Re: debt, doubt, island, sword and dielects.

abrigon wrote:
> To me they are pronounced
> det, dowt, i'lund, i'ul, sohrd.
Exactly, and, with the exception of _sword_, none of them EVER had those
letters pronounced.

> Anyone have dielects in their Conlang?
Watakass=ED has many dialects, it's spoken over a fairly large region,
probably equivalent to the East Coast of the US.  I've only worked in
detail on the Prophetess' Dialect, but I have done a little on others.=20
Partially because the Prophetess' Dialect borrowed a few words from
other dialects.

Anyways, here's a couple of examples of dialectal variations:
(PD =3D Prophetess' Dialect)
{ky} =3D PD /C/
       Others /tS/, /S/, /ts/, /s/
{gy} =3D PD /gj/
       Others /dZ/, /Z/, /j\/, /dz/, /z/
{ty} =3D PD /tS/
       Others /ts/, /S/, /s/
{dy} =3D PD /dj/
       Others /dz/, /z/, /dZ/, /Z/

Also, some dialects have simplified the gender system, frequently
collapsing 4 and 5 (aided, in part, by the ki- prefix of gender 5, which
in some dialects becomes the same as G2's ti-, /(t)Si/), a few have
eliminated gender 3 (non-gender-specific rational), using G1 for it
(female rational).  I think that some dialects have preserved the
archaic dual number in nouns.

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