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[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.

Is that what we're calling it now?

[æː] > [jaː]

[’ʎjaː.tʃa]
liácia
"wolf"

[k] > [tʃ] before [a æ e i]

[’ʎæ̃:.tʃaː]
liénciá
"wolf"

Further a-colouring

[’ʎæ:.^ŋkaː]
liégcá
"wolf"

[n] > [l] before resonants

[’ljɛ:.^ŋkaː]
liégcá
"wolf; (obs. or regional) she wolf"

[x h] merge to [h] in most cases, but to [ç] before i , and [f] before rounded vowels (also orthographic simplification): ['zes 'hei̯ 'nei̯ 'dei̯ nar͜ 'ei̯] Zés hé né dé nar é ['he.ɲo.na 'tɕe.çi 'jou̯ 'hei̯ na 'fou̯ ʑo.mi] héniónar tiéhi ió hé nar hó riómi ['mei̯ 'ne.mi zu 'me.ma ʑo.mi na 'fou̯ 'nou...

Does anyone else struggle with coming up with a word for something which sounds right? I know we can simply come up with roots and derivations and apply them arbitrarily and build a lexicon fairly quickly; but for me, I too often think "but that doesn't sound like 'grass' to me"; or "...