#dissimilation

How to Evolve Your #Conlang - Part 1: Sound Change

Languages are never set in stone, and your conlang shouldn’t really be either. This is to be the first part of a recurring series on the basics of historical linguistics and how to evolve your conlang. In this first part, I will discuss the various kinds of sound changes that can occur and how to apply them to conlanging.

The obvious way to use historical linguistics in conlanging is to first…

Some interesting data from the dissertation just mentioned in my last reblog (Kaspar Ozoliņš (2015), Revisiting Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut). The forms here demonstrate a regular sound change found in Armenian: metathesis of consonant clusters comprising a stop consonant (b, d, j, t, k) + *r.

Two other regular changes exhibited here are worth highlighting as well:

dissimilation *r-r > ł-r, in ‘brother’ and ‘spring’;

National Socialist Positive Christianity

The Smith & Zurcher Dictionary of American Politics, updated in 1945 from Smith’s 1924 edition, very cautiously “defined” fascism NOT as religious socialism during WWII, but rather:

fascism.The authoritarian political system and totalitarian social regime evolved by Benito Mussolini and his followers of the Fascist party in Italy after 1922, hence any…