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Conlangery 146: LangTime Studio

Conlangery Podcast

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The Assimilation of Phrases in Mandarin

There's an assimilation that happens. Then there's some sort of feel like it has to be a P, a P, because then it's at least voiceless. So then MB through mutation just becomes M. That happens a whole lot. And then what happens is that this thing becomes voiceless and word final position because we drop final vowels. So you know, um, um,. um,Um, and then that thing just gets reinterpreted as F. But nonetheless, that will show up in a language, I'm sure Lord. Now I'm just thinking about how they could possibly work. Nobody could pull that off.

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