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I had this same problem with the movie "Lesbian Vampire Killers". And believe me, that movie would have been 100 times better if it were lesbians who killed vampires rather than men who killed lesbian vampires. I have that problem with a German TV series whose precise German name I can't think of b...

[In] Huamelultec (aka Lowland Oaxaca Chontal), [the] only ejectives/glottalized obstruents are: /fʼ sʼ ɬʼ xʼ/. The phonetic realizations vary pretty widely, but in part because they alternate morphophonologically with corresponding plain fricatives, Ian Maddieson, Heriberto Avelino, and Loretta O'C...

Does anyone know if front rounded vowels have ever arisen from front unrounded vowels? There are a lot of rounding changes among front vowels in German dialects. Unrounding is more common, but rounding occurs as well, particularly in labial environments although it's not confined to them. For insta...

In and old dusty board where cons and langs thrived; in a nerdy nerd's world there came one Charlie Five. Not to be confused with the others: not the first or even the sixth . His most noble Habsburg forefather was none but Charles the Fifth ! He hinted at a user of old A king of maps, of his kin. ...

Wattmann wrote:I once considered learning Swedish instead of Icelandic, but the vowel inventory scared me - I could never speak it well.
Icelandic, OTOH, has <g> for /g/

Shouldn't it be <g> /k/?

Flag for my yet to be named con-country: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3047831/lang/flag/southernShore.png The nation is mostly agricultural, so the hoe represents farmers, the green represents the fertile land, the blue represents the sky, and the white circle represents the sun. The circle also represe...

Why do they speak Spanish?

Both /i a o/ and /e a o/ are found in native languages of the Americas, the former in the Muskogean languages, for example, and the latter in Yanesha' and Tehuelche.

Ooh Chechen music! That song is called хьол хаза, I think. I love it, even though it's not the kind of music I'm usually into. It the language that makes it so awesome.

Can anyone recommend some good Cambodian 60s rock? I'm a fan of Dengue Fever but I want to broaden my horizons. Ros Sereysothea , Pan Ron , Sinn Sisamouth , Yol Aularong , Dara Chom Chan are a few I can think of. Dengue Fever covered many old Khmer rock songs, you'll find tons of them via google.

Chagen wrote:I hate the fuck out of this forum, but screw it, I might as well post this here too

This surely is the right way to get friendly feedback.

chris_notts wrote:So unless I'm wrong there is a parallel in other Romance languages, although perhaps the pattern is more general in Catalan than in Spanish.

Italian has those endings, too. tenere > tengo, ducere > duco. I could immagine that some of the Catalan endings were formed by analogy, though.

I'd love to see the Maltese and Coptic ones. What's the Burushaski-stuff you have? I have some short papers on it but no actual grammar.

It's different, but I like it, kind of. Better than written Cornish.

I speak German and Italian natively. My father learned standard Italian in school as he was raised with the local Italian dialect, so my ancestor's languages are German and Southern Italian, I guess?

Nortaneous wrote:

Darkgamma wrote:And, yes, ç does appear more likely to turn into ɕ, but it doesn't happen that way in L'Europe.

Aren't there some dialects of German where standard /ç/ merged into /ʃ/?

Yes. But AFAIK those dialects still distinguish /ʃ/ (<ch>) from /ʃʷ/ (<sch>)

For fuck's sake Darkgamma. Stop being such a dick.

sano wrote:next: to infect

Rhen:
diorra [ˈtʲɪrˠə] "to infect, to make sick", from Proto-Skirkan *-īlo "sick, ill"

Next word: spiral

Darkgamma wrote:

Viktor77 wrote:

And which one is Michigan?

the red one

CV syllable wrote:It's probably an ejective /t/.

Most likely, yes. But then, a language with only one ejective?

German <u> is /u/ and <ü> is /y/... What is that t with apostrophe supposed to mean?

jmcd wrote:

Izambri wrote: I'm not fond of
Castilian ([x] - [θ] Spanish)

That's exactly the sort of Spanish I prefer.

+1. Castilian with distinción is my favorite Spanish variety, but Catalan still is the nicest sounding Romance language down there.

Hebrew sounds all /haʁaʃaχaʃaʁahaʃaʁim/ to me

Yes
Catalan
Icelandic
Georgian

No
Russian
Vietnamese
American English (those George Bush-like varieties)

When I first came here , I thought I was out of my depth, seeing people that seemed to know more about grammar than perhaps was good for them. And A t times this forum seemed like the last refuge for pedants, nitpickers , and anal - retentives (which, at times, it actually is...). But now, having s...