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I want a pushchain of kʷ > k > ć > č > t > ṭ > pʲ > p > pʷ ... for a vertical vowel inventory. /pʲ/ i slabiodental and therefore has to be spread-lipped, which causes a similar sound to palatalization and is seen as the same by the speakers. ṭ is true dental. I dont see any reason why not to do thiu...

k wrote:I have definitely heard and said [ʃtʊf] for stuff before.

I would mistake that as a variant of https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/shtup even in context

the ZBB isnt well optimized for mobile access andthats my main connection so i cant type very well. if Im not on mobile its because Im on this PC at my parents' house where neither the keyboard nor mouse works well. if i type coherently Ive either spellchecked it after Im done posting or prewrittten...

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next: stubborn; obstinate; unbending I want to use http://pabappa.com/pics/wrong-way-salmon2b.jpg but I dont have a stable word for "wrong" right now. Poswa: fufšep "stubborn", from tiu fučip "to self-teach a goal" ... that is, to have a goal and be one's own guide (teacher) in which goal to pursue...

I was hoping for a post about the unity of the Amerindian languages, which is what youre supposed to be arguing for ... but you admitted a while back that you base that claim on a theory that the Amerindian people are unusually homogeneous for such a large population, and I dont think that's a viabl...

I actually thought this was the Haida/Na-Dene thread at first, I guess I dont usually notice the titles ... in fact I accidentally posted this in the Trump thread and just now noticed and moved it. If a thousand Nigerians and a thousand Swedes had gotten together long ago and settled the Americas fr...

We know that the Amerind population descends from a very small founder population, that had been isolated from all other populations for a very long time. We know that that population then spread out extremely rapidly across the whole of the Americas. There is as yet no evidence of any later migrat...

I think the alternative pronunciation of parmesan is with a /z/... Nor necessarily borrowed from any language, just a spelling pronunciation I guess.

There are some cities in the Red Sea region that are very hot but also humid: e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Muscat with temperatures comparable to the southwest USA and humidity comparable to Miami.

The apparent lack of diversity among Amerind people's may be an illusion due to1)the founding populations do no match neatly to extant tribes in Asian 2l they have commingledwith each other 3l many tribes are small and difficult to place on a genetic tree since one family can have a disproportionate...

I like the idea of humans confined to compact little habitats, perpetually on the verge of natural disasters from which they cannot flee. I imagine some of these humans may not know that other humans even exist.

Some laynrgs are attested as /x/ in Hittite so can't be too far off from that originally. That and that they are in most reconstructions allowed to appear between other consonants.
What did you mean by coincidence >borrowing>luck? I don't understand, was that a mistake? What is luck in this context?

Poswa:
wapponupam baba "element 92"

Sorry couldn't think of something more original.

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iceberg, glacier

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/qp9u28zt8neigeu/hydpo.jpg Saw this in a bathroom. I don't know if there's anything to be made of it ... I've always wondered if there were times when words were loaned by letterform instead of by sound. I havent been able to find even a single example of that in English, tho...

Those are good. I misread the Vatican headline even without the apostrophe since it would still be acceptable in headline-ese. ÷÷÷÷÷ This is the second time the former presidential candidate has injured herself on her India after slipping on steps at a 13th century harem I know harem can be a place ...

My first instinct is to go with {b@'nVi.nai} which means that all of the vowels in the line except the last one are raised. But most people wouldn't notice the difference.

I'm in New England, where Canadian raising is in effect, but not to the schwa vowel.

One thing I noticed is that the PIE speakers are assumed to be culturally more advanced than the Uralic, and that it has been this way for more than 4000 years. Your model is difficult to explain given that all or nearly all loanwords seem to have gone the opposite direction. Edit: I misread but the...

Compare: PU: lämpi 'warmth' [HPUL] ~ PIE: leh₂p 'to glow' PFU: päŋi 'head' [HPUL], ? PFU poŋï 'bosom' [HPUL] ~ PIE: peh₂ǵ 'to attach' but where did the laryngeals come from? If lämpi is cognate to leh2p, what protoform could have left an /m/ in Uralic and an /h2/ in pie? Likewise, what protoform co...

Is the dental flap a variant of the coronal, always pharyngealizedm? I think that the pharyngealization would stick around longer than the dental articulation. Spanish did something very similar with its sibilants.... The palatal sibilants turned into apical sounds, which skipped past the alveolar s...

I'm not sure I believe in height based harmony.... It seems to be mentioned in early linguistic literature, but looking at the same languages being described I often see those same languages now described as having ATR harmony. I can't answer your last question,but my hunch is that the +ATR vowels a...

There's still post-tonic /h/ in Irish/Scottish names like Bohannon, Houlihan, Hearlihy, vs /N/ in Kiplinger, Singer, etc. I've read on Wikipedia that in Ireland the "gh" of names like Foughey is also pronounced. Edit: actually the H in Bohannon is probably stressed, don't know if that was original t...

Don't forget to put in the tones!!

next word: coffee Poswa: labropom , etymologically "coffee immersed drink" but with the first syllable /la/ "coffee" long since having merged with "hand" and several other words, hence not used in bare form. However Poswa might just be conservative enough to hang on to laref "to drink coffee" with ...

It sounds like he's asking about having a language with uvular fricatives but no uvular stops, which I'm not sure is actually attested. It seems to be a European trait to have the fricative(s) without the stops, but in those European languages there are either no contrasting clear fricatives, or the...