Zompist Bboard Again

1. iV > jV, ɥ ɥj > vj 2. pj bj mj > pʧ bʤ mɲ 3. l > lʲ 4. y ø > i e 5. ɔː > wɛ, unless nasalized 6. Cj > Cʲ, alveolars and bilabials palatalize before front vowels [lʲɛtʃ bɘf tɔ tʃæ'vʲeː.vʲɘk mɐ'jɔ̃ːtsɘ ɲɛ 'talʲ.kɐ 'tɕeː.jɐvɐ, lʲɛtʃ i 'dʲiː.ʃɘ ɐz ʒɐ'lʲaː.zɐ. 'iː.mɲɘf 'vwɛ.mɐtɕ 'in.nɘx 'iː.mɲɘf i 'ɕi...

1. chain shift (gotta clean up the palatals a bit): q ʁ k g x c ɟ ç > ʔ ɦ q ɢ χ k ɡ x 2. kɕ ɡʑ ɢ > kʰ ɡ ʕ 3. j > ∅ / C_V[+front] 4. second chain shift (gotta clean up the front rounded vowels a bit): i: ɪ e: ɛ > ɨ: ɨ ə: ɜ, y: ʏ ø: œ > i: ɪ e: ɛ 5. tonogenesis: non-final stressed vowels gain falling ...

OK, I've been cruisin for a bruisin here, but: Xibo, or Sibe -- the tight relative of "Manchu" spoken by backwoods hicks sent off to the Ili valley region of Central Asia as a garrison during the mid-Qing. And you're of course right, it is indeed Sibe, or spoken Sibe to be precise. These ...

no

/m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /p t ʈ c k/ <p t tr tj k> /mp nt ɳʈ ɲc ŋk/ <mb nd ndr nj nk> /s ʂ ɕ/ <s sr sh> /β z ɹ ɰ/ <v z l q> /r j w/ <r y w> /a e i o u ə ɨ/ <a é i o u e ï> /aː eː iː oː uː/ <aa ee ii oo uu> Non-initial primary stress on short vowels is written with an acute accent. /naˈɳʈaːməˌnuːɹəˌnaː....

It is indeed Tungusic, but not Nanai.

If Altaic was an actual family it'd be a member, yeah.

No.

1. k g > q ʁ / _V, _w ! _{i,j} 2. j disappears after consonants 3. i: y: ɨ: u: i y ɨ u > ʒəː ɥəː ɣəː wəː ʒəː ɥəː ɣəː wəː, e: ø: ə: o: øy > i: y: ɨ: u: y: 4. voicing and velar/uvular assimilation in clusters, clusters starting with a semivowel metathesize word-initially or after a consonant 5. ɛ æ: >...

No.

It's not Sino-Tibetan. The transcription is mostly phonetic, so not all of [ɴ ʁ ɹ q] are phonemic.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:38 am …is that a double negative? Or is it a typo for ‘…is neither Iranian nor Berber’?

Sorry, I of course meant "is neither Iranian nor Berber".

My source is quite misleading, but apparently regular <ů>, which seems to be an allophone of <u> after uvulars, is something like [ɔ] and superscript <ů> denotes labialization after uvulars. So -- is the 'rule' about not using narrow phonetic transcriptions of languages in place of ~phonemic/establi...

χamᵊi diørɣut moqsan tandər əm duruⁿ banjəm. dači Ili birat ňimʁa dəvər dəvər. nadəⁿ saʁənč əm čiškə bətkəf jəm vajəqᵘ̊. son təva guruⁿ gum suyeⁿ ba? təsk laft jiʁa mind aqᵘ̊. χačačiⁿ nanᵊmaq yavm. if χůarənt bənərəŋəf giraⁿ čičivm zəm. əndürid ňi gəɹ əjəⁿ čiškᵊi. moɴmaq banšk ərindəri moɴ gəf laft.

It does indeed look Chadic, but if it isn't, Fur?

Yes, this is indeed correct.

Yes, it's indeed from Indonesia, and no, Kolõpohũ isn't related to Columbus.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 10:16 am Somehow I read those tildes as macrons...

That's because there actually are some macrons hidden in there.

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 1:27 am Spoken in the Philippines?

No.

1: short [o u] centralize, short [a] in turn backs and rounds 2. eː > ɛː 3. sesquisyllables are forced into the CəC format even more - following single consonants are geminated and clusters are reduced - nˀ is counted as a single consonant 4. major syllables are forced into the CVC/CV: format as wel...

It's not Enggano.