Zompist Bboard Again

I am having two issues: the wildcard ^ doesn’t seem to want to work and some categories aren’t being properly read. The affected rules are pitch accent and stop assimilation, respectively. For the pitch accent rule, using ^Vacc _ and _ ^Vacc doesn’t cause subsequent accents to disappear; using the s...

It occurred to me just now, about the conundrum I’ve been having with reconciling certain known “canon” parameters vis-à-vis CT , O, their relative positions both between them proper, Beheic languages generally, and history. I’ve been speaking of the “Tim Ar-O languages” for quite a while; of Beheic...

ċiyufala
[ciʝvɐˈɭɐ]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

*ux > v / _"V

ćyfažra
[ciʝuhɐɭˈɭɐ]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to get rich’

Retroflex affectation

My vacation this year for Norman Music Festival 2k26 was a massive , resounding success. This was the longest I’ve been gone since college 1 . I was there for almost a week (due to economic reasons the flights I got were stupidly late outgoing and stupidly early returning, i.e. it wasn’t seven full ...

ʒescą
[cyβaˈɖʐɻa]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

*u > y / [+palatal]

rotting bones wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2026 5:05 pm

zompist wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2026 4:14 pmThrow out the agent! He's just a capitalist stooge anyway, a supervisor brought in to approve the work of the peons.

Wait, we haven't established he's not an underpaid worker.

It could be…shudder…AI.

ʒescą
[ɟuβaˈɖʐɻa]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Stress retraction to heavy syllable onsets

Bug report: using ⟨ɹɨjɹ⟩ as an input works when “Apply” is selected, but does not when “Report rules applied” is selected. Fields: Rules: new categories V = a ə ɨ ɛ œ e ø i y ʌ ɔ ɤ o ɯ u W = á ə́ ɨ́ ɛ́ œ́ é ǿ í ý ʌ́ ɔ́ ɤ́ ó ɯ́ ú C = p t̪ t tʲ k q ʔ p t̪ʰ tʰ tʲʰ kʰ qʰ ɸ θ s ʃ x χ h β ð ɹ l j ɣ ʕ m n̪...

ʒescą
[ˈɟɑɖʐɻa]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Loss of offglides

ʒescą
[ˈɟɑɰdɹaw̃]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

*ts > dɹ / [+vc] _ [+vc]

ʒescą
[ˈɟɑɰtθaw̃]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

*j > Ø / S_

ʒescą
[ˈɟe̯ɤstθaw̃]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Thetafication of lateral fricatives

I have been wondering about CT , O, and their place in (and even just the place of ) Beheic more generally. This is what I’ve come up with so far; behind the “more” tag is a somewhat stream-of-consciousness I was working things out with, if you’re curious. Proto-Tim Ar-O phonology /*m *n̪ *n *nʲ *ŋ/...

ʒescą
[ˈɟe̯ɤstsaw̃]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Diphthong height harmonization

ŋesitrne
[ˈɟe̯ɑsɪ̆tsã]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Deretroflexion

ŋesitrne
[ˈɟɪ̯æʂɪ̆ʈʂã]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

*e > ɪ̯æ / _(C)(C)ɪ̆

ŋesitrne
[ˈɟeʂɪ̆ʈʂn]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Final yers lost

ŋesitrne
[ˈʑeʂɪ̆ʈʂnɪ̆]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Progression of stress to nonshort vowels

ŋesitrne
[ʐeˈʂɪ̆ʈʂnɪ̆]
‘(of a flying animal, vehicle, &c.) to take off; (of people) to have haters’

Velars become retroflex fricatives when a retroflex occurs in the next syllable