑ/ dzw dzy djw djy /(f) (fʲ) s sʲ ʃ ɕ (x) (xʲ)/ fw fy sw sy xw xy hw hy /v vʲ z zʲ ʒ ʑ j (ɣ) (ɣʲ)/ vw vy zw zy jw jy y ghw ghy /ɫ lʲ/ lw ly /r rʲ/ rw ...

/m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng>
/p ʰp b t ʰt d c ʰc ɟ k ʰk g ʔ/ <p hp b t ht d tx htx dj k hk g '>
/f v s z ʂ ʐ ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ x ɣ h ɦ/ <f v s z sr zr x j xy jy h hh>
/l j w/ <l y w>

/i y ɨ u e ɤ o æ a/ <i ui eu u e eo o ae a>

If always the passive voice was used, and the active voice was rarely ever used, the thought that this would have implications as to how we describe our grammar occurs to me. Now I'm wondering if there are natlangs that work like this. Then you describe it as ergative language with unusual antipass...

Another kind of horrible thing I just thought of: A language where every vowel has a consonant counterpart and vice versa - it only permits CV(C) syllables, and words are strictly consonant-initial, meaning that if a prefix (with an odd number of phonemes) is added, the entire thing is resyllabifie...

What do you call this relativization strategy in my Asent'o language. Yeah, relative pronouns: if you've got postpositions moving with the pronoun to the head of the clause, that's the same as case-marking as far as relativisation strategies go. (WH-movement, pied-piping included, is what's suppose...

Can I use English, because my native language is not English?
Bisakah saya memakai bahasa Inggris, karena bahasa asli saya bukan Inggris?

Phonology Inventory Consonant: Labial Alveolar Velar Glottal Voiceless p t k ʔ Voiced b d ɡ Liquid r w h Vowel: Modally voiced vowel ɪ ɪ̃ iː ĩː ʏ y: ɨː ʊ ʊ̃ u: ũː ʉ̞˞ː eː ẽː øː ə əː o: õː ɛ ɛ̃ [/cell] ɛː ɛ̃ː œ ɜ˞ː ɔ ɔ̃ ɔː ɔ̃ː æ aː ɑ ɑ˞ː ɑɪ Adjacent to cluster /ʔ/, modally voiced vowel becomes creak...

What do you call this relativization strategy in my Asent'o language. I call it relative pronoun. However, it is not declined for case (There is no case marking here, postposition is used instead). Basically I use special pronoun and special version of verb. These two words delimits the relative cla...

I know it is abandoned, but I can't resist commenting. I suggesting using Proximal-Verb-Obviative word order. Proximal-Obviative doesn't sound strange (That's how I use passive voice) and it even helps in transmissing communicaton (As less information is lost when truncated).