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I'm asking about these because of the hiatuses appearing in these words. Also, the word Chewie and similar for Poles Maui have a recently imported [ɥ] sound, especially in declined forms, and I wonder about pronunciation details of one of them in its source language.

*huh. Just realised that I have different vowels in 'quaff' and 'quantum'. And 'scoff' vs 'dog'. It's... raising before fricatives, maybe? No - before /f, v, T, D/ and maybe /t/ and /S/? It's certainly not phonemic, anyway, but saying two words in succession the difference is in some cases quite ma...

So Haleza Grise wrote:six?! How many damn distinct coronal fricatives does one language need?!

[whisper]Six is just fine for Polish, but Russian thinks it's not enough and has seven or sometimes eight. Don't even ask the Caucasians, some people can't probably count up to these numbers.[/whisper]

T'peux pas, j'ai les... Oh, tu dis des beaux ongles, pas des ongles comme ces à moi.
EDIT: I can't remember about putting a translation:
You can't, I have the... Oh, you're speaking of nice nails, not ones like mine.

hwhatting wrote:Ach tak!
Oh, I see!

I'd rather use a no tak or a no racja, maybe even a no ([aˈn̪œːː˨˥] for me).

kanejam wrote:Ce serait cool si je peux pratiquer le maori avec quelqu'un. [/b]
It would be cool to have someone to practise Māori with.

Primo la scuola.
The school first.

*Je ne peux pas trouver une traduction pour 'swahili', donc j'en ai créé une. Et le swahili vient de mémoire, donc j'ai probablement fait des bêtises. Et des nouilles sont miam-miam. * I can't find a transaltion for 'Swahili', so I created one. And the Swahili comes from memory, so I have probably ...

I wonder what counts as a "bigger state". Is Portugal (pop. 10.3 million) too small? If so, what's the cutoff? Well, I don't exactly remember that, but I think the author didn't want to count rminor languages which just have too few speakers to be diversified, which I don't think Portuguese belongs...

The problem is people really tried hard to speak properly during the communist period in Poland and many adults raised in this time have a weird feeling of what is appropriate and good. Do people in other, especially Anglophone countries care less about that as there existed and still exists regiona...

Today I went shopping with my mom and, during a talk, used a non-standard form of past tense (for those interested: "żem poszedł" instead of "poszedłem"). Everything went ok until evening, when she told me not to speak in such a "disgusting" manner, because "I sound like a peasant boy and teach my b...

Dunno where you got that Eichmann pronunciation from, it is also pronounced with a soft ch. (Check on Wikipedia)

linguoboy wrote:But if you want me to point you to some spontaneous examples of native Irish, I can do that easily enough.

Whaddaya exactly mean by that?

I think you wanted to say "Are you sure you weren't with Hopper?" Да, я просто не знал, можко ли так сказать тоже по-английски. Yes, I just didn't know whether I could say it that way also in English. Ты уверена ты не была с Г оппэром? По моему, это было бы интересно. :-P Смотри https://ru.m.wikipe...

Ninatazama mfululizo wa Netflix unaoitwa Stranger Things na mwigaji anayecheza polisi, David Harbour, anafanana sana na mpenzi wangu wa zamani. I'm watching the Netflix series "Stranger Things" and the actor who plays the policeman, David Harbour, looks a lot like my ex. Ты уверена ты не была с Хоп...

Were there any particular issues you were wondering about? Lack of palatalisation of many, especially labial consonants, using diphthongs in place of reported monophthongs (e.g. [eɪ̯] for /eː/), affricate realisations of palatalised coronal stops ([tʃ dʒ] for /tʲ dʲ/), some weird stuff going on wit...

Hey,
If you know or learn Irish Gaelic language, what pronunciation do you use? I've listened to some videos of English speakers speaking Irish and it sounded almost nothing like the pronunciation Wikipedia gives, and I've never heard any kind of native Irish Gaelic.

Vijay wrote:I don't hear a merger here.

Don't you? In the beginning he says Mechanik with a clear [ʃ], and every following word with soft ch has the sch sound. Maybe other people tell if they hear it or not, the odds you are wrong are equal to the possibility I am.

That's really interesting, but I could only imagine those allophones occurring in disorderly speech, but it's not entirely impossible seeing how, for example, polish /ɫ/ became /w/ Keep in mind the French did it in certain circumstances, the Ukrainians did it in certain position, some Allemannians ...

German: ich and Tisch . Where is the sch-soft ch merger popular in Germany? I came across a German man creating math videos both in English and in German and I'm trying to figure out where he can be from. The only place I thought about was Cologne and the Ripuarian dialect/language, but he's got onl...

On the traces of PS indefinite form: the -y -less form of passive participles ending in -ony is sometimes used in poetry when the author wants to make his work in old style, resembling Old Polish or some extinct, I think, or eastern dialect of Polish. Back to the question: there are always some exce...

Well, the only voiced fricative left is /ɣ/, which is gone in the Netherlands, too, but all three /z/, /v/ and /ɣ/ remain distinct from their counterparts /s/, /f/ and /x/ by means of voicing in Belgium. They all also assimilate in voicing with voiceless obstruents from prefixes, e.g. gaan [ɣaːn] :>...

Ok, thank you all. I haven't linked all of this to the glottalic theory, which I believe is true, but now it seems reasonable to me that Germanic languages preserved some weird PIE feature instead of having created their own out of nothing similar. - devoicing of fricatives in Dutch, including ones ...

I think he's asking whether the fact that all this devoicing happened is a coincidence. I don't see why it would be, though. Aren't all of these cross-linguistically common sound changes? Yes, you got it, I didn't expect my message to be that messy. I just spotted there is one specific group of lan...

Let me begin like that: German had an /f/ allophone [v] for a moment which then changed back to [f], but the spelling remained in some words like Vater . The Dutch language voiced it's word initial fricatives, but nowadays they're both back voiceless for most of the speakers in the Netherlands, the ...