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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:00 am Post subject: Raitoliste's allophony

I've finally worked out an allophony for Raitoliste! :yay:
I'm going to get working on dialects, which I'll post here too.

<a> /a/ [a A], occasionally [{]
<o> /o/ [o], occasionally [7 O V]
<e> /e/ [e E]
<ø> /2/ [2 9]
<i> /i/ [i], rarely [I]
<y> /y/ [y], rarely [Y] and very rarely [I]
<w> /M/ [M], occasionally [1]
<u> /u/ [u], occasionally [}]

<u> /M\/ [M\], after rounded vowels [w]
<i> /j/ [j], rarely [z\] word-finally (as part of diphthong)

<m> /m/ [m]
<v> /v/ [v f]
<th> /T/ [T], occasionally [D]
<t> /t/ [t t_h], colloquially [tS] before /j/
<d> /d/ [d], occasionally [D], colloquially [dZ] before /j/
<n> /n/ [n]
<s> /s/ [s]
<z> /z/ [z], colloquially [Z] before /i y j/, very rarely [Z] in place of /zj/
<r> /4/ [4 4`], dialectically [r\], very rarely [r], even more so [R]
<l> /l/ [l], occasionally [K], dialectically [K\] or [l_G]
<sj> /S/ [S], very rarely [s\]
<k> /k/ [k k_h g]
<g> /N/ [N N\], rarely [Ng] -REORTHOGRAPHIZATION
<h> /h/ [h], [s\] before /i y j/

...that is how you do it, right?

Work on dialects to come soon.

Aeetlrcreejl · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 839 Location: Over yonder

Eeeeeee!

This inspires me! I'll create the allophony rule for Neiriko!
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Vortex · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 54

What enviroments do the allophones exist in? If you want an example of an allophony I have done, which I am particularly proud of is one the first and second page of my Hasu Khomiyolao. Here is a link to the second page's section of the allophony.

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

Most of the allophones just happen (due to laziness, etc.). The ones I gave are the only environmentally-affected ones.

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject:

This looks good.
Anyone else have anything to say about allophony?
T_F, will you explain allophony for those of us who don't understand it?
Imagine a newblanger, whose sounds are almost all the same as in English and whose script is an alphabet basically like the one English uses. How could such a person use allophony to make a more realistic and/or more creative conlang and conscript? And what would he or she probably not know but need to know?
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: