Small discussions thread - 2025/Apr/04 (mander.xyz)

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Feel free to use this thread to ask small questions or share random language / linguistics trivia, if you don't feel like creating a new thread just for that.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Might as well share some resources here:

This channel is a godsend if you struggle with IPA or to pronounce specific articulations. It's all ~1min videos, each highlighting a single consonant, in a neat moving diagram that shows how to pronounce it. Make sure the audio is on.

Index Diachronica shows a bunch of sound changes across multiple language families. It is not an academic resource, take a grain of salt when using it, but it's useful if you want to look for examples. Doubly so if you're into constructed languages.

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