Zompist Bboard Again

Aside from a general list of sound changes occurring in your conlang, how do you keep track of what sound changes happen, when leveling happens, etc?

akamchinjir wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:32 am I can't help you with Old Japanese, but "xianli" (or "xiānlí") is correct for "仙狸" in Mandarin.

Thank you, I might get more information in English with the proper tone markings. If not, it's good to know in itself.

I'm still not 100% on where I'm breaking Nyango from other Japonic languages, but I'm assuming that Old Japanese vowels are more or less i1 = /i/, i2 = /ɨ/, e1 = /e~ j e/, e2 = /ɛ/, o1 = /o~ w o/, o2 = /ə/, a = /a/, and u = /u/. What later mostly became voiced stops and the allophones of /z/ were pr...

Most people would write /a/. I generally use what I imagine the most common realisation of a phoneme is (not necessarily the prototype) unless if I'm lazy. From what I've seen, if a language has just one open vowel, it will be transcribed /a/ I was leaning toward /a/ myself and will just make notes...

If a language undergoes a sound change that collapses /a/ and /ɒ/ into a single phoneme, how would the new phoneme best be written? Or would it depend on what the new "default" for the phoneme is?

Nyango is intended to be a language related to Japanese, but spoken by cat spirits known collectively as kaibyou (怪猫) in Japanese, with the main subtypes within the population being bakeneko (化け猫), manekineko (招き猫) and nekomata (猫又). Although stories about kaibyou in some form or another date back t...