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Boozhoo miinawaa! Niminwendaan dash geyaabi ginanda-gikendaan iw ojibwemowin! Bayetooj dash niin gaawiin ingii-nanda-gikendaasiin iw ojibwemowin in basically two years (and I can't figure out how to translate "for the last two years" or the like...dammit!). Wayiiba biskaabiikan miinawaa imaa #ishar...

Boozhoo miinawaa! Niminwendaan dash geyaabi ginanda-gikendaan iw ojibwemowin! Bayetooj dash niin gaawiin ingii-nanda-gikendaasiin iw ojibwemowin in basically two years (and I can't figure out how to translate "for the last two years" or the like...dammit!). Wayiiba biskaabiikan miinawaa imaa #ishari...

why?

A first level sentence from this subgroup often cooccurs with one or more exclamation points. All letters are often written in capital letters. Consider the following examples:

Discount !; ATTENTION !!!; WARNING !

haha, what

Depends on the context for me. It's fine if used of people or other living things ("Take the two of them to school"). If you were handing me two random objects, saying "take the two of them" would sound weird, though ("take them/these" or "take both of these" would be what I'd expect in this case). ...

Yeah, I'd say something like that. "If/when you see so-and-so, tell them I said/say hi".

I've never heard either of those usages, ever (except for the song). I was not aware they existed. :\

This is great and your work on Cuhbi is great. I hope everyone, especially our conlanging newbs, reads through this as an example of what truly excellent conlanging work looks like. You have different lects (women's versus men's speech); extensive cultural background taken into account when designin...

If the language permits null onsets, another option is something like /ari/ (or /eri/, depending on the English accent you're representing)

...weird.

Anyway it's supposed to look like this

Click wrote:

Whimemsz wrote:Okay, I totally missed the part where rounding was harmonic and not strictly phonemic. Yeah, your change is probably fine.

You are alive :)

bows

Some updates/corrections to the PA > Shawnee changes. First, note that Miller's paper is quite old, and some of the information is outdated (e.g., there's no such thing as Proto-Central Algonquian, Shawnee isn't necessarily closest to Fox-Sauk-Kickapoo, and some of the reconstructions are inaccurate...

Okay, I totally missed the part where rounding was harmonic and not strictly phonemic. Yeah, your change is probably fine.

In general, if any part of the vowel system needs "uncrowding" it's going to be the lower part. Eliminating the lower mid series is fine, but it's not very likely that it would happen by overcrowding the open series. (Also, obligatory warning that /ɶ/ is not a phoneme in any known language.) Anyway,...

This is a good idea.

I will take this opportunity to link to a very similar analysis I did last year for an Ojibwe story.


(Also, hello)

You can probably appeal to rhinoglottophilia if you need to justify it.

Esmelthien: yes, though you can easily do away with a number of the intermediate steps (ɹj > ɽʲ > r is fine on its own, really)

argument from incredulity, viktor

In Algonquian languages, which mostly have a direct-inverse alignment system, complement clauses are basically treated as "objects" (though the category "object" doesn't really play an important role in Algonquian grammar generally). Afaict, the matrix verb is normally a VTI verb (transitive verb wi...

if you are incapable of handling interaction with people who don't bother to sugar-coat their demolitions of your statements, I suppose it is your loss because you will learn very little

deprive? divest?

The lack of the third person agreement marker isn't a mistake in the second example. In Mɛdíṭṣai the verb agrees with one argument, which can be the actor in the direct voice or a patient in the inverse voice. In the second example, agreement is with the 2nd person patient rather than a 3rd person ...

Well, politics involves lots of words like gobierno and presidente that are pretty easy for an English speaker to pick up (because of, you know, the whole thing where both languages share a bunch of cognate Latinate terms for high-register topics, like politics). So we return to the point that discu...

Woo, got my copy!

Incidentally, now that the book's out, you should really update the resources page on the website; it's almost a year out of date now (while most of the sites don't seem to have vanished, a few have, like Geoff's planet-creation guide).

I finally read through this (and I apologize for not doing so sooner!). It's really detailed, well-thought-out, believable, and interesting, as I've come to expect from you. Great work. I know so little about SVCs, and this is well enough done, that I don't have many other comments. The few I do hav...

I think I would actually say "sleptwalk", with inflection only on the first element, but that could be the natural outcome of a cluster simplification rule in my dialect. That sounds decidedly wrong to me. On the other hand, "sleepwalked", though not ungrammatical, also sounds pretty awkward and no...