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First, you will be surprised how many sounds IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet) can describe when you look at the full charts. There are additional IPA symbols for "disordered speech" (see, e. …

/ts/ is, as you already noted, the standard German pronunciation of the letter "z". This applies to loan words from other languages, including classical Greek, too. It is not unusual that words mainl …

This question is inspired by the comments to my answer on this question. Are there reversed affricates, i.e., fricatives ending in a homorganic stop, attested in any language of the world? What is th …

I found that the term reverse affricate that I created ad hoc is actually used in the literature. Here is a citation: Daniel Silverman, On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops, J. Linguistics 39 (2003), …

I'd read that double colon sign as "compares to" or (given appropriate context) "is cognate to" or "is analogous to".

This question How and when did some European languages acquire retroflex d and t? makes me curious: Are there any languages that have three different kinds of d's (or t's or n's or s's) exhibiting a p …

"Similarity" depends on the listener (see also this answer Do the IPA consonants /v/ and /w/ sound similar? and other answers to the question), a listener not used to some difference in their native l …

In fact, something even more restricted the a Context Free Grammar, namely a Finite State Transducer (FST), has been successfully employed in research on phonology and on sound shifts in historical linguistics …

This answer is about High German (no dialects). The standard pronunciation prescribes a clear contrast voiced/voiceless in initial and medial position, neutralisation only occurs at the word final p …

This touches the issue of transcription (may be and is often lossy) and transliteration (that aims at losslessness). The system shown in the question for Hindi is lossless as long as you are ignoring …

Since there was a question in the comments about the existence of the phenomenon I have searched the Corpus of Late Modern English Texts for short words of the pattern C[rl]V+[rl]e? with the corpus qu …

Think of a lexeme as an equivalence class of word forms belonging together, e.g., the class of word forms go, goes, went, going, gone. Now, for the English language we pick by convention go, identical …

If I remember correctly, a major argument in favour of the reinterpreted consonant system is the suspicious rareness of *b in the protolanguage. The absence of /b/ in the presence of /p/ and /bʰ/ is m …

Well, for all reasons Romani counts as an indigenous language of Europe. From the fourfold distinction in most Indoarian languages on stops Romani went to a threefold distinction: voiced–voiceless–voi …

In a conlang, you can go for an even simpler phonology, I think. …