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Anybody else just have random ideas for phonemic inventories and/or more fully fleshed out phonologies? I do. So I thought it might be an interesting...or not so interesting thread....to have a place to put them. Basically I wanted to post this. But feel free to post yours

Stops/affricate: /p t tʃ kʲ k kʷ q qʷ ʔ/
Fricatives: /β ð s ʃ x ɣ xʷ h/
Nasals: /m n ɲ ŋ/
Liquids: /l ɾ ʎ/
Approximants: /j w/

Vowels: /i y u e ɛ ə o a ɑ:/

I may get rid of /ð ɣ/, add /θ/ and then change /β/ to /ʋ/. We'll see. The vowels are pretty loose right now. I may get rid of the second low vowel and add /ɨ/.

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I do, a lot of the time.

This is the phonemic inventory of my latest project (which I'm trying to take it slow with):

Vowels
There are ten vowels in Hjaélim, each of which can be either short or long (except for the schwa and the near-open central vowel).


Consonants

I haven't decided upon whether I should use /ɨ/ or /y/ yet.
The vowel inventory might be a little funky, but I like it. This is just a first draft, though.

This is a good thread. Now there won't be hundreds of thread just dedicated to phonologies .

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Too lazy to make a full inventory, but I've a strong desire to play around with labiodentalized consonants. Maybe an Acoi branch?

Perhaps a lenition hierarchy, with

kᶹ > ⱱ > v > ʋ

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You can have this one; I'm not using it anymore.

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Stick with /ɨ/.


You know that's not going to happen...

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I think I will.
Any more comments?


One can always dream...


Sounds interesting.

How are things with Acoi?

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I really like that vowel inventory too. But I would say stick with the central vowel, because I like it. If you want the rounding...you could be crazy and go with /ʉ/...

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Thanks. I think I'll stick with this inventory, at least for the time being .
Now I just have to stop being lazy and start my work on the morphology.

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Absolutely terrible. The phonology is far too simplistic to have much dialectical variation aside from the voiceless prenasals.

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Maybe we should have random syntax and morphology idea threads too.

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Even though it's simplistic, I'm sure you could find a way to justify some crazy sound changes and dialectical variations.


Yeah, maybe .
My ideas are too similar to each other, so I could probably use a thread like that for inspiration.

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Even though it's simplistic, I'm sure you could find a way to justify some crazy sound changes and dialectical variations.[/quote]
How can that be the case? I mean, dialectal variation can happen even in very simple phonologies?

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It's not so much that I can't make any variation as it is I'm having trouble making interesting variation. The dialects should still be mutually understandable but they also lay the seed for future developments. It is a proto-lang after all.

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What is interesting to you?

Any examples of ideas you have so far?

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Last one for today and then maybe I'll actually do some work.

Stops /p t d k g/
Fricatives /v s z ɕ ʑ x~h/
Nasals /m n/
Liquids /l ɾ j/

Single vowels: /i ʉ u e o a ɛ̃ ʌ̃/
Vowel clusters/dipthongs: /ai au ei ou ui ia ʉa ua ie uo/

Words may begin with a vowel or single consonant. Between vowels, there may be one or two consonants. Some of these post vocalic clusters may also occur word finally. The are also a small number of word final single consonants. The clusters are:

/ts ks/
/st sk xt ɕt ɕk zd zg ʑd ʑg vd vg/
/nd ng ld lg lv ɾd ɾg ɾv lj ɾj/

Final consonants: /t k s m n sh l ɾ/

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"Interesting" to me is basically "bat shit insane" ;p

I suppose I can put this consonant inventory up as a "target"...

/p t k p̪ tᶹ kᶹ b d g b̪ dᶹ gᶹ f s x sᶹ xᶹ ṽ z̃ m ɱ n m̥ ɱ̥ n̥ ʋ l j lᶹ jᶹ/

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Well, if you want something insane, then I probably won't be of much help .

I'm trying to figure out which diphthongs I will allow in this lang.
The only ones I have decided upon are /ai au iu/, but I want something funky thrown in there too.

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/iə ɨə uə ɛə ɔə/? I love those. I also like /ie uo/ very very very much.

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Yeah, I was thinking about doing something with the schwa.

Maybe I'll have /ai au iu iə əu/? And maybe something with /ɨ/.
I hate deciding these things.

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I hate deciding on diphthongs. Just start doing it and see how it works out.

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