Zompist Bboard Again

Klingon is a little difficult to romanize as-is, but it's possible to reconstruct an earlier stage of the language and base the romanization on that. Dialectal vacillation between voiced stops and nasals, taken in combination with the retroflexion of the coronal voiced stop, would be best read as im...

German feels the least un-Micronesian of all the languages of Europe, so /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g> /pf ts tʃ/ <ph ts ch> /s z ʃ/ <s z c> /f v ç/x h/ <f v j h> /j l r / <y l r~a> /dʒ ʒ w/ <dj zj u> /a ə ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ œ ʏ/ <a ę/e e i o u õ ũ> /aː eː ɛː iː oː uː øː yː/ <aa...> /aɪ aʊ ɔʏ/ <...

/kənˈtinjəwəs/ [kn̩ˈtʰɪnjuəs]
/ˈpenəˌtrejɾɨv/
/dʒown/
/vejs/
/fejzd/

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can (modal)
can (noun)

Has anyone put up a version of gleb's web interface that can take a seed as a parameter?

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"Uvular-palatal approximant" /e̯/ contrasting with /j/ at 1162979377.

2) "t"s in the middle of words tend to be replaced by glottal stops: New Bri'ain, not New Britain, in a way that varies statewide. Debuccalization of /t/ before /n/ (or its syllabic equivalent) is characteristic of a lot of North American dialects. Post-vocalic [t] is practically non-exis...

/ħɒtakɒtí/ <Xotakotí> /p b~m t ts d~n k g~ŋ/ <p b t ts d k g> /s z ç ʝ ħ h/ <s z c j x h> /l j w/ <l y w> /i u a ɒ~ɔ/ <i u a o> /ĩ ũ ã ɒ̃/ <in un an on> /paħukí iħáʝĩ ʝáu=çɒ | tsádijɒ gáiħa bɒ̀sũħa ʝáu=sã || ħu asã=gɒ̃túilĩ | duɒ́ʝaipɒ̃zagulĩ || tsádijɒ halí zi gái||/ Paxukí ixájin jáuco, tsádiyo gá...

Voiced plosives can turn into implosives. Voiceless plosives can also turn into implosives. But breathy-voiced plosives probably can't.

*v *j > b ɟ is attested in Nganasan. /d g/ only occur natively from consonant gradation. In Nivkh, there's initial lenition in certain environments. /tʰ t/ lenite to /r̥ r/, and /cʰ c/ lenite to /s z/. There doesn't have to be a firm distinction between fricatives and affricates; some languages in E...

/p pʷ ᵐb t ⁿd k kʷ ⁿʥ ᵑɡ ᵑɡʷ/ <p b ḅ t d k q j ġ q̇> /m mʷ n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ <m ẇ n ñ g q̃> /r/ <r> /β s/ <v s> /w l j/ <w l (h)y> /i ɨ u e ə o ɑ/ <iy i u ey e o a> /ⁿdɨkɲɨɲᵐbə ⁿdɨrɨt kɑpuk kutⁿdɨŋʷurɨn || nɑte wəⁿdɨkə ⁿde ᵑɡu tuwe wukŋəsɨkɨrɨkŋɨk || wukŋəsɨkɨrɨkⁿdəkə ⁿdɨ ⁿderɨt wək | ləs mɨ tuwe kure je ᵑɡ...

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