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Thanks Astraios for the comparison with Lakota, the same thing probably applies (at least to some extent) to Nahuatl as well. And thanks Xephyr vlad/Papapishu for all the information and links, they were really helpful!

I'm slowly trying to learn Classical Nahuatl, and my OCD purism tendencies have kicked in so I'm trying to find non-hispanified greetings in Nahuatl, the way the Aztecs would have greeted each other. I have found basic ways to say hello, but I am cautious with the alleged ways to say the equivalent ...

This thread is nothing to do with euphony. I see your point, but I was originally going for how an orthography can affect the perceived beauty of even the spoken language (as in how some French words to me aren't beautiful when spoken, or when written in IPA, but are beautiful if you see the origin...

A beautiful orthography is one that strikes a balance between the following three points: a) One-to-one letter/sound correspondence b) Avoidance of too many uncommon letters c) Systematicity Just add your typographic preferences. On that note, what on earth makes you think Celtic orthography is not...

I wanted to make a thread about beautiful orthographies and letter combinations. I've always loved Celtic orthographies, which I feel make the languages more distinctive and beautiful. In English, I like words from Old English and French, and I love the cluster "ea" in "earth" and "heather", as well...

I'm learning Classical Nahuatl, and as I'm still in the fairly early stages, take what I say with a grain of salt. I have yet to study the chapter dealing with reciprocal forms in detail, so I will study more and post again when I know the language a bit better. However, what I have written agrees w...

I've heard from a friend that Slovak has next to no profanity (although this might be BS), and I've heard somehting similar about Japanese. The variety and kinds of profanity in other languages has always interested me so I thought I'd make a thread. I've heard that profanity tends to centre around ...

Make sure to include mountains in the right places. Look up converging vs diverging vs transforming plates (I learned about plate tectonics in French so I'm not quite sure about the English terms) and all the geological formations they entail. This seems to be a decent link: http://www.platetectonic...

EDIT: tl;dr: does a "song" have to have lyrics, or can you call an instrumental a song? I had an argument with my dad about the definition of the word "song". My definition Catch all term: song -Any piece of music (used with article) -Singing as an art/activity (used without article) -A "song" with ...

I'm trying to learn Classical Nahuatl and I've already used the "Inadequate Nahuatl Lessons" online, and I have "An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl" by Michel Launey. These are both useful, however I'm constantly confused by what word order to use, and whether or not to include an "optional" parti...

About the t/glottal stop thing, I do roughly the same thing as Adjective Recoil; normally it ends in an alveolar position, but the glottal stop is mostly allophonic with this sound. I have a mainly Torontonian accent with Vancouver influence, so I'd say "Did you buy a plant at the store" like /dɪdʒə...

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Next word: juxtaposition

Just a quick thought, it might be helpful to do the morpheme breakdown for your language in addition to the plain text so it'd be possible to identify individual morphemes/affixes more easily. Otherwise, you seem to be off to a good start, as my first attempt was essentially a cipher of English with...

I'm Canadian if anyone wants a Canadian's opinion on how we pronounce words

Edit: didn't realize it was such an old thread, so sorry if I shouldn't have bumped it

I have a few questions about language and sound shifts, I was wondering if you guys would be able to help answer them. Do languages *have* to change over a certain period of time? Also, are certain types (e.g. an agglutinative language, or one containing a certain phonemic inventory) of languages le...

Ngmwragh jiinw [ciːnw] Ampanese "tcinu" ['tʃi.nu]