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Huh? Danish has the same thing for final /g/, I don't see what's so surprising. Also, I quite like the romanization I used for it besides <nl>. Do you have a similar diachronic/aesthetic explanation motivating your orthography? Also, final /g/. (Actually just syllable-final, and also /v/, if Wiki i...

Astraios wrote:In Lakota culture I know it's customary to use the lips to point at certain things, but I don't know what things or what reason.

Same with Tagalogs. There's a joke in my family that my great-aunt can point backwards and around corners.

Yupik Thumb – asaun , ayaun , (ayag- leave, go away, depart) kul’u , kumlu (attested in a finger-naming song), nangneq (“last one, end” nange- be used up) Index – keniun ((k)enir- to point), tekeq (unanalyzable, dialectally means thimble), tengayuq (from finger-naming song; for those who are interes...

"He should have taken it and rollen it out." -my sister in response to a cooking show

(Is this the right thread for this? It was the first relevant one I saw when going down the list, so eh.)

Yupik's names for months have quaint translations. Nunivak Yupik Tanqiluryak Kinguqliq / second cold month Kuiget Aanit / mother of rivers Taqukat Tanqiat / seals’ month Tengaurtet Tanqiat / kittiwakes’ month Tengmiaret Tanqiat / birds’ month Tengmiaret Irnitiit / birds give birth Alpairusvik / murr...

Milloniare wrote:The stress is always on the first syllable, with secondary stress on the third, and so forth

Hurhur.

To post something remotely constructive (maybe), /ʈ/ looks lonely as the only retroflex.

/i e a o u ɔ ʊ ẽ ã õ/ seems like a rather haphazard inventory. The main issue that there are more back vowels than front vowels, which violates a universal (EDIT) is unusual.

The nasals bother me as well, but as a feature they don't pattern nicely so I won't complain. (http://wals.info/chapter/10)

What does your book say about bastante , btw? Does it say it means enough only, or does it also say and "too many (noun)"? Tenemos ya bastantes camisas (we already have enough shirts ~ we have too many shirts). (In my dialect it only means the latter. It's often confusing when talking to a speaker ...

Also, the -ísimo forms aren't superlatives (they don't compare a noun phrase against others, unlike Latin adjectives in -issimus), they exaggerate the gradation of a certain quality (the Academies in fact prefer to call -ísimo a "suffix of extreme gradation": sufijo de grado extremo ). I understand...

Can you give an example? Perhaps the Latin ancestor of the adjective ended in -cissimus because its stem was -ncus or -lcus (or -ncer or -lcer). The book gives jovencísimo and trabajadorcísimo. Ah, there we go; Wiktionary: iuven > iuvencus (adj/n) (> juvenco). My knowledge of Latin morphology stops...

My Spanish textbook says “adjectives that end in –n or –r form the absolute [superlative] by adding –císimo/a,” but as usual provides no historical justification. :roll: Is this ending, as opposed to the inherited –ísimo (<–issimus), an innovation or what? The RAE’s entry on –ísimo says that –ble + ...

So what does it look like now?

Some things to think about: -Where are your ejectives? -Why do you have so few fricatives? -Why so many distinctions among stops? -Where did you get that vowel inventory? -Why so many nasals? - What do you mean? Are you asking how they pattern? Or are you actually asking about implosives? - To be n...

Well, I'd like to see how it could be improved. I cobbled this together in like 4 minutes , so it sucks, I know. I also cannot make Native American/Caucasian inventories to save my life. Perhaps if you spent more than "like 4 minutes" refining it and (as roninbodhisattva said) looking into what you...

Native: English Ancestral: Cantonese, Tagalog, Hokkien, German, (English) All of the above except German are/were natively spoken by my grandparents, but their kids were apparently under intense pressure to be "white." Shame. Your username means "the lanterns" ;). Indeed. :-D When I first learned a...

Native: English Ancestral: Cantonese, Tagalog, Hokkien, German, (English) All of the above except German are/were natively spoken by my grandparents, but their kids were apparently under intense pressure to be "white." Shame. Your username means "the lanterns" ;). Indeed. :-D When I first learned a...

Native: English
Ancestral: Cantonese, Tagalog, Hokkien, German, (English)

All of the above except German are/were natively spoken by my grandparents, but their kids were apparently under intense pressure to be "white." Shame.