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OK, sëndzai vietra veełne kilgaś Ukrajinain. Vall?
/owkej | sənˈtʂʼeə̯ ˈetər ˈvijɭən ˈkilgɪɕ ʔuwkəˈɭijnɪn || ˈvallə/
OK, the old language of probably somewhere in Ukraine. Better?

Tangaju ksza tu sdełczavai tan nath.
/ˈtɒŋgijuw kʂɒ ˈtɵʔ ˈstɤɭtʂuwij ʔn̩ ˈnɛs/
I think you can figure that out.

Uremen sëndzai mezaine is. Sëndzie vietra Aurope peklaizt. Alphabetai fisiai (normalnai) chruiter. /ˈʔiwrmən sənˈtʂʼeəʔ mɪˈʐeənɪ ʔiɕ || sənˈtʂʼij ˈetər ˈʔoərʊp pʼəˈkleəʂt || ʔɪlˈfæbɪtɪj ˈfiɕij nʊrˈmælnɪj ˈʂiwtəx/ This language is called Pannonian. It's descended from the old language of Europe. It'...

Risla wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:21 am Any languages with only one prenasalized stop? Bonus points if it's /ᵐb/.

According to PHOIBLE:
Akasilimi /ŋmɡb/
Brao /ntʃ/
Puri /mp/
Soso /nd/
Kimwani /ŋɡ/

I have "isle" /aɪ̯əl/ but "I'll" /æl/~/al/~/əl/ IMD -'ll deletes coda semivowels and (I think) the a-o contrast is neutralized before /l/. The only irregular form in this analysis is we'll /wul/. aj ol | wij wul juw jul | jol (joləl?) hij hil | ðej ðel ʃij ʃil | it itəl |

bulletin /bulɨtin/ [bɫ̩ɨtʰɪn]
hall /hol/
isle /ajəl/ (vile-vial merged)

There are a few other examples of words which seem to have taken two steps of the GVS, for example lose . In that case the explanation is supposedly influence from loose (now a common spelling mistake of course). The traditional dialect where I live has /lɔɪz/, which is actually the expected develo...

/lonmʌwər/ /r/ can't follow a semivowel in a coda (and /l/ can't follow /j/): 'hire' /hajər/ 'higher' /hajər/ 'hour' /æwər/ 'power' /pæwər/ 'file' /fajəl/ 'denial' /dɨnajəl/ But the contrast is maintained elsewhere, so /or/ contrasts with /ʌwər/ (and would contrast with /o.ər/, although I think this...

latest iteration of the usual (Pannonian), which continues to move from Albano-Estonian to Balto-English

[it's actually Paleo-Balkan, but there were some migrations]

'you' <tu> tywˀ 'which' <keem> kæjm 'many' <mureg> mywrəg 'only' <holl> hɒllə 'large' <miacze> meətʂ 'long' <thalga> sɵlˈgɒu 'fat' <tekusz> tɕæjkɵʂ 'large' <faüsz> fuˀɵʂ 'short' <włezusz> ɣæjʐɵʂ 'small' <keen> kæɲ 'woman' <oureł> ˀywrɨj 'man' <wiła> veiˀɣ 'mother' <matał> mœˀəɭ 'father' <phatał> fɨˈ...

A true libertarian in the ideological sense is not just someone who promotes lower taxes, but someone who believes that when something is genuinely a person's property, that person has almost unlimited rights over that property, and society has little or no right to interfere in their enjoyment of ...

Aside from English, are there languages that systematically broke long vowels into VC sequences and developed a dispreference for open stressed syllables?

Front rounded vowels in Karaim (Turkic) were mostly shifted to back vowels with palatalization on the preceding consonant due to influence from Slavic. Turkic harmony was retained, however, as consonant palatalization harmony. Front rounded vowels were retained in absolute initial position, and /e/ ...

How do you pronounce "perfume" the noun and the verb? Are they distinct? I've heard both PER-fume and per-FUME for the noun. Final stress, not distinct. How do you pronounce "nightingale"? For me it phonemically has /n/ because I use a glottal stop rather than a flap for the &qu...

* the northern Mid-Atlantic split isn't present in MD, but [æj eə] contrast before /nk ng/; so either /eə/ is marginally phonemic, /æj/ is marginally phonemic, or /nk ng/ contrast with /ŋk ŋ(g)/. What are some examples showing the contrast? I presume that normally TRAP and BATH are [eə] before /n/ ...

Amqoli has an easy time of this: jenme rbutu ndama maborgulu [ˈdʒenʷe rβuˈtu ˈⁿdama maborˈɣuɫu] germ-N.ACC soap no_longer 2/3.S.TOP-destroy-CAUS I lost all the material on Kannow, but it would have a similar problem; you would probably have to use a construction like "antibiotics killed germs b...

pampas no idea pompous /pɑmpəs/ pampers /peəmpərz/* amenable /əmenəbəl/ amenity /əmenɨtɨ/ evolution /evəluwʃən/** pedophile /pedəfajəl/ estrus /estrəs/ aesthetic /əsθetɨk/ went /went/ twenty /tw(e/ʌ)ntɨ/ (also hundred is usually /hʌnərd/ ~ phrase-final /-rt/) water /wɑtər/ (but /wu-/ in northern Mi...

Tepehuan /p b t d tʲ dʲ k g ʔ/ /m n ɲ ŋ/ /v s ʃ x/ /l r j w/ /a ʌ o i ɨ u/ + length /gʌroːga aːpipʌsmaːkʌdʌ tʌvaːgɨʌrʌ daxa | aːtʌmʌ ipʌlidɨ ɨʌoːdami gʌʃiːa duːtuadagɨ || vai otoma aʌna istuigako gatʌaːnʌda agai aːpi ʌːgɨ tami oidigɨ daːma || vaidʌ ʌpʌduːna pʌʃtumaːsɨ aːpɨ ipʌlidi tami oidigi daːma ...

Right, I've seen things like *kʷtwor reconstructed. The gemination is a little weird, but (oddly enough) there is precedent for schwa conditioning gemination of following plosives - somewhere in Austronesian IIRC.

Voiceless semivowels for laryngeals sounds dubious in light of how the "vocalized" versions generally result in *a (most langs), *e *a *o (Greek). Only Indo-Iranian has *i, nothing has *u or diphthongs. Non-semivowel approximants could work… I kinda like the *ɹʷ idea on first earful. Does...