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Nasal dissimilation

['jóml]
Joml
"person"

Initial consonant loss:

['éː.min]
pétemin
"person"

Some New Guinea languages have really tiny speaker bases while remaining stable, especially in mountainous regions with fairly isolated, small villages. Most Lakes Plain languages have only a few hundred speakers while remaining fairly vibrant. The same was probably historically true for the Amazon;...

Nice alternations! And I like the font too, what is it?

Here's the frequencies for some other 6 consonant languages: Obokuitai (b t d k s h) d – 39% k – 22% s – 14% b – 12% t – 9.1% h – 5.2% Iau (b t d k f s) d – 40% b – 21% s – 16% f – 8.4% t – 8% k – 5.6% Rotokas (p t k β ɾ g) t – 34% ɾ – 33% β – 20% k – 8.2% p – 4.7% g – 0.2% North Mekeo (b k β m ŋ l)...

Great news is upon us! I have discovered another 6-consonant inventory natlang, the Elema language Orokolo: Astonishing! Looking at a sample , I find it quite hard to believe this is TNG at all. EDIT: Pawley and Hammarström (in The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area ) seem to doubt a ...

Initials: /pʰ p tʰ t ʈʰ ʈ tɕʰ tɕ kʰ k qʰ q ʔ/ <p b t d tr dr tj dj k g q gq ʔ> /mb nd/ <mb nd> /f θ s ʂ (χ)/ <f c s sr x> /ʋ ð̞ l r j/ <v r l rr y> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> Medials: /a ɛ œ ɔ e o i ɨ ʉ u/ <a e eo o ei ou i ui iu u> /a̰ ɛ̰ œ̰ ɔ̰ ḛ o̰ ḭ ɨ̰ ʉ̰ ṵ/ <a' e' e'o o' e'i o'u i' u'i i'u u'> /ae ao əi ə...

Great news is upon us! I have discovered another 6-consonant inventory natlang, the Elema language Orokolo: p t k h m l The source is A. H. Brown's The Eleman language family . This agrees with all our universals (fwiw the vowel inventory is /i u e o ɔ a/, nothing special), although there's still so...

This conlang is fascinating, and beautifully presented. I love the way it sounds. Thank you for sharing. My favourite word is this: /eɑiɑ-eɑiɑ/ IDEO. "hissing" Thanks! I've enjoyed making the ideophones – I would of ended up with less parts of speech if I hadn't included any, which would ...

Aw Seedezi Neway /pᶲ tˢ tʃᶴ kˣ/ ⟨ p t q k ⟩ /p~m t~ɾ~n tʃ~ɲ ts k~ŋ/ ⟨ b~m d~d~n c~ñ z g~ṇ ⟩ /t’ ts’ tʃ’ k’/ ⟨ dt dz dc gk ⟩ /ɓ ɗ ʄ/ ⟨ v l j ⟩ /w j/ ⟨ w y ⟩ /i a u e o/ ⟨ i a u e o ⟩ +lonɡ +nasal ⟨ í i(n) í(n) ⟩ [ʔ] ⟨ h ⟩ Iloski Izqk /p b t d k ɡ/ ⟨ p b t d k g ⟩ /ts dz/ ⟨ ts dz ⟩ /f v s z ʂ ʐ ɕ ʑ x...

Your periodic reminder that Sign languages are languages; also that the languages we have today are not a random sample and not a guide to the linguistic diversity of, say, 10,000 BCE. And there isn't any reason to assume that the languages of 10,000 BC were any different to those of today, or for ...

I think so, although my databases don't have perfect coverage. All languages with no nasals have either a /p b/ or a /p β/ contrast, except Crow and Hidatsa, where nasals are allophones of /w r/, and Pawnee, with /p t ts k ʔ s h w r/. Stop voicing contrasts are too common in Oceania, with the excep...

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This, alas, is completely wrong. ‘The island of Vanuatu’ is nonexistent: Vanuatu is composed of more than 80 islands, spanning roughly the distance from Sydney to Brisbane. By François’s count , the largest island (Espiritu Santo) has 37 languages, and the second-largest (Malekua) has 41. That does...

The detail here is astonishing . I’m excited to read more about this! Thankyou! I'll try to keep the detail up, but the phonology really is the main thing for this lang. A couple of quibbles: It is undoubtedly for this reason that the island of Vanuatu was able to support at least 140 distinct lang...

2. Phonology (continued) 2.4 Word structure In almost all instances the Mitsiefa morphological word and phonological word are identical, since there is no synthetic morphology – the one exception to this is some ideophones which appear to be fossilised reduplicants (§2.4.3). It is possible to analy...

2. Phonology (part 1) Mitsiefa phonology has been made as minimal as possible based on my own understanding – necessarily limited – of the phonological universals which can be gleaned from natural languages. The most relevant ones of these are that: (a) all languages have a sonority contrast in the...

I'm done with the relay and i got two languages to reconstruct from. So i don't see how i can't work on a new one. True. I guess now I'd be happy to join another relay. Do you want me to add you to my team? Since it is misssing a player. To the cbb relay? Nah, that would be too hard to coordinate. ...

Reading over Hyman's universals paper, he says that he "can see no principled way to rule out" theoretical phoneme inventories like #1 #2 pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k p t k f s x Because Rotokas has /p t k b d g/ (or /p t k β ɾ g/, same thing). But that got me thinking, is it true that all languages hav...

There's ways of analysing [j ɥ w] as allophonic in French, but you have to do shady things to explain minimal pairs like pays /pɛi/ "country" vs. paye /pɛj/ "paycheque", or clouassions /kluasjɔ̃/ "(that we) were fucking" vs. cloison /klwazɔ̃/ "partition".