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Pannonian /p pʼ b t tʼ d ts tsʼ dz tʂ tʂʼ dʐ tɕ tɕʼ dʑ k kʼ g/ /f v s z ʂ ɕ x ɣ h/ /m n ɲ ŋ/ /l ɭ ʎ r j/ /a eæ̯ oɒ̯ e ø o i y ɯ u/ + length Ejectives are partially from geminates, partially from pre-apocope word-final voiceless consonants, and partially from former glottalized register/pitch. /ɣ/ wa...

Has anyone heard of "warm" and "worm" being merged?

Damnit, only one person away from being the first to mention vershaerfung! Yes, Verschaerfung is a thing in the alps - iirc it also applies in some Germanic dialects, as well as Romance ones. /j/, and sometimes /w/ > /G/, /g/ or /k/ before consonants. And those glides in turn are often created by v...

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...

Pogostick Man wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:54 pm 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?

Erskvua

/pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ tɕʰ kʰ qʰ/
/p t ts tʂ tɕ k q/
/b d dz dʐ dʑ g ʁ/
/f ɬ s ʂ ɕ x ꭓ/
/w l z ʐ j/
/m n ɲ ŋ/
/æ a e ɤ o i y ɯ u/ + nasalization and rhoticity

Znex wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:11 am How common is the retracted sibilant simply?

It's usually how /s/ is realized in IE languages with only one sibilant, like Icelandic and Greek. And some dialects of English contrast apical alveolar (instead of dental) /s/ with laminal postalveolar /ʃʷ/.

/intɚnet/ [ɪ̃ɾ̃ɚn̺ɛʔt̚]

masako wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 12:19 pm I'm having a really difficult time reconciling this "خاشقجي‎" being romanized as "Khashoggi" and pronounced as /kæʃoːɡi/.

maybe cf. Genghis /gengis/. I could see -(g)dZ- being intended.

/m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng>
/p ʰp b t ʰt d c ʰc ɟ k ʰk g ʔ/ <b p bb d t dd j q jj g k gg v>
/f v s z ʂ ʐ ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ x ɣ h ɦ/ <f v s ss sh r xh yh x xx h hh>
/l j w/ <l y w>

/i y ɨ u e ɤ o æ a/ <i iu ee u ei e o ae a>

Boşkoventi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:07 pm

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:37 am gvue du xqa kuordhiar pon huo xeafti ohce nyiwi tearkvaer

hnqwpzit kwov takw oqw

easu

eahe siwea
ease sitea
eaxqe xeinqe

@mae That's what happened to most borrowings with <tv> and <dv> in German. Think quark (the cheese) dang I was pretty sure I'd posted about this somewhere before but I guess not. German has both /kv/ and /tsv/ as possible outcomes for /tv dv/: Zwang ~ Dutch dwang Zwerg ~ dwarf zwingen ~ Dutch dwing...

Inverse marking doesn't affect verb valency, at least not in Japhug.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 12:07 pm Another good example is the pronunciation of high school in NAE dialects with Canadian Raising of /aɪ/ where the vowel of high is raised (even though typically Canadian Raising does not operate across word boundaries).

I don't have this.

ɫæʔp̚t́ɑʔp̚ ɫæːb̥̚tɑʔp

In my morphology class, the professor pointed out that sandhi effects become more pronounced in compounds. His favourite example was "dru[k]store". "Ice tea" for "iced tea" is probably a case of this (followed by reanalysis as a productive compounding element, e.g. &qu...

Japhug requires the inverse for verbs with a nonhuman agent and a human object.

- Jacob Rees-Mogg, who would probably like to be the future foreign secretary, has labelled an African country "the people's republic of jam jar or something" on a scale from one to oobekibekibekibekistanstan, at least he is aware that gaddafi decided to call libya something in the vicini...

f > 0 / _θ
fiθ siksθ ejtθ twelθ

on the subject of numbers: θɚttijn forttijn etc.

gvue du xqa kuordhiar pon huo xefti ohcee nyiwi terkvaer