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This does show one of the problems with naming related languages after a cognate set: you get a lot of very very similar names! This comment made me think - how about you name each language after a word where that language famously uses a completely different word from most other languages? My firs...

/p (pʲ) t ts c k (kʷ)/ < p pi t č ć k ku > /s ʂ ɕ/ < s š ś > /m (mʲ) n ȵ (ŋ)/ < m mi n ń ng > /β~w l r ʎ j/ < u l r ł i > With the alt analysis because yes /a ə/ < a o > /ma tprəjn sən pəwɲcn sənsarjs karjpəc sasprtww alək wrəm nəʂ kəws nəj alaswnəj || kjəltəj nəjʂ wrəsəɕɕ snəj wawləjʂw snəj psl klw...

Saipan Carolinian /p bʷ t x/ < p b t k > /p: pʷ: t: k:/ < pp bb tt kk > /m mʷ (n) ŋ/ < m v n g > /m: mʷ: (n:) ŋ:/ < mm vv nn gg > /f s ʂ h/ < f s x h > /f: s: tʂ:/ < ff ss xx > /w r l j/ < w r l y > /w: l: j:/ < ww ll yy > The phonemes /b d g k/ can occur in loanwords. < b d g k > /i ʉ u e ə o æ a ...

"winter" [ˈwɪn(t)ɜ] "wintry" [ˈwɪn(t)ɜɻʷəi̯] "disaster" [dɜˈzɐːstɜ] "disastrous" [dɜˈzɐːstɜɻʷɜs] or -[ʈʂɜɻʷɜs] "adult" [ˈædɜɫʷt] "grownup" [ˈgɻʷɔˑy̯n.ɐp] "teenager" [ˈtʰəˑi̯nˌæi̯ɖʐɜ] "lyre" [ˈlɑˑ(e̯)ɜ̯] "liar" ...

New question, for our Australians here (bradrn and whoever else may be reading): Australian English underwent some weird /æ/ vs. /æː/ split (trap/lad/had vs. bad/sad/mad). However, it appears that no dictionary has ever been published that makes the distinction. Even linguistics books and papers di...

How do you pronounce two or more consecutive unstressed [ɾ]'s?

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Your language name doesn’t seem to be compatible with your romanization — it seems to use a letter ⟨a⟩ which doesn’t exist in the romanization. You're right, it should be Fiyfuenuwfuw u a. Anyway, I’m not quite sure about this, but here’s my best guess: Consonants: Consonants can occur palatalised ...

I'm interested to see how people will work out Fiyfuenuwfuwa.

<c e f g ia io iw iy m n o ua ue uw uy>

And here's a sample of gibberish to help you:
Muwniamiy-iy-gio e cuacoguy-gio geciwcuw moniw-fe, e muamiofiw-fio.

It never fails to rile people up against the RAE. :D Especially as I say it in a mocking tone, implying we're expected to know Latin to get spelling right. Made even worse by the fact that h was already silent in Vulgar Latin :lol: :lol: How, exactly, do we know which sounds were silent in Vulgar L...

Space60 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:43 pm How do.you pronounce "Antarctica" and "Arctic"? Do you pronounce the first "c"?

/ˌænˈtʰɐːkʰtʰɪkʰə/
/ˈɐːkʰtʰɪk/
It's probably because I have a non-rhotic accent so there isn't a three-consonant cluster. I'm not sure about the syllable division though

I've experienced this too; generally I start writing in the present, then switch to past part-way through. I can also never decide how much I want to "reconstruct" or at least write about in grammars; I feel that because it's being presented as if it was a reconstructed proto-language I sh...

thethief3 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:11 pm What are some ways *r and *l can arise in a language that doesn't initially have them?

Lenition of /t d/ between vowels, rhotacising -s- between vowels, /n/ being denasalised, non-sibilant fricatives like /ð/.

ie.
t → l,r /V_V
d → l,r /V_V
s → r /V_V
n → l
θ,ð,ɬ → l

We already have flying cars and they haven't caught on as a normal part of life--we call them helicopters. Thus far they've been too expensive, large, difficult to operate, and require too much infrastructure to become common. You could say that an aeroplane is a flying car, a spaceship is a space ...

I hold basically no right-wing policy views, and I despise Trump and think he's the worst president in modern American history, but I have to say I'm really getting tired of constantly seeing shit like this: Because as right-wingers, they naturally believe that constantly losing any semblance of se...

Pedant wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:00 pm Next: cabbage

Eungadhuot: còvero [ˈkub.bɨ.ɾʉ] "cabbage plant" (from Latin caulis with a diminuitive suffix)
Northern Eunga: clèḍo [ˈklæɖ.ɖə]

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/m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p t tʃ c~k/ <p t ch k> /b d dʒ ɟ~ɡ/ <b d j g> /f θ s ʃ h~ç/ <f th s sh h> /v ð z ʒ/ <v th z~s zh> /l ɹ j w/ <l r y w> /ks kw/ <x qu> <s> after a voiced consonant is [z] Short vowels: /æ e~ɛ ɪ ɐ~ʌ ɒ~ɔ ʊ/ <a e i u o ou> (if preceding a non-semivowel consonant followed by a vowel, the...

I like to define natural behaviour as that which would likely occur without cultural influence, in some hypothetical experiment where a bunch of babies grew up on their own in the wilderness. It's a little hard to test for humans, but I think it works as a starting point. By that definition, it see...

Well, it wouldn't be every intervocal n in Spanish becoming ŋgl, it would be every ŋl becoming ŋgl; sound changes don't have memory. There are plenty of cases of nr/mr/nl/ml taking an intrusive d or b to break up the sonorants: it's happened in English! Probably the iffiest step is substantiating t...

Would it be at all conceivable to have the change VnV → VŋglV (through something like VnV → Vɾ̃V → ṼɾV → VŋɾV → VŋlV → VŋglV)? Maybe parallel VmV → VŋgwV ?

"Mostly accurate" means "partially wrong"--being unable to account for certain regular correspondences means that there are phonemes that existed in the proto-language that have not been accounted for. It *can* mean that there are extra phonemes, but it's not a certainty as you'...