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Learn Chechen, Georgian, and Turkish if you want to work for the state department. Or Ossete, Abkhaz, and Russian, if you want to work for the Russian state department. Mixing and matching is not recommended

North Papuan?

Dzugong thibetan

Looks like you're just taking what the two researchers wrote then guessing at the rest.

To present this as an objective reconstruction is fairly misleading.

In Finnish English "t." or "regards" is used similarly.

Looks like hiw to me.

Gotta second Project Gutenberg. I'm halfway through Don Rodriguez there at this very moment. It's AWESOME! You could say Dunsany was years ahead of his time, because of the amazing way he addresses his audience and his incredible insight into the human condition. I believe rather that the past few d...

I'nomenas Kathandir. Zor Muxtanek, e yär da Chozéd. Vahchimer, at'tha na-famoz chiftat
My name is Constantine. I am a Mauretanian, from Caesaria. Truly, it's a beautiful city!

I'vor bír.
I like beer.

Al an'nominas Asir, i'navoral.
That man is named Orsino. I don't like him.

This is more lack of assertiveness within the speaker than a cross-linguistic difference, imo. Of course there is a social component, but unless you're a follower of Sapir-Whorf you probably should not posit a link between the two.

Dunsany, Lovecraft, maybe Kipling

This is like, 50% of all sound changes, diachronically. Frankly I'm shocked it's anything new to you, theta.

It's probably Proto-Guinean, or Old-Guinean at the latest.

It has happened. Even more specifically, it has happened in your people's history. That doesn't mean it *happens*.

You cannot conclude "X > Y but Y >! X" from a single example of X > Y.

In Bulgarian reciprocal kinship terms are used. I.e. a grandchild calling his grandpa "dyado" and having himself called the same by his grandfather.

In native Slavic, most masculine -a names are dimunitives, like OCS Владица < Владимеръ (Voldika < Voldimerŭ). However, there are names of the form ROOT + ota, like Polish Prądota, Bulgarian Dobrota, Serbian Vukota. There are also a great number of names formed by ROOT + thematic vowel + nja, such a...

I like Dunsany. He's a master of his art...

Length came from iota contraction in unstressed syllables and yer loss, primarily. It was also left behind in cases when the original stress fell on a non initial syllable, afaik. This secondary length phenomenon bears no relation to original PIE length, either.

Almost any sound change can act in a non-stereotypical fashion if its source is not the thing it's becoming. So, say, palatalization from following iota will rarely delete itself, but compare: ikóna > kʲona > köna. Or nasalization from VN will usually avoid transposing back to VN (exception: polish,...

piɕkowa

lol, pickowa...

only slavs will get why this is funny

KathAveara wrote:I thought it was very probable that /o/ (and therefore, also /h₃/ ) was not rounded, given that /u/ delabialises velars but /o/ does not.

And in slavic /i/ palatalizes following velars but /e/ does not. Q.E.D. /e/ must have been non-front *rolls eyes*

KathAveara wrote:I thought it was very probable that /o/ (and therefore, also /h₃/ ) was not rounded, given that /u/ delabialises velars but /o/ does not.

And in slavic /i/ palatalizes following velars but /e/ does not. Q.E.D. /e/ must have been non-front *rolls eyes*

Lehmann sounds as mad as the nostraticists, then.

It reminds me of Finnish.

Yea, definitely. Especially if [o] is perceived as /ʷo/, and , if it exists, likewise, maybe in contrast to [ə] /o/ or [e] /ʲe/.

You could even have
[a e i o u] /a ʲə ʲɨ ʷə ʷɨ/

I believe something of the sort happened in Alan/Ossetian, at least historically.

baradsonoron wrote:From Romanian:

Oaia aia e a ei.
That's her sheep.

From "ovia illa est ad ea" or smt similar, right?