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I think we should go on with the migration map above. Personally I'm not sure if that will work... SINCE we don't know what the water levels have been like. I think we were saying how the water levels were much lower before to allow the evolution of "normal" animals and the actual migration of peopl...

Theta wrote:Fronting of /u/ is a feature of several English dialects, not just Australian.

It mostly happens in Australia, New Zealand and certain dialects of British English (i.e. Cockney) AFAIK, it's not really common in North America...

Theta wrote:No, I live in the Southeastern United States. I've never even been in the Southern Hemisphere, actually.
My transcriptions of my English speech tend to be pretty broad, so that might not be the *actual* phonetic value of the vowel.

Oh, I see... That [ʉ] there had me confused there for a while...

Theta wrote:My /o/, however, is something like [ɞʉ]...

Do you, by any chance, happen to be Australian?

Not sure if this has been brought up yet, but I'm imagining the way most untrained English speakers cannot pronounce pure [e] or [o]. This drove me crazy in the third Indian Jones film. All of Cate Blanchett's efforts to sport a convincing Russian accent are completely undone by her inability to pr...

(over a month later...) :P ...Aymara is, with Quechua, one of very few languages where speakers seem to represent the past as in front of them and the future as behind them. Their argument is situated mainly within the framework of conceptual metaphor, which recognizes in general two subtypes of the...

I have a few serious questions about this migration map migrations1.PNG Is it valid? If it is, it should be uploaded to the wiki asap. Are we (for sure) using this migration theory and applying it in Istion history, cause I need to create my people's history and I need to be 100% certain to get any...

I've been keeping up with this project and it's pretty interesting. No chance I could be a late joiner and take up this slice here? I'm ok with you joining too. :) Has anyone suggested thematic features for the western languages yet? So far we have agreed on palatalization, 5 to 7 vowels and inflec...

Caleone wrote:Hwairinese: āyākī [aːjaːkiː]

Txala: âyâkî [aː.jaː.kiː] <Same thing actually...>

@Torco - Can I, too, have my islands posted in an enlarged pic, please?

BTW, Commander Beta, if you want to have a few more islands, feel free to migrate a bunch of your people over into my area. We are supposed to be allies after all, and so population mixing would help with that. Mmm... that sounds good! :) Maybe a portion of the population (like 30 or 35 percent) of...

BTW, Commander Beta, if you want to have a few more islands, feel free to migrate a bunch of your people over into my area. We are supposed to be allies after all, and so population mixing would help with that. Mmm... that sounds good! :) Maybe a portion of the population (like 30 or 35 percent) of...

Claims map thus far: - Orange: Me - Red: Torco - Light Green: Astraios - Yellow: valiums - Pink: Lyhoko Leaci - Black: cybrxkhan - White: Theta - Teal(-ish): Amuere - Olive Green: Ollock (claims in dispute in-universe are to the left of the dashed line) Did I miss anybody's claims? The crimson part...

#star systems... mmmm, don't much care, to be perfectly honest, as long as we have one. I have a little surprise for yourself and the rest of you on that! It will be finished and uploaded in the next 24 hours or so... :wink: Yeah, I'm just giving suggestions, I was going to make my language with a ...

@ Astraios & L'Alphabetarium : You guys are both in the same Sprachstzschbund as me (right?), so do you guys want to do like a single proto-lang that we each work off of or just start off with our own languages and just make them have similar areal features? I could work just fine with both, so it'...

@ Astraios & L'Alphabetarium : You guys are both in the same Sprachstzschbund as me (right?), so do you guys want to do like a single proto-lang that we each work off of or just start off with our own languages and just make them have similar areal features? I could work just fine with both, so it'...

@Cap'n Straio ( :P ) - We should PM as soon as possible to clear out our islands, nations, etc. If we're going to be under the same rule (or allied countries sharing islands) we need to figure out ʍich is ʍich and ʍo's ʍo! :wink: PM me, Commander Beta! I don't have a lot of time during the week; ev...

@Torco - Your migration proposal seems perfect to me! I have nothing to add or change in it. :) @Cap'n Straio ( :P ) - We should PM as soon as possible to clear out our islands, nations, etc. If we're going to be under the same rule (or allied countries sharing islands) we need to figure out ʍich is...

OK, OK, Torco, how did the vote turn out on the "referendum". Can we officially say we're doing the sprachbunds? If so, I say we work up all the proposals and vote. And after that we need a way for the groups to each get together and figure out their areal features. And we have to figure out some w...

On the sprachchchchththhchbunds, my suggestion is to divide Torco's #2 into two separate groups - not just two related subgroups -, one on the west and one on the east, because there's something of a gap of large sea separating them. I was refering to Rodlox's proposal, not yours. But, since my spr...

@Rodlox - Better this way?

Might I suggest that we also set up considerations as to where we start and how much history we develop at a time, like Etheria is doing. It would make reconciling cultural interactions much easier. I second that! If it's going to be a collaboration work we all need to know what everybody else's do...

@Astraios - You took my best choice! :cry: Want to share? We could have two peoples that are allied as one nation or something. Hey, that sounds cool! :D We could expand to certain free western and southern islands and have our people share the two main big ones in the western half of your area. Ki...

I can't believe it! I take my eyes off that thing for less than 24 hours and it's already having a map and people claiming land?! I've lost count with all these 3 pages of news in the past few hours ( :evil: ) which islands are free to claim and how are we going so far? @Astraios - You took my best...

I can't believe it! I take my eyes off that thing for less than 24 hours and it's already having a map and people claiming land?! I've lost count with all these 3 pages of news in the past few hours ( :evil: ) which islands are free to claim and how are we going so far? @Astraios - You took my best...