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I dug up a Proto-Nostratic dictionary a while back which was probably one of the main sources for the Wikipedia page, and it used ∇ rather than V. The edit was probably to bring the orthography in line with what's used in the literature. Note that the Wikipedia page mentions that the listed etymolog...

To be fair, English has quite a few monosyllabic names for trees: ash, beech, elm, oak, peach, pear, pine, plum... I'm sure there are more that have slipped my mind.

As far as I know nothing has actually been written about northeast Tuysafa outside of your own article on Proto-Northeastern, but based on the climate New England and eastern Canada would probably be a decent enough analogue.

As I recall, the current consensus is that Akana's moon is somewhat larger but somewhat farther away than Earth's, though I'm not sure if there's been any discussion of where, exactly, it came from. As for what you're talking about, I remember reading a thought experiment that might interest you, ab...

Kec Dún, dźéc tenc mun zò zào ki sei (na yao nú sei gubwá) do be Hróc Tè Źuhnò lá sei glan! NAME NAME, desired SUB 2SG put add this words (and also other words ATTR/similar) come.to.3I facts Rrób Tè Jĕhnò build words ATTR/explain CatDoom, you should add this quote (and similar ones too) to the Rrób...

Nyazè xé dobă gi nò ĕgràù. Jidrahó lo c’ĕ gàù bĕp’o jicáb ĕdŏ cè, q’e fe zéb xégh zégid jĭ jidlolŏ fi hnyà bĕp’o jihyebáíma ĕdŏ. [ɲad̪z̪êː ɕěː t̪obǎ ki nôː əʀɔ̂ː || tɕiɖahǒː lo t̪s̪'ě kɔ̂ː pəp'o tɕit̪s̪ʰǎb əd̪ǒ t̪s̪ʰêː | tɕ'e fe t̪s̪ěp̚ ɕěq̚ t̪s̪ěgit̚ tɕǐ tɕiɮ̪ǒ fi ɲ̊âː pəp'o tɕij̊ebɛ̌ːma əd̪ǒ] 1S=...

However, some Caucasian languages are described as affricating their uvular stops. This appears to be pretty common in languages with uvulars, actually, as was discussed earlier in this very thread. Likewise, /c/ seems to commonly surface as [cç] in many languages, though I'm not sure if that count...

What, exactly, is a эпохаский, and why don't you transliterate the term?

What part of the world do you live in?

Over the next century and a half, what's going to happen with the drought situation in the American west?

Jibĕsrú dŭ.
[tɕibəʐǔː t̪ǔ]

3S.AN=be.charismatic indeed

He's a real charmer.

Onmu, utmu er su ne: ket ni dert i u deit? Hmm, interesting: does that mean that "thirty" is "twenty-ten"? Nyahĕhyĕzú; haiwŏ yé nà hngàì u hnyê nyèg khó ne hnyê nyèg c’é. [ɲahəj̊əd̪z̪ǔː || hɛwǒ jěː nâː ŋ̊ɛ̂ː u ɲ̊ê ɲêk̚ qǒː ne ɲ̊ê ɲêk̚ t̪s̪'ěː] 1S=RPST-be.foolish. 1PL=use also name ATTR/be.different...

Yu kon bes-6? You count base-6? Xe nyat’úg bĭ jinĕkhŏ, q’e nyanĕkhŏ wo dlyă hnyê. Q’e jiwŏ nà hngàì u hnyê nyèg dlád, ne hnyê nyèg crà, ne hnyê nyèg srégh rrób nyâ. [ɕe ɲat̪'ǔk̚ pǐ tɕinəqʰǒ | tɕ'e ɲanəqʰǒ wo ɬʲǎ ɲ̊ê || tɕ'e tɕiwǒ nâː ŋ̊ɛ̂ː u ɲ̊ê ɲêk̚ ɬ̪ǎt | ne ɲ̊ê ɲêk̚ ʈʂʰâː | ne ɲ̊ê ɲêk̚ ʂěq̚ rǒp̚...

Tamil doesn't have any fricatives either, though a few may appear allophonically between vowels and in loan words. This is presumably the case with some other Dravidian languages as well, since Proto-Dravidian is reconstructed with no fricatives, though most seem to have developed at least one throu...

Taọʔ sịm ʔịt ụụth el soe lọr?
Why does that music make you so angry?

The ocean current map on the wiki does show a current from the vicinity of southern Peilaš carrying warm water as far as the northeastern most tip of Tuysáfa, passing through the gap between Sumarušuxi and the Ttiruku arc. However, as far as I know this map was composed before the idea of a land bri...

ʔuuʔ ịịk' nọọ gakụn geoʔ, ʔo ʔịt kiin' "Sek Ịt Ọv" saŋ ọv.
It pains me to say it, but I really like parts of "Shake It Off."

Ek ʔuuʔ ịụv rapịŋ ọv.
Not the part that has rapping, though.

I'm sure somebody has asked this before, but I've had no luck finding it. It's famously rare for palatal or palatalized velar stops to shift to plain velars; I was just curious if anybody knew of any case where this is known or believed to have happened unconditionally.

Ooh, now I can simulate some borrowing that could actually happen! (well... fictionally, anyway) Ronc Tyu odà vu dae [ɔˌdàˑ vuˑ ˈdaɪ̯] → Ray Tyuwey Išup otawutay [ɔd̪ɐwʊˈd̪aj] Ronc Tyu swèi bú kèc [ˌswɛ̀ɪ̯ búˑ ˈkʰɛ̀ʔ] → Ray Tyuwey Išup esweypu kee [ɛs̪wejˈbu kʰɛː] Ronc Tyu bwèi zè se [ˌbwɛ̀ɪ̯ zèˑ ˈs...

That's why I really like your idea of grain-growing Ultimundic speakers: they explain why both continents have the same grain crops, which is something that bugged me for years. I'd be in favor of explaining some of the livestock similarities in the same way; certainly this would work for sheep, an...

When I was coming up with roots for a recent a priori conlang idea I had, I pulled out the Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, which has a nice thematic dictionary that takes up most of the book. Similar to the method blank stare II described, I took roots I...

Polkian çiĵej [ˈtɕidʑej] :> Proto-Coastal-Western tsidzeja [tsi˥dze˥jɐ˥] :> U Bol siiséya [siːˈze.ja] Polkian topeksudob [topəˈksudob] :> Proto-Coastal-Western topaʔsudoba [to˥pɐʔ˥su˥do˥bɐ˥] :> U Bol tobáauudooba [toˈbaː.uːˌdoː.ba] Polkian bopesudob [bopəˈsudob] :> Proto-Coastal-Western bopasudoba [...

I assume the subduction zones would be at any convergent boundary involving an oceanic plate? More or less, though it would technically be more correct to say that they involve convergent boundaries involving oceanic crust . Plates usually consist of both continental and oceanic crust in different ...

Subduction zones would be good, too, though I suppose it only makes sense to put those in if you already know where the continents are. Also, I'm assuming that these are relatively rough borders that smooth out a lot of detail. Actual tectonic plates tend to be more jagged, particularly when the bou...

Éartan gúwaþn [gu:waθin] Mhakh Thandim gûwathin [ˈgʱṳ:wəθɪn]
Éartan þúgsiþun [θu:gziθun] Mhakh Thandim thúkhsithun [ˈθuxsɪθʊn]
Éartan ósiþum [o:siθum] Mhakh Thandim ósithum [ˈosɪθʊm]
Éartan sógsiþuŋ [so:gziθuŋ] Mhakh Thandim sókhsithung [ˈsoxsɪθʊŋ]

Plate C's boundaries are actually very similar to those of the African Plate, which is mostly surrounded by divergent boundaries, save for the convergent boundary with the Eurasian Plate in the north. Overall it looks ok to me, but I'm no geologist.

I like your overlay maps for Peilaš, but I think your Tuysáfa ones are a little off if you intend for the climates to match up. I think it's highly counterproductive to simply accept what's already been written as fait accompli. If we want Akana to make sense as a plausible, Earth-like world, we may...