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Am I the only one to think of using "supralabials"?
AKA the tongue is placed between the upper gum and the upper lip. When drawn downwards, plosives and nasals can be produced. Not so sure about other manners of articulation though...

Could someone post a link for a recording of a bilabial approximant?

Yay thread revival!

Anyway, when I look at some languages, it seems like voice and mood seem to blend together.

And, causitivity doesn't have to be a voice. You can have regular active/passive AND causitive/non-causitive.

I can't seem to pronounce /r/. I use /r\/ for English, and when I try to speak Spanish, I end up pronouncing <rr> with a French accent: Spanish /r/ becomes French /R\/.

eodrakken wrote:The song appears to be American Pie. I'm far from knowledgeable about Verdurian, so someone else will have to tell you if any of it is correct or not.

Waah how'd you know?

When's the grammar going to go up?

As for gods or God, I like Neil Gaiman's observation: the universe rewards belief systems. Believe in omnipotent teddy bears, and you'll soon start finding evidence for omnipotent teddy bears. I take it the other way round. You can't believe in anything until you've seen some evidence for it, even ...

Have you gotten it yet? Apparently, no! Here's the refrain: Onlelán, onlelán, Ga Americana rit :ch ena Duisru :sh evî ad soán agbanán, ac so agban fue se :sh e Er cisefoi dobrî bomî pitrü koporul er seglim, Er :sh antnü "eto dëste dën im ktën :sh u :sh :ch mai," "Eto dëste dën im ktën :sh u :sh :ch ...

Hmm.
Does anybody know exactly what parrots *do* while articulating? Thy don't have lips, but I've heard them pronounce bilabials or pretty darn close.

My grammar's probably got a few holes, but here you go:
E didha lenge lsö
Epai suzanen kiel cealad’ea šesne sen rizir
Er šrifecao, dy ut tencerao cairam esë
Dy šesnai cecteli lavisir
Er, eššane, dëscelu lerežî fuáyul.
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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. Learn it just like any other language. Have...

Is a Civ IV mod possible? I'd love to play it.

My aunt Linda, who lives in Alaska, speaks Yupik. I'd like to learn, but as an amerindian language it's probably really complicated.

I read somewhere that [a] was a sound in every language. But now I have nagging doubts...

Start Verdurian language classes somewhere- I don't know where. Find some sponsers for expenses and make a free weekly course.

Hamsters, man. Hamsters rule.

English has a possesive pronoun for people-whose- but none for things, so we must say, "The skyscraper whose windows are blue." Maybe it could be something like, "The skyscraper whiches windows are blue."