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For example the IE gap of *tl, dl, etc tht survives in moat languages, the scarcity of /ts/ in ancient gk due to >ss,the lack of vl,vr,etc in normal English words. Diachronics explains the ones we know....It's possible pre-PIE had and lost /tl/.
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Would an althistory where the Romans conquered part of Ireland, which had or has a Romance language competing in those parts with Gaelic work?
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I don't see why not. OTL the Irish were very much influenced by Rome, even though they never spoke Latin.
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Hello! This is my first question here. I have an idea for noun declensions that don't change the inflexional affixes of nouns (so a noun in declension 1 would take identical case markings and number markings as a noun in declension 2), but instead would affect what derivational markings a noun got (so a noun in declension 1 would take a different diminutive marker or collective marker than a noun in declension 2). Are there any languages that do something like this?
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I haven't heard of any language that'd do something like this. That said, I don't see why not - but I wouldn't call those declensions. The divide here would likely be semantic-based (perhaps gender?).this_is_an_account wrote: ↑14 Aug 2018 06:40 Hello! This is my first question here. I have an idea for noun declensions that don't change the inflexional affixes of nouns (so a noun in declension 1 would take identical case markings and number markings as a noun in declension 2), but instead would affect what derivational markings a noun got (so a noun in declension 1 would take a different diminutive marker or collective marker than a noun in declension 2). Are there any languages that do something like this?
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English does various things like this with different derivational endings - some can't be applied to just any word, and sometimes there are two with equivalent meaning that attach to words under different phonological or semantic conditions. E.g. (I can't think of a really good example offhand) we have China > Chinese, but no China > Chinan - and in fact I would say that "Chinan" is disallowed. It's not always hard-and-fast, though. So yeah I'd say this is possible, but I wouldn't call it "declension" since that's generally about inflection. Maybe call them "derivational classes"?
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As far as I know, declension means an inflectional paradigm of nouns. But of course there are different kinds of stems for attaching derivational endings.gestaltist wrote: ↑14 Aug 2018 08:29I haven't heard of any language that'd do something like this. That said, I don't see why not - but I wouldn't call those declensions. The divide here would likely be semantic-based (perhaps gender?).this_is_an_account wrote: ↑14 Aug 2018 06:40 Hello! This is my first question here. I have an idea for noun declensions that don't change the inflexional affixes of nouns (so a noun in declension 1 would take identical case markings and number markings as a noun in declension 2), but instead would affect what derivational markings a noun got (so a noun in declension 1 would take a different diminutive marker or collective marker than a noun in declension 2). Are there any languages that do something like this?
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Derivational class is probably the best name for it, and since I do happen to have grammatical gender, I'll base it off of that. Also, would it be weird for some nouns to be irregular and take some or all of their derivational affixes from a different class? How about some derivations applying to all nouns regardless of gender?
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IMO all of that would be realistic and naturalistic.this_is_an_account wrote: ↑14 Aug 2018 19:04 Derivational class is probably the best name for it, and since I do happen to have grammatical gender, I'll base it off of that. Also, would it be weird for some nouns to be irregular and take some or all of their derivational affixes from a different class? How about some derivations applying to all nouns regardless of gender?
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In a language with a phonetic inventory of [m m̥ n n̥ t tʰ k kʰ s h l l̥ r r̥ j j̥ w w̥] in which all sequences are phonetically CV, is it more appropriate to analyze a sequence such as [m̥a] as /m̥a/ or /mha/? Perhaps more to the root of my question is: must a language have clusters of some consonant plus some approximant before it can be considered to have clusters at all?
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I’m pretty sure that’s for you to say.QuantumWraith wrote: ↑15 Aug 2018 04:10 In a language with a phonetic inventory of [m m̥ n n̥ t tʰ k kʰ s h l l̥ r r̥ j j̥ w w̥] in which all sequences are phonetically CV, is it more appropriate to analyze a sequence such as [m̥a] as /m̥a/ or /mha/? Perhaps more to the root of my question is: must a language have clusters of some consonant plus some approximant before it can be considered to have clusters at all?
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Are people willing to do a collablang of this? I want this, but I can't do a full a posteriori conlang without going nuts/ overestimating/ underestimating the change.
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The answer to the root of your question is no. A language must have clusters of some consonant and some consonant to have clusters. The exact natures of these consonants are unimportant on a non-language-specific level. That said, there may be some combinations that are considered consonant clusters in some languages but not in others, depending on the details of the phonology (Is [tj] a consonant cluster or a consonant followed by a semivowel?).QuantumWraith wrote: ↑15 Aug 2018 04:10 In a language with a phonetic inventory of [m m̥ n n̥ t tʰ k kʰ s h l l̥ r r̥ j j̥ w w̥] in which all sequences are phonetically CV, is it more appropriate to analyze a sequence such as [m̥a] as /m̥a/ or /mha/? Perhaps more to the root of my question is: must a language have clusters of some consonant plus some approximant before it can be considered to have clusters at all?
Your question on [m̥a] is difficult to answer without more information. Does [m̥] only emerge from a sequence of [m] and [h]? If so, the /mh/ analysis makes more sense. If [m̥] can also appear in other contexts, it is probably better analyzed as its own phoneme, /m̥/.
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I would simplify and just analyze /h/ as an independent part of the syllable. A language with just one type of cluster still has clust3rs. The only asymmetry is /s/ .... was there ever a /sh/?
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Would dentalization of alveolars, such as /n → n̪/ interfere with the interchangeability of alveolars with retroflexes, such as /n~ɳ/?
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I interpret the language as having phonemic clusters as well. I took "all sequences are phonetically CV" to allow for the possibility that all phonemic consonant clusters allophonically coalesce.
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I can definitely help.Shemtov wrote: ↑15 Aug 2018 04:55Are people willing to do a collablang of this? I want this, but I can't do a full a posteriori conlang without going nuts/ overestimating/ underestimating the change.
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Is it acoustically possible to trill /ɕ ʑ/?
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Isn't the second one the Czech r?
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Wikipedia describes it as "sounding a little like a simultaneous [r] and [ʐ] (or [r̥] and [ʂ] when devoiced)," which means it could be a retroflex (native speaker, please help).
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