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sucaeyl wrote:Good Nahuatl sources: dictionary, grammer, thesaurus and etymology

J. Richard Andrewsʻs grammar is good although a tad confusingly written.

Check out Classical Nahuatl - you can have up to three objects in a single verb: one is the "main" one and the other two are subsidiary - order of suffixes tells you which is the primary (last-added suffix = primary object). Note that it can look as if there's only one object because with one except...

How many languages do you know that have more than 1 phonemic rhotic? Except for German, all languages which I am slightly familiar with (Slovene, Turkish, Arabic, English) feature a variety of pronunciations of their rhotic, ranging from a "roll" to a tap to, indeed, an approximant. I don't think ...

Bristel wrote:I love Halkomelem. I've got a conlang that's inspired a bit by it. (along with any number of Salishan languages)

<kitten eyes> Tell me more...

It's the same sort of non-simultaneity, incidentally, that makes 'mints' and 'mince' homophones for many english speakers. Is it this too when both of those words have a glottal stop between the /n/ and the /s/? That's probably what it is for me, too. (New join here. <waves hello>) In some varietie...

I believe Tamil and Malayalam contain this, also (Dravidian languages).