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(I'm still working on getting Southern Tsimshian and Gitksan.) I have Dunn's 1995 grammar at home. IIRC, he lists Gitksan forms for at least some lexemes. Not for the numerals, unfortunately. At least not in the 1979 grammar or the 1978 dictionary-- and I believe the 1995 grammar is just a rebindin...

Ahvaz is written in italics under "Western (Ma'lula)" making it look like a dialect of WNA. It should be (non-italicized) "Mandaic (Ahvaz)" or "Neo-Mandaic (Ahvaz)". Here's Tambora: 1 seena , 2 kálae , 3 nih , 4 kude-in , 5 kutélin , 6 báta-in , 7 kúmba , 8 koného , 9 láli , 10 saróne ( The Papuan L...

Just curious, how do you have access to such a quantity of new books on North American Indian languages? The NU and U. Illinois libraries are not gifted in those areas... I've spent several years collecting PDFs, particularly in areas of interest (which includes NAmerican languages). This stuff, th...

Chumashan (all extinct): Proto-Chumashan: *paka- , *eSkom- , *mVsiq(') , *Skum(')u , [>4 not given] Ineseño Chumash pakas̓ , 'iškom̓ , masɨx , skumu , yitipakas̓ , yitiškom̓ , yitimasɨx , malawa , spa , č̓iyaw Barbareño Chumash (you have this as "Chumash") pak'a , 'iškóm' , masix , skum'u , yitipak'...

Found a source for Osage: wį́xcį , ðǫǫpá , ðáabrį , tóopa , sáhta , šáhpe , hpéǫpa , hkíetoopa , lébrą hce wį́įke , lébrą ( Osage Grammar by Caroline Quintero) And just to finish off Siouan, might as well give the Assiniboine. This only differs from what you have in a few places, but IIRC Cumberland...

Coptic dialects (I couldn't find anything on Fayyumic :(): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Akhmimic: we sno khamᵊt ftau ? se sahᵊf ? ? met Bohairic: wai snau šomᵊt ftōw tiw sow šašᵊf šmēn psit mᵊnt Sahidic: wa snau šomᵊnt ftow tiw sow šašᵊf šmoun psis mᵊnt (I hope I've put the schwas in the correct places.) Th...

Some suggested changes/additions to the Aramaic section: "Classical Aramaic" isn't really a thing, per se. Ancient Aramaic dialects maybe were mutually comprehensible, I dunno, but scholars tend to mostly refer to the various Aramaic dialects more specifically. The transliterations for BA, JBA, JPA ...

The Caddo should get updated too. There is no dictionary of Caddo that I know of, but I e-mailed Wallace Chafe who is working on one, and he might be able to assist. Maybe. Fingers crossed. And here they are. :) 1 'wísts'i' 2 bit 3 dáháw' 4 híwí' 5 di:sik'an 6 dán:kih 7 bíssikah 8 dáhàw:sikah 9 híw...

For Ofo and Biloxi, you (or your source) seem to have used the Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages by Dorsey and Swanton. The Biloxi entries for 7 and 8 are wrong-- they're identical to the entries for 2 and 3. The reason for this is probably because 7 and 8 in Biloxi are derived from 2 and 3...

Some of your Siouan examples use pretty awful and (I'd guess) unhelpful orthographies, which I'm guessing you must've gotten from some older sources. Here are some better ones: Chiwere iyáŋki núwe dáñi dówe thátaⁿ šágwe šáhma grerábrį šánke grébraⁿ Kansa míⁿxci noⁿbá yábliⁿ tóba sátaⁿ shápe péyoⁿba...

Some of your Siouan examples use pretty awful and (I'd guess) unhelpful orthographies, which I'm guessing you must've gotten from some older sources. Here are some better ones: Chiwere iyáŋki núwe dáñi dówe thátaⁿ šágwe šáhma grerábrį šánke grébraⁿ Kansa míⁿxci noⁿbá yábliⁿ tóba sátaⁿ shápe péyoⁿba ...

The original post is ambiguous: the OP says gender rather than sex but notes a structure suggesting a difference in sex. Good heavens, people, words can have more than one meaning. "Gender", in addition to more restricted definitions in linguistics and in sociology, also has a common meaning entire...

"Much bigger"? Female spotted hyenas have a clitoris 90 percent as long and the same diameter as a male penis (171 millimeters long and 22 millimeters in diameter)... author John C. Wingfield stated that "the resemblance to male genitalia is so close that sex can be determined with confidence only b...

Iain M. Banks' novel The Player of Games has a humanoid alien race with three sexes. If I recall correctly, their equivalent of your B-gender had some kind of invertible genitalia that could function as both vagina and ovipositor. Apropos of nothing, however, did you know that female spotted hyenas ...

I never quite understood why certain authors (George R.R. Martin and Brian Jacques come to mind) feel the need to describe in minute detail what all the characters eat during each meal. My eyes tend to just skip over all that, especially since (owing to my own particular cultural culinary experience...

So if Spain wouldn't take the continent because there would be English colonies in America then why bother with changing the Gunpowder Plot, the point of which was to prevent there being English colonies in America?

So uhh is the Gunpowder Plot followed up by Guy Fawkes traveling back in time and assassinating Ferdinand of Castile or

My knowledge of this isn't very great, but as I recall the Five Civilized Tribes weren't the Five Civilized Tribes until they were the Five Civilized Tribes... before then, the Seminoles didn't exist yet, the Apalachee were more powerful (as were the "Coosa" and the "Cofitachequi", whoever they are)...

For what it's worth, in my experience studying Hebrew and Syriac I have never gotten the impression that underlying triconsonantal roots or templatic conjugations aren't "real" or "how it actually works" the way my Arabic-studying comrades often assert. And as for that comment from 2015, to me it re...

My two cents: I agree with Salmoneus and Whimemsz that the Iroquois Confederacy is a nonstarter-- however, I recently learned on Wikipedia that there's this other country in North America, called "Mexico", which had dealings with the Native Americans over both a wider area and a greater duration tha...

ObsequiousNewt, settle down, this is my mess I'll clean it up. ProTip: If you are unfamiliar with a particular poster's default posting style, try viewing a few of their other posts before trying to interpret one of them in isolation. Since you mention it!, I did in fact review Pole's post history b...

Some of you seem a little confused. Let me help. The word "moist" has been considered by some to be an exceptionally unpleasant word for some reason, enough so to justify news articles about it. I was making a post about its famous unpleasantness in order to make fun of Viktor's thread, and of the i...

As you may be aware, there is a certain word (which I am of course far above stooping to utter here) which is well known to be the most phonaesthetically unappealing word in the English language. This has been much commented on, and you might be tempted to say that, as with all unpopular turns of ph...

I just saw this in Catherine Callaghan's Northern Sierra Miwok Dictionary : /š/ is a voiceless palatal spirant, found in the exclamation ʔiš·o·! 'Scat' and an occasional loan word from English. That implies that before the other words were loaned from English, /š/ was found in only that one word. I ...

Whether it's oppressive or not rests on no matter of fact at all but rather on whether we consider it justified or not. So oppression is just "that which we, the progressive tribe, don't like". Rational people have no need for such categories. the details of why it *is* western colonialism are exce...