As established, I plan for some sound changes, and two sets for sibling languages. For this one set, this one idea, as I talked about, involves several sound changes besides just vowel loss, which would be needed to make the following ideas possible.
One of them involves the lateral obstruents /hl/ and /tl/ delateralizing to their corresponding non-sibilant alveolar obstruents [θ̠] and [tθ̠]. Later on, clusters of [h] with [l] would lead to the emergence of [hˡ], which would then become [l̥], and later /hl/, bringing the sound back. At the same time, clusters of [s] and [l] would lead to the emergence of [sˡ], which would also weaken to /hl/. Also at the same time, clusters of [t] and [l] would lead to [tˡ] existing, that sound weakening to /tl/. With this sound change, the lateral obstruents return and are distinct from both the sibilant alveolar obstruents and the non-sibilant ones. And now that I think about it, a cluster with [ts] and [l] could lead to [tsˡ], which could also become /tl/.
Another sound change I want to experiment with is the rise of trilled affricates or post-trilled consonants. Examples of those in natural languages are Fijian with [ᶯɖʳ], Nias with [ⁿdʳ]/[dʳ], Avava with [ᵐbᴮ] and [ⁿdʳ], Kele with [ᵇʙ]/[bᴮ] and [ᵈr]/[dʳ](though those two certain realizations mean that pre-stopped trills could exist like how pre-stopped and post-stopped nasals could, and maybe post-stopped trills as well), whatever natural languages might contain [pᴮ̥] though none so far include it, Ngkoth with [tʳ̥], whatever natural languages might contain [ʡ𐞖](the missing symbol being the "modifier letter small capital h") despite none so far including it, Namuyi with [pʙ̥], [bʙ], [tʙ̥], and [dʙ], Haida with [ʡ𐞴](the missing symbol being the "modifier letter reverse glottal stop with stroke"), and the perhaps most popular example being Pirahã(and Wari', Oro, and three others) with [t̪ʙ̥]. Maybe such consonants of the uvular variety might exist, but I'm not entirely sure. Based on whatever sound changes I'd need to implement.
I also plan to include pharyngealized consonants alongside trilled affricates. Pharyngealized consonants are more common than those, and the Semitic languages are considered the most popular examples of languages with such consonants. Other examples of pharyngealized consonants in languages include but are not limited to, Ubykh, Taa, and various(but not all) Afroasiatic languages.
I also want to include the sound changes most likely to occur based on the protolang phonology, alongside my desired ones. Let me know your ideas in the comments and the annotations.
Stress falls on the antepenult by default, aside from the following two exceptions:
1. The penult is closed, in which that receives the stress.
2. The final syllable is closed and with a long vowel, in which that syllable receives the stress.
Any ideas, guys?
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A Minecraft SMP Idea
De TodoAn idea I thought of for a Minecraft SMP. Cover image created by Reddit user u/Cold_Imagination.
