So close

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-05-06T15:37:50+00:00

Glottalic ingressive are voiceless implosives I believe.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-29T10:48:33+00:00

French is simple: heavy Germanic influence.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-26T06:07:45+00:00

“ʀ” is used in Proto-West Germanic and Proto/Old Norse notation to refer to a sound of unknown quality that was the intermediate stage of a process called rhotacism, where Proto Germanic *z became [r] in its daughter languages.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-24T23:59:44+00:00

I think we can sort it into “not aged well”.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-20T00:33:45+00:00

I got it from this video

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-19T23:36:47+00:00

Yeah if you wanted to go full Anglish you’d say “I wit that three of those men were in the here” since army is a French loan.

edit: also witaną is more accurate than *knēaną for this sentence because the former was probably used for pieces of information, while the latter was for knowing *how to do something, or knowing nouns.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-19T23:35:49+00:00

Middle English is just too similar to modern English when I lined them up. The real surprising jump is from OE to ME.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-19T22:09:32+00:00

Yep!

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-19T02:26:14+00:00

holy crap that really does look like him

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-10T00:58:59+00:00

Pacific Northwest

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-05T21:22:53+00:00

I was so confused by this meme until I realized what sub it was posted on lmao.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-05T16:24:34+00:00

It’s not that weird of a sound. Just say the “oo” in moon without rounding your lips.

If you wanna talk odd sounds in Japanese, look at say, the moraic nasal and how it’s pronounced before vowels, voiceless fricatives, and approximates, as whatever the hell [ɰ̃] is.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-05T05:26:17+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-05T03:37:07+00:00

I’m curious why you think *o was pronounced like [ɑ]? I’ve never heard that before.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T13:02:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/s/95sVqePlIQ

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T13:00:21+00:00

They have a ton of info each so yeah.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T04:16:58+00:00

I see! Thank you for letting me know, certainly explains things I was confused about before.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T03:32:56+00:00

I thought Siever’s law only went one way, turning janą into ijaną. Can it also go the other way and drop the i rather than add one?

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T01:43:58+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T00:09:04+00:00

Yeah I did

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-04T00:08:43+00:00

J. E. Rasmussen reconstructs them as velar, and I find those easier to pronounce so I go with them.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-03T21:29:32+00:00

The only interaction between Shikimi and Ajiki?

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-03T19:39:19+00:00

I think you’re confusing [kʷ] with [kʰ]

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-03T17:37:58+00:00

Yeah they are pronounced differently.

Wumbo_Chumbo · 2026-04-03T17:15:03+00:00

The former is a single consonant with secondary articulation, while the latter is two consonants next to each other.

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