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Richard W wrote:I still think *H survives word initially in German as /ʔ/. 'Vowel initials' alliterated in Old English; they don't in Modern English, so we're talking about a Germanic phenomenon rather than a German innovation.

this argument sounds pretty thin tbh

here's a couple texts from that same book, as well as glossaries for them: parable of the sower Hê stôde imu thô bi ênes uuatares staðe, ni uuelde thô bi themu gethringe oƀar that thegno folc an themu lande uppan   thea lêra cûðean, ac geng imu thô the gôdo endi is iungaron mid imu, friðubarn godes,...

what's the difference between jetzt and nun?

I understand that it's cost-prohibitive, but I wish the recordings were performed by real people instead of robo-synthesizers

what might cause an unvoiced consonant/cluster at the beginning of a word to voice?

transemilian is still in its formative stages but the longest word i can construct with what i have so far is a number: Цу каӭлканцо шкакэ эігрімтёчнамғьдэкмомлъянщамфтеусулӭмгрімклэеньтлаздінь сталве. /tsu kajɛl'kantso 'ʃkakɛ ɛigrintjoˌtʃnamʝdɛˌkmomljaɲˌʃtʃamɸtɛusuˌʎɛmgrinklɛiɲ'tlazdiɲ 'stalβe/ цу ...

if someone doesn't like their name they have the right to go by a different one. you don't have the right to decide for yourself that their reasons for changing their name don't meet your personal criteria for validity, and call them by a name they've explicitly told you they don't want to be called...

"who do you think you are to change your name"? it's my fucking name, who do you think you are to tell me what i can do with it People can have opinions about things, you know. I can have an opinion on you changing your name, and you can have an opinion on the clothes I am wearing. Having an opinio...

are you the arbiter of what is pretentious now? i don't remember voting for you

"who do you think you are to change your name"? it's my fucking name, who do you think you are to tell me what i can do with it

i fully support changing your name as much as you goddamn want to

Natqgu /p b t d k g ʔ~h/ <p b t d k g q> /m n ŋ/ <m n ñ> /v~β s/ <v s> /ʤ/ <j> /l w j/ <l w y> /i u e a o/ <í ú é á ó> /ʉ ə æ ɞ ɔ/ <i e a u o> /ə̃ ɔ̃ ɞ̃ ã/ <ẽ õ ũ ã> vowel length <Vh> /gɔt ɞpile naːɞlapæbəle nigu mə əmatʉ sɔ enʉmi ɞgu kɔŋ tətɞkalɞ-ŋɞdɞ nigu./ <Got upílé náhulápabelé nígú me emáti s...

Hixkaryana

/m n ɲ/ <m n ñ>
/p b t d tʃ ɟ k/ <p b t d ch ll k>
/ɸ s ʃ h/ <f s sh j>
/ɾ ɽˡ/ <r rr>
/j w/ <y w>

/e ɯ u ɔ æ/ <e i u o a>

/bɯɽˡekɔmɔ jɔtæhæhɔnɔ wɔsɯ tɯɲɔ wjæ/
<Birrekomo yotajajono wosi tiño wya>

who?

the Novel Proteins would be a great band name

that post is over a year old, it happens

wait, what the fuck? did you just recommend The Bell Curve to people

did you seriously just fucking make that post

Sumelic wrote:Why is the Hindu woman speaking in Arabic script rather than Devanagari?

finlay wrote:it's horrifically racist

not really sure how this is different from the Sound Change Game thread tbh. "erosion" is really just a value judgement of sound change

V'eng kvuʼ [kβuʔ] Transemilian фу [ɸu]
V'eng sʼoles [tsʼɔgʟɛs] Transemilian цоглэі [tsoˈglɛi]
V'eng tvulëʼal [tβugʟɪʔagʟ] Transemilian фуляул [ɸuˈʎaul]
V'eng xʼasagal [kxʼasaɣagʟ] Transemilian хасағаул [xasaˈɣaul]

Hathe thîchèku [θɪˤːtʃə̥ˤku̥ˤ] Transemilian сiчаку [sɛtʃa'ku]
Hathe ichiye [ʔiʒiː] Transemilian iжи [i'ʒji] эімiжи [ɛimi'ʒji] "the iжи"
Hathe ichîche [ʔɪˤʒɪˤːʒəˤ] Transemilian iжiжа [ɛʒi'ʒa]
Hathe thichêvèthe [θɪˤʒɛˤːʋəˤðəˤ] Transemilian сiжэваза [sɛʒɛ'βaza]

It seems reasonable to assume there was at one time a celtic substrate for dutch or its predecessor. After all, if not celtic then what? The celts appear to have been neighbours to the germans, and the Netherlands are outside the core germanic region, so it's likely that sometime around 1000BC say ...

wow, nice

is there a de-SCA somewhere? a Sound Change Reverser? it would be nice to be able to insert the rules and the results and get back a list of possible origins