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Conlangery #27: Irregularity

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How to Pronounce a Word in Sanskrit

Linguistics is all related to obvious feature assimilation stuff. If your noun has an R in it someplace, then certain case endings have a retroflex N instead of a normal N. So that's very fun. In ancient Hebrew, at least, as you keep pylonging on different morphemes to a word, the accent shifts. And there's this whole sail slaughter of all of the vowels up at the beginning of the word. The vowel. Well, they turn into schwaas and get reduced in various ways, but some are immune to reduction. There's all things you can do that can be 100% predictable, but still make the language look quote

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