Tbh I like it better without the sibilant, I think - not having it gives it more of a minimalist charm. And there could easily be a Japonic language without any sibilants, considering how commonplace unconditional /s/ > /h/ shifts are.DesEsseintes wrote:
I agree about merging /ki/ and /ti/ and this will only occur intermorphemically (i.e. no morphemes should contain /ki/). I'm considering adding sibilants (kinda inevitable if I'm actually gonna make this a Japonic language and not just a Japonic-inspired language). If so /hi/ and /si/ will have a similar merger, and we get this:
That's 32 syllables. Creeping up, but I don't mind that. Syllabic/moraic /m n s/ anyone?Code: Select all
a e i u we h ha (shi) fu hwe k ka (chi) ku kwe m ma mi t te chi tsu s se shi su n ne ni nu nwe r re ri ru rwe w wa (we) wi y ye yu ywe
But I guess if you do want it to be Japonic then at some point it will probably diverge further from the 26-ish original syllables, with codas and such. I'd be curious to see what you could do with just what you have here, though, if only as a Japonic-inspired conlang.
Frislander wrote:My entry into the challenge (It's a bit of a rehash of a previous idea I posted up here a couple of weeks back.
/pˠ pʲ tˠ sʲ/
/mˠ mʲ nˠ ɲ/
/ɾ ʎ/
/w βʲ j/
/ɨ a/
Syllable structure is CV. /ɨ/ is realised as after velarised consonants and after palatalised ones, with word-initial /wɨ jɨ/ being realised as .
Nice! So does /ɨ/ stay [ɨ] after /ɾ/, or does /ɾ/ function as the velarized counterpart of /ʎ/? And it looks rather Oceanic.