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

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 04:43:00 -0800 abrigon <abrigon@...> writes:
>
> Anyone have dielects in their Conlang?
.

Well, i haven't really done much for my Judean Romancelang besides
phonological shift rules and a slight history sketch, but there are a few
dialects.

Standard Dialect:
/b g d k p t/ have allophones [B G z x P s].
separate sounds: /S/ , /Z/ ; /f/ , /v/.
10 vowels: /a A<r> E e i ij o ow u uw/  (<r> = somewhat rounded).

Archaic-sounding Dialect:
(isolated communities)
/b g d k p t/ have allophones [bb gg dd kk pp tt] in opposite placement
from standard.
/S/ allophones [S Z] ; /v/ allophones [f v].

There's also at least another dialect, where [B] has merged with /v/ and
[P] has merged with /f/, but i don't know that much about it yet.  It
might be the same dialect, or another, which reduces the vowels to the
five cardinals.  There's also a dialect that doesn't distinguish the
emphatics (pharyngealized) {x z} from their non-emphatic counterparts /t
s/, which could be the same dialect, sometimes stigmatized as being
"lazy".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."


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