Moeric phonology (was: Peer reviews)

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> Van:  Christophe Grandsire
>
> En réponse à Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>:
> > 1) Start your post with a short introductory paragraph at the most
> > <<CUT>>
> >I call this "the apetizer".
>
> OK, let's start with your language then :)) .
O help... it is just a sketch at the moment, I merely used it to add
examples to my post. Oh, well... now we are working on it.

>> (About Moeric, one of the Almaranian languages:)
>> It is mostly agglutinating, and has a phonology
>> of 8 vowels and 14 consonants, with no distinction between voiced and
>> unvoiced consonants."
> 8 vowels? /a/, /e/, /E/, /i/, /o/, /O/, /u/, /@/? Or another inventory?
Oh no, quite different actually. The vowels are divided into two groups:
regular (or unrestricted) and restricted vowels, which it technically mostly
a front-back distinction. Certain grammatical features can turn one into the
other.
Also, all vowels are unrounded. Some dialects pronounce more rounded
varieties, but they are allophonic.
The four vowel pairs are: (unrestricted variant listed first).

[i]=/I/
[u]=unrounded /u/ (I don't know the X-Sampa for the 'turned m')

[è]=/@/
[o]=/7/

[e]=/E/
[ó]=/V/

[á]=/a/
[a]=/A/

All vowles become nasalized before a nasal consonant. There are no
(phonemic) diphtongs.

The 14 consonants are divided into 12 regular and 2 irregular consonants.

The 12 regular consonant phonemes are dinstiguished by 3 places (labial,
alveolar, and velar) and 4 manners (stop, nasal, fricative, aproximant) of
articulation, although they do not completely follow the regular scheme.
Voiced and unvoiced consonants are allophonic, the voiced varieties being
the default.

[b] = /b/ or /p/ (when syllable-final and followed by a vowel or irregular
consonant)
[d]= /d/ or /t/ (when syllable-final and followed by a vowel or irregular
consonant)
[g] = /g/ or /k/ (when syllable-final and followed by a vowel or irregular
consonant)

[m] = /m/
[n] = /n/
[N] = /N/

[v] = /B/ or unvoiced bilabial fricative (IPA phi) (when syllable-final and
followed by a vowel or irregular consonant)
[z] = /z/ or /s/ (when syllable-final and followed by a vowel or irregular
consonant) or /S/ in between two vowels
[x] = /G/ or /x/ (when syllable-final and followed by a vowel or irregular
consonant) or /X/ before vowel or  word-final

[w] = /P/ or /f/ when followed by an irregular consonant [h] or [l]
[r] = a very short uvular trill (IPA small caps 'R')
[y] = /j/

[h] = /?/, the glottal stop
[l] = /l/, lateral alveolar approximant

Maarten

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