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Rule 2: Onset - everything Rule 3: Coda - no /h/, /j/, /wº/, /B/ and /R/ Rule 4: Nucleus - all vowel + all diphthongs. Oh, and from the last video, I added in the requirement that the glottal stop must be positioned between two vowels. Long story short a word like /pnt/ would be permitted in my language. Syllabic consonants are consonants ( most often m, n, l, and r ) that perform the role a vowel would in the syllable nucleus. As for the nucleus, I decided to allow all vowels and all diphthongs and, just to take a step away from English, I'm also going to allow /n/ as a syllabic consonant. So, words like /Ban/ and /hat/ would be totally permitted in my language but /naB/ and /tah/ would not. Mainly 'cause I found it really hard to easily and consistently pronounce words that finish with these sounds. I restricted all single consonants in the coda to everything except /h/, /j/, /wº/, /B/ and /R/. Phonotactical rule no.1 : (C)(C)V(C)(C) Position: In the onset, I decided to allow all single consonant sounds, including the very un-English initial /ng/. On the other hand, sometime simple like (C)V seemed at bit too restrictive, so I went with the moderately complex syllable structure of (C)(C)V(C)(C). Which is a lot, nothing like the majestic Oowekyala (CCCCCCVCCCCC) mind, but certainly more than the minimalist inside me was willing to deal with. At a maximum, English allows up three consonants to cluster at the onset and five to cluster at the coda so it is therefore a (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C)(C) language. "minecraft"! Now, the Nucleus and Coda together form what's known as the Rime, 'cause like if we hold the Rime steady and switch out the onsets we get, shock horror, something that rhymes. In English, like in a lot of other languages, the nucleus is obligatory while the onset and coda are optional. For the most part consonants can only appear at the onset and coda, and vowels only at the nucleus. Syllables in turn are composed of three distinct segments: the onset, nucleus and coda. To explain, words are made up of syllables. What on Earth does than mean? I hear you cry.
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Hold on to your armchairs folks, we're 'bout to go down the rabbit hole! Syllable structure After much deliberation, I decided to make my language a (C)(C)V(C)(C) language. From the Ancient Greek "phone" meaning sound or voice and "taktikos" having to do with arranging, phonotactics sets restrictions on the possible sound sequences and syllable structures in a language. Basically, we're gonna talk phonotactics. In this video, I'm going to lay out a plan for how those various sounds will interact with one another. In the last video, myself and Xidnaf decided upon my language's phonological inventory. CORRECTIONS: - CREDITS: Music: "Unwritten Return" Kevin MacLeod () Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 ****** - Thank you all so much for watching…Edgar out!
Sonority plateaus update#
07:50 I'm still not happy with these reversals, will update you in future videos if I come up with a better solution here. They are legitimate features of many IRL languages. 06:50 To be clear sonority plateaus/reversals are not my own weird way of messing up clustering inventories. 03:09 The final syllables in "button", "rhythm" and "bottle" feature syllabic consonants.
Sonority plateaus pro#
Conlanging pro tip - don't fill up your syllables all of the time. For the most part English tends to stays well below these upper consonant bounds - CCCVCCC or lower.