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on the Kebreni page, you provided this example:

[Źaiźiute kulseu] taradeu ḣiulte eśu.
The dancer [who married a commander] doesn't like him.

At first glance, I'd guess that the "him" refers to the Commander....is that it, or does it refer to a third person?

thanks.

On Earth, this doesn't come up much. sure it does. hence "the Other". My point is, how plausible is it for all the different races on Almea to be so damn nice to each other? And of course by nice I mean non-genocidal. maybe the genocidal era(s) were back before times covered by the website.

Zhen Lin wrote:In Malay, distinction is made between the two elder siblings, but not for younger ones.

Turkish is the same.
"older brother" and "older sister"
"younger sibling"

hwhatting wrote:

Rodlox wrote:
it helps very much.

ah...I think I understand now:

if there is, say, kb-m, you know its from k-t-m

You mean "if there is kt-m"?

yes.

sadly, I manage to confuse myself. sorry.

Somone without nipples would look very... incomplete to me. The same with eyebrows and fingernails, or the absence thereof. Ghost :) In the original Planet of the Apes movie, they didn't have eyebrows on any of the apes, except the one Taylor falls in love with. She had eyebrows, to make her more a...

tiny question: how can you tell if something is a paired consonant or not? ie, how do you distinguish if....*makes one up*...ktevim is [k][t] or [kt] does that make sense? I don't know whether I get you right here... As far as I can see, there are no consonant clusters in roots, at least in Arabic,...

To give an example of this, I'll use the root *K-T-V ("write"). If the pattern CoCeC (masc sg pres verb) is applied, it becomes kotev , meaning "I/You/He/She write(s)". The pattern CoCCim (masc pl pres verb) makes it kotvim "We/Y'all/They write". These exact same patterns can be applied to almost a...

Miekko wrote:Some Arabic carthograpers had South "up" on their maps, interestingly enough.

interesting.

Ancient Egypt also did the same..."I sail south to the mouth of the Nile".