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Is it realistic that I have /tst tɬt tɕt > st ɬt ɕt/?

w > v / V_C or V_# I bit suspect this is not that realistic. For example, phoneme like /iwk/ can turn in /ivk/ which is harder to pronounce. Probably it's better if w>f æ e i ɯ > e i ɨ ɨ i > ɨ is unrealistic unconditionally. You should restrict this. ej > i / _# i > ɨ / j_ or _j æj ej > i ɨj /_# so...

Is it realistic for a language to lack Obstruent+Liquid cluster? Yes. Pali comes close; what obstruent+liquid clusters survive are reasonably suspected of being due to the influence of other dialects. Lack of syllable-initial obstruent+liquid clusters can be seen in Persian. I mean, I don't have Ob...

The problem is my language clearly have Obstruent+Obstruent cluster. Also Liquid+Obstruent cluster (Although the cluster is restricted to nasal+voiced stop/affricate in this case) Shouldn't be a problem. English allows mb but not *bm (except in compound words), and Korean allows gw but not *wg. If ...

Is it realistic for a language to lack Obstruent+Liquid cluster? In my language, the only liquid is /m n l r j w/. However, /r/ comes from /d/ in certain positions, and it would devoice instead of turning into /r/ after voiceless obstruent, (the contrast of /r/ and /d/ is only present in /rd/ vs /d...

Is it realistic for a language to lack Obstruent+Liquid cluster? In my language, the only liquid is /m n l r j w/. However, /r/ comes from /d/ in certain positions, and it would devoice instead of turning into /r/ after voiceless obstruent, (the contrast of /r/ and /d/ is only present in /rd/ vs /dd...

dhok wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 9:11 am isn't that just Old English

No, the Old English diphthong is: iu̯ eo̯ and æɑ̯

Is it realistic to have a diphthong like this:

/æɪ ɑʊ ɪæ ʊɑ/

Is egocentric and allocentric mood or aspect? And how does it appear?

Proto Garaudawa originally had identical conjugation for both noun and adjectives. I want the descendants to have different declension, except Rkouic (where they have clause-final vs non-clause-final declension). At the extreme, Asent'o has the adjectives lost all the declension and fuses with the n...

Is the sound change that occurs word finally but not clause finally realistic? I want some language to have a differentiated adjective-noun declension when the proto-language has them identical.

If you think -o is unnaturalistic, wait for Mpi tone system. Mpi has 6 tones, but only 3 tones allowed in noun, and in verb, only the rest of tone is allowed.

The be + past participle construction in Standard Average European doesn't make any sense. What does past tense have anything to do with passive voice? It's like when Japanese starts using "-ta desu" to mark passive voice. In fact, sentence like: He is actually killed. He actually killed. ...

As I was about to go to bed I started to think about the word for "then" in one of my conlangs. I thought I had two words for "then", but couldn't remember what exactly the distinction was. (Now that I looked at the grammar, it turns out I only had "now" and "then...

How realistic it is to have a subclause mostly precedes the main clause.

Sure. Every conlanger gets to decide how far they want to go with it; most don't go into the origins of grammatical gender and case for instance, but start with them as a given feature of a proto-lang. Whew, that's relieving. Because I want to make a language where a fusional grammar becomes more a...

Is it okay to create a fusional language by devising a suffix without making a proto-language first and applying sound changes? The reason I have is that it's used as proto language anyway.

Is it possible that word internal unstressed vowel is reduced more than those that are word finally?

Isn't that exactly what the English experiential perfect is? Cf. "I've been to a town." It's a bit tricky: "I've been to a town" is an experiential perfect but "I've gone to a town" is a perfect of resulting state. But maybe it's only with "go" that you get t...

Is have > semelfactive realistic?

I went to a town once

1SG.NOM PRES-have-1.SG.PRES.IND PST-go-1.SG.PST.RES town-SG.LOC

Where RES is a verb form that is used to either mark a finished action that is still relevant or denoting a result of an action.