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Yep, me too. Even though I was familiar with their spoken forms, I recall pronouncing chaos [ʧɑˈoʊ̯z] and albeit [ɑlˈbɑɪ̯t]. Funnily before I checked its pronunciation, I always assumed albeit was pronounced [ɑlˈbɑɪ̯t], even before studying German. I still find it strange pronouncing it all be it ....

"ought not [verb]" sounds... awkward, to my ears. "ought not to [verb]" and "ought to not [verb]" sound better, but I prefer "oughtn't [verb]" overall. And the grammar book insisted as well on "oughtn't to [verb]." But you're not the first to say that and I agree. Of course "ought not" is not commo...

Do you happen to know based on which word pair are the sound changes for proto languages posited? I'm specifically interested in the Altaic branch, but also in other proto Kartvelian, Northeast Caucaisan and Northwest Caucasian.

So after having learned about one of the world's rarest sounds, the bilabial oral egressive click ʘ↑, found in Damin , I began wondering how it could come into being in a natlang. Maybe something along the lines of kpʼ → ʘ↑, pkʼ → ʘ↑ or even uncoditional pʼ → ʘ↑ in a more extreme case. These do seem...

So I apparently fell for some very cheap fb scam. I'm usually very wary of what links I click, but that notifications fooker caught me off guard. As soon as I switched back the tabs I saw it has redirected me to a blog called something like h32hn2jnhjkas8d9895njk89 on blogspot.ru (I think). Closed i...

We’re talking about phonemes, and the reduction of unstressed /ɛ/ to [ə] is not present in all dialects (some Southern dialects don’t do it, for instance). So which one is original? I've left with the impression that unstressed vowels in Proto-Germanic either dropped or reduced to [ə] and only late...

The Sumerian word for wheel is perhaps relevant in this case, would help if anyone knows it. If it's not anything like the PIE word, then the technology may have not been directly transferred.

So I dreamt about this word chenka [t͡ʃɛnka] or [t͡ʃenka] and I wonder what it means. It's bugging me so hard. It's not weird in and of itself, but there's something about it that really makes me want know its meaning. I'm not sure of the spelling and script either and wiktionary doesn't return any ...

[kʲ] is simply [+velar +palatalised] or [+dorsal +palatalised] if you will. [+front] and [+back] are vowel features, not consonant ones.
Palatalised uvulars are impossible to pronounce the last time I checked.

Imralu wrote:Trondheim

Это как Венеция.
It's like Venice.

Denbora berreskurateko nire rusoa.
Time to brush up my Russian.

Yes, if PIE replaced those languages but PIE speakers not the people speaking them (i.e., the people already living there started speaking PIE). I'm not sure that's a valid model given our current understanding of ppulation displacements around that time, or whether if true, is at all significant. ...

How could Tocharian lose a distinction as prominent as voicing or aspiration or glottalisation or what have you and merge three stop series to one? Lately I've been wondering if rather the three series are an innovation of core PIE and that whatever the two-way distinction Anatolian languages had, i...

Helo, dwi'n newydd i'r drafodaeth hon. Byddaf yn cymryd y cyfle hwn i ymarfer y Gymraeg. Mae croeso i chi gywiro fy gramadeg. Hello, I'm new to his discussion. I will take this opportunity to practice Welsh. Please feel free to correct my grammar. Duolingok galeserako ikasturte bat dauka inkubagail...

Egun on batzuetan gauean ere esaten dut. Ez naiz arratsalde on esaten ohi.
Sometimes I say good day even during the night. I'm not used to say good evening.

Ez dakit, jadanik badakizu ingeles, nederlandera dirudi oso erraza. Jakitez ingeles eta zenbait aleman zenbait nederlandera erraz entenditu ahal dut.
I don't know, if you already know English, Dutch seems very easy. Knowing English and some German I can understand some Dutch easily.

En Nederlands is heel makkelijk, sorry. And Dutch is v easy, sorry. Nederlands is niet gemakkelijk. Ik was met Din en Leuven waarover we het uitvoerig gesproken hebben. Ik herinner me dat (en Din, je kan me corrigeren) we besloten hebben dat met Engels en Nederlands, het niet moelijk is te leren ge...

linguoboy wrote:Klote! Das war correcter dan ik voorgenomen heb!
Dang! That was more correct than I meant it to be!

Zure arazoak eduki nahi ditut.
Ich will deine Probleme haben.
Voglio avere i tuei problemi.
I want to have your problems.

Gai hau oso gogotsua da. Gustatzen zait, baina ere segitzen nahi dut.
This topic is very active. I like it, but I also want to keep up with it.

Qajarjuaviniqsiurumaniaqtunga.
I will want to search for a former big kayak.

Eragozpen bat da bada? So ist es ein Ärgernis? So it's a nuisance then? Izaten hizkuntza frikia, bakarrik aitzakia bat igurikitzen dut sorterriko amerikar hizkuntza bat ikasten hasi naizela. Beharbada Inuktitut edo Nahuatl edo baita Bella Coola ere. Seiend ein Sprachenerd, warte ich nur für eine Au...

Uau, hizkuntza hura bere idazte dauka. Hau ez da ohiko.
Wow, that language has its own script. This isn't common.

hpáata ðaaché ą́ðalį ąži hą́ąpa záani ðaaché ochíchacha I like eggs, but eating them every day is excessive. Uste dut arrautza bat egunero dieta nolakoa den ona dela. I think an egg a day is fine depending on the diet. Zer da zuk idazten duzuen hizkuntza? What is the language you're writing in?

ULA is a Dick Blue Box

Halfway through the article.

This abstract algebra again? I wonder what would take him to understand how the things stand. Kath, In correspondences of the real (actual) etymology there are four oppositions T : Th : D : Dɦ, all of which need to be fully reconstructed in order to get the reconstruction right, regardless of whethe...

So it'd be very nice if we could come up with an easy way of determining what is present where. Right now it's shooting in the dark and there are disagreements over some choices. Something like region-to-region correlation, along the lines of 'the flora and fauna of Southern Peilaš are about the sam...

I'm going to assume that parrots, giraffes, some kind of beans and carrots, strawberries and other kinds of berries all exist in West Tuysáfa. Some Tuysáfan language had a word for donkey, so there's also that. Given there are pears, it's not a stretch for apples also to be present. What about potat...