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bandjalang has been on the list for months, do you not know how to use ctrl+f I am using an IPad. Assuming you're using Safari, you can start typing in the address bar, and it will have a section saying "On This Page (x matches)". If you're using Chrome, if you open the menu (the three vertical dot...

"Non-glottal stop non-glottal fricative obstruents [p b̪ k ...] assimilate in voice to a preceding obstruent." which I'm still trying to parse. Obstruents other than /ʔ h ɦ/ assimilate in voice to a preceding obstruent. It doesn't say non-glottal stop and non-glottal fricative obstruents, though, w...

I got this lovely vowel inventory earlier today: i i: u u: e e: o o: ɔˤɔːˤ a aː aˤ aːˤ ɑ ɑː ɑˤ ɑːˤ ɒ ɒː ɒˤ ɒːˤ It also had some lovely allophony rules such as "Nasals [m n] persistently become nasals and assimilate in place of articulation to a following non-front obstruent or nasal." (really, the n...

I am writing my sample texts for my language in Microsoft Word. I am trying to follow the Leipzig glossing rules with regards to Rule 1: Word-by-word alignment. It's... not going well. Having alternate lines on different streams (ie: first line original language, second line gloss) is really diffic...

Hopefully olive oil, with some nice spices.

Really? I always thought it was pretty universal.

Not sure what the problem is--can't you just write a morpheme, hit tab, write the next one, etc., and then do the same in the next row? I've done it in MS Word for awhile now and haven't run into issues. What's happening when you try to type something, hit tab, and write something else? Are the tabs...

There was a rather nice one on Reddit the other day. OP didn't give the seed, though.

I wrote a Javascript converter for personal use ages ago--you put in the length of the planet's day in Earth-seconds, then the number of days in the planet's year, and you can then convert between Earth day/years and the planet's day/years. It's pretty barebones, but if you think it'd help you, let ...

Saru aldo, nanasra.
_{so DEM.INAN FEM-agree.with}
Now this I agree with.

D: I-iser tandio ke'fenenol!
_{but egg delicious-INAN}
D: B-but eggs are delicious!

It's not exhaustive, but there's always the Index Diachronica.

Rae mekatan, seto ton sakil. Karida, aldo der'atal, sakil ked!
_{since november here NEG snow sudden DET.INAN morning snow everywhere}
Since November, there's been no snow here. Suddenly, this morning, snow everywhere!

It's an odd semantic hole, now that I think about it. Ket has the same oddity: [131] Like in Russian (korova), English (cow), or German (Kuh), the female gender is taken as the default representative of the species. probably a result of the importance of cows as a source of milk? And yet the defaul...

gach wrote:

Raven's wife prefixes c- and shifts d and l to n, and b to m ...

(The same shift /m n/ > /b d/ happened at least in Makah, Ditidaht, Lushootseed and the Chimakuan languages causing them some extent of lack of nasals.)

Did Raven's wife have a cold?

jal wrote:Way dis yeh ya mek konfyus?
[wɐj dis jeː ja mek kɒ̃ːfjus]
Why DEM year HERE make confuse
Why is this year confusing?


JAL

Letenil onedmir, yowiki, luan ato esmiu.
_{family-SG sick-MASC-PL unlikable and INT work}
Sick family members, unfortunately, and so much work.

Ahu yon ton idkaselha. Aldo pikara adielos.
_{1SG.FEM yet NEG certain-FEM DEM.INAN year confusing-INAN}
I'm not sure yet. This year is confusing.

haa, yes hınapa'ato.
_{lol 2SG.MASC funny-INT marker.of.amusement}
Ha, you're so funny...

I'm out of ideas... what's something interesting that a word-final glottal stop can do, aside from simply being dropped?

Dalarato toinyilmir ros kai...
_{people-all MASC-drink-PL perhaps tea}
Everyone is drinking tea, perhaps.

Nainakiki nainata yakanai. Kisuuna tazufise fanluseki! There is no sugar* or energy/calories (unless you add sugar and milk). Tea really is better! *it says honey because i have no word for sugar yet, tbh. It's got caffeine in it, though, which is addictive, so it's not exactly the world's healthie...

Ton naliselin kai iser aldo ton orastalan nihu yin.
_{NEG FEM-like-HAB tea so DEM.INAN NEG problem FEM.1SG.GEN either}
I don't like tea, so it's not a problem for me, either way.

My company used "involuntary separation program" last year. The internal announcement itself was pretty blunt (there's not too many ways to interpret "[Company] intends to reduce global employment by [number] people"), but it still managed to never once use "lay off" or "fire". Somewhat humorously, ...

Oki! Nakalun! On idar ahu!
_{okay FEM-confess 3SG.INAN PST 1SG.FEM}
Okay! I confess! It was me!

I was talking to someone online and realised I've never heard an American say "[place] way" as a reply to "where do you live" or "where are you from". Does it occur? I don't think I'd ordinarily say it myself, but "up <place> way" or "over <place> way" or even "down <place> way" might work (you mea...