Zompist Bboard Again

1. aj aw > ej ow 2. a > ɔ / _Cʷ, w_ 3. a fronts in syllables closed by alveolars, palatals, or palatalized consonants, backs in syllables closed by uvulars and rounds in syllables closed by labials or labialized consonants 4. ej ow ij uw > e o i u (provided a vowel doesn't follow) 5. qʼ > ʔ 6. palat...

Mpana wowr kue irau mpana kongko blt mpyaewa ankarai oro sront tepewa. Pno tepi sntoru naempr yuayyuay irepe ngu kumprwa akakaiwa irau. Yempoka mel moro tatunaentai pnt mpana wowr kue moro stnontu intaknaeit norwa mpyaet yuayyuay irepe pi ngu esiprait. Pnt pi skrole irepe tepepewa. Smpo mpana wowr ...

Initials: /p t̪ʰ t c k kʰ~x/ <p th t j k kh> /ɓ ɗ/ <bh d> /f v s z ɣ h/ <f b s z gh h> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /l r w/ <l r w> Medials: (all but u and Vw series can take -w- between initial and medial) /a aː ɛ ə ɔ e əː o i ɨ u/ <a aa e v o x vv c i q u> /ie~iə ɨə uo~uə/ <ie qv uo> /aj aːj əj ɔj əːj oj...

Initials: /p t ʨ k/ <b d j g> /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ <p t k> /b d/ <mb nd> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /r/ <r> /s h/ <s h> /w l j/ <w l y> Finals: /p t k ʔ m n ŋ r h w l j wʔ jʔ/ <p t k q m n ng r h w l y b j> Vowels: /i i: i̤: ɨ ɨ: ɨ̤: u u: ṳ:/ <i ii ei ï ïï ëï u uu ou> /e e: e̤: ə ə: ə̤: o o: o̤:/ <e ee ae ë ëë äë ...

Sulka?

/pʰ p b tʰ t d cʰ c ɟ kʰ k g qʰ q ɢ/ <ph p b th t d ch c j kh k g qh q gh> /f v r̥ r s z x ɣ ꭓ ʁ h/ <f v rh r s z x ǥ xh ǥh h> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /l j w/ <l y w> /a e ə o i u/ <a ai e o i u> /hoʁoror r̥ə erqtox jajmaŋan r̥ə mi erqujn cavda meqr pʰŋafqxu əŋg hazɟɣu || hokoŋan joɣla haror̥ pandr pi...

Kaulong?

Yeah - Zotung's probably one of the most recognizable Kuki-Chin languages, hence why I picked it.

It's indeed Kuki-Chin and it's indeed tonal, but the orthography doesn't mark the tones.

Nope.

jesus christ that's a lot of palatals 1. i i: e e: > ɯ ɯ: i ɤ: 2. y y: ø ø: æ æ: > i i: e e: e e: 3. cɕ c ɕ ç ɟ ɟʑ ʑ ɥ > ts ts s θ dz dz z ðʷ 4. epenthetic schwas break up hard-to-pronounce consonant clusters 5. vowels become rhotacized after retroflex consonants, retroflexion (and associated rhotac...

Kuki-Chin-Naga.

Vaaw langte oun rungbungpaw tuh ccungccaw balyn laeze a leehua. Laephi kyate oun thuapaw tuh laephi uccaw thuaza laephi bya konglang nynh a ho, thuasalama vaaw langte oun thuapaw nynh tuh pawpaw tungvaw balyn a um. Amaw nynh a muipaw te a thaepaw ho salazema hum nynh sangma a phunghopaw tuh pawm kh...

since all the Munda languages look pretty much the same I decided to skim through Anderson and Zide's "The Munda Languages", opened the pdf halfway through and found a surprisingly long section on Gorum, which not only looked a lot like the example, but also seems to have shifted its palat...

All the Munda languages except Gta' look pretty much the same, so I'll take a shot in the dark - Remo?

Munda?

yeah it's Rawang (the Rvmøl dialect to be precise) - the paper I took this from had this story transcribed both in the orthography and in IPA - I decided to use the IPA transcription, since the orthography is very distinctive, but I knew either you or dendana would guess it immediately.

1. voiced stops and fricatives devoice word-finally 2. x ɕ ʂ s > k c ʈ t / _# 3. word-final nasals become preploded unless the syllable starts with a nasal or contains a nasal vowel, word-final stops become preploded nasals if the syllable starts with a nasal or contains a nasal vowel, nasal vowels ...

Mali is obscure, but once you've seen it it's pretty much ingrained in your head since it looks very distinctive. Here's a new sample: məŋkaŋ əyá məsíl tɕimé ŋàí tsəmtsə̀l sɯ̀nrətìŋ, lè té itá ráiŋ. tsā rəmàŋ məŋkāŋ əyá nɯ rɯŋdāŋ dù ā ədòŋ ətɕī. ədòŋ ətɕi dudùí gaʔ duŋkɯ̀r taʔ zəŋ zə́ŋsì i yoŋ dú mā...

Mali (Baining).