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The only one I know of in Kebreni is neku cat, because I spotted it in the dead-tree LCK.

Montenegrin apparently has [s\ z\] as possible realisations of /sj zj/ which would therefore contrast with [S Z].

Going by Guy Deutscher's recollections of learning English in The Unfolding of Language the big stumbling block in English is the horrible mess of verb conjugation.

Iroha is the traditional order, but the earliest recorded ordering is the gojuon.

The S-row was originally [ts] and the H-row was originally [p], hence their placement in the Japanese gojuon.

Zeta got removed from the Latin alphabet around 300 BCE when Latin rhotacised all its [z]s and didn't need the letter anymore. It got reimported from Greek later on, hence why in pretty much all the languages of Europe it's pronounced "zed" or "zet".

Yeah, the thesis of what I was saying in response to Cockroach was that the argument was at crossed purposes because we're not learning languages for the same reasons. Not to split your split, but did you see the Romanian resources I recommended? Yes, the PDF is pretty useful. Might hop onto IRC in ...

I can't say I understand your logic here. Languages are dying in Australia with no teaching resources from which he could learn them to try and prevent them from dying, so he shouldn't learn a Romance language? My anger was more directed towards the overattention given to the study of romance langu...

The way consonants and vowels are ordered in Extreme East Asia (Japan and Korea) has a striking ressemblance to how phonemes are ordered in Ancient India. That's Sanskrit linguistics being carried by Buddhism via China into Japan and Korea. Most sources give the idea that Hangul is graphically base...

/ ʦ ʧ ʤ / - [ tc c dc ] Wouldn't it make more sense to use <c> for /ʦ/? That leaves /ʧ ʤ/ <tc dc> which seems to make more sense to me since it retains the voicing contrast for t/d. /w/ <v> is just wrong. On a more positive note, /f ð s ʒ/ looks like it has some interesting diachronics behind it - ...

Yng: I think it's a different verb form, myself, encoding something like the continuous aspect. Note that the reply to "You be nice to your sister!" is not "But I AM nice to her!", but "But I'm BEING nice to her!". Continuous imperative? Because of my heritage, I started out with a very confused ap...

I speak a language whose "standard" (if it can be called such) isn't spoken by anyone anymore. Nonetheless, here goes. (I won't try and construct a "phonetic" spelling, because that's a good way to get the bigger linguists to beat me up and take my lunch money.) I don't drop Hs (I hate misconstructi...

Yes, Qarau and Eynleyni are related. Anything higher-level should be considered Greenbergian. With one exception, left as a lagniappe for the truly crazy Almeologists. It doesn't involve Eastern though... it was hard enough to work backwards from Verdurian, I don't want to take it another step. :) ...

If it's English sound changes you want, there's some here . If anyone wants these in a listed / not roundabout form (some of those links reference the same change, which, at least, confused me at first), I've decided to list them out in regular notation: [...] Could anyone restore these sound chang...

You make the most convincing point thus far. As traders the Elenicoi would have experience with languages already, so they'd be perfectly suited to pick things up at least to the extent of being able to trade (and I bet the contents of their ship were pretty valuable too). I'm having trouble seeing ...

You don't quite get the problem, Zomp: Xinux has been going on about this on #almea, simply refusing to believe any of the anecdotal evidence we provide that people really can move to a country where they don't speak the language and pick it up over time. So saying "it's no worse" than something he...

I'm told that it's possible to be immersed in a culture where nothing you have learned from your culture applies to the one you've been put in and still adopt a broken form of the spoken language. I personally think this is bunkum - that'd be like asking me to memorise a book. How is it that the Ver...

What concepts are covered by preverbs? Could someone provide a list?

Request:

Sound changes from Proto-Germanic to German.

ConlangArtist wrote:I was talking about Chia Sha

Um... there's no such language as Chia-Sha. There's Chia languages and Sha languages. Have you actually looked at the language tree?

Personally, I'd like to see a Xurnash grammatical sketch. Not the religion. The language.

Though a map of Arcel and/or Nan wouldn't go amiss.

It's not the rocks. The reason we are able to date these things is due to molluscs. Yep, snails. However, there are no molluscs before 65 billion years ago, so we can speculate about the continent(s) on which they existed before that, but we can't say for sure. Thus the furthest back we can go, unle...

Good point...
What about VRML?

Although a history of the arrangement of the continents would be a good step... and even if the ilii/uesti don't have decent northern hemisphere maps, YOU, the supreme Bubba, the Ruler, he who supercedes even the ilii in power, wealth &c., Life and Death, Father Time and Mother Nature &c. have the b...

Fair enough... I apologise if I offended anyone.

British equivalent: You are under arrest for <crime>. You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defence if you do not say when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.