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Given how much information about Turkish is out there, it was surprisingly hard to track down what you're looking for. Your Turkish phonotactics are pretty close, but because there are words out there like üst 'top' and genç 'young' it seems like there are other kinds of coda clusters out there. Thi...

There are certainly a lot of sentences already on the ZBB...but I think Althusser has some very challenging ones for you to translate: I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized i...

Yes, partially that, but also partially Almeopedia. Is the link too tenuous or something?

Hahaha!

I don't know...maybe something to do with Munkhashi? Western? Palthuk?

Although I like your map a lot, I thought I heard somewhere that Eynleyni and Qarau were distantly related...

Hmmm. Keep us posted!

But I'm curious. What kind of Min chinese is it?

Okay. I think that the paper had a lot of analysis for such a small data set, but I think there could have been a little more questioning, because I think that if the data set was augmented a bit more, more patterns could surface. My mom's relatives speak Suzhou and Ningbo Wu Chinese from pre-1949 t...

All right. Slight change of topic. I got the article in a different paper, namely USA Today (somebody else showed me the article; I don't really like USA Today), but anyway, the article pretty much made it seem like a new language was being born out of nowhere, or somehow created, as the article bas...

Okay...I think this language family challenge is intriguing. Just for fun, and because this includes some very basic lexical data (better for comparisons, right?) , I'll put a lexical comparison from the Almeopedia wordlists--excepting Eastern languages, as zompist said they aren't part of this myst...