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I downloaded and installed fontforge. Unfortunately, I think it decided based on my system that it should set the default language to Japanese. Unfortunate, and weird. I can tell you that the windows builds of Fontforge I've tried are incredibly unstable. FF is kind of a weird tool, but it's abilit...

Just to interject, this is exactly the kind of problem that discouraged me from doing more work with fonts - there's a lot of effort that goes into getting the layout working, but implementations of Uniscribe were still somehow awful, and Adobe products had basically no support for complex scripts, ...

I still can't figure out how to get GSUB to work in OpenType. It works fine in Volt, and in a font tester I have as well as the program I use to design the font itself (which does not itself have the capacity to add OpenType scripts), but in Word and in web browsers the conjunts won't display. I ju...

I tried this with the natlang Ingush. [0] 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] /q qʼ χ ʁ ʕ ħ ʔ h/ [/b] [1] 2. Phonemic voicing [1] 3. Phonemic voicing only on stops and fricativ...

I may not be any more experienced with developing Indic scripts in Opentype, but I'd be very happy to assist in this in any way I can. I assume you are using Fontforge for this? I'm using something called High Logic Font Creator to make the fonts, and Microsoft Volt to set up the Opentype features....

I may not be any more experienced with developing Indic scripts in Opentype, but I'd be very happy to assist in this in any way I can.

I assume you are using Fontforge for this?

hwhatting wrote:But I didn't notice any Octaviano fanboys there - people seem to pile on on him there like they do anywhere else where he shows up.

I'm actually significantly relieved to hear that.

Also, he thinks that PIE as reconstructed by mainstream scholars never existed, but he is quite equivocal about what IE actually was in his opinion; apparently, he considers IE some sort of convergence area involving a language he calls "Kurganic", which is the source of the Copper Age terminology ...

Was Octaviano the one who claimed that all languages come from Basque? Not quite, he's not Edo Nyland level crazy. He did, however, claim that Basque was related to a unified North-Caucasian family in a Vasco-Caucasian superfamily, which once covered Old Europe, and that basically every word in Ind...

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araceli wrote:Con-programming languages? Pffft. I create my own con-microprocessors, complete with con-assembly languages!

It's quite easy to do this in VHDL and run them on an FPGA.

Not in balanced ternary it isn't

Make it run in a VM. Malbolge runs in a ternary VM.

Not a programming language, but a friend of mine once proposed developing an Insecure Socket Layer protocol, and the accompanying Insecure Shell. Commands are in lolspeak.

I am not an indo-europeanist, but the methods used to 'reconstruct' proto-european in a tree model (rather than postulating diffusion based on the wave model) basically only allow for the complexity to increase as you go further back in time, so the fact that PIE is 'batshit crazy' is not really su...

(Btw, hi. Been MIA for a while.) Yeah, for real, welcome back. Maybe I spent way too much time too deep in PIE, but it only seems kind of weird to me, and not all that bad. I mean, I know it's got some unusual typological features, but how much of it seeming weird is just that it's got little in co...

It does resemble the following a bit, in terms of style.

I should really conduct an inventory of my PDF collection. I found these two additional documents. NB - they are much larger than most of the others, 25Mb and 50Mb Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Masatovic) Etymological Dictionary of Old-Chinese (Schuessler) I should probably collate these ...

Actually I was mainly comparing word-initial vs. word-final. The medial situation seems to be indeed variable. (And at the risk of YAEPT, weren't there some AmEng dialects with n-flapping, [n] → [ɾ̃] / V_V? Or am I thinking of [nt]?) Sorry to sidetrack, but what does YAEPT stand for? Google seems t...

Here is what I have on the subject of Old Chinese. Also, the Wikipedia article seems to be much nicer than I recall from the past, so that's worth looking into also.

Wait what's a good resource for Old Chinese? I thought not much about it was known? Or maybe I'm confusing it with proto-Sino-Tibetan? I don't think I've seen anything especially thorough, though I think a lot has been written about it's phonology. I do have some docs I can post later. I have a pap...

I'd really like to do something with Old Chinese (pref. the Baxter-Sagart). PIE is quite ridiculous - it makes Karlgren's OC reconstruction look sane. Aw, PIE is totally reasonable, once you've immersed yourself in it for several years. Old Chinese is cool, I've long been fascinated by it, at least...

The Haedus Collection

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to continue working on a secret project, the details of which I hope to reveal in the coming months.

Wasn't there someone who already did Vampiric Sumerian? Or was that only a script? That was me - I haven't really had time to work on it lately, but it's been on my mind. I never got a firm enough grasp of Proto-Semitic to feel confident moving forward though, certainly not in comparison to my work...

Is that John Colarusso's? I'd recommend also checking out anything and everything from George Hewitt . In particular, he has his Abkhaz grammar available in its entirety. And his article North West Caucasian is a great overview of the family. I just wish I had ebooks for the whole multivolume Indige...

I don't know which they are precisely, but I have heard that there are some. Apparently, some NWC and NEC languages have words for 'wheel' that sound vaguely similar to PIE *kʷekʷlos (or at least, Octaviano has claimed so), and as PIE *kʷekʷlos has an impeccable etymology within PIE (it is a redupl...

One thing I notice about PIE is that horse domestication took place between Ukraine and Kazakhstan 4000BC to 3000BC, a similar time and place to some proposals for PIE. So, to me, it seems reasonable to suggest that, its speakers having domesticated the horse, PIE or pre-PIE managed to spread thank...

Another reason to assume an origin of PIE north of the Black Sea is that it is quite similar to Uralic in grammatical morphology and also in lexicon. These similarities are more easily accounted for (either by descent from a common ancestor, or by intense contact over a long time) if PIE and Proto-...