Zompist Bboard Again

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:57 am Coming soon: the AAA Aapplier of Sound Changes

And its nemesis, Zzzound change applier

My first impression is that the interests of conlangers vs. actual linguists are completely at odds here :) For actual linguistics, and the process of finding large-scale trends, the cognate sets approach would certainly be most useful. As a conlanger, I think using reconstructions and sound change...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 2:37 pm Of course, there are exceptions to what I said above, e.g. it is common to pronounce Porsche as monosyllabic, and when it is pronounced disyllabically it is common to pronounce the second vowel as a schwa.

Talk about posh pronunciation.

“it blew 14-year-old me’s mind,”

Has anyone seen usage like present-years-old him's? Is it innovative or rather common?

Is this the original orthography, and more specifically, does it have close central vowels?
Is it spoken in Ethiopia? The paucity of wals data suggests it's most likely to be there.

Hold on, do I spy both ejectives and implosives? Is it spoken in Eastern Africa, in the whereabouts of Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania?

It's suppletive from a diachronic point of view, but I wonder if it can be synchronically analysed as suppletive, what with 'seak - sought'; or as one of only three, that is

This month's Fiat Lingua post looks very useful for those who wish to create African-style tone systems, or systems in which something else behaves in a similar way. I'll use it for the vowel system of Old Albic. I'm glad it's been useful! I have a ton of resources I've collected in the past couple...

Re "5. Map transcriptions to IPA.", I presume original notation would be presented in parallel to IPA? I have one question, though. Say there's e → i / _Cj: 1. Does the language have /ɛ ɔ/ in the first place, or just /e o/? 2. What do we do if phonetic nature of the phonemes is not or hard...

Afroasiatic, perchance? Berber or East African AA?

I meant to say that low long vowels tend to heighten: [ɛː ɔː] → [eː oː]

As far as I recall, there was this general rule of thumb for a naturalistic vowel system: 1. Pick one of: /a i u~o/, /a e~ə i u/, /a e i o u/, /a ɛ i ɔ u/, /a ɛ e i ɔ o u/ 2. Make up to two changes. A change is one of the following: dropping a vowel, adding a vowel, substituting a vowel with another...

By 'originate' do you mean how to derive it diachronically or just how to design it?

Realised that I've been meaning to contribute to Index Diachronica next month - for the past half a year already. Maybe I should just drop some tasks and pet projects, but I can't help myself.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 1:53 pm Yeah, it's time to fork Python.

Is it just a single developer that's removed due to the new rules, or are more expected to follow?

Me reading Darren's explanation of how unconditional initial consonant loss occurs: "Ah, right. I guess that makes sense. Delay of onset loudness. I— *wanta- → Ngkoth /ntra/ "leave" (originally allophonic trilling triggered by a labial in the previous syllable) —...what?!" Do wei...

Is it a Meso-Melanesian language?

I must say this is enough material for a conlang paper of sorts. ​All of the above words show the most simple developments; generally this is enough for Polynesian languages. More complex developments however are seen in Tangaeauan reflexes of words of more than three morae (forms such as CVVCVV, CV...

Torch sent to Vilike.