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You have to keep in mind that I've been active here for only two months =/ I still don't really understand. Basically two teams create a proto-language from which a set of daughter languages is derived and then giving those daughter languages to the other team each team attempts to reconstruct the ...

Seeed - Aufstehn

Easy because I almost never listen to Englishy stuff.
It's either French, Sanskrit, German or something Celtic (usually Welsh) even though I sometimes do listen to Slavic and Icelandic stuff

Much like the original, I'd expect. Two teams are organised; one member on each writes a grammar sketch with a lexicon and a short sample text. This is then sent to the rest of the team, each of whom derives a daughter and provides a similar description and a translation of the sample text. Then, e...

For my newest project, Qaar, I've taken Blackfeet-and-toes as my primary inspiration, but I will actually draw inspiration from my other conalngs.

finlay wrote:I don't buy it... they haven't given us enough information to determine what happens past 10. Is 8+7 "pömp pömp ragltika gudl pip"? Because I doubt it – that'll get very confusing very quickly.

pömp pömp ragltika gudl pip gudl pip pömp pömp ragltika gudl pip....
It sure can

My question still stands: how are we going to do it?
We're modern humans now.

PKtaric [uɜzɔnːt] > Kti <Iæzhād> [ˈjɞʒɒːd]

I don't really know if I've posted, but here I come! (b) t d k~kʲ ʔ s z ʃ ʒ ç~x~χ~h r m n a e~ɛ u̟~u~ŭ i~i̠~ɪ ɔ~ɔ̆ ɞ͍~ə~ɜ ɑː~äː~ɐː ɛː wː~uː jː~iː ɔː ɞː~ɞ͍ː [p~b~f~ɸ~β~p͡f~p͡ɸ] /b/ is used only in toponyms and hydronyms of non-Dnaric origin. It has no stable phone seeing that it's very distinct from ...

I'd be interested, actually. After the odd little challenge (like glossing Uyseʔ quotes) I'd rather like to take part in something big. But as an Akana member, I'll also shamelessly suggest it be set in one of the less fleshed-out parts of Akana :) Sure, this might actually be even better than just...

Where and/or how shall we do this?

Imralu wrote:Proto-Sèferi: [su.ʧu.u.ɘ.ki.jɘ.ki.ju.ɘ] > Xuáli sutcuuakiiakiiua [ˈsu.tʃu.wa.ki.ja.kɪj.wa]

Proto-Dnaric: [sɯ.k'ɯn.ɣɞ.ki.jɞ.ki.jo.ɣɞ] > Kti suhunæ:keho:æ Will do

I'd like to do this very much.

Shit - Sheet


Plain and simple

I'd study the poorly documented languages of southern Europe such as Etruscan. Bring home an Etruscan translation of a major work of Greek literature (we know that they existed, but, alas, none has survived). That would be the Rosetta Stone by which we could unlock the secret of Etruscan! Ertruscan...

I'm not sure if it exists or not, but. I wish I HAD a free, online Albanian etymological dictionary. If not that then a cheap hard copy one. With accuracy and showing native words vs. loanwords. Etc. If you go to Albania, I'm sure some bookstore might have an English-Albanian dictionary. It's widel...

maker > synthesizer > assembler > player > child

Next word: crap

Nominalisation of conjugated and inflected compounds.
And a crazy case system, too.

I've semitised Romanian...
Yeah...

Bristel wrote:tree in wind > bow > arching > pissing > relaxed > dead

next word: mitosis

mitosis > division > multiplication > reproduction > sex

Schwule

What do you call it? Bolognasalad/Sandwich EDIT: When they're bad, I call them Rotten Ham
Where are you from? Munich, Germany
Where do you live now? Nis (?), Serbia
What else might have influenced your choice? La Bologna Sausage meat look

Say Eightfoot and Eightfoots and you've solved the problem

Hexa seems nice. Not true hexa, but overlaping hexagons.

Bob Johnson wrote:Just rolls off the tongue, just like floccinaucinihilipilification and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Erentanoglulerinizemenizi?

Buuut ... allophony is synchronic. Native speakers usually don't know the details of their language's historical development. For some wierd reason, Serbian kids can make pre-Slavic-Palatalisation sounds... And retrace [ɔØ] to [ lØ], when [ɔØ] < [ lØ] happened in the fifteenth (?) century. And they...