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Korp has to be a loan from latin. Fråga has plenty of Germanic cognates - German frage for example.

Why is moon and water not the same number?

I'm from trans-øresund Scania. But what is the deal with the är/eru distinction? gender?

Whats the deal with är/eru? And why do you write a distinction between those if you don't pronounce it?


Cool dialect though!

Jutlandic is called jutish. And I am uncertain whether the Danish varieties don't need more subdialects. North jutish and south jutish are pretty different. And mid jutish is pretty close to insular danish. Within insular danish there is a big split between Zealandic and the rest of the islands. (ze...

Well it doesn't go any later than Generative Semantics. So it does stip around the mid seventies.

Pieter Seuren: Western Linguistics. That was the text book when I took a course on linguistic theories of the twentieth century five years ago.

Yupik is not a part of the socalled amerindian languages - which isnt a valid linguistic grouping anyhow. It is an Eskimo-aleutian language. And yes it is complicated but not more complicated than you can learn it just as you can learn any other language.

yeah something like that - split ergativity. where the ergativity is triggered by plurality of object.

An interesting mistake I have caught myself making quite a few times is to have spanish verbs agree with 3rd person plural objects instead of with their person singular subjects. I have done this both with first, second and third person singular subjects. e.g. "El perro mataron las gallinas" to mean...

This is why I dont understand Jehovah's Witnesses They’re as bad as Scientologists, in my opinion. It seems to be part of a series. I actually saw this episode. What really gets me is this: This should allow his growths to be removed without risk of heavy bleeding – satisfying his religious prohibi...

This one of Snoop teaching how to move "latino style" is even more funny , because its true. At least in Mexico this is how they dance, and the music they listen to. By the way i feel better know that I know that even snoop is prone to the same Guilty Pleasure as I am - namely the music of Valentin...

Was Nahuatl exceptional, or were/are there other langs like it (presumably in central and south america)? There were literary traditions although with corpora considerably smaller than for nahuatl in a number of mesoamerican languages including Mayan langauges such as Yucatec, K'iche', Kaqchikel, T...

Q. Why do linguists thinks it smart to omit vowel length and glottal stops from Amerindian and Oceanic langs, which I think is a real wind-up for learners. Q. He says Nahuatl ceased to be written, but apparently is still spoken. Seems odd, how? why? Usually if a language is written then it's relati...

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Aztec : quēn ticnequi "as you wish" xiquīza "go out!" zān quēma "only yes" titequih āxcān "we cut/work now" ahmo tlamantli "no thing" xicmati nichīhualo "know that I am done" (ungrammatical) zān cualli "just good" ma tihuicān "let's go" xinehnehemicān "walk! (pl.)" ticateh īca tehhua "we are with y...

In danish slesk originally means sycophantic, brownnosed, sucking up,

although recently I have heard it useed by young people in a geeneric meaning of "bad, unpleasant".

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Radagast wrote: In Mixe you call your grandchildren and you grandparents the same term.

Is Mixe a natlang? Where is it spoken? What family does it belong to?

It's a mexican natlang of the Mixe-Zoquean family.

In Mixe you call your grandchildren and you grandparents the same term.

In Mèlw there are terms for paternal ascending relatives but none for maternal (Mèlw culture is extremely patrilocal and children usually don't know their maternal grandparents). It has no words for maternal uncles or aunts either as they are also not part of the known family. Because melw society i...

On verbs Mèlw normally marks patients of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs alike. (but it has an inverse form to switch to an accusative system)Agents are marked differently. So its basically ergative. But in dependent clauses and in main clauses this marking and the topic system are likely to...

I was about to make a post in the gay topic stating that I am heterosexual but probably mostly for cultural reasons. I think that a large middle group could be either homo or heterosexual but i depends on the culture they grow up in which of the two they actually become. I feel very attracted to wom...

(my rephrasing of my Proffessor Una Cangers interpretation of Michel Launey) Michel Launey posits the interpretration that nahuatl syntax is largely understandable from a pragmatic viewpoint rather than a grammatical one. In nahuatl both nouns and verbs can function as a predicate of a sentence. In ...

I have just read a very interesting (and I believe correct) interpretation of the topicalisation-focus system of nahuatl. It touches upon some questions on the use of certain (p)articles that I have recently discussed shortly with !Pap. I will be using this interpretation in my thesis and I think it...

Nope. Mesoamerica is north of the equator. Sometimes they even live on the northside of a mountain so that north/upwards is in fact downhill and vice versa. The village where I did my fieldwork is in fact on the south side fo a mountain so it makes sense, but when I ask "what do they call north on t...