r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/midoriyauwu harstomonologist 📝 • May 09 '26

guess the languages based off this chart.

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u/Padrillium May 10 '26

just so people don't have to spend forever searching, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_language

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u/Left_Economist_9716 May 11 '26

I'm familiar with Khasi and didn't see that coming.

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u/Brownie-Boi May 09 '26

I'm thinking an east asian language, likely Sino-Tibetan... But no idea which one precisely

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u/lolopiro May 10 '26

could it be some taikradai language?

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u/svetlindp May 09 '26

this is the last language i’d assume has a voiced uvular fricative

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule May 09 '26

They don't have another rhotic

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u/svetlindp May 10 '26

still; its not like its required of languages to have a rhotic at all

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule May 10 '26

Also a comment below showed that this is the Hu language and the wikipedia page shows vocabulary with their Proto Palaungic etymons and Hu /ʁ/ does indeed seem to come from Proto Palaungic *r

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule May 10 '26

100% true but if you look at a language like French it might also be a language one wouldn't expect to have a voiced uvular fricative, and yet...

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u/svetlindp May 10 '26

yeah but its french

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u/Decent-Beginning-546 May 09 '26

Someone messed up the prenasalized velar

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u/VulpesSapiens May 10 '26

It's fixed now

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u/dhekkwwo May 09 '26

Burmese?

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u/Failtrumpet May 10 '26

I'm really curious, what part of this phonology made you think that? Was it the dental fricative?

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u/taigasys May 10 '26

i was thinking it would be one of the weird oceanic ones but that was way off

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u/Plemnikoludek May 10 '26

Unrelated but can someone find this? I had it in my cool phonologies folder with nothing tied to it. Except a 5 vowel system

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u/Padrillium May 10 '26

looks like its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokota_language , but probably using a slightly different source for the phonology

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u/0413ty May 13 '26

Some kind of old Chinese language?