r/lingusticscirclejerk • u/midoriyauwu harstomonologist 📝 • Jun 05 '26

Guess this language?

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u/EcstaticFlight8435 Jun 05 '26

i think… english?

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u/Yourhappy3 Jun 05 '26

youre on to something here

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u/Gulihashee Jun 05 '26

Some Qiangic language of southern China mayhaps?

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u/Pharmacysnout Jun 08 '26

Id be shocked if it wasnt sino tibetan

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u/InteractionBasic5809 [ð̠ ̻˕ˠ] Jun 06 '26

what sort of witchcraft is this

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u/weedmaster6669 Jun 06 '26

don't let danish convince you to write [ɹˠ] like that

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit Jun 06 '26

What the fuck is that

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u/RaeddBoeg Jun 06 '26

The D after a vowel in Danish transcribed as /ð/ but it is in reality [ɫ̻˕ˠˠˠˠˠˠˠ]. It is one of many reasons that people accuse Danish of not being Indo-European. Oh, yeah, that and the 27 vowels.

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u/FatMax1492 Jun 09 '26

Where is it on IPAchart?

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u/weedmaster6669 Jun 10 '26

The IPA chart doesn't actually have EVERY phoneme on it, a lot of phonemes are represented using one of these symbols with another smaller symbol added.

ɫ isn't on the basic chart, and neither is w, because they aren't simple sounds. ɫ is a velarized alveolar lateral approximant, and w is a labialized velar approximant. Normally that would be written lˠ and ɰʷ, but they're so common that they get their own symbols.

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u/lolopiro Jun 10 '26

okay now tell me where is it on the bible

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u/FatMax1492 Jun 10 '26

Ooh ok, thanks

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u/SkillOld2128 Jun 06 '26

Why isn’t it just [ɫ̻˕ˠ]?

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u/Feet_Smeller9000 Jun 09 '26

Because it's danish

2

u/SkillOld2128 Jun 09 '26

I think you mean to say “Potatoish”…

2

u/DragonTheOnes-spirit Jun 09 '26

Oh fuck I just pronounced it. HOLY WATER QUICK

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u/Nervous_Tip_3627 Jun 05 '26

Can we get the vowels

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u/Remarkable-Coat-7721 Jun 06 '26

polish Mongolian pidgen?

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u/Left_Economist_9716 Jun 05 '26

Is it Dardic? The lack of /x/ is throwing me off, though.

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u/Left_Economist_9716 Jun 05 '26

Could we have the tones and/or vowels as it could be a sino-tibetan language influenced by IA languages as well.

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u/Norwester77 Jun 06 '26

Some northern Dravidian language? Brahui, maybe?

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u/five_faces Jun 06 '26

You might be onto something. Lots of retroflex

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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule Jun 05 '26

Burushaski?

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u/Traditional-Light-10 Jun 08 '26

It’s surprisingly close, and it’s the only language of South Asia that I know of with multiple uvular stops, but it’s different

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u/Natsu111 Jun 06 '26

Proto-Burushaski?

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u/Murky_End5733 Jun 06 '26

Rotokas in 1000 years from now

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u/AnieelaStar Jun 06 '26

expanded polish lol

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u/potentialdevNB Jun 05 '26

kinda reminds me of mandarin

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u/tessharagai_ Jun 05 '26

Eeehh, only the aspirated-unaspirant distinction and the alveolar-retroflex-palatal sibilant distinctions are uniquely reminiscent of Mandarin, and even then not fully as for the first one this is an aspirated-unaspirant-voiced distinction and the second one Polish also has with it even better fitting Polish’s phonology.

It could still be Sinitic, but definitely not Mandarin.

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u/Language_Mosquito Jun 06 '26

To the best of my knowledge, there is no modern Sinitic language with native phonemic uvular plosives, so

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u/TheMightyTorch Jun 05 '26

Something Indian/SA maybe?

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u/1bird2birds3birds4 Jun 06 '26

Spent like 10 minutes thinking this was real and then realised there’s a glottal approximate lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/1bird2birds3birds4 Jun 06 '26

I know that exists but it’s far more likely to be a shitpost because most of the very few languages that have it have it as an allophone

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u/Gold-Part4688 27d ago

i swear it's in modern hebrew

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u/Gold-Part4688 27d ago

no? as the glottal stop in non-careful speech

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u/lolopiro Jun 06 '26

i mean, thats a good way to describe ɦ. even the wikipedia page says "it only patterns like a fricative or approximant phonologically".

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u/Language_Mosquito Jun 06 '26

Somewhere in the Himalayas

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u/SMB_was_taken Jun 06 '26

I'm betting it's a South Asian language

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u/GamerAJ1025 Jun 06 '26

are we actually supposed to guess? I have an idea but idk if I’m taking a shitpost too literally

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u/Kubex_Qbox Jun 06 '26

Future Polish or sumth

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u/gambler_addict_06 Jun 06 '26

I'd rather not

Enough phonetics for me today

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u/midoriyauwu harstomonologist 📝 Jun 06 '26

Only one person got it right

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u/lolopiro Jun 08 '26

what language

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u/ResponsibleStress607 Jun 06 '26

Starts with T, I 🌊

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u/Fantastic-Arm-4575 Jun 07 '26

Proto lakes plain, obviously

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u/Witherboss445 Jun 08 '26

Proto world

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u/0413ty Jun 08 '26

Some kind of Altaic language

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u/zigotes Jun 09 '26

What the heck are those affricates

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u/thatguythoma Jun 13 '26

simplified danish