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Thanks for all the replies guys! I now have somewhat of a better grip on where to look for info. I'll start with "The World's Languages" and see how different languages work, before diving into specific areas. Thanks again. There's also "Languages of the World / Materials" (about 500 volumes) and o...

I am still surprised that only bulbaquil here managed to get themselves to respond in any fashion, even mockingly. I was almost expecting some comments on my usual transcribing in here, which have failed to come. Does anyone think anything about this, whether positive or negative? With my hatred fo...

Perhaps oddly, Polish doesn't seem to possess such verbs so that you have to resort to more complex expressions like "być na ty" be on informal-2sg or "mówić per pan" speak per formal-2sg (oh yeah, additionally with a borrowed Latin preposition). There's tykać (się) , which is more or less 'tutoyer'.

linguoboy wrote:

Przemysław wrote:The same goes for the pronounced -e nouns: Goethe : Goethego.

That is awesome. "Nietzschego" FTW!

Correct. And it's pronounced the same as niczego 'nothing.GEN'.

Navajo: a/e/i/o + ogonek + acute.

Livonian: a + diaeresis + macron, o + dot + macron, o + tilde + macron.

In modern Poland those are imieniny [pl. tantum] 'name day'. Many first names have more than one day assigned and I was taught that you chose the closest day after your birthday -- my imieniny are on 13 IV ( Przemysława, Hermenegildy ). Traditionally, imieniny involve a small party for your family, ...