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I don't think the labialisation's bad, but an alternative could be palatalisation (and yes, co-articulated /kp/ can also have palatalisation though it's just the tiniest bit difficult)

WeepingElf wrote:Next word: synthesizer

Kti: <ozahæzār> "that which makes sound of digital/mechanic origin" (o-za-<hæ>-zār, with reduplication, from the verb <hæzārton>)

Next word: hydrolysis

It's, uh, not quite well-reconstructed really :s

Proto-Uralic is, at least for me, the most plausible next step. Both groups have their Urheimaten in close vicinity of one another, both share some morphological and syntactical features and tendencies and possibly also some vocabulary. Their age matches up more or less (that is, I think it was Prot...

[ Thread: Awaken ] So, third-declension. It's made up of nouns that are actually nominalisations of adjectives. They characteristically end in either <- əṇ > or <- i >. The difference between these is that the first ending is characteristically an animate ending, while the second ending is character...

So, second declension. It's a bit complicated as it distinguishes definiteness besides number and case. Nouns of the second declension most commonly end in <- x > in the nominative singular indefinite. An example noun of the second declension would be < ąṣθâx > "apple": Singular Case INDEF DEF NOM ą...

I haven't done much work on case functions Asking some questions might be helpful then. First, what is the commutative used for? Second, what is the difference between the dative and benefactive? I presume that they are both used to code certain kinds of recipients. Lastly, your dative is a prime c...

The first declension is a fairly simple one. It includes nouns that have a nominative in <- vû >. They usually don't have duals or plurals, but they distinguish all cases. An example noun of the first declension is < jåbbû > "wind, breath" Case SG DU/PL NOM jåbbû jådvû GEN jåbrî jådrî DAT jåbjâ jådj...

Richard W wrote:Written Tibetan approaches the range, with forms like sgrubs. However, the range of final clusters is very limited.

And in Spoken Tibetan you'd probably get sth like [blyŋ] looking at the correspondences

Well, talk now goes it was a dialect continuum, so no it wasn't a single language it seems.

Ah I misunderstood.
Still, you could without an issue do like 600 verbs.

:> Nouns hBaṣvî marks nouns for animacy, number and case. Some nouns are marked for definiteness as well. The language has ten declensions and a catch-all form for loanwords. Each of these declensions has its own special features and properties, and sometimes nouns borrow from a declension not their...

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You confuse me. I shall take my leave

Plusquamperfekt wrote:...When there are consonant sequences like [bt] or [zk]...

Which you, um, do not have.

After some time sketching out a language, writing a hundred thousand minor snippets and notes, I've decided it's about time I made some effort to make sense of it all. The language's name is < hBaṣvî > which translates to "the words". The language's name derives from an irregular formation of the no...

Here's something which concerns me. Some sources - Beekes for example - deny the existence of /a/ in PIE, and many deny /b/ also. Szemerényi mentions that the existence of /c/ (an affricate more commonly known as /ts/) has been tried to be proved and failed. Next up for removal is presumably /d/. S...

I like the script quite a lot, just chiming in.

ObsequiousNewt wrote:Next: no rest for the wicked

Kti: <danækǣ zārikināk nǣd asratæi denudǣk danænædem>
It translates to: "you sinned since time immemorial and now your sins chase after you"

Next: to exact revenge

zontas it did not have -us that's how they spelt a long [o:]. You know, compensatory lengthening from the deletion of a d. Also this has already been said and I really don't see why you feel the need to revive a stupid months-old discussion on English plurals especially if you have nothing to add. ...

Alas, I did mine by hand. I have a handy chart and I know how to make good few constants so it all goes rather smoothly.
VB is for the meek

Being the stubborn donkey I am, I've taken to writing a verb conjugator for Kti in Brainfuck. Will report on progress.

Drydic wrote:

araceli wrote:Obviously, some people have too much free time on their hands!

in reference to?

Probably me, possibly also Rhetorica.

Yeah, I'd agree on that. Would certainly explain the sound system mutability difference between 1300s and modern English and the equivalent Icelandic, for example.

I kinda remember someone legitimate on the forum saying it's about one major change (such as the GVS) per century, and I've cited that figure several times over. Haven't seen actual literature cite it, though.

Ah, the other kind of slow.
Well, I have very little to say on the meaning-per-second speed of Greek, so, sorry for a bit of a distraction.

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