
Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment
Conlangery Podcast
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The Corona of the Sun
Nala has removed the laminol series. Or laminodental went away. But they still have the retroflex that... Yeah, I love so much. It also lost the voice stops. This is because English people who could not hear the difference between an aspirated and an unaspirated consonant were the first to describe these languages. So most of these languages do not in fact have a voiced voiceless distinction but they're just written as though they're voiced. In this particular language, it looks like they're being kind to us and not doing that, except for the J, which is a palatal.
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