Re: The deliberate redundancy; was: Idioms

Chris Peters wrote:
>      How many of you have created dialects like these in your conlangs?
> Especially, dialects as different as the Japanese "Hyojungo" or "Kansai=
ben"
> (Tokyo or Osaka Japanese)?
Well, I started an attempt, but it soon evolved into a distinct, tho
related, language, Eastern.  I've sketched out a few phonological
differences between dialects of Watakass=ED, in the pronunciation of <ky>=
,
<ty>, <gy>, and <dy>, which are, in the Standard Dialect, /C/, /tS/,
/gj/, /dj/.  In other dialects, <ky> is, variously, /ts/, /tS/, /C/,
/h/, // (silent), /s/, /S/; ty is /ts/, /tS/, /s/, /S/; gy is /dZ/,
/dz/, /Z/, /z/, and <dy> is /dz/, /dZ/, /z/, /Z/.  However, those aren't
well-described dialects yet.

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