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In Dutch, we do have -end(e), which is a progressive verbal ending (no longer used as such today), which is also used to turn verbs into adjectives: But we're talking about adjectives without corresponding verbs. "Four-legged" looks like it derives from a hypothetical verb * leg "to furnish with le...

That's how you Frenchies write "1"? LMAO!!! Guitarplayer is German... so it may be more extended than that. I've also seen some Frenchies doing the upwards stroke longer the downwards one, making their <1> look a lot like an <A>, quite: http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l445/Neqitan/French_number_...

Portuguese is quite similar to Spanish, at first sight: 1) O cão é um animal. 2) O cão está no jardim. 3) Há um cão no jardim. 4) Aqui há um cão. But that's merely accidental! The difference between ser and estar in Portuguese is not copula vs. substantive verb, like in Spanish, but between permanen...

One point misses: the cases (the Verdurian cases are not really similar to the Russian ones, are they?) But they can also be explained: WW-II took some longer, so that Hitler was able to conquer Russia for some years (Verdurian was already spoken there back then, but without real cases). Because the...

Am I also allowed to say something off-topic? Shm Jay: with a s?pa? Not cum s?pan? Because as I read the grammar, I would think that a dative should follow with.

Just being curious, how many speakers do the languages of Almea have? I remember that the number of speakers of Verdurian can be found somewhere on zompist.com, but how about Barakhinei, Ismahi, Flaidish, Kebreni and Xurnese?

Hmm. I only know about Hungarian and Finnish harmony, which is essentially front-back. For my conlang, of which the grammar can be found here , I use a system in which there exists a distinction between back, middle and front, with one vowel having three versions, one having a back and a middle/fron...

And then I find it a strange story that there are more than 10 primary schools in Rotterdam alone where the children are taught English as a mother tongue in addition to Dutch. On the other hand, how likely will such a project succeed? If the pupils need to talk English to the teacher, but can only ...

A German city of which I always wondered how they could ever make such a name for it, is M?lheim (trash-home). Or Karlsruhe (Chales' rest). In the Netherlands is Amsterdam, which has an interesting history: the city started around a damb (dam) in the river the Amstel. And Holland, meaning hollow lan...

Another thing: If you know any interesting Feature from Non-IE languages or exotic IE languages, please post them. . Chinese may be different from IE but it only goes so far. Look at Hungarian verbs (different conjugation (or is it conjunction or whatever) for verbs that a) are intransitive or have...

That is very true, indeed, een/een (dutch), eins/ein (german), un/un (french), uno/uno (spanish), one/an (english) and egy/egy (hungarian) for example. I wonder why Esperanto is not so logical with personal pronouns. I can't remember the proper ones yet, but imagine you have ke -what, ste -this, ese...

You can also use this system in Dutch. For example you have "zout water" which means "salt water", but some poetist use "zoutwater", which has a different feeling. Zout w?ter stresses that it is some kind of water (but salt) Z??twater is more a single concept. There must be examples of more all-day ...