Zompist Bboard Again

Is it Ethiopian Semitic?

I was going to guess Mazahua at first, but that's Oto-Manguean. Is it Mixe-Zoquean?

This is very cool! I find the differences between Spanish dialects fascinating. I like your writing, and I look forward to more posts on the subject.

also, does "7 or more vowel qualities" mean 7+ vowels in total with qualities' distinctions, or 7 contrasts? like if you have length, roundedness, and creaky voice and the number of total vowels given those possible contrasts was 15 or something, then you can check the box, or if you have...

[ˈsɪfn̩] or [sɪˈfɑn] for <siphon> (expected: [ˈsaɪfn̩]). My family had fun with that one.

From what I understand, it was originally /twɑː/, then raised to /twoː/ during the Great Vowel Shift, then further raised to /twuː/. w > ∅ / C_V[+round], see "who", "whore", "sword", but contrast "swoon", "swollen".

Tropylium, I really like Glaire and, in general, games like that with small phonologies. - - - - - - - - - - Aexozu [aɪ̯.xo.zʉˑ] m n p b t d k ts dz ɸ β θ ð s z x ɣ h l ɾ iˑ ʉˑ ɪ o a The vowels [a ɪ iˑ o ʉˑ] are written <a e i o u>. I use <f v r> for /ɸ β ɾ/ but otherwise use the IPA symbols for con...

Current name: Kêrž kêːɽʐ m n̪ ɳ p t̪ ʈ k b~β d̪~l̪ ɖ~ɽ g~ɣ s̪ ʂ x z̪ ʐ i u e o a C[+voi +stop -cor] > [+cont] / V_V[-high], V_% C[+voi +stop +cor] > [+cont] / V_V[-high], #_V[-high], V_% Historical: ʂ > x / _u, u_% (C){V(V)(C)(C)}+ Clusters are at most 2 consonants, always more sonorous + less sonor...

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Tibetan, which goes more with the Klingon Aesthetic. And I've only not done 'Phags-pa because I don't have a keyboard layout for it yet. The stacking is a little idiosyncratic—I went with "use the stack if it exists" instead of "keep initial consonants with their following vowels.&quo...

Oh! I once did this in Uyghur + Arabic. EDIT: Sized up because the board makes Arabic letters so tiny. Uyghur 1 پ ب ت ط ق ء ڟ‬ چ ج ڤ ش خ غ قخ ل ر م ن ڭ ۋ ي ا ە ى و ۇ قاشتاخڤىش ۋاء رام لوش شاط خۇغ شىجلاخ قەتبوغ لوط Uyghur 2 پ ب ت د ك ء ط‬ چ ج ف س خ غ ق ل ر م ن ڭ ۋ ي ا ە ى و ۇ كاستاخفىس ۋاء رام لوس سا...

Max1461 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:15 am Is a merger of /f/ and /x/, without debuccalization to [h], plausible? What would they merge to?

/f/ merging to /x/ happened in Dutch.

And a board favorite, Iau, has [x] as an allophone of /f/.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 6:56 pmThe difference is that the /r/ in my tarantula is syllabic, and normally syllabic /r/ does not trigger retraction and affrication of /t/ in NAE. Similar examples for me include fac[tʃ]ory, re[ɕtɕ]aurant, and refrac[tʃ]ory.

I missed that. Yeah, that's unusual.

As I have mentioned previously, my idiolect has marked palatalization of /t/ in quite a few words where GA lacks it, and I notice that at least my mother has this as well. (I can confirm she pronounces sister as [ˈsɘɕtɕʁ̩(ː)].) But one word in particular that sticks out which I notice myself having...