
Conlangery #67: Alũbetah
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The Underlying Forms in a Human Language
I suppose but it would have to be here in a bit more of an obvious way because depending on where the stress is or if the syllable has a code of then the A will change. There's still a few places where he doesn't make distinctions like he doesn't distinguish between voiced and voiceless nasal But in other in everywhere else virtually everywhere else he's distinguishing phones allophones rather than phonemes as it just works better that way. If you had a linguist analyzing just word just transcribed words with no input from this grammar they might come up with an entirely different system. I really wish we had the authors this language on for this kind of discussionbut I wasn't
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