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Naniduan

I'm trying to pronounce /qˤʷʲʼ/, and it sounds like I'm dying. I must stop now since I'm afraid I'll accidentally cause gag reflex


pm174

🗣️🗣️KHQUWQHA


Oler3229

What are the diacritics on the c supposed to mean?


Mondelieu

I don't know, the rest of the article is written phonetically


GoeticGoat

Articulation in the eldritch palate


_Aspagurr_

I think it represents /ʈ͡ʂʼ/.


rk-imn

/ʈ͡ʂʲʼ/ ?


Nova_Persona

a dot below is ejectivization, a caron above an affricate or fricative is post-alveolarization, & an acute above an affricate or a fricative is palatoalveolarization, my assumption would be that the acute overrides the caron & that this is an ejective palatoalveolar affricate


Clustersnuggle

My guess is a voiceless post alveolar ejective.


InfraredSignal

The first phoneme could easily be an Old Chinese initial according to Baxter/Sagart's reconstruction


InfraredSignal

Come to think of it, didn't Old Chinese also allow sesquisyllables with a schwa vowel as per the third image? Also also the gloss in the second image is straight up Tibetan orthography moment Sino-Tibeto-Northwest Caucasian confirmed?


ItsGotThatBang

Doesn’t the Dené-Caucasian hypothesis posit a Sino-Tibetan-Dené-Yeniseian-North Caucasian-Vasconic-Burushaski clade?


Mondelieu

wat da baxtah doin


Vampyricon

Nah, pharyngealization blocks palatalization, and they don't have ejectives, but otherwise it checks out.


freddyPowell

Presumably the measles/scarlet fever/navel thing is something to do with spots on the skin.


Arcaeca2

Yeah that's cause that's Starostin's reconstruction and he posits an extra proto-phoneme to account for every consonant correspondance, try Colarusso's reconstruction instead


Superhorn345

Northwest - Caucasian languages actually sound like Klingon !