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North Frisian is interesting in lacking diphthongisation, and being very, very heavily influenced by Danish, Low Saxon and High German.

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most Australian languages have only one stop series. also Chukchi, Uralic, and I'd look in North America. Eskimo-Aleut obv, and the ones in my list my impression is that langs with only one plosive series tend to either be australian/dravidian or have voiced fricatives/approximants in their place, ...

This is one language I would really like to see more of. The script's cool and the morphology is almost totally new to me, and it just looks totally alien. It'd be great to build upon it.

Note that there is a distinction between definite (with an article) and indefinite (without an article) equivalent to the English articles the versus a. Remember that there are two kinds of definite information: new (just being introduced in a conversation) which is marked by -a; and given (known b...

"to gó off the board" = to stick closely to what is indicated in the storyboard I don't know when it happened but I have "to go off" as a variation on "to go by", maybe "to go on"; it probably popped up the same time "to base off" came around as a variation on "to base on" I'm guessing because of t...

Thematic and theta roles are different? They're largely conflated right? Anyways, it seems Fillmore had something to do wit both terms awhile ago but Wiki leaves it at that. As I understand his later work, thematic elements led to frame elements, but here we're talking about nouns... What I noticed ...

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I doubt most Americans would confuse Aussies for Brits, or New Zealanders if they can place the accent. (snip) Here's an example of a girl's version of my accent . Actually, my accent's probably about half way towards this guy's accent . Well yeah. It doesn't help that most of your Aussie actors ar...

The Geico Gecko speaks with a faux mixed accent though. Also is lizard mascot, not one person.

There is a site in Japanese with a lot of good side-by-side comparisons to show how to do all those things and kanji too. http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/hiragana-zenpan.htm http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/hira-gyo.htm http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/hira-gyo-henka.htm http://daigotorena.moo.jp/l...

I doubt most Americans would confuse Aussies for Brits, or New Zealanders if they can place the accent.

One thing that popped into my mind considering my present lang Tailevu - I began thinking about describing dedicated positions in sentences for information structural purposes. For instance, having a totally different place for pronouns (PRO) which are already given information, from repeated or new...

When I was a kid I used to use an weird form for the reflexive, "your-own-self", as in, "Go get your own self!"

Reading Deirdre of the Sorrows, piece by piece.

Listening to Kyla La Grange and Zola Jesus.

Nortaneous wrote:What's the environment for the [p] allophone of /k/? How is the velar nasal marginal?

/_V k>p where V is rounded /u/ and the velar nasal occurs intervocalically in a handful of words, and only before /k/ due to assimilation. So it's rare.

I came across something that might shed some more light on the intensifiers-reflexive a issue. Apparently there's a database - and "half the world's languages" display this pattern.

Copied from my thread. Sort of. Added diphthongs and triphthongs. The language keeps getting more spartan. I'm nailing the cardinal vowels pretty well so I know the allophony should happen but it's not really. Pitch description is different too now. Tailevu has several modes of communication, includ...

Tailevu Five points apiece: postnominal relative clauses with inflected, resumptive relative pronouns (e.g. English "who" vs. "whose") I'll count this half, but this would use an action nominal construction and the pronoun would be a possessive and inflect for the animacy of the noun. a periphrasti...

- differentiation between intensifiers and reflexive pronouns Could someone explain this question please??? As far as I understand it, that means something like this. Reflexive pronoun: Er hat sich (selbst) umgebracht. he has REFL (INTENSIFIER) killed He killed himself . Intensifier: Er hat die Hüh...

I think, as an American, I associate rising accents like a lot of Northern England, with Northern Ireland and Scotland as well, and falling accents with Southern England and Ireland. NI is spoken so fast! I think I mistook Geordie for NI for awhile but I cleared that up. Southern Irish sounds vaguel...

Vytautas wrote: p, b, t, d, k, g, m, n, s, l, r (rolled), v, a, e, i (also works as j), o, u, ə, ʊ, ɪ

Consonants reflect their IPA values
<p b t d k g m n s l r v>
Vowels treat lax /ʊ ɪ/ as short <u i> and tense /u i/ as long <uu ii>
/a e i~j o u ʊ ɪ ə/
<a e ii o uu u i y>

What would "him destroying the city" be then?