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Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes

Conlangery Podcast

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The Sonority Hierarchy

Many languages have a minority hierarchy which determines the orders that those elements are allowed in quirrit Acoustically this relates to actual loudness, you know the vowel ah has a much higher minority than the stop top So I can make a great deal louder than t right? So from most sonarant to least In general are we start with vowels then approximates so glides and liquids,. nasals then fricatives Then africates and then at the end are stops Hmm. Thought but did not spend my time going to check out the historical basis of that mm-hmm I think the proto language had voiced stops available in all positions mm- hmm But I don't know right

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