For example, if a language only contrasted the monophthongs /i u a/, would it be possible for it to have the diphthong /ei/? Or would it be limited to combinations of its monophthongs?

I've read that the /I/ phoneme is for words like Pink, and /i/ is for words like Green. But I Just can't tell the difference. The only difference I noted is that Ship /I/ sounds less time than sheep /i/.

As someone who is spanish native (only 5 vowel sounds) this looks like a scam to me. A salesman who wants to sell me the same vowel sound saying that they are two different ones. LMAO.

I know there is a very important life and death difference between both. Just imagine drowning in the sea because you choose to travel in a sheep instead of a ship.

From my understanding, hiatus means that two neighboring vowels are pronounced individually without joining like Japanese does. Meanwhile, diphthong means that two neighboring vowels are joined into one sound like house in English or Feuer in German. So when Wikipedia referred that highest Alemannic doesn’t have hiatus diphthongisation, does it mean it doesn’t split vowels into two sound (like Japanese), or does it mean that it simply prohibit neighboring vowels (which I think according to their example).

Yet if they’re prohibiting neighboring vowels, why I see words like „schnii“.

When pronouncing “new” and “rude”, I don’t say [nu] and [ɹud].

I instead say something along the lines of [nuʷ] and [ɹuʷd]. Or [nuw] and [ɹuwd]. There is “extra rounding” toward the end of the vowel.

I then compare this to words in Spanish (I have moderate fluency), such as “tu” and “gusto”, and I don’t hear the “extra rounding”. This leaves me with [tu] and [gusto].

Despite this difference, is [u] still a monophthong (even in these “alternate” forms [uʷ] and/or [uw])?

I have learned throughout my linguistics courses that sometimes an IPA symbol is used to represent different sounds in different languages, for the sake of simplicity and mutual understanding.

For example the English sound “k” is pronounced [kʰ], but often written as [k] because it is understood that English k’s are aspirated and it is not in contrastive distribution with [k]. Is this the case with [u]?

Could this just be that I’m from northern California?

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For example, not counting /ə/, Palauan has 5 monophthongs and 20 diphthongs, though there is a note below the table making it dubious.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

thanks u/yatalu for explaining that if there’s a L at the end the e is the same as if there’s a R!

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Hello everyone. I've been working on this (still unnamed) conlang and its descendants on and off for the past year or so, with the intention of making them as naturalistic as possible. I decided now was as good a time as any to take a break from working on syntax and reflect on/share a bit of what I've actually built so far, and also maybe to get some feedback. So, I figured I'd start by sharing the ur-language's phonology as it stands currently, as well as related aspects like phonotactics and the romanization system. Anyway, here you go, and feel free to comment/criticize/whatever if anything jumps out to you. Thanks!

Phonology

So I based the phonology (at least the consonants) somewhat on the Athabaskan family and Quechua. I knew I wanted to develop tone later on down the line, so a lot of my choices were informed by that. The vowel system takes some cues from (Vietnamese is a good example, but there are others which are probably a bit closer to what we have here).

Consonants

Some notes here:

1. All non-nasals and non-glides are devoiced word finally. Word final /l/ is realized as [ɬ]. Some dialects also devoice the glides, which are usually realized as voiceless fricatives in this environment.

2. All consonants geminate after stressed "light" vowels (more on what that is later) which do not have a phonemic coda consonant. Geminated ejective and aspirated stops are realized as a voiceless-ejective or voiceless-aspirate stop sequence. /ɾ:/ is realized as [r].

3. All aspirated stops are realized as pre-aspirates post-vocalically, unless they are geminated by the previous rule.

4. Voiceless stops are voiced between voiced phonemes including vowels, unless geminated by rule (2).

Also, I know affricates aren't technically stops, but they behave as stops here and in many natural languages so I put them in the same rows as the stops, whatever.

Vowels

Ok, monophthongs:

and diphthongs:

Not all that much to say here

BamBOO!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭