Re: Sound changes

 --- Balazs Sudar <conlang@...> wrote: > Hi all!
>
> Are there any rules for sound changes in a language? I mean if I'd like to
> create a new dialect, or a new language from an existing one, is it just the
> question of my taste, which sound changes I use? Or are there any changes,
> that cannot happen together.... If I'd like to create 2 dialects, which sound
> changes can I use? (I mean if I use similar ones, I'll get only 1 dialect :)
> I hope you understand what I mean.....
Don't forget one thing: reality often is weirder than the bravest conlanger
could imagine. And another thing: every language has its own rules, and those
rules are rarely applied consequently.
In other words, feel free.
If you are looking for inspiration, try one of the following:
- take a bunch of Romance languages and compare them to Latin;
- take a bunch of dialects in your own language to compare;
- compare some German dialects (say, Schwytzerdütsch, Viennese) with Standard
High German, or incidentally, have a look a Dutch :) The German soundschange is
a piece of work on itself.
- etc.etc.etc.

Jan



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