Zompist Bboard Again

The phoneme /j/ is quite common. But two things have occurred to me about this phoneme. Many of the languages set on Almea lack the phoneme. Which I think is super interesting. I was curious how many natural languages lack the phoneme. It's been really hard finding any articles at all showing a lack...

As far as the way languages in real life tend to do things, that’s incredibly bizarre. However, you could get it through processes that *are* reasonable. If the original way of marking plurals was reduplication then you might get a situation like the one you describe as a result of some phonologica...

Nouns in my current proto-language inflect for class and number, quite a lot of classes as in Bantu languages. I also quite like the prefixal shape of them but I had an idea that the root word that gets inflected has sort of "slots" for lack of a better term, where placement of the class/n...