| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 22, 2002, 4:24 |
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:58:17 -0400, Muke Tever <mktvr@...> wrote:>In my conlangs I generally try for realistic sound changes, although sometimes I >throw in strange stuff just for sake's sake. > >In Hadwan, >*a e i o u > /A I I U U/. Not strange. >*ei eu oi ou> /AI jU wI Uw/. Odder. >*au > /Y/. Weird. (an intermediate stage *ø [o-slash] was there, if that makes >any more sense.)I suppose this is as good a time as any to mention some of the sound changes in Hinate~, the Zireen language I've started working on. Bilabial and labiodental sounds in Simape~ (the ancestor language) end up as dental sounds in Hinate~. /p/ > /t_d/ /p_h/ > /t_d_h/ /f/ > /T/ /v/ > /D/ /m/ > /n_d/ As a consequence, some of the alveolar sounds moved back to the retroflex position. /t/ > /t`/ /t_h/ > /t`_h/ /z/ > /r\`/ But /t_>/ and /l/ remained unchanged, and /s/ became /h/. Other changes include the spread of nasalization and loss of the low tone: /su_Hnda_M/ > /hu~_Hn`a_M/ "night" /ja_LzaR\_M/ > /ja_Mr\`a_HG/ "river" Ugh. X-SAMPA is just awful for tones. -- languages of Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>--- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin
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