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I'm delurking after a fairly long hiatus to report a bug. In the changes from Proto-Macro-Quazian to Proto-Quazioid, there's a law that long vowels shift (it's fairly GCS-ey), except if they're word-final in a polysyllabic word. Thus, *θɨ:ma gives sāma, with *ɨ: shifting to ā, but *pɨyčē is supposed...

Portuguese, 27th century: p t tʃ k b~m d~n dʒ~ɲ g~ŋ ɸ s~z ʃ h β ʒ l ʎ ɾ r i ĩ u ũ e o õ a~ɐ ã~ɐ̃ iw ĩw uj ũj ew ẽw oj õj aj ãj aw ãw There is nasal harmony: words must either have all nasal vowels (and nasal stops) or all oral vowels (and oral voiced plosives), determined usually by the nasality of ...

/i u/ causing palatalization or labialization while /e o/ don't is hardly uncommon (probably more common than the reverse!) Brazilian Portuguese palatalizes /t/ to [tʃ] before /i/ but not /e/, Japanese basically does the same thing (with t -> ts before u but not o, as well), Mandarin has a famous ph...

European and Northeast Brazilian Portuguese have ʃ but no tʃ. Standard Brazilian Portuguese has [tʃ] as an allophone of /t/ before /i/. To my knowledge, tʃ isn't actually phonemic in any variety of Portuguese, except transitional dialects along the Spanish border.

Other Niger-Congo?

Not to bother this, but...can we make it possible to put pre-existing categories in nonce categories themselves? For example, if

P=pb
T=td
K=kg
and we have a rule
[KT]w/P/_
it won't do anything. But
Kw/P/_
Tw/P/_

works as expected. Is this a bug?

I know I'm not part of the project (for now), but that looks a touch unrealistic to me... too many low-latitude fjords.

Some variety of Wakashan?

Kunjen?

Nesescosac wrote:Sango?

Yep, it's Sango. Your move.

で、僕はイングリッシュではないよ。やめなさい。 and i'm not "English", cut it out. Sei, mas em português agente usa "inglês" para todo habitante da Grã-Bretanha, e em qualquer caso se o meu ponto é verdadeiro para Inglaterra, é mais verdadeiro para Escócia. I know, but in Portuguese "English" is used for any inhabitant of...

25度だけが欲しい。東京の夏は多湿があって、32度以上の日の夜も蒸し暑いんだ。夏の夜は、温度が落ちないから、窮屈でじとじとで気持ち悪い。 I want just 25°. In Tokyo in summer there's high humidity, so 32° days' nights are also hot and humid. Summer nights don't drop in temperature, so it's very uncomfortable. Os ingleses sempre se queixam disto. Lembra-se este verão,...

I would strongly suspect some variety of Athabaskan, except it looks like Athabaskan had a child with Lakota. It also doesn't have ridiculously long words, so it's probably Siouan, except it has high, low and mid tones, so Lakota it ain't. It could be Osage, but the trademark of Osage (that I know o...

Are you quite sure Oscan had no nasals? Seems unlikely.

#class #swag

pthag is very much in the right-wing (remember the ZBB three-dimensional political compasses you analyzed?), but I don't think it extends to more than pthag, Nort, rusanov and äreo (and äreo doesn't even talk politics here, but gets channeled through Nort on the IRC). I'm not sure patiku is that mu...

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Edit: Never mind, it's shit. Let me figure out a better solution.

Great, we have seven people on each team. Here they are, randomly generated: Team 1 is me, UbiquitousNewt, Vortex, vec, Nort, Click and CatDoom. Team 2 is Solarious, decemviro, Herr Dunkel, Aino Meilani, KathAveara, 2+3 Clusivity, and Pole. How do the teams want to do their secretive messaging? Emai...

Proto-Macro-Chibchan is reconstructed with a nasal-less inventory of /b t d k ʔ ts s h l ɾ w/, eleven consonants. Proto-Oto-Manguean is reconstructed with just eight: /t k kʷ ʔ s n w j/, but there's a note that another linguist thinks it had /θ ts x xʷ l r m/ too. Proto-Mixo-Zoquean is reconstructed...

Serafín has graciously provided us with a forum. Once you register, his administrative account will place you into either team 1 or team 2, and you'll be able to see the resulting board. http://conrelay2014.prophpbb.com/ -------------- We've done these before, I'm aware, and I think when this last c...

I can tell the difference between "upper-class" and "lower-class" English accents, and the lack of a ʊ-ʌ distinction, which I suppose I would pin to Manchester or Birmingham. I would probably recognize a rhotic English accent if I heard it, but I don't hear them very much and wouldn't be able to pla...

Maybe a situation like Inuktitut, which only has /g ɢ/ for voiced stops? *b and *d apparently lenited since it has /v/ and /l/. Speaking of Inuktitut, a couple dialects of it are sooo close to fitting the phoneme number requirement. Inuinnaqtun apparently has /p t k q h v l j g ɢ m n ŋ/, which is 1...

Here's a map of annual tornado incidence in the US. Note in particular the epicenter of Tornado Alley, where Texas has magically annexed most of southern Oklahoma. The boundaries of some northern border states are kind of shitty, too.