Greetings everyone,
Recently I've been trying to work on a language evolution simulation program, and I've been considering what sounds to include in it.
For my sanity, I've tried to find a balance between completeness and size. I came with an inventory to work with, and I'd like feedback.
Is this still containing sounds too niche? Or is it lacking sounds that would be useful to simulate phonetic mutations?
Spoiler:
Stops
/p t̪ t ʈ tʲ c k kʷ q ʡ ʔ/
/b d̪ d ɖ dʲ ɟ g gʷ ɢ/
/pʰ t̪ʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʲʰ cʰ kʰ kʷʰ qʰ/
/pʼ t̪ʼ tʼ ʈʼ tʲʼ cʼ kʼ kʷʼ qʼ/
I would consider to, instead of having a list of sounds, to instead have each sound be represented by a selection of choices. E.g. instead of [p] have [bilabial],[pulmonic[stop],[tenuis]]
At kveldi skal dag lęyfa,
Konu es bręnnd es,
Mæki es ręyndr es,
Męy es gefin es,
Ís es yfir kømr,
Ǫl es drukkit es.
Adarain wrote:I would consider to, instead of having a list of sounds, to instead have each sound be represented by a selection of choices. E.g. instead of [p] have [bilabial],[pulmonic[stop],[tenuis]]
+1
Doing this in terms of feature geometry gives you more flexibility, as sound change often happens in terms of individual features spreading from one segment to another. This isn't exactly clear-cut, but I think it has definite advantages over monolithic, isolated segments. IIRC, someone here was thinking of doing something like this to a sound change applier they were writing.
That being said, phoneme change happens both based on phonetic structures (gd_h\ may be the realization of gt) and phonemic structures (all gC clusters may pattern a similar way) in a language. An optimal phoneme changer is language specific.
Iyionaku wrote:I don't know if you did it on purpose, but you lack implosives.
I considered implosive being classified same as ejectives, mostly for simplification of the process.
Adarain wrote:I would consider to, instead of having a list of sounds, to instead have each sound be represented by a selection of choices. E.g. instead of [p] have [bilabial],[pulmonic[stop],[tenuis]]
That the plan I had, what I wrote in my message was the possible combinations, so that I new what "choices" I go by.