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finlay wrote:how is that an update
we literally answered the question with that answer two weeks ago

Sorry, I don't want to seem ungrateful. The discussion seemed to have got a bit sidetracked so I'm not sure if I saw your earlier message.

Some more questions about Kebreni grammar: Under the section on the -te relativizer, it mentions that falaute gem means "one of you". But isn't an alternative possible translation "your one?" How is this ambiguity resolved? The sentence: Ḣem ḣouźi kriida immi konarei mengu is translated "because I l...

Update: According to Wikipedia, Japanese names are pronounced in Chinese as if they were written in Chinese.

I've also separately read that 東京 is known as Dōngjīng in Mandarin.

How do (most) Chinese people pronounce Japanese names?

Hydroeccentricity wrote:I'm frankly surprised there isn't more fan fiction about Almea.

Mark has explicitly asked people not to in the past, I believe.

I've always been under this name.

Just a note for future editions, there's a typo on p124: "textfile" should read "textile" (I think, anyway)

Interesting, thanks!

Dixon found massive structural and lexical borrowing in Australia too that fit a diffusionist model rather than one of genetic descent. It seems like most other Australianists have rejected Dixon's diffusion model though. Personally though, some of the corpuses are fairly small I have the impressio...

Where do the Persians get their grammatical terms from? From Arabic? From another source?

Is this some kind of weird spam?

The difference of course being that rank applies in all persons in Dhekhnami, not just the second as in Portuguese.

Salmoneus wrote: In terms of restrictions from the text, there's only maybe half a dozen Dothraki words in the books iirc, and many of them are transparently related (khal/khaleesi, khalasar)

I thought there were a couple of sentences? Maybe I am misrembering. Certainly there were a few names.

I'm interested in the glimpse we have of Dhekhnami political theory - do they bother to classify human governments by type, or are they all the same? Have they ever made any contact with Arcel? What are the Dhekhnami names for Xurno, Tzhuro, Carhinno? Is Dheknami a cheap alternative to Dothraki? Dhe...

This is exciting! I was wondering whether Dhekhnami would be totally different to Munkhashi or similar - it's kind of similar while still being different in subtle ways, and more "urbane." Some questions and corrections: Noun plurals: "For words beginning with a single consonant (including the affri...

I don't think this is a good way to hassle someone.

Maybe I'm being unimaginative, but I think an underwater communication could only be based on tone. Other kinds of phonetic distinctions aren't likely to be very clear.

As per the previous two guys, although I'm not familiar with any specific active-stative languages, it's always a matter of degree; there is never a "completely" active-stative language; idiosyncracies are always there.

In what order did they go up? I think it was Wede:i, Verdurian, Kebreni, Ismaîn, Barakhinei, (doc version of Cuêzi and and an earlier version of Cadhinor), proto-Eastern, then the native version of the Cadhinor grammar, the html version of Cuêzi, Elkarîl, Flaidish, revised and expanded Wedei, Axuna...

That's intriguing. Has a language gone a step further and produced a full-fledged personal pronoun inventory out of content words, possibly replacing the old one? I don't know Japanese well, but I understand this occurs there; boku for example is a somewhat informal, assertive "I", but it originall...

Zomp is working on another book at the moment, I think? Maybe there will be more on Dhekhnami inside it

shinkarom wrote:din, I meant a hypothetical country without any foreign influence

What were people speaking before they spoke Esperanto though? Because that will influence it.

Jeori is dead.

Amuse yourself by making sound changes to Munkhashi and guessing what the result will be. That's what I do. Heh, except the lexicon already has the relevant Dhekhnami words. So you could amuse yourself by working out the sound changes. I think Zomp wanted to develop Sarroc more fully before launchi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonnaruwa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuac%C3%A1n Oh, I know what you did. You posted the links to wikipedia pages about tropical civilizations because I said that no great civilization...