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How do you pronounce clicks and implosives? I've never quite understood it, having no frame of reference. I think I may have clicks about right, though. Try the click recordings here on the basic IPA site: http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ Or the IPA on steroids site (as apparently people now se...

That's actually !Xũ, a language closely related to Ju|'h?asi. You sure? I always though !Xũ was an alternate spelling for !X??... :? Typing !Xũ into the Ethnologue doesn't get me anything though. And it lists the following as being related to Ju|'h?asi (although they call it Ju/'hoan , which they s...

Okay, here's the chart:

http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/malknarh/xoo.jpg

(Note: ~200KB)

Ignore the top part (that's Rotokas).

[EDIT: Also note that this is done in 1979 IPA... ]

Or, if you just want them listed, here's a post I did a while ago: Clicks Dental Voiceless Affricated Click Dental Voiceless Aspirated Affricated Click Dental Voiced Affricated Click Dental Breathy Voiced Affricated Click Dental Nasalized Voiceless Aspirated Affricated Click Dental Nasalized Glottal...

There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.) Go on. The ones I no are: Verdurian, Ismain, Barakhenei, Caizu, Sarroc, Kebreni, Tyellakhi, Demoshi, Carhinnian, Irquarau, Erquarau, Karimian, Somoyi, Nurneot, Kacanzayin, Amacui, Kuromet, mixain, Eluyet, C...

Ooh, this is cool.... A wealth of new ideas! :wink: ?no number inflection at all on any personal pronouns How does that actually work? You speak English , which lacks number inflection in one of it's most frequently-used personal pronouns, and you can't imagine? I would suppose that speakers would ...

Ooh, this is cool.... A wealth of new ideas! :wink: ?no number inflection at all on any personal pronouns How does that actually work? interrogative pro verbs (schematically, ?The dog WHATed the boy?? ? ?It bit him?, ?The dog HOWed? ? ?It howled like this?) Sweet! Didn't we talk about pro-verbs awhi...

That's definately an unusual dream! :) One point misses: the cases (the Verdurian cases are not really similar to the Russian ones, are they?) Verdurian has nominative, accusitive, genitive, and dative. Russian has the same, plus prepositional and instrumental. So I guess these two could have been l...

Hmm... It appears fine to me.

The Kerguelen Islands, as well as Heard and McDonald Island, are the highest peaks of mountains from an ancient continent, which has been given that same name, which "sunk" several million years ago. Look on an undersea map of the world/Indian Ocean and you will see the Kerguelen Plateau, which was...

Did you discover the interesting fact about Kerguelen Island, the one that made me remember it when I was a kid? It's something very striking, which you might discover if you spent a few minutes with a globe... Heh, this was actually something that interested me around that same age. :wink: The Ker...

con quesa wrote:Forgot some other borrowings from Metroid:

fenand?-cold, from Metroid Prime's Phendrana Drifts
mawrei-ball, the name of the upgrade that lets Samus turn into a little ball is called the Mari Mari.

Erm, wrong topic?

Did you discover the interesting fact about Kerguelen Island, the one that made me remember it when I was a kid? It's something very striking, which you might discover if you spent a few minutes with a globe... Heh, this was actually something that interested me around that same age. :wink: The Ker...

Quoth SIL: An agglutinative language is a language in which words are made up of a linear sequence of distinct morphemes and each component of meaning is represented by its own morpheme. A fusional language is a language in which one form of a morpheme can simultaneously encode several meanings. Fus...

How do languages gain/lose cases?

I am reviving this thread for three reasons: (1) It is just too useful to let it die (2) To ask if anyone else has additions (3) To ask if anyone here knows about grammatical change. By #3, I mean, what kinds of change can the grammar of a language go through? What causes them? How common are they? ...

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GreenBowTie wrote:If Almeans ever invent the airplane, will they be able to cross the Zone, or will they still be trapped in, uh, whichever hemisphere they're in?

Or the refrigerator. People could easily be sent over in refrigerated compartments of large vehicles!

But who would drive them?

Curious, that reminds me of the Heian court of classical Japan. Although the difference was principly in writing. Women wrote prose in Hiragana and their literature is that which has survived as the Heian canon, men wrote various dry works in classical Chinese, which have generally not survived. Al...

Well, my worst illness was also my most recent... This spring, i got apendicitis (sp?), rather suddenly actually, and had to go to the hospital for surgery. I remember having several stomach cramps before I went to sleep, but I didn't think anything of them. Then I woke up in the middle of the night...

I'm extremely lucky. I've had gross, nasty colds/mild fevers several times in the past few years, but I've never had the flu before, and it's been like 5 years since I last threw up... You steal my fantasies and my memories, and now this! You're like some sort of identity thief or something! :evil:...

I find it hard to believe that these universals are simply chance. There has to be a reason why 6,000 languages follow these rules. It's probably better to compare families. Languages within one family will have shared characteristics, including a full stop system, if there is one. Also, as languag...

Eddy the Great wrote:When Mark mentions humans in his conworld, is he refering to the Uesti?

Yes.

Is there a reason you need the exact order, Ghost?

well, the Elenicoi, I would think, probably didn't figure it was a different planet, just an unknown land, so when translated, my guess is they substituted Earth for Almea. a lot of people, including zomp thought this, until they remembered that there are THREE moons on Almea :wink: Could not there...

The Xurnese are great exporters of their own religions; but they have no interest in those of other civilizations-- anything that's worthy of interest religiously or philosophically will have already been explored within the Axunaic sphere. Hmmph, reminds me of a certain people known in Esperanto a...