I think this could be a pretty decently workable system with some way of indicating checked syllables (maybe abrupt rise then fall in amplitude and in pitch down to target tone, and shorter overall duration kinda like some Otomanguean ballistic syllables?) and at least one onset distinction

牙白 is one I especially like, from やばい

*pained sigh* we will still be there for Line 5 no matter what

I was on the first car to leave the station and it was so funny how you could just feel the initial optimism (excited chatting, literal band playing) evaporating as soon as we got out onto street level and you could see the cars zooming past you and the train having to stop at every traffic light

Can I get the source for the Japanese semantic hierarchy one?

They're going to reinvent kana from first principles 🙏

I mean no disrespect to the person or the rest of his work when I say this but his Proto-IE-Tsimshianic is one of the goofiest proto-language reconstructions I've ever read. Look at these correspondences dawg, this was published in 2017!!! The actual cognate sets are... worse

I was wondering whether this was the case for the Nguni lateral obstruent series and apparently it might've been? www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...

The source also discusses some other cases like the Proto-Khanty one and a central Tai language apparently

One variety of Taishanese is even reported to have tɬ and tɬʰ as reflexes of MC dental sibilants in certain characters commons.ln.edu.hk/ljcs_1929/vo...

Proto-Yue *s > ɬ unconditionally, *ʃ > ɬ in some environments in many modern Yue varieties like the 邕潯 branch, and parts of 四邑 (Common Yue: A Comparative Study of Yue Dialect Historical Phonology)

That's all, ye īxquich