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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tropylium (talk | contribs) at 18:37, 27 April 2008 (Kawaiisu, Nukak, Nambikwara, Sa'idi Arabic, Camling, Picuris, Mpade, forking some isolates). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

To sort WikiProj Phonology by language family

Notes for possible other contributors to this draft

My method of working here has been to pick a language family (or estabilished subfamily), and to then check EVERY language in it that has an article about it (including subdivisions; with less well-managed families, those sometimes also include phonological data, or even link to pages the family's main page doesn't link to), and if it has a phonology/"sounds"/etc. section or a separate article, I add a link to it in the proper genealogical place in the family's subsection here, & remoov any corresponding links from the old alphabetical master list's copy, also included down there. After I'm done with a family, I add it to the out-commented section belo* - plus the date, which may help to pinpoint sections creäted afterwards. Please ensure at least that you've linked EVERY language of a single (sub)family if you edit this; because otherwise the condition of completeness will require a complete re-trawling of a (sub)family, i.e. you've hardly helped at all.

I've only so far added enuff subdivisions as is necessary to accommodate the links, but it might be also useful that any larger subdivisions completely lacking phonological coverage (eg. Central Dravidian) could be explicitely marked.

Isolates, creoles/pidgins and conlangs cannot probably be sorted very effectivly, but we needn't cross that bridge before we are there.

Aside from the seperate article / section division, I envision that some sort of color-coding could eventually be added to mark what phonological data is included; phoneme inventory? allophonics? phonotactics? dialectology? Also, the list needs to be split into 2 columns eventually, but as it's going to get a LOT longer (the IE section especially..) I'm not doing it just yet.

--Tropylium

Language phonologies

Ordered as a tree. Subdivision titles link to proto- or parent langs. Titles in bold are separate phonology articles, the rest just phonology sections in the language-specific articles.

Afro-Asiatic

Algic

Altaic

Amerind langs or families (small)

Andamanese

Austro-Asiatic

Caucasian families

Dravidian

(proto-phonology duplicated here)

Eskimo-Aleut

Hmong-Mien

Indo-European

Iroquioan

Khoisan

Mayan

(proto-phonology duplicated here)

Muskogean

Na-Dené

Nilo-Saharan

Niger-Congo

Oto-Manguean

"Paleosiberian"

Salishan

Sino-Tibetan

Siouan

Tai-Kadai

Tupian

Uralic

Uto-Aztecan

Wakashan

Isolates (excl. Amerind, Siberian)

Creoles and pidgins

Conlangs

Phonology sections in language articles

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