Phonology - Blog Posts
ted tonate made it to my linguistics final paper
Art n’ Words: Me
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“Showing vulnerability
Beyond just skin & bone deep
The darkness behind the wall of teeth
& flesh that make a smile
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The ever calling calligraphy
Of your tongue shaping against those teeth
& sounding out the decencies
I would hear out for all time”
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FUN FACT!!!!!! Ββ is not pronounced /b/ in (Modern) Greek! It's actually /v/. also Ηη is /i/. so beta (βήτα in greek) is pronounced vita in greek. picture related
if you want to make a b sound, you gotta do μπ (mp).
fun!
Day 15 (21 in base 7) of rewriting my novel.
I hit 20,000 words today! I'm so excited. This also means that I am just over 9,000 words on Part Two, which also makes me proud.
Today I also really focused on fleshing out Odapir as a conlang, and I have a little ways to go before I finish deriving Modern Odapir from Middle Odapir.
Fun fact, by the way, Odapir is an exonym, since Odeineikō is the endonym in Middle Odapir.
As a treat for reading this far into my blog, have a description of Middle Odapir phonology:
Middle Odapir Phonology
Stops: p, b, t, d, k, g
Nasal Stops: m, n
Affricates: pf, ts, c (palatal affricate)
Fricatives: f, s, sh (palatal fricative), h
Liquids: w, j (palatal approximant)
Tap: r (alveolar tap)
Vowels
High: ī, u, ū
Mid-high: o, ō
Mid-low: e, ɜ
Low: a, ā
Diphthongs: əi, ei, əu, au, ou
That's all for now. Stay tuned for tomorrow's update!