Zompist Bboard Again

/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).

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 ...

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/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....