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Book: The indigenous languages of the Caucasus, vol. 1: The Kartvelian languages. Ed. by Alice C. Harris. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1991 Online: Aorist and pseudo-aorist for Svan atelic verbs The South Caucasian languages (this is an overview, though you should be able to extract something from it)...

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Has there been any work done of !Ho languages done out in the open / available?

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MisterBernie wrote:...unlike if you wanted to make, let's say, West Mediterranean Finnic.

This would be delicious.

Something that I'm thinking about incorporating into the next conlang I make is a restriction on quantification of external arguments. That is, they couldn't ge qualified directly. So a sentence like 'every boy kicked the dog' would actually have to involve a cleft or something. Who knows.

I like it. /ʰs/ is awesome. Yeah, I'm a big fan of it too. I'm trying to reproduce it, and all I'm getting is a sort of exasperated /s/. But regardless it's a pretty brilliant sound if that is what it is. I especially like that it stands out by its lonesome. It usually comes out as something akin t...

äreo wrote:I like it. /ʰs/ is awesome.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of it too.

Something I came up with while walking home today: Consonants [/size] b t dʑ k s ɕ h ʰs m n ŋ ɾ Vowels and Diphthongs [/size] i u i: u: ja wa e o e: ju a a: The syllable structure is CV(N), where a word final nasal is realized as [ŋ] and word interla nasals assimilate to the following C. The phoneme...

Where do you live, Dhokarena? The Pittsburgh area; I'll try and see if my friends have that change today, but in the meantime, let's wait for Bristel to show up. Do you have positive anymore ? I find that to be a really exciting thing about Pittsburgh. I have positive "anymore" in a restricted rang...

dhokarena56 wrote:

Eddy wrote:Where do you live, Dhokarena?

The Pittsburgh area; I'll try and see if my friends have that change today, but in the meantime, let's wait for Bristel to show up.

Do you have positive anymore? I find that to be a really exciting thing about Pittsburgh.

A up-to-modern-standards Reference Grammar of (some/any form of) Vulgar Latin based on field work by a time traveling linguist.

cedh audmanh wrote:Southern Peilaš is where Akana humans originate from, so it can have lots of languages completely unrelated to everything further north and east.

Awesome. I may start working on some kind of language / family to put down there.

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Has there been any work done on where the population of Akana would have originated and how it would have spread throughout the world? I was thinking that it would be interesting to work on something in Southern Peilaš, but don't know / how that part of the continent would have been populated. Also,...

This little inventory just makes me pretty happy:

Consonants
p t k s h m n ŋ w ɾ

Vowels
i a ə ɔ

There's harmony between /ɔ/ and /ə/- only one may appear in any given word. Rounding on /ɔ/ is probably rather lite, but it's there.

There are a few Salish languages that have obligatory future marking, even if there's an adverbial with reference to future time elsewhere in the clause. I'm not sure about the exact semantics of the forms in those languages that do, though (St’át’imcet is one). There's a big section on future in th...

Igban:

Root: -yarut:
gəndyarut 'overthrow' (Agent Subject)
nyeruttə 'be overthrown, get overthrown' (Undergoer Subject)

Next word: terrace

Good luck indeed! I've been in the first presentation jitters phase and I can sympathize! While this is probably not totally true about all subfields, and of course not about all people, unless you're completely challenging somebody's life work in front of other people, I've found linguistics to gen...

That's pretty much how things like that develop in the real world, except I'd expect to see something analogous in stressed syllables also. Or at least, there should be something to create palatalized/labialized consonants in stressed syllables. Yeah, actually I was going to say this as well as an ...

What are some of the features of the family?

It's fine.

I managed to make something a little like Khmer with some Burmese (and Thai/Lao) thrown in that I'm really happy with. I don't have the energy to write out the entire phonology here right now, but here's an awkwords file that will give you an idea if you're interested: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/175260...

Something I'm really pleased with: p t k ʔ b dʒ m n ɲ s h w ɾ The vowel inventory has both nasal and oral vowels: i ɨ u e o ɛ a ĩ ɨ̃ ũ ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃ There are diphthongs /aɨ ai/, and there is a length contrast, but only in monosyllabic words. Syllable structure is CV(C), where final C can be /ʔ n/ and may...

Another consonant inventory: p t tʃ k ʔ b d s h m n ɲ ɾ w j wh /wh/ is probably just a voiceless /w/, but it might vary with some fricative. The vowel inventory to go along with it: i ɨ u e o a There's vowel harmony between /i/ and /ɨ/, and /o/ is generally realized as [ɵ] in words containing a fron...