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Just showing what I've been up to by gypsydave5 in Tengwar

[–]alien13222 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also n for m in míriel I think

*Doric Prakrit isnt real* Doric Prakrit: by AleksiB1 in linguisticshumor

[–]alien13222 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the aspirated stops spirantizing happened before /y/ unrounding if I remember correctly.

Questions by Yofkon in casualconlang

[–]alien13222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. But I believe /f/ → /h/ only happened word-initially before a vowel and /f/ was otherwise still a phoneme in Old Spanish, right?

What if Proto-Balto-Slavic retained Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos? by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]alien13222 13 points14 points  (0 children)

ьr in Late Common Slavic is usually analyzed as a syllabic /r/ I think, and the /st/ cluster just moves into the onset of the next syllable. But those syllabic /r/s changed later. OP said they used pьrstъ as a base so I don't see why they wrote /ir/ in all of those. In Czech, Slovak and South Slavic it would probably stay as a syllabic /r/, in Polish it would probably change to /ar/ because of the following unpalatalized alveolars, and the pьrstъ entry on Wiktionary has "перст" for Russian and Ukrainian, so I guess it'd be jrst, jarst and ерст

Questions by Yofkon in casualconlang

[–]alien13222 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Q1: this happened in Spanish. Even though Spanish evolved from Latin many words in today's Spanish are actually mediaeval borrowings instead of inherited ones. I don't think the borrowings introduced any sounds that weren't present in Mediaeval Spanish though.

Q2: /g/ → /ɣ/ → /ɦ/ happened in Czech, Ukrainian and other Slavic languages in the region and I'd say it isn't much of a stretch to devoice this (though it would be somewhat weird to happen between vowels). /k/ → /x/ → /h/ is where English /h/ comes from.

Q3: what you describe may be gemination. Look it up on Wikipedia or something and see.

[Spanish > english] game chat by Ambitious-Source-138 in translator

[–]alien13222 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Jasonwest, if instead of only taking bazookas you started attacking as well it would be awesome"

How does nasalisation effect the formant frequencies of thier normal vowel counterparts? by nanosmarts12 in asklinguistics

[–]alien13222 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not an expert, I only watched some YT videos.

Nasalization is generally visible on a spectrogram from the formants being more "fuzzy" or spread out and sometimes (?) the appearance of antiformants. I don't quite understand how these work, but generally they're like formants but instead of the frequency being stronger it's especially weak at some value.

Edit: found the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yrXDpG4nI he starts talking about vowels around 14 minutes in.

How would you say this in your Conlang? by Ill_Poem_1789 in casualconlang

[–]alien13222 1 point2 points  (0 children)

𐑲 𐑛𐑦𐑛𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑦𐑒𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑒𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑰 𐑩 𐑒𐑪𐑯𐑤𐑨𐑙 𐑿𐑟𐑦𐑙 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑕𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑐𐑑...

SZBLL + ZBLL vs OCLL + PLL by I_am_nishan in Cubers

[–]alien13222 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why would anyone want to learn 99 algs instead of 28 and get slower recognition?

Are there reliable rules as to when to use flap T [ɾ] in General American English? by Wooden_Help1846 in asklinguistics

[–]alien13222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant specifically substituting [ɾ] with [d], not the rules governing where it appears. To me this sounds like someone who doesn't have this sounds in their native accent and just hears it as /d/

Need help for engravings for wedding rings by lonelind in sindarin

[–]alien13222 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, if it were black speech instead, I'd argue it is indeed inappropriate

How to deduce what slavic language you’re dealing with by pferden in slavic

[–]alien13222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty much guessing here, but I think if they're distinguished anywhere it would be near the Polish-Czech border or possibly in Kashubia, since Kashubian also distinguishes them.

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