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Rhotacism: ['jɔʁ.ɟɑ] dhióžgia "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Disaffrication: ['ʑøt] džiot "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) y...

Anyone ever wondered (in conlanging terms) what English might have looked like if the Norman conquest had exerted more influence on English phonology and grammar but less on vocabulary? I think it might be fun to produce an Anglic language matching that description. As a quick thought, for a few ch...

Resyllabification with shortening of long vowels: ['ðjɔʒ.ɟɑ] dhióžgia "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Glottalisation becomes realised as a coda [t] ['d͡ʑot] džiot "(to a woman of higher rank than on...

Breaking of non-high front vowels to glide + back vowel sequences: ['ðjɔː.ʒjɑ] dhióžia "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" Vowels lengthen in open, stressed syllables: ['d͡ʑoː] giô "(to a woman of highe...

Disaffrication: ['vœː.ʒa] vueja "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [wj] > [ɥ]: ['gɥa] gyua "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your...

Let's have a dialect split, then — [u̯ɛ] > [øː] ['vøː.d͡ʒa] vueja "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office) madam; (of judges, justices) your honour" [ɛj] > i ['gwi.ja] wéoje "(to a woman of higher rank than oneself) Mrs., Ms.; (with titles of office...

[ɞj] > [u̯ɛj]

['vu̯ɛj.ja]
wéorle
"(highly formal, now chiefly archaising) mother; (of a woman of higher ranking than the speaker) Mrs.; (with titles of office, as "secretary", "prime minister") madam; (of judges, justices) your honour"

[ə] > [a]

['vɵ˞ː.ja]
wéorle
"(highly formal) mother; madam, Mrs.”

Denasalisation

['vɵ˞ː.lə]
wéorle
“mother; madam, Mrs.”

[ʙw] > [wɹ]


['wɹɵ̃ː.lə]
wrǫ́le
“mother”

[mʙ] > [ʙ]

['ʙu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”

Quantitative metathesis:

['mu̯ɵ̃ː.lɛ]
muǫ́le
“mother”

[aː] > [ɛː]

['mɔ̃.lɛː]
mǫlē
“mother”

Vowels back and round following a labial initial:

[’mɔ̃.daː]
mantā
“mother”

Coda glottal stops lost with compensatory lengthening:

[’mã.taː]
mantā
“mother”

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This also seems accurate, though inertia is also quite strong in many of these offices. When I had to order an apostilled birth certificate copy to move to the Netherlands, that was quite an... erm, "adventure", shall we say: it had to be ordered by mail, using only postal money orders (b...

There is also "people-ish". :D I usually just go with whatever the people who speak it would call themselves. And half of the time doesn't that translate to "the people" or just "people"? Not sure how often that happens, but a word for "people" does seem to e...

[j] (and also [g z] before [i]) > [ʑ]:

[ʑaːʃ]
giáč
"wolf"

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:39 pm

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:42 pm Also, there's no reason a language has to be named after its own word for "speech".

There is also "people-ish".

I usually just go with whatever the people who speak it would call themselves.