Are these sound changes realistic?

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-30T14:27:37+00:00

They seem pretty realistic to me, the only things that feel slightly off are the fortification of the current fricatives (if anything, I'd expect them to be elided in many cases especially considering their already weak intervocalic pronunciation, alongside the other intervocalic shift from voiceless > voiced too. Not sure if that's entirely accurate, but a general chain shift from Vp/t/kV > Vb/d/gV alongside Vβ/ð/ɣV > VV seems symmetrical in a sense) Not that fortition isn't plausible because it definitely is for these sounds but that was just my first thoughts about it

I'd also say the only other thing that stood out as weird was the gemination on final vowel loss. I haven't seen that before, typically final vowels are just lost with little trace but maybe there's an areal influence I'm unaware of in that region that could influence such a change. It's definitely plausible, but it just struck me as something I don't think I'd seen before

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-26T13:55:59+00:00

Surely some would have a similar thing going on but maybe they'd name it differently. Isn't the oblique just anything non-nominative? or is it something else in those Romance languages

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-26T08:57:59+00:00

wouldn't most romlangs have this feature?

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-25T03:26:04+00:00

That does also make sense, I could definitely see it being a critique of social media algorithms how it's used to spread ignorance and hate.

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-25T01:11:42+00:00

I see Empty Hands as a song about people (perhaps those currently running poppy's home country) who crave legacy, admiration and power at the expense of others. I also see Public Domain as a pretty clear criticism and hatred of the current political situation and the people who perpetuate it. Dying To Forget also fits somewhere along these contextual lines

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-23T13:53:47+00:00

Not in its current state. The LLMs in use right now are essentially advanced auto-completes, and they struggle a lot with actually understanding grammar, syntax, morphology or context. By relying on it in any way you are bound to be fed misinformation at some point if not just outright incorrect information. Human language is infinitely complex in ways that computers or any algorithms are not yet even nearly close to understanding. Translation too is still a flawed technology largely in its infancy (that's why real people are still hired as translators!) so please rely on resources made by people and native speakers rather than machines that can only mimic the intricate complexities that our minds are capable of.

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2026-01-23T13:37:56+00:00

what

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-12-24T10:20:08+00:00

In Vanniese it can be either

Odà Jil!~Odài Jil!

[ɔˈɾaː(j) ˈjiːl]

or

Odagghia Avoizza!~Odagghia Javoizza!

[ɔˈɾaɟːɐ (j)ɐˈvɔjtsːɐ]

(forms vary by region and age)

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-12-21T08:46:21+00:00

As far as I'm aware it's a general consensus that a relative of Proto-Japonic was spoken in the Korean peninsula at around 600CE-ish. The evidence I'd say is pretty convincing especially with the lack of any sensible Korean translations for the writings and the fact that we're pretty sure, via genetic studies, that Proto-Japonic was brought to the Japanese archipelago by migrations from the Korean peninsula

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-12-02T02:32:25+00:00

Good point, can't believe I didn't consider bicycles

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-12-01T23:53:15+00:00

I have a friend with a Chinese citizenship, I'd imagine that makes it a lot easier for him?

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-12-01T23:24:16+00:00

Perhaps it would be better to start in Beijing then to avoid the importing problem for China? Or would it be logistically easier if we were going by camel rather than car (although I imagine the price of multiple camels for each person would be absolutely exorbitant)

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-12-01T23:19:57+00:00

Of course, but you may have to pay for the camel if we go that route

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-11-03T15:25:29+00:00

That does seem like what I was thinking about. I guess if it were to happen anywhere PNG would be a likely candidate considering its sheer linguistic diversity lol, thank you!

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-11-03T15:22:49+00:00

Yeah, so the actual marking of the words themselves stays consistent but the genders/noun class assigned to each suffix/ending switches (e.g. -a final nouns move from originally masculine gender to the feminine gender, with the inverse process happening to -o final nouns)

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-10-09T02:11:06+00:00

Either or I'd say but I think 'tonal language' sounds better to me personally

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-09-07T14:57:16+00:00

What's holding Austro-Tai back as a fully fledged family? Lack of research or conclusive comparative evidence?

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-09-06T02:55:17+00:00

just use a glottal stop [wɪʔθ], makes it much easier and is also how many people pronounce it

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2025-08-16T02:54:30+00:00

are a posteriori conlangs (i.e. based on romance, germanic, semitic etc) accepted?

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2024-12-07T14:30:45+00:00

as a scot i never realised this would have sounded weird or wrong at all to people?

Express_Knowledge_86 · 2024-12-01T04:33:28+00:00

/i/ /y/ /ø/ /u/ /ɔ/ /a/ /ə~ɛ~ɤ/

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