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Well, is there any free books about sound change?

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holbuzvala wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:38 am sea urchin = spiked-treasure OR slow-spine OR two-then-five

next: lion

lion = jungle-king

next: mule

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Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 5:49 am What's more likely in a word-final situation?

/(V) r p/ ---> /(V) r/

or

/(V) r p/ ---> /(V) p/

Did you mean

Vrp# > Vr

vs

Vrp# > Vp?

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Apologies if my terminology was inaccurate. By ‘oblique object’, I meant any argument of a transitive verb that isn’t the subject(agent) or direct object(patient). This would include indirect objects, locative constructions, instrumentals, adverbs of manner (if applicable), and so on. It's actually...

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When pronouncing voiceless stop, I always try to aspirate it. However, when speaking quickly I tend to drop the aspiration, especially in unstressed syllable. How to correct that?

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The khoekhoe orthography is horrible. Here's my attempt at creating an orthography: /m n/ <m n> /p t k ʔ/ <b d g> (Glottal stop is not written) /ts kx/ <t k> /β ɾ/ <w r> /s x h/ <s h h> /| ! ‖ ǂ/ <c c x q> /ǀ͡χ ŋǀ ŋ̊ǀʰ ŋ̊ǀˀ/ <ch nc nch nc'> (Other clicks are similiarly written) /i e a o u/ <i e a o ...

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For me, it's depth. Worldbuilding is important, too. Also, isn't science and diachronics part of depth? Accessibility and Aesthetic is the least important, although I agree this is not as easy as it looks. As analogy, the depth is like the characters, woldbuilding is the plot. Aesthetic is then just...

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I don't know who named the lannguage like nasal, geez and anus, but that person must be smartass.

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A language in which: Constituent order in indefinite noun phrases is rigidly modifier-noun (and degree words go before adjectives). The definite article is a second position clitic that must occur with exactly one phonological word to its left within the noun phrase. To satisfy this requirement, on...

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Actually the most likely broad equivalent for /ʎ/ is /ɫ/, with an allophone of /l/ before front vowel if you broad consonant followed with front vowel. Also optional, but I think it's best to have /xʷ/ or /f/ and /ɬ/ instead of /ʍ/ and /ʟ̝̊/

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Why does your conscript has the latin equivalent of <c>?

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The number of possible values for each digit is a rather erratic sequence: 11, 4, 13, 2, 10, 25, 16, 18, 22, 4, 2, 28, 61, 36, etc. (assuming we continue the idea of ignoring the lower of two bases where one is only twice the other). Wait, I don't get it. According to the link to the OEIS, the sequ...

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Ive argued before that I dont believe nasal fricatives exist, and that Wikipedia's examples of languages claiming to have nasal fricatives always depend on ambiguous definitions, and some may even just be incorrect, such as labeling an <s̃> as a nasal fricative when it is in fact just an orthograph...

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Obviously, this is not very feasible in the long run, since beyond a certain point you're dealing with increasingly large bases - the 10th place is base-23 - but since this is a mediaeval culture it's not really a practical issue. Also, I suspect that, like the Greeks, they use letters as numbers, ...

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Is it realistic to have voiced nasal fricatives as an allophone of voiced fricatives next to nasal vowel?
If it's not, is it realistic to have a nasality spread through voiced fricatives?

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It seems like each character ought to have a unified form without needing diacritics to write native phonological contrasts. Latin uses acute accent for their long vowels. Arabic uses a diacritic to distinguish s and sh. Special note goes to Ancient Greek, where there is an extensive system of diac...

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Is it realistic to have sound change from /b/ to /d/ syllable finally? This is because I want symmetry with the shift of its nasal allophone /m/ > /n/ in the same context, so the coda can't be labial.

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Phnom Penh dialect of Khmer has two tones, level and rising, originating from elision of /r/. You can expect the tone distribution to be very uneven.

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Kovaali is the ancient (proto-?) language of the Kovaali people, or Kovaalych. It has an OSV word order, and currently has both head and dependent markings (is that possible?). Yes, but usually (but not obligatory) has mismatch in the alignment. The verb conjugation tends to be nominative, while th...

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I'm reading Tokyo Shinobi Squad and The Last Saiyuuki. The former is just a generic battle shonen that initially makes a controversy. I don't care it it will get cancelled. However, I'm convinced the latter to be cancelled, even though I enjoyed it better.

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