Carsten Becker wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I still don't get the hang of developing Ayeri into (a)
> daughter language(s), but if I should ever do this, there
> are two things that I'm wondering about:
>
> 1) How can I get from [4] to /R/, i.e. [X, R]? [4] is
> alveolar, and /R/ uvular, so at the opposite end of
> the mouth. Are there any steps in between that justify
> this change? OTOH, I've heard dialects that use [4]
> instead of [R]. I've learnt that it's always dialects
> that develop into another daughter languages.
[4] can become [R] because of auditory similarity. Not all sound changes
work by articulatory simplification.
> 2) Ayeri is a trigger language, that means fluid-S AFAIK.
I don't think trigger languages are really the same thing as fluid-S. I
think they're separate categories. But I don't know.
> 3) OFF-TOPIC as for the topic of this thread, but ON-TOPIC
> as for languages: What does "deictic" mean? I haven't
> found it in my dictionary.
It means "having to do with deixis". ;) Look up deixis in the SIL
glossary -- it's complicated.