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"winter" [ˈwɪn(t)ɜ] "wintry" [ˈwɪn(t)ɜɻʷəi̯] "disaster" [dɜˈzɐːstɜ] "disastrous" [dɜˈzɐːstɜɻʷɜs] or -[ʈʂɜɻʷɜs] "adult" [ˈædɜɫʷt] "grownup" [ˈgɻʷɔˑy̯n.ɐp] "teenager" [ˈtʰəˑi̯nˌæi̯ɖʐɜ] "lyre" [ˈlɑˑ(e̯)ɜ̯] "liar" ...

New question, for our Australians here (bradrn and whoever else may be reading): Australian English underwent some weird /æ/ vs. /æː/ split (trap/lad/had vs. bad/sad/mad). However, it appears that no dictionary has ever been published that makes the distinction. Even linguistics books and papers di...

How do you pronounce two or more consecutive unstressed [ɾ]'s?

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Your language name doesn’t seem to be compatible with your romanization — it seems to use a letter ⟨a⟩ which doesn’t exist in the romanization. You're right, it should be Fiyfuenuwfuw u a. Anyway, I’m not quite sure about this, but here’s my best guess: Consonants: Consonants can occur palatalised ...

I'm interested to see how people will work out Fiyfuenuwfuwa.

<c e f g ia io iw iy m n o ua ue uw uy>

And here's a sample of gibberish to help you:
Muwniamiy-iy-gio e cuacoguy-gio geciwcuw moniw-fe, e muamiofiw-fio.

It never fails to rile people up against the RAE. :D Especially as I say it in a mocking tone, implying we're expected to know Latin to get spelling right. Made even worse by the fact that h was already silent in Vulgar Latin :lol: :lol: How, exactly, do we know which sounds were silent in Vulgar L...

Space60 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:43 pm How do.you pronounce "Antarctica" and "Arctic"? Do you pronounce the first "c"?

/ˌænˈtʰɐːkʰtʰɪkʰə/
/ˈɐːkʰtʰɪk/
It's probably because I have a non-rhotic accent so there isn't a three-consonant cluster. I'm not sure about the syllable division though

I've experienced this too; generally I start writing in the present, then switch to past part-way through. I can also never decide how much I want to "reconstruct" or at least write about in grammars; I feel that because it's being presented as if it was a reconstructed proto-language I sh...

thethief3 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:11 pm What are some ways *r and *l can arise in a language that doesn't initially have them?

Lenition of /t d/ between vowels, rhotacising -s- between vowels, /n/ being denasalised, non-sibilant fricatives like /ð/.

ie.
t → l,r /V_V
d → l,r /V_V
s → r /V_V
n → l
θ,ð,ɬ → l

We already have flying cars and they haven't caught on as a normal part of life--we call them helicopters. Thus far they've been too expensive, large, difficult to operate, and require too much infrastructure to become common. You could say that an aeroplane is a flying car, a spaceship is a space ...

I hold basically no right-wing policy views, and I despise Trump and think he's the worst president in modern American history, but I have to say I'm really getting tired of constantly seeing shit like this: Because as right-wingers, they naturally believe that constantly losing any semblance of se...

Pedant wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:00 pm Next: cabbage

Eungadhuot: còvero [ˈkub.bɨ.ɾʉ] "cabbage plant" (from Latin caulis with a diminuitive suffix)
Northern Eunga: clèḍo [ˈklæɖ.ɖə]

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/m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p t tʃ c~k/ <p t ch k> /b d dʒ ɟ~ɡ/ <b d j g> /f θ s ʃ h~ç/ <f th s sh h> /v ð z ʒ/ <v th z~s zh> /l ɹ j w/ <l r y w> /ks kw/ <x qu> <s> after a voiced consonant is [z] Short vowels: /æ e~ɛ ɪ ɐ~ʌ ɒ~ɔ ʊ/ <a e i u o ou> (if preceding a non-semivowel consonant followed by a vowel, the...

I like to define natural behaviour as that which would likely occur without cultural influence, in some hypothetical experiment where a bunch of babies grew up on their own in the wilderness. It's a little hard to test for humans, but I think it works as a starting point. By that definition, it see...

Well, it wouldn't be every intervocal n in Spanish becoming ŋgl, it would be every ŋl becoming ŋgl; sound changes don't have memory. There are plenty of cases of nr/mr/nl/ml taking an intrusive d or b to break up the sonorants: it's happened in English! Probably the iffiest step is substantiating t...

Would it be at all conceivable to have the change VnV → VŋglV (through something like VnV → Vɾ̃V → ṼɾV → VŋɾV → VŋlV → VŋglV)? Maybe parallel VmV → VŋgwV ?

"Mostly accurate" means "partially wrong"--being unable to account for certain regular correspondences means that there are phonemes that existed in the proto-language that have not been accounted for. It *can* mean that there are extra phonemes, but it's not a certainty as you'...

I don't think a proto language for a family that has very little work on it should be taken as solid/reliable. Good point — I probably should have been more sceptical of that phonology when I first saw it. I was also sceptical, but having researched it I'm pretty sure the inventory is mostly accura...

The Malagasy wiktionary is one of the best overperformers relative to its language's number of speakers... Surprisingly, that was basically all the work of a single person. I once got interested enough to look it up, and it turns out that this one guy worked for five years and eventually made a ser...

Does anyone know of some (free) resources for pidgin and creole languages in Australia? I suspect that more pidgins arose than Wikipedia lists, but I can't find a general survey or even a complete list.