Some of y'all might remember the grammar pile that was spread here on the ZBB a while ago - here's an equivalent for dictionaries! I hope y'all appreciate it.
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- Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Foreign language dictionary resource
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5827
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 11:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Consonant Mutation: Ideas on what to use it for?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6071
Re: Consonant Mutation: Ideas on what to use it for?
just gonna drop this here
- Wed May 18, 2016 4:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Exotic Conditional Clauses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3655
Re: Exotic Conditional Clauses
Cool. How does Greenlandic handle counterfactual conditions? Sorry for the late reply - this class of mine only meets once a week, but I asked a professor of mine who's worked on Greenlandic for a while now, and Greenlandic handles counterfactuals by a set of affixes, different from the ones that a...
- Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142111
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
ძალიან ბევრი ენა გისწავლია! რამდენი და რომელი?thetha wrote:私は日本語を学んでいる
watashi wa nihongo o manande iru
I'm learning Japanese!
dans l'université, bien sûr.
In school, of course.
You seem to have studied a lot of languages! How many, and which?
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:57 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Turkish vs Azeri
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2831
Re: Turkish vs Azeri
You might find this article helpful.
- Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18372
Re: Whence aspirated stops and nasal vowels?
Ketumak wrote:Sumelic's second post gives me this image of nasalisation spreading forwards and backwards along a clause, like a bushfire which sounds like good metaphor to work with.
If this interests you, check out the phenomenon of nasal harmony, as found most famously in Tupian languages like Guaraní.
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess The Language
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4403
Re: Guess The Language
Shapshiruckish?
- Sat Mar 07, 2015 2:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Ah, fuck, I was gonna wrap this up a long time ago but I forgot. I'm sorry! It's Savosavo, a non-Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. Be more specific - that term is a little ambiguous, and those ambiguities come into play here in particular. I imagine this phrase like, meant something. Why...
- Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
It is neither Japhug nor a Dravidian language.
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
It is neither from the Americas nor from West Papua.
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
It is not a language from Papua New Guinea.
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Be more specific - that term is a little ambiguous, and those ambiguities come into play here in particular.
- Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:11 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
No, no.
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
I've done enough of these that y'all should know the extra rules I put into effect - one guess at a time, languages guesses only until 24 hours have passed. Pa manyighala, lo mapaghana rughu zuizu. Zu pa daki mapa ko ghajia manyighala palei. Tegho, ko tuvila patu, pa suana bazu. Baia telo ba tuvi lo...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Is it Cofán?
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:07 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Member Countries and Known Languages
- Replies: 130
- Views: 63605
Re: Member Countries and Known Languages
"You should talk with me!"Birdlang wrote:What does this mean, and why does stress have to be marked on that word, or is it tone???Nesescosac wrote:Yaan a tsikbal in wéetel!Nannalu wrote:Yucatec
It's tone.
- Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142111
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Ek het my Kaukasus conlang slaap vir 'n rukkie terwyl ek kan vind beter en meer inligting. Daar is so baie conlang inspirasie hierdie winter. I have put my (Northwest) Caucasian conlang to sleep for a while whilst I can find better and more information. There is so much conlang inspiration this Win...
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Yup! Your turn.Birdlang wrote:Toba Qom?
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Nope! I'm getting bored of hosting so I'll say that the language is spoken in Argentina.
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
One at a time, please - in future I'll answer only your last question.
As it happens, it's not any of those.
As it happens, it's not any of those.
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Nope!Qwynegold wrote:Is it Chipaya?
- Tue Jan 20, 2015 1:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
I'm a she. And now that 24 hours have passed, it is South American, but not Moxo.jmcd wrote:He might not have specified but I expect he won't answer questions relating to continents either. Moxo?Nannalu wrote:Is it Native American? South American?
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Nope!Birdlang wrote:Aymara?
- Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
I play with an added rule when I host: no questions on language family will be answered until 24 hours have passed. Haha qalota rañi'ačik. Nagi hayem'olek maši 'igayki. Qaqka nagi nwi ran'on. Qalqa'a nagi ñi'ačik'olek haha. Naywalpi waqtega kan'on. Neget to'okokǎ? Sasawana kamari. Sañawane' ka'arina...
- Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227521
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
I think it's Tungusic - is it Nanai?