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*ɓ *tˀ - b' t' *b *d *dʒ~g - b d g *p *t *tʃ~k *ʔ - p t k ' *pʰ *tʰ *h - ph th h *β *s *ʃ *x *ɦ - v s x c hh *w *ɹ *j - w r y *l *ʟ - l lg *ɾ *ʀ - rr rg *N - n *i *y *ɯ *u - i ui iu u *e *ø - ei oe *ɛ *ɔ *ɔ: - e o ou *a *a: - a ae *ɓɛɹikɯ “endonym” *bɹa “one” *ʃal “two” *xuN “three” *tʰja: “four” *t...

ćyfažra
[ciʝuxɐˈɭɭɐ]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

h > x

ćyfažra
[cijuhaˈʐɻa]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

ɸ > h

ćyfažra
[cyɸaˈʐɻa]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

deaffrication.

jal wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2026 2:43 pm Hint: you cannot tell someone they're wrong, and then "proving" it by saying "I am right".

wrong; you can because I said so and I'm always right¹.

¹this is blatant irony, in the event that you couldn't tell.

I must admit that I have attempted understanding and reading the poems to myself, and I can say that it certainly is pleasing to the ear. good work!

It seems like the other words have run their course, so here's a new one:

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ṅaṣétrsni
[ŋæ̈ˈʂeɾ̥sni]
‘(of a person) to move upward, ascend’

I noticed the other day that the board was failing to load. my entire town's internet was down at the time so I paid it no mind, but it did it again earlier today, this time while the internet was up, so it seems I'm also having the same problems as everyone else.

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2026 1:58 pm t¾¹>«©dº¹{«©½d¸

Yt Muiˀënlä Läutsta Ästysta.
That's the Seven Kill Stele.

ghiijuk
[ɪˈjuʔk]
‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’

reduction of pretonic vowels.

hoqxak
[ˈqχɑʔk]
‘predecessors‘ in general (in ancestry, technology, evolution, etc.)

reduction of pretonic vowels.

googahk [ˈɣiːjuk] ‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’ word-initial lenition. fox [ˈho̝qχɑk] ‘ancestors, founding fathers' word-initial lenition. (I noticed yall were using the same change on both words for a bit, and the opportunity presented...

googahk
[gyːːk]
‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’

loss of word-final gemination with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.

fox
[ʂo̝kxɑk]
‘ancestors, founding fathers'

tone is lost and causes vowel shift.

googahk
[guːkk]
‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’

devoicing of plosives in clusters.

fox
[ʂókkàk]
‘ancestors, founding fathers'

postalveolars > retroflexes.

whoosh
[^bβuːʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’

^bβ / b^w / _V[+round]

fox
[ʒô:ʃ]
‘ancestors, founding fathers’

h̪͆ / ʃ / _

But can someone help me understand what the imperfect is? When I was a kid it just meant past tense for the Swedish language, but this term is no longer in use. And I don't think that's what I've intended here either. Wikipedia says this: The imperfect (abbreviated imperf) is a verb form that combi...

kiija
[ˈjɨʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’

œi > ɨ

fox
[əuħ]
‘ancestors, founding fathers’

ʔh > ħ

/p/ is funden meer in amerikaniske engelisk and /f/ is funden meer daarauter, doch dat is nicht fullig waar. /p/ is found more in American English and /f/ is found more outside of it, but that is not entirely true. Hakkĕ Enlickĕ Amlikak fuvlisk /f/ ci 'diphthong' lăzza. My own dialect of American E...

kiija
[ˈɕiːʒa]
‘conspicuous consumption; “fuck-you” money, use of commercial transactions to spite someone’

ʝ > ʒ

fox
[pfɑukx]
‘archaic term for the progenitors of the modern city state’

aspiration > affrication

hehis
[ˈxɛxis]
‘conspicuous consumption’

depalatalization.

yovuc
[ˈɥɔβux]
‘endonym’

rounding of semivowels before round vowels.

rẹkx
[ˈkxɛcçiʃ]
‘conspicuous consumption’

fronting of dorsals before front vowels.

naus
[ˈnaβux]
‘endonym’

[h] > [x]