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My current Future English project has agglutinative verbs but is otherwise isolating. Even the plural is marked by a separate particle sam , derived from "some". So, for example, the sentence "big red apples are good for snacks" would be: Sam aahp beg rad dé gèd fur sam hna'g. PL apple big red 3PL g...

Mugitus wrote:Any idea of what I could turn /ɬ/ into?

IIRC it became /S/ in many Semitic languages.

/p t ʈ k q/ /pʰ tʰ ʈʰ kʰ qʰ/ /ts tsʰ/ /f s ɕ ʂ x ħ/ /v s ʑ ʐ ʕ/ /m n ɳ ŋ/ /w j l ɭ/ /i ɨ u ɪˤ ʊˤ/ /e ə o ɜˤ ɔˤ/ /ɛ a ɔ æˤ ɑˤ/ 3 tones: neutral, high, and low-creaky-voice Vowels can be either long or short, and consonants can be geminated. Phonotactics are (C)(C)(A|N))V(L|N)(C), where A is any appro...

Just a few things I thought where interesting: proto-Germanic was apparerntly pretty conservative of the basic structure of words inherited from Proto-Indo-European, despite at least 2500 years having elapsed since PIE (3000 BC is the latest commonly proposed date for PIE, some people go even furth...

Over on the blog Paleoglot I have seen proposed that the 3 sets of PIE plosives were plain voiced, creaky voiced, and unvoiced. This shifted to the standard system in the late PIE dialects that became Indo-Aryan, Hellenic, and Armenian.

I learned this one today, after browsing an etymological dictionary: thill thill : a shaft, especially one of a pair, used to attach a cart or carriage to the animal drawing it. It's cognate with Latin 'témó', which has the same meaning. I learned about that same word in the book I mentioned over i...

It's funny how the more we work on PIE, the less SAE it becomes. PIE is incredibly un-european. The same thing happened to reconstructions of Proto-Semitic, IIRC. It seems to look less and less like Hebrew and Arabic and more and more like Amharic. It is even reconstructed to have /tɬʼ/, fer Christ...

May I ask, what exactly blew your mind? (I haven't read the book, btw.) I'm interested in what the book talks about exactly. The putting together of evidence from both archeology and what PIE vocabulary tells us about the culture of it's speakers. It gives such a fuller view on what these folks wer...

Slightly off topic, but I am currently reading The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World , it is a really good book on IE studies and IE archeology. I am currently only at the Sredny-Stog culture (when Anatolian branched off and spre...

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Slightly off topic, but I am currently reading The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World , it is a really good book on IE studies and IE archeology. I am currently only at the Sredny-Stog culture (when Anatolian branched off and sprea...

Is [ɻ] > [l] plausible?

What about [ɰ] > [x]?

Is /kɻ/ and /ɻk/ > /ʈ/ a plausible future sound change for English?

And what could /pɻ/ and /ɻp/ turn into?

Basilius wrote:11/12.

(I mean, the fraction. Like two thirds, only 11/12.)

[əˈɫɛvn̩ tʰwɛɫs]

How do people pronounce "wolf" and "wolves"? I have just noticed that the vowel in the later is becoming more open and more tense.

[wʊɫf] ~ [wɫ̩f]
[wɔˑɫvz]

Ack, I just noticed that the yod fortition produces some very awkward consonant clusters. I need to do something to fix that. Very interesting... what geographical area do you imagine this being spoken in? Like, the great basin through the great plains west of the Mississippi or so? Yep. It seems a ...

Pons: A region of the brain stem in between the Medulla and the Midbrain.

The vowel breaking is inspired by Justin Rye's Futurese ( http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html ), though how I have the vowel breaking proceed is a bit different from him. The rest are my own ideas. I am assuming that the Cot-Caught merger stops the westward spread of the Northern Cities...

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TaylorS wrote: The voiceless nasals are from /sm mp/ and /sn nt/

what happened to /nk/?

WHOOPS, I knew I was forgetting something!

This is really cool.

A re-booted future English phoneme inventory: Plosives: /p pʰ t tʰ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ k kʰ/ Nasals: /m m̥ n n̥ ŋ/ Fricatives: /f v s z ʃ ʒ x h/ Liquids: /r ʁ j w/ Short vowels: /a ɛ e i y o ɔ u/ Long vowels: /aː eː iː oː uː/ Yep, no /l/. modern English /w/ shifted to /v/ and then /l/ shifted to /w/. /y/ is fr...

I think he rather meant that Western Europe isn't a traditional zone for language isolates, unlike say the Laotian highland or Papua New Guinea. Even some erstwhile prestigeous romance languages have disappeared or nearly disappeared in that region, but somehow this ancient tartessic or vasconic wh...

English: What happened to all the crazy Germanic noun morphology? What happened to grammatical gender? Where is the V2 world order? What is with this meaningless "do"? What is with all these French loanwords? THIS IS BS!!! I'd give that to PIE, actually. 18 ways to form present tense what the fuck ...

I have the flag-plague merger, so that is the reason for me.

The chariot probably indeed played a role in IE expansion. But why do you attribute Indo-Iranian to a western lobe? Did you mean "eastern"? Also, I think Italic and Celtic are IMHO "northern lobe" languages related to Germanic. I see three main dialect groups within Late PIE: 1. Northern - Italic, ...