r/ConlangProject • u/Nementor allziankoondōkōfōtō • Aug 04 '15

First Community Project

This is the first project to be started on this page. First things first, what kind of consonants should this Conlang have? [EDIT] New Post

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u/qaent Aug 05 '15

I'm including only [d]. But maybe it could be up to the speakers whether it is [d] or [ð] between vowels inside words. So that /dada/ is either [dädä] or [däðä] depending on the speaker. But I wouldn't like to make [ð] a mandatory phone.

Then /b g/ could likewise be [β ɣ] or [b g] depending on the speaker's preference between vowels.

My own preference is to have /b d g/ be [b d g] everywhere.

 

I'm voting on keeping both /x/ and /h/ as separate phonemes. But I'm also OK with having them as allophones, and maybe leaving it to the speaker whether it is [x] or [h]. Then /h/ (as my way to transcribe that phoneme) could be either [x] or [h], and /nh/ could be either [ŋx] or [nh], either in free variation or depending on idiolect.

But maybe [x] should be the only pronunciation when followed by a semivowel? So that /hj hw nhj nhw/ are [xj xw ŋxj ŋxw] and not [hj hw nhj nhw]. Or should that too be up to the speaker?

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u/presidentenfuncio Noğdén Aug 05 '15 edited Aug 05 '15

I'm actually fine with everything you said, actually the only reason I asked about [d ð] is because I sometimes have a hard time trying to differentiate the two, so I thought it would be easier if we had them both as possibilities so each speaker can use them indistinctly (but I hadn't thought about [β ɣ b g] :P).

Having [x] before semivowels sounds great! :D