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In deciding phonotactics it'd be a good idea to keep in mind what kind of morphology this is supposed to implement. What's the maximum number of affixes that can appear on a word at once? 3? 5? 14?
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roninbodhisattva wrote:Wait, we don't have rounded vowels?
It's kinda weird, I know.
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roninbodhisattva wrote:Wait, we don't have rounded vowels?
It's kinda weird, I know.
I vote for at least /u/. Or at least /o/.
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I could go for /o/. It'd be nice to skip /u/ for once.
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So have we settled on this: /i ɨ ɯ ɛ ɜ ɤ æ a ɑ/? Or could we edit it a little...maybe something like:

/i ɨ ɯ ɛ ɤ o æ ɑ/

I actually am not partial to the three way distinction in the low vowels.
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roninbodhisattva wrote:So have we settled on this: /i ɨ ɯ ɛ ɜ ɤ æ a ɑ/? Or could we edit it a little...maybe something like:

/i ɨ ɯ ɛ ɤ o æ ɑ/

I actually am not partial to the three way distinction in the low vowels.
I think /æ/ and /a/ were supposed to be merged, or maybe occur in free variation or something.

But of course we can edit. Nothing has been decided yet, as far as I know.
We all have to agree before moving on.
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Maybe ɑ to ɒ or ɔ?
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I actually still really like this, but I guess I was the only one (other than Ronin):
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I really do think that is sexy still.
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If I get to vote on a specific vowel system, I'd really like to go with that one.
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I'll throw my hat in the ring for that one too. Also, if we have voiceless /m n/, why not voiceless /ŋ/?
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Oh, I didn't even notice the /ŋ/!

But man, <ngh> looks really ugly.
I almost want to suggest using dots for marking unvoiced nasals, but it's not really practical.

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<m̊ n̊ ŋ̊>

Bwhaha, I've always wanted to use ŋ as orthography.
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Ossicone wrote:<m̊ n̊ ŋ̊>
Bwhaha, I've always wanted to use ŋ as orthography.
<mh nh ŋh>? Please.
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I think <ŋ> looks nice actually, but I'm not sure everyone agrees :roll:.

I wouldn't mind using <ŋ> to get rid of <ngh> (supposing that we add unvoiced /ŋ/, which we probably should).
<mh nh ŋh> looks pretty nice.
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I vote yes to <mh nh ŋh>

Honestly, I handwrite ŋ instead of ng all the time.
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Okay then. I'm not sure how many people are working on this project, but it looks like we'll be using <mh nh ŋh> (assuming we're going by majority here).

So, if everyone agrees we'll have:

/m m̥ n̥ n ŋ ŋ̥/ m n ŋ mh nh ŋh
/t k/ t k
/v~ʋ tθ~ts tɬ s ʃ h/ v tz tl s sh h
/j ɰ l r/ j w l r
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Could we have the non-lateral affricate harmonize to [tʃ] when in a word with /ʃ/?
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