Re: Sound changes
From: | Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 10, 2005, 4:28 |
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:56:04 -0400, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
>...>I have a question concerning the sound changes occuring in the languages
>
>I thought of creating a list of sound changes for my conlang (It could
>remove the regularity that I don't like in Vbazi)
>
>But I didn't know how much..
>
>How much sound changes may occur naturaly in languages in a gived period of
>time?
>
>
>I thought of doing this when I pronounced words and felt it would be easier
>to do with other sounds that don't exist in Vbazi
>
>In the list I thought, there are rules like /h/ between 2 vowels or at the
>end of a word becomes /x/, /dz/ becomes /D/, /hw/ -> /p\/, /bv/ -> /B/, and
>some others...
>
>But I don't want to create too much before knowing how much time would pass
>for having a quantity of sound changes.
>
>
>I also want to do this to have a mother language as source for creating new
>words like languages do with latin...
>
>- Max
I just saw this thread on sound changes on zbb. It mostly is a catalog of
sound changes for various languages. Not a direct answer, but it might be
useful.
Jeff
BTW has anyone else been having trouble with the web interface lately? The
text entry area flickers every time I type a character.
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