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I think it can depend, a quick look at Ancient Greek verbs with reduplicated perfect tense shows prefix-reduplication-stem-personal.ending form. On the other hand, a prefix might be used for the reduplication, it may depend on how transparent the derivation is and what form of reduplication is used ...

Phonemic prestopped nasals are fantastically rare. I gave them to a conlang and I'm stumped as to how they'd be realized word-initially - or how any real language that has them, and has them word-initially, realizes them. Arrernte and some close relatives have phonemic prestopped nasals, and appare...

So, I started looking up roto'rala's phonology in X-Sampa, and I got a whole lot of nonsense, I am just completely baffled as to how you even thought it was a legitimate representation of phonology at all. I mean, if it was X-Sampa, don't you think it wouldn't be almost all capital letters? That th...

SOUNDS P, L, K, S, T, G, N, M, R, W, H, V, Sh, Ch, A, E, I, O, U, Ei, Ai, ' PRONUNCIATION R is slightly trilled A is always long Ei is spoken as “ay” as in “say” Ai is spoken as “eye” ' is a glottal stop IPA or the highway. X-SAMPA isn't too bad (even though I'm only familiar with a few of non-IPA ...

I suppose if we counts words like "father" and "paternal" as having the same "root", English might fit into this.

Or are you looking for the more idiomatic reading of "I behave like my parent"?

Not to mention that the articulation of /p/ is much more salient for children (look at those lips go!) than for /t/ or /k/ (or any non-labial).

I am getting married today!

English 3rd person pronouns have borrowings from Norse. Other function words do get borrowed on occasion if sometimes restricted in context (contra, per, are just two in English).

Austronesian /k/

Realistically, any voiceless stop should have a chance to lose oral closure. Voiced stops I would imagine are less likely to do this because of the voicing.

In my dialect, many final and coda stops are unreleased and so acoustically very similar to a glottal stop (and each other).

You mean umlaut? JAL Not necessarily. I'm not very familiar with it, but I know umlaut is the front of back vowels before front vowels in the word and some strong verbs do have that, but others have an ablaut pattern that is similar to the PIE ablaut (e-o-null), but doesn't derive from a PIE ablaut...

Sure, what I mean by full conjugation is just running a single verb through all of its forms (or all of a set, say active voice or present tense). So for example, in English. I might have the following table for English. sg pl 1st I jump we jump 2nd you jump you jump 3rd he jumps they jump sg pl 1st...

For Germanic languages, strong verbs have past tense forms that differ from the "weak" verb past tense forms. This often involves a stem vowel change (left overs of IE ablaut or innovative Germanic ablaut) such as English, sing-sang-sung or German gehen, ging, gegangen. True irregular verbs in a Ger...

My dialect is ambivalent to these types of words. So, <file> and <fire> are both one syllable, I think. If I could have 1.5 syllables, I would often put these there. But for me, <hire> and <higher> are not distinguished regularly, but occasionally are different in syllabification. I don't know if th...

Glad you got your finals done. I hope they went well. Adding on to Kilanie, since this is a proto-language, it's easy enough to go either way. Have two different systems that collapse into one or more (cross-overs of affixes for example). The other way is to have mostly the same set of endings that ...

What's a "regular" language? A language with few exceptions to grammatical rules? Few irregular paradigms? Transparent orthography? Some combination of those?

Oh about the Genitive, it wasn't supposed to be for pronouns. It was for things that are maybe part of the object(bad description, but I can show you) 'Strings of the piano' would be what I would use for the Genitive Case, not for the pronouns Sure, pronominal possession can occur in a variety of w...

Salenzian TOZEPE [toʝɛˈʀɛ] Hellenic-esque τοσερε [tosere]
Salenzian ϘYZYTEΣO [t͡ʃuʝucɛˈso] Hellenic-esque ζυσυζεσο [tsusutseso]
Salenzian KOZEPE [koʝɛˈʀɛ] Hellenic-esque κοσερε [kosere]
Salenzian TAΣAPONΘO [tʌsʌʀonθˈo] Hellenic-esque ζαρονσο [tsaronso]

Suntic tagigi /taˈɣiɣi/ Hrindarat /ta'ɣ^jeɣe/
Suntic tigitisu /tiɣiˈtisu/ Hrindarat /t^jiɣ^ji't^jeso/
Suntic kagigi /kaˈɣiɣi/ Hrindarat /ka'ɣ^jeɣe/
Suntic tasagumsu /tasaˈɣumsu/ Hrindarat /tasa'ɣonso/

Case names are just labels for functions. So based on the functions you've outlined for your cases, I'd say prepositional (I'd call it locative unless it is used for prepositions covering functions not covered by cases such as accompaniment [with] or lack [without]). I'd like to see a declension tab...

I don't really know. I could never figure it out, how there are stops in multiple categories of letters and stuff like that. I tried it, but it just didn't make any sense to me. I had to use English examples because I had never heard of the IPA. Maybe I'm just a poor amateur who didn't do his resea...

All writers (and older folk) seem to complain that the young'uns don't speak well. They complained in Elizabethan England; they complained in Rome. I'm sure the PIE speakers complained that their children weren't saying the word for hundred right also. So, it's more of whether a Greek/Byzantine Gree...

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:The top of the page says © 2010 by Mark Rosenfelder. Shouldn't that be 2014?

Not if he wrote it in 2010 (as his blog indicates).

Also, I noticed that the female names lose bolding after the first name.

For example, I would like to filter words by their tag, so for example, I can view only words that have the 'color' tag, but the best that excel can do is order a record (row) according to its tag property (column). If an entry has multiple tags, and the 'color' tag isn't first, it won't appear gro...

Salenzian ITIANΘA [itiʌnθˈʌ] Hrindarat /it^jansa/
Salenzian KYTANΘA [kucʌnθˈʌ] Hrindarat /kut^jansa/
Salenzian KYNΘANΘA [kunθʌnθˈʌ] Hellenic-esque κυνσανσα /kunsansa/
Salenzian ITIANΘA [itiʌnθˈʌ] Hellenic-esque ιτιανσα /itiansa/