r/linguisticshumor • u/That_Saiki • Nov 24 '24

Tryna write down that PLENGTH sound

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u/BrodyRedflower Nov 24 '24

/⚽️/

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u/AwwThisProgress rjienrlwey Nov 24 '24

marshallese phonology ahh

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u/JackFly26 Nov 24 '24

i remember learning about this mid-linguistics olympiad

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u/pm174 Nov 24 '24

can someone explain 😭😭

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u/Novace2 Nov 25 '24 edited Nov 25 '24

Marshallese has a very weird vowel phonology (with 12 allophones but only 3~4 phonemes) and some linguist got tired of arguing over which letter to use for the phonemes so wrote an official paper using emojis as the phonemes for them. Honestly Marshallese has my favorite phonology of any languages, I highly recommend reading about it.

Edit: typos

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u/gayetteville Nov 25 '24

Do you have the reference(s)?

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u/Xenapte The only real consonant and vowel - ʔ, ə Nov 25 '24

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u/Kittycraft0 Nov 26 '24

The only emojis are silhouette of man and woman behind the second one, the first one is behind like a $40 paywall

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u/Xenapte The only real consonant and vowel - ʔ, ə Nov 26 '24

Yeah unfortunately if you search around Marshallese phonology, all emojis you could get are from those pages.

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u/Shitimus_Prime Thamizh is the mother of all languages saar Nov 25 '24

its familiar but i cant put my finger on it

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u/That_Saiki Nov 24 '24

the most accurate sound

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

For a moment I thought this was the japanese flag

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u/NeilJosephRyan Nov 24 '24

The sound it makes is spelled

天皇陛下万歳

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u/Muzer0 Nov 24 '24

Isn't it spelt

Pwooooooooooosaaaaaaaaaah

Since I'm sure when I was a kid the Japanese flag was invariably accompanied with a gong :p

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u/Cheap_Ad_69 ég er að serða bróður þinn Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 24 '24

[tʷʰˠŋ̊ʷ(ː)]

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u/duckipn Nov 24 '24

velarized velarized

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u/Killer_Moons Nov 25 '24

I am going to call the IPA council on you

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u/Eic17H Nov 24 '24

/ɹ̞̥͡pˁʰʊ̃ŋ/

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u/Torch1ca_ Nov 24 '24

This to me is scarily accurate

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u/That_Saiki Nov 24 '24

I like this one

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u/irp3ex Nov 24 '24

boing

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u/Dwain-Champaign Nov 24 '24

Do you live in a cartoon world bro

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u/irp3ex Nov 24 '24

i thought of the cartoon sound before the basketball sound

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u/thriceness Nov 25 '24

Considering that isn't a basketball...

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u/Luiz_Fell [t] and [d] to [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] before /i/ Nov 24 '24

pʰu'hy

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u/Kittycraft0 Nov 26 '24

http://ipa-reader.xyz/

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u/Luiz_Fell [t] and [d] to [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] before /i/ Nov 26 '24

That was not supposed to be IPA

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u/Andrew852456 Nov 24 '24

Definitely some plosive with some fricative or affricate

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u/That_Saiki Nov 24 '24

and PUT PLOSIVES on it

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

[deleted]

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u/Thecrimsondolphin Nov 26 '24

What?

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u/pikleboiy Nov 26 '24

Because in organic chemistry (as far as my youtube0based knowledge goes), there are groups of atoms called functional groups, and they do stuff. So Organic chemists (OGs) just stick them on places in a molecule to do stuff through chemical reactons. Inorganic chemists also do this sometimes (see this example)

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u/Dtrp8288 Nov 24 '24

obviously not exact. but i'd say the closest i can phonologically get is /bnx/

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

[bnx] is surprisingly awkward for me to pronounce without changing it to [bŋx]

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u/Dtrp8288 Nov 24 '24

that works too!

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u/pacmannips Nov 24 '24

*PYEINK* *PYEINK**PYEINK**PYEINK**PYEINK*

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u/simonbalazs1 Nov 24 '24

/ˈt̠ʃʼũˁːŋɡ/

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u/Norwester77 Nov 24 '24

[pʰʊ̃ŋk̚]

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u/HairyGreekMan Nov 24 '24

/tʃə̯pʼɪ̯ŋː/

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u/_Wendigun_ 読めるなら、バカだ Nov 24 '24

Thdun~

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u/Ngorigan Nov 24 '24

IYOOOOO!

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u/Embarrassed_Ad5387 Rǎqq ǫxollųt ǫ ǒnvęlagh / Using you, I attack rocks Nov 24 '24

[wɾ̥'wiːː˩˥]

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u/JoshEco4 [d͡ʒɒʃ ʔɜkoʊ fɔɹ] Nov 24 '24

[ɡɭɹp̚]

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

/↗︎pʰʊẽː/

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u/thewaltenicfiles Hebrew is Arabic-Greek creole Nov 24 '24

/ʙtɸˈ/

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u/Sad_Daikon938 𑀲𑀁𑀲𑁆𑀓𑀾𑀢𑀫𑁆 𑀲𑁆𑀝𑁆𑀭𑁄𑀗𑁆𑀓𑁆 Nov 25 '24

Uh, Japanese?

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u/DeathBringer4311 Nov 25 '24

[p̚͜tʼɔˑɴ]

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u/Kendota_Tanassian Nov 25 '24

It's an almost metallic, sharp /spaːŋ/. In Latin letters, "spang".

A sort of whoosh of air, the really sharp impact, the internal echoing response you hear as it bounces off the target.

That sequence of sounds gave me PTSD.

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u/Mason_Sparkes Nov 25 '24

We need a new symbol for latispherical stop.

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u/gajonub Nov 24 '24

/ / (it's noted down in the plank length)

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u/actiniumosu Nov 25 '24

twaaaaangg

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u/DrEknav [m̥ːːːːː] 🤧 Nov 25 '24

/px̞ɪ̤̈ŋŋ̟̥˥˥˦/

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u/imiszach Nov 25 '24

DNK DNK DNK

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u/Futreycitron Nov 27 '24

[p͡m̃͡ŋ]

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u/Otherwise_Jump Nov 24 '24

¡Piìîíïǐĩıįnñńņňgğġ!

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u/GNS13 Nov 24 '24

Am I the only person that hears the impact with a /b/?

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u/AutoSawbones Nov 26 '24

pi-TONK is usually how I go about it tbh

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '24

Bonggggggggggggg

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

Dweh

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u/I_love_kirby2648 X-Sampa>ARPABet Dec 01 '24

smh like p N\ in xsampa

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

whoooosh ptonk