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ryssa on paska, suomi on paras eks de de de
wisdom can only be achieved through ES

Thank you for the contribution friend :^)

The Gaels got highland-clearanced away. Genocide does tend to invalidate the model, yes.

I don't know what this is but it made me misremember 'haedus' instead of 'haemus' causing one of my conlangs to develop a word for 'blood' with no reasonable etymology! This makes me rather incensed.

I think he rather meant that Western Europe isn't a traditional zone for language isolates, unlike say the Laotian highland or Papua New Guinea. Even some erstwhile prestigeous romance languages have disappeared or nearly disappeared in that region, but somehow this ancient tartessic or vasconic wha...

Those valiant, intelligent Magi Parabroti! How they must lie in sad oppression at the hands of the - I shudder to say the it - Antibroti... Maybe a more fitting name for these fascistics could be found, one emphasizing their outdated, exploitative nature, and their penchant for violence... Death... ...

Nyúro n'Króytspyrk n'Détroytas byoys Germynník la.
I have heard Kreuzberg is the Detroit of Germany.

Yeah, that's basically my question.

I fail to see why three distinctions make the same phonology, differing allophonically, while one distinction makes two different and more distant phonologies; I gather this makes me illiterate. Sorry

Three differences are less distant than 1?

Rhetorica wrote:...for some reason linguists only ever seem to observe paucal and dual numbers...

Welsh? Arabic? Nilo-Saharan?

That seems pretty likely. I don't know a lot about Turkish verbs but I wouldn't be surprised if they're the cause of this. Turkish's influence on the Balkans cannot be underestimated in the linguistic sphere (but is very easily overestimated in the genetic)

The phoneme /zgzdɣʷ/ is, I'm told, rather rare in natural languages, but stands tall as the most common reflex of the rhotic consonant in some conlang I just made up

Your point is really bolstered by the lack of capitalization and punctuation. It gives off a air of ennui and "I can't even" that would make even the most uptight tumblerite guffaw. I give your post a 10/10 and have recommended it to all my acquaintances. God bless you for this post, my man. May you...

Nortaneous wrote:z > ts seems like a pretty implausible change

German begs to differ.

z > ts is cool. you can use it to introduce consonant gradation in a romance language, e.x.

casum > káso > kás > kás > kɑ́s

casōs > kásos > kázəs > kátsə > káts

This evolved from Latin?

Oh, found another. Central Miyako has /m n p t k ɾ f s ʋ/, which is 9 consonants. Also notable for allowing fricatives, nasals, and /ʋ/ to be syllable nuclei, as well as allowing initial geminates, and overlong consonants can also appear. Just looked it up. Wow. Doesn't look at all Asian (or even h...

You're asking if ɔ > wɑ by itself is an exceptional change. Why not? Spanish had o > we without affecting its other vowels.

Terms are reciprocal.

Bulgarian has this

Child: Babo, iskam kiselo mlyako (grandma, I want yogurt)
Grandmother: Vednaga babo! Edno kiselo mlekce (immediately grandchild! an yogurt)

Weren't aztec names like "three-snake" and "seven-eagle" and stuff? I think there should be a thread about names cross-culturally. In some cultures they're inherited familially, other ones they can be assigned freely, some times they are adjectives (hrabur chernorizets), sometimes nouns+adjectives (...

I never said v>b / #_, _#, _C, C_. In Baltic, Slavic, and German what jmcd calls "v" was pronounced in those positions. In Baltic and Slavic furthermore "v" was pronounced even in the intervocalic position. All these point to a reconstruction of jmcd's "v" as /b/. You're being incredibly obtuse so ...

Do you make a hobby of stalking my profile for new posts to express righteous liberal wrath at? IE languages trend from agglutinative (pre-proto-IE) to fusional to analytic. Bulgarian is someway between fusional and analytic in its nouns and fusional verbally. Changing verb slot order is agglutinati...