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ı --A nightmare. Just what were the Turks thinking? While you're at it, why not use j for /ʤ/ and dotless j for /ʒ/ too? Actually, that does make some sense, certainly more than <c ç> for /dʒ tʃ/… Is there a J with overdot in Unicode yet? :P You forgot ï . Which annoys the shit out of me. I've rant...

also, "tällainen" sometimes gets harmonized for me Yeah, in that particular word the harmonized pronunciation is actually quite common, I think. However, do we actually know how recent this innovation is? AFAICT, both variants could well have been in existence for quite a while now. Also, there's t...

What he said, but the ɑ/æ harmony hangs on somewhat tighter than o/ø & u/y harmonies (probably because there are fewer languages around that would have a corresponding vowel contrast, and thus yield nonharmonic loans). At least IML an English word with both of the vowels might get simplified to som...

What he said, but the ɑ/æ harmony hangs on somewhat tighter than o/ø & u/y harmonies (probably because there are fewer languages around that would have a corresponding vowel contrast, and thus yield nonharmonic loans). At least IML an English word with both of the vowels might get simplified to some...

Or they were describing a /mɛkɪko/ pronunciation and used <kk> to avoid suggesting /miːkɪko/? Still, "Meckiko" might've been more expected then…

North Samic has *k̆s *ɣs *vs.

For *sʷ, how about something like *sw skw?

Some examples. Classic Austric (3+7) /e A u/ /b~w t k s n~N l j/ Ouiqál (8+23) /i y u e ø o a A/ /p t k ʔ/ /b d g/ /m_0 n_0 ŋ_0/ /m n ŋ/ /f θ s ç h/ (and perhaps /ɸ/) /β l ɾ j/ Standard West Persian' (31+57) /i i\ u/ /e @ / / a A / /i~ i\~ u~/ /e~ / / a~ A~ / /ai ei @i Ai/ /ai\ ei\ @u Au/ / i@ u@ / ...

Sorry if your tectonics are still hanging — ran out of free time rapidly, and the project I was planning on incorporating here has been stashed in the freezer…

Consider this my official sign-out for now

I have no time to get into this deeper right now but I'd like to point out that "Lappish" and "Berber" aren't languages… OK, 2nd thing: some Australian language might be useful as a "pure" 3-vowel example. Arabic, Aleut, Inuit all have a length contrast (as does Sanskrit for which you do remark on t...

What's the laminal for, anyway? Where does it show up? The laminal (and for postalveolars, alveolopalatal) shows up in two different general kinds of places. The first, and seemingly the most widespread (as I can tell it is often present in General American-like varieties, albeit without the affric...

Zoris wrote:New work:]

So how many neo-psych albums have you made covers for, again?

Closer to a PNG; they seem reasonably isolated by the sea to the south and the desert/mountains to the north. (I'm counting Treskro's area as a part of this.) The land connections to west and east would probably spell for occasional invasions however. OTOH, if humans are starting from Keskus, it loo...

That area looks like a good place to stick a whole bunch of ethno-linguistic lineages in, really.

I'm working on Ancient Bēðoth phonology right now, and being that I don't know shit about phonology, it's killing me. I'd be happy to help with that a bit :D (Next few days may be bizzy for me however, and as conculturing isn't exactly my strongest point, don't expect too much details before Januar...

Current locations... I think. Azdusha quit a while back so I took over that area... And I think Absolem's territory is overrepresented. Is Wierdmin still in? The old tectonic map is back on page 11... Go ahead and re-do it, I basically threw something together. Could do… may take a while however, I...

Dewrad wrote:If, on the other hand, he's referring to Kortlandt's Italo-Celtic Origins and Prehistoric Development of the Irish Language, just don't. It's lunacy, through and through.

Out of curiosity, "lunacy" as in "crackpottery", or as in "this is Sparta!"?

Per Afro-Asiatic, pharyngeals seem to be something of a stable island: it's hard to get them into a language, and it's fairly hard to get them out of a language as well. IIRC some branch or Semitic or the other gains some extra pharyngeals from emphaticness assimilation, a la h-tˁ :> ħ-tˁ, but I cou...

What's the latest word on fauna & flora? Giant marsupials by analogy, "pick what you like", to be decided until geological history has been determined? 3. Flora and Fauna seem to be pretty normal, but you get free-reign on the southwest continent(as long as it's possible biologically). I have some ...

Is it allowed to jump on at this stage and what would I need to do (aside from a conculture), if that's the case? I have one project which turns out doesn't really fit onto my conworld's main area, and if I'm to start on an entirely new continent, might as well do it here for the sake of synergy :) ...

Peter Baumann — Romance '76
Gert Emmens — Elektra
Detlef Keller — Harmonic Steps

How so? I don't really see any good way for velars to develop except through borrowing, unless maybe something weird happens with /t/. /t/ has a high likelihood of backing if there are no coronal stops of any sort in the system. There are at least 20 branches of Oceanic [pdf] that have more or less...

Absolem wrote:nataliedee.com

fuck that bitch is funny

One of the unfunniest cartoon sites I ever saw. HAY I'M A BONERCAKE LOL! AND I'M A YAM THAT SAYS "NOOOOOOO"! And drawn in under 60 seconds, by the looks of it.

Try this insted: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Whimemsz wrote:Incidentally, I finally got around to updating my many-year-old post on Proto-Algonquian > Ojibwe. So now it's almost accurate! And stuff.

It looks rather like you could cut a corner or two by declaring that *r splits to lenis r and fortis R, then R s, and *h *ʔ drop before any obstruents.

How realistic is */r ʀ/ :> /d g/? I think r >: d is attested in Malayo-Polynesian (there's a large area where *d and *r merge, sometimes to /r/, sometimes to /d/). For Nort's affricate issue, consider deriving some of the affricates secondarily from the others. Maybe first *t :> *tʲ :> *ts by some ...

Last night in TropDreams: my mother was looking thru some course notes of mine for some reason, she noticed some linguistic scribbles in the marginal, and I ended up trying to explain [ʕ] to her. (And I had not seen Jetboy's thred on the topic before now, for the record.) An erlier part of the dream...