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It intrigues me how they arrived at that date: it seems implausibly late, just on the evidence of early post-conquest English scribal habits.

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Eeeh, it's possible , but not incontrovertible. The evidence that Gaulish /u/ was either realised [y] (or tended toward a more front realisation than Latin's /u/) is in the main derived from: - the fact that in the Brythonic languages we see universal fronting of the corresponding phonemes. If you a...

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Weak nouns In contrast to strong nouns, weak nouns are generally devoid of difficulties. Underlyingly, they all end in a sequence of a vowel and a consonant, and to this inflectional elements are added: there is no pattern-changing as one sees in the strong nouns. Complications arise when the surfa...

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. . . The primary culprits are those with a medial or final weak consonant: w y m n ʔ - particularly galling is the fact that ʔ doesn't even have a surface instantiation in Qôni, having been lost in the transition from Achaunese. Query, Why not just analyze a /ʔ/, with the following allophones: Giv...

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I'm only familiar with two collaborative works that have had long-term success (CCC is a bit too recent to say whether it's got staying power or not): Akana and Ill Bethisad. Neither originally began as expressly collaborative conworlds. I think this might have something to do with it: both grew org...

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Some Verdurian words are invented from scratch (e.g. mazhtana or elir 'life'); others I stole mostly from French and Russian. This was even more evident in the earliest versions of the language. It was also rather harder to pronounce, since I tended to import the Russian consonant clusters and pala...

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Here, knock yourself out.

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In this post, we discuss: Nouns Nouns in Qôni distinguish two genders and two numbers: masculine and feminine, singular and plural. Gender is not entirely predictable from the phonetic shape of a noun, rather it generally obtains only as a concord phenomenon. There are three overarching declensions ...

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So, this is my triconsonantal root language, the one I've been working with on and off for a few years now. Strictly speaking, it's one of my triconsonantal root languages, as I've been elaborating the entire family at once. Qôni, however, is probably the most developed. It began life as an attempt ...

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sasasha wrote:How is that a dead language? It certainly doesn't deserve the past tense. The people making all that media daily use and define what is Manx, not what was Manx.

Sirdanilot is not the kind of person to let actual facts on the ground get in the way once he's made up his mind.

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'atā barūq wi-'atki
My dad's stronger than your dad.

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/ʔakˀawˈnija/ /p t kʲ k ʔ/ /b d gʲ g/ /pˀ tˀ kˀʲ kˀ/ /s xʲ x h/ /w j ɣ/ /r l/ /a aː i iː u uː/ Stress is regular, on any final closed syllable, otherwise the penult. Syllable structure is CV(C), with obligatory onset. /ˈgʲaːji waˈnakˀkˀi raˈsaːbu biramˈraːta bitˀˈluːda nagʲaˈjiːrtaː ʔiˈdaw kittalˈba...

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Also, I've seen sowewhere PIE "eight" analyzed as "two fours". I've seen that, too, but I can't seem to find who suggests it. Adams and Mallory discuss the suggestion in The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World , but they don't cite whose idea it was original...

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Nuvsëë nonšaa nąvarpe čolamä.

nO-

NEG-

p-

3.INAN-

sëë

cook

-a

-SUB

nunčë

egg

-aaʔ

-GEN

nąvar

albumen

-pE

-3SG

čola

gross

-mÄ

-COP.3SG

Uncooked egg whites are gross.

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Nort, Nannalu, don't be dicks. Birdlang, check your social skills are in place: re-reading this might be helpful. Thank you! I like that you stepped in as a moderator and stopped the situation. Don't over-egg the pudding. Ensure that you are also behaving in a way that doesn't give rise to the situ...

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Nort, Nannalu, don't be dicks. Birdlang, check your social skills are in place: re-reading this might be helpful.

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Dhivehi.

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Basically, but cows are only female, technically. Cattle is the only word that strictly refers to the whole species, while you have other words like bulls, oxen and calves for different variations on sex and age. Fucking amazing. In my idiolect of circa a few hours ago cow referred to the species a...

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/ˈdzeftis teftuˈʝiɣa/ Consonants: /p t c k/ /b~v d~ð ɟ~ʝ g~ɣ/ The voiced stops and fricatives are in complementary distribution, with the stops occuring phrase-initial and following nasals, and the voiced fricatives after a vowel.) /f s ç x/ /m n/ ([ɲ ŋ] occur as allophones of /n/ before palatals an...

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A quick glance at wiktionary indicates that the names of parts of speech at least in Persian are borrowed from Arabic, yeah. Beyond that, I would guess that terminology of more recent vintage (x-bar theory, etc) would either be borrowed from or calqued upon the English.

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Is there any reconstruction of the Proto-Celtic verb you base this on, or are you directly going from some reconstruction of the PIE verb? (The t-Preterite looks like your base is some Proto-Celtic, anyway.) It was mixing the available info on the Wiki page for Proto-Celtic, and this page: https://...

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Manx is about as alive as Latin or Coptic or Ancient Greek. Probably less so even. People have meta-knowledge of it but do people actively use it to buy a loaf of bread or tell their children to shut up? I don't think so. If people don't use their language in that way then you can consider it dead....

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Yes. "Behind." On account of "in back of" being totally ungrammatical. "At the back of" is fine, but I have never encountered "in back of" in any medium whatsoever. Where is this current?

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Valdeut wrote:it could just be foreign-sounding nonsense (is there a term for that sort of conlang-with-only-a-phonology?).

Yes.

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sirdanilot wrote:Good lord, are you a moderator or something? I do hope not.

He's not. He just totally lacks people skills.

For what it's worth, "Indo-Europeanist" is indeed the standard term for specialists in the fields of comparative IE linguistics.

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