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Can anyone recommend a good grammar of Standard Chinese?

20 most frequent consonants in UPSID
edit: complete list of all segments

Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to have the time for this. Sorry chaps.

Impressive as always.

I don't know if this is the most recent map, but I'll take this spot:

Are you still open to new people?

suidh n. event, specific time and place. From PC *esweid.

next word: to peel

mirricheu [mir:içja] v. to colour, to paint; from mirrich n. coloured; from PC *mrikko "colourfully flecked"
(no distinction between nouns and adjectives - mirrich means "coloured" or "coloured thing")

Next word: alphabet

bitainn n. test

next word: okay (in any of its senses)

brúith "plasma" from briu "flame" + uit "gas"

next word: isogloss

slaicht [sʟa:xt] chapter, section

next word: tripod

phrecbal [ɸɾek.baːʟ] - asthma (lit. gasp disease)

next word: electron

laghiss little finger (from lag biss small finger)

next: opaque, opacity

medheutir ['med̪.ia'tir] intoxicant, litterally 'drunk-maker'

next word: jazz

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am i doin it rite?

Bill Bryson wrote:The Italians, as we might expect, have over 500 names for different types of macaroni.

u____u

nebula wind phone wrote:Are there modern languages with a lot of public writing (books; letters; email; websites; whatever) and no standard orthography?

Scots.

MrKrov wrote:How's that creative tho?

lol

I went to Wales.

lyna [L\ynA] n. glue (from *lina)

next word: inconvenience

Triconsonantal Root Systems, such as those used by the Semitic languages, consist of a collection of a few hundred roots (consisting of three consonants, as the name implies). When a certain vowel pattern is placed over these roots, a wide range of meanings can be assumed Where can I get a list of ...

MadBrain wrote:Personally I consider /ɕ/ as a /ʃ/ but with a "lighter sound" (the frequency of the noise you hear is higher), where /ʂ/ has an even darker sound.

I think this sums it up quite well.

About [ʂ], isn't Mandarin [ʂ] laminal? Or is it not actually [ʂ]?