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apologies for not using your transcription ... i might have to edit this later on a mobile phone where not all of the IPA's show up... underdot means dental, and i've lowered the pharyngeal sign to a full size letter. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ As usual I recommend using conditional changes. I think it would be fea...

That's a good one. I saw the same story with the word "eats" in all caps which helped me parse it but it still has the same words.

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Imralu wrote:Does anyone know of another English word with /ln/ in a coda? I can only think of the name Milne.

They're pretty hard to come by, but gamers have come up with "invuln".

vuln is a word , and seems to have been coined twice for two meanings ... one is jargon; the other, simply an uncommon word.

There are some conlangs that could be analyzed as having gendered verbs. In Late Andanese, one of my oldest conlangs, verbal gender is explicitly tied to the first syllable of the stem of the verb. If a verb begins with hi- , it is feminine, no questions asked. Therefore, the verb himu "to tax" is f...

Sorry for my bad typing. So, it seems that the gender suffix takes different forms based on the shape of the final two syllables of the stem, but does not change for the gender of the possessum. Does that mean gender on a noun is part of the stem, not overtly marked by a suffix? Is there a way to te...

I do this a lot with Khulls.i think the grammar setup is similar,m e.g. inanimate objects have gender, although when possessed they take an affix that marks their own gender as well as that of the owner, not just person and number. Likewise with animates ,... in a transitive verb, there is an affix ...

The phonology isn't far off from that of Hawaiian or Tahitian, but those languages have significant allophones .... even [t]~[k], for example. One note, though: one reason why bilabial consonants are common is that they're less variable... there isn't much you can do with a /p/ without making it som...

Thank you : ) Update: redid the vocab for late Andanese from scratch.... vagina means "snowman" now instead of just "snow", and is invariable rather than being just an optional free variant of another word. But Late Andanese word space is pretty much used up ... *any* phonologically valid word is gu...

That's hardly an explanation. How does that account for the lack of *bʰ...t roots? And why the overrepresentation of *bʰr-, when it only accounts for about a quarter of all roots beginning with *bʰ in total? Well, you could ask the same questions about other root shapes. E.g., why are roots ending ...

Because there was no /b/. Whether you believe in b>bh, allophonic aspiration, or neither , I think this is best explained by assuming /bh/ is taking the place of */b/. Sorry for bump, I will quote the post when I get a chsnce. Is there no evidence of breathy consonants in Iranian? Martin Kümmel sugg...

Just saying "widely" is clear in context, I think.sorry can't comment on the rest of the post.

I think the unvoiced stop series was aspirated in earlier PIE. This would give a much saner stop system: Tʰ : T~D : Dʰ. - The constraint against late PIE 'b' could be explained by assuming that the labial stops were always aspirated in early PIE. according to _ evidence of a consonant shift in 7th ...

I think it's unclear whether the husband has to pay more to get the card or whether the wife has to pay more to get it for him.

I haven't been posting here lately but I got a dream I thought was real as first : A guy I know from YouTube&other sites who disappeared awhile back turned up on Jeopardy and that was the reason why he disappeared. He also placed last, but considered it victory since he had beat many other hopefuls ...

i think it's at least plausible. Imagine: 3) I had to write my phone number to ensure people got it right . 4) The rite of baptism is so-called because it sets a man right with God. 5) A millwright is the one who rights (erects) the mill. Meaning #3 is the most common of the latter ones, and the ear...

Consider also a chain shift: maybe plain nasals turn to something else (e.g. nasalized fricatives /β̃ ð̃/), while the voiceless nasals turn into new plain nasals. I don't believe in nasalized fricatives. All langs claimed to have them have other explanations. E.g. in umb7ndu, it's just /v/ patterni...

Conlanging fills in the gaps between my thoughts ... whether Im working 40 hours a week or zero, I have about the same amount of ideas to work with. Right now Im doing a bit more than average because Ive sidelined all of my other hobbies, and therefore have been getting back to reviving projects I h...

Will singular "they" be as acceptable as singular "you" currently is in formal English in the future? I wish it would. In a commercial I heard "Your doctor wouldn't do your job, so why should you do hers." I love that commercial. They do have a versions of the commercial with a male doctor as well,...

There's definitely some diachronuc morphology that's engrained in the derivational morphology. E.g. rendaku comes from the genitive linking particle /no/, but from a time when it was pronounced /nə/. Exceptions like /amembo/ "lollipop " show that even newly coined words may use old tricks of word bu...

There's some attestation for use of augmentatives to signify agent nouns in Spanish. e.g. llorón = "crybaby", not *"big crying". That said, those are nouns, not verbs, and Altrunian looks very unlike Spanish or any other IE language. I also agree that you seem confused ... the term "augment" can ref...

An ancient fragment of PIE poetry has been found in a cave high in the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. It reads as follows: H₂óu̯is h₁éḱu̯ōskʷe h₂áu̯ei̯ h₁i̯osméi̯ h₂u̯l̥h₁náh₂ né h₁ést, só h₁éḱu̯oms derḱt. só gʷr̥hₓúm u̯óǵʰom u̯eǵʰed; só méǵh₂m̥ bʰórom; só dʰǵʰémonm̥ h₂ṓḱu bʰered. h₂óu̯is h...

I think putting Malachi last is important for Christians because it ends with the prophecy of the return of Elijah, the forerunner to the Messiah. Even so, i can see the logic behing separating Psalms/Proverbs/etc from those others, since they aren't generally thought of as being part of a historica...

drime.a3nm.net says none, and I even tried making the final /i/ syllabic. Perhaps there was once a sound change that el iminated preexisting/ yi/, since I'd think it'd be common in diminutuves.

Bafiapombwefi, tši labbiompirumbi.
I took my diphenhydramine pills, then went to bed.

I couldn't find info on Wikipedia at all, but it might be a Southern (or south-central?)trait, based on garysk's post and an early board member from the Shreveport LA area.