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Vilike

What happens here is that the intervocalic glottal disappears, leaving a hiatus which is then resolved by the insertion of epenthetic [ɾ]. Is that more believable thus said?

Vilike

F and I1 have the same indice pair d- / b-. Does that mean that they can never be distinguished through agreement, or does the opposition human/inanimate come into play otherwise e.g. different verb uses?

Vilike

21:41:00 UTC 2019/05/11 for me! I had a sudden inspiration.

Vilike

Would it be realistic to have a polypersonal agreement system where the same affixes are used for both agent and patient? If so, how would you know whether it is nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive, since it's impossible to know whether an intransitive verb is agreeing with its experiencer...

Vilike

Making them part of diphtongs with the following vowels (then monophtonguizing).
Hardening them to [v] or [g] (or [f], [k] after unvoiced C), then resolve the clusters as you see fit.
Assimilating them to the consonnant to get a geminate
After a vowel, going from Cw to wC

Vilike

So perhaps there could be a completely different approach? What about intentionally designing a language to be equally difficult for everyone to learn? Such a language would, for all its flaws, at least have the advantage of putting potential learners around the world on an equal footing. That soun...

Vilike

Yes, I'm also on Tumblr: http://vilikemorgenthal.tumblr.com/.
This year with Ubaghuns Tëhe, a neolithic language that I created in class out of boredom.

Vilike

That reminds me also: does any language have two orthogonal class systems? So e.g. maybe with one slot for shape markers (flat/tall/round/etc.) and another unrelated one for size markers (big/medium/small) or animateness or color or what have you. Michif nominals (mostly of French origin) have two ...

Vilike

Make velar segments to /j/, (bi-labial segments to /w/: instant diphthongs. You could also do /C$/ > /ʔ/ > creaky voice on the vowel; and then break it, as in Khmer . Your first ideas look like what my original sound change did, but I ditch it because it wasn't realistic. Velar to /j/ happened at l...

Vilike

Make velar segments to /j/, (bi-labial segments to /w/: instant diphthongs.

You could also do /C$/ > /ʔ/ > creaky voice on the vowel; and then break it, as in Khmer.

Vilike

Es gibt das französiche Forum L'Atelier Philologique, wenn Sie Französich lesen können.
There's the French forum L'Atelier, if you can read French.

Vilike

If we imagine an intermediate stage where tone contrasts become phonation contrasts (e.g. low tone to creaky voice), it seems very likely (on to see how various Khmer dialects are doing it). Are there instances of tone contrasts becoming phonation contrasts, rather than the other way around? (Bonus...

Vilike

High-tone vowels can break, and then you can epenthesize a consonant between the resulting vowels. Is there precedent for interactions between vowel tone and quality? If we imagine an intermediate stage where tone contrasts become phonation contrasts (e.g. low tone to creaky voice), it seems very l...

Vilike

Yé yoskut bú yû deer thómba.
PFCT induce-SS REL fish possess memory
Fish memory has been observed.

Vilike

My immediate complaint was that the chapter on phonology was too quickly done with (6 pages), and above all... in the orthography Drapeau uses , long and short vowels are not distinguished, thus her adding footnotes to clarify the difference between similar-looking affixes, even though writing <âîû>...

Vilike

Corphishy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 10:10 am NEXT: utra [utrɜ] n. horse

Old Greedian utrê /ùtré ̀/ mount (< utré to mount)

Next: ǐ /ìí/ mountain

Vilike

Akangka wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:48 am Only nasal vowels occur adjacent to nasal consonant or cluster containing it.

So, are they phonemic? A common question.

Are there voiced allophones of the stops?

Vilike

Thiénas — lang ? /tʰíénàs ꜜlaŋ/ hunter COP who Who's a hunter? Phés rǐ alenes íti rágráa bú zórthoba tarungko raa bú tólsiat bú dua nezidit raa — guós duapód. /pʰés rìí àlènès ítì rágráà bú zórtʰòbà tàrùŋkò raa bú tólsìàt bú dùà nèzìdìt raa ꜜgúòs dùàpód/ this.despised.one eat pipeweed bud too.much ...

Vilike

Old Greedian: porootí fat layer; bacon
(poro fat; greasy + butí skin; bark; layer)

Next: fermented; sour

Vilike

Tógdól na sák azdiyáa na siụ sia zórthoba uz na ? Duapód na siụt
/tógdól nà sák àzdìjáà na sìȕsìà zórtʰòbà ùz na/ /dùàpód àzdìjáà na sìȕt/
big.time LOC you market LOC be.not be forest meat PRS 1.domain LOC be.not-ꜱꜱ
Is there habitually venison in your stores? Not in ours.

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