Re: A Lang family ...

Amber Adams wrote:

> The trick to sound change is to just think of what speakers will
> do to your language.  Here's a few random ideas. :)
>
> Speak fast.  Speak slow.  Speak in a fake accent.  Try holding
> your nose.  Try slurring things that should be clear, or saying
> things clear that should be slurred.  Take away some schwas, or
> add them.  Or turn them into other vowels, or turn the vowels
> into schwas.  Try aspirating or voicing something, or unaspirating
> or unvoicing it.  Turn a vowel + a nasal into a nasalized vowel,
> or do it the other way.  Turn one random sound into one other
> random sound for no sane reason whatsoever, and see what effect
> it has.
The only theoretical objection I might have to this is that we
might be deluded by our inbuilt sense of our own native languages
what is likely to happen, and what isn't.

> And above all, have fun!
This is of course the most important thing. :)

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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  entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn;
autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê
  erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos

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