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Correct.

Correct.

Nope.

1. I also have problems with not liking my phonologies, which generally means that there aren't any voicing distinctions in obstruents without some other manner of articulation distinctions as well (which often means a single stop and fricative series) 2. More generally, I hardly ever have more than...

This should be a good deal more obscure than my last one. ban yey-na=y’ɬi kos ona-ra-na-wa=y’ɬi choy rey di’ jayna koro’ man'-cho kos wa:ka-wandi no-kos didi’ alpani-wa=y’ɬi [EA: choy rey] (I would provide a gloss, but something in the text (and possibly the gloss) is preventing the glossing functio...

I'm not going to post a reply right now because I'm on my phone and it's nearly midnight and I want to actually get some sleep now. I will come up with and.post something tommorow, if that's alright with you.

Lhao Vo? (Ethnologue won't let me in now)

Not unless this one's wrong: Achang?

Lahu, then.

Right, I'm gonna take a punt: Lisu?

Oh come on!
Let's do this properly. Is it spoken in China?

OK, I think I may have this. Jingpho?

Tibeto-Burman?

Oh now you're just taking the piss! Mon-Khmer.

OK, Tai-Kadai?

Is it Hmong-Mien?

Iu Mien?

Damn! How did you get it so fast? (should put a bit more thought into it next time!)

Here's the source:

http://tlingitlanguage.com/wp-content/u ... eixh-2.pdf

"Possible" sure, but it seems odd to suggest that people didn't use the incredibly-conspicuous land bridge when the genetic dates for their departure and subsequent divergence match so well the known dates for the appearance and subsequent disappearance of said land bridge, don't you think? If it w...

Oh wow, got it on my first go!

Anyway, here goes.

Aan yátx’u sáani. Aan yátx’u sáani, king̱eestí ax̱ saayíx̱ sitee. Shangukeidí naax̱ x̱at sitee. xeitl Hítdáx̱, kaawdliyaayi Hít, ḵa Shís’g̱i Hít yoo áwé koogéi haa hítx’i jilḵáatx’, Tlákw Aan.

I think I'm stuck now, so I'll just make a (semi) random guess of Soqotri.

South Semitic?

Omotic, then.

Cushitic?

Frisland, where my conlang Frislandian is spoken, is in about the same position as Iceland: it's too far out to sea for many refugees to make it over, but it has chosen to accept some, around 100 or so.