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- Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
Ka korero koe ki te whanau a ZBB, e Reo.
- Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
For the next example we need to know a bit about possessives in Maori, which come in two flavours, A and O marking dominant/subordinate or alienable/inalienable depending who wrote the grammar. Here's what Wiki says from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language Possessives fall into one of ...
- Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10136
Re: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
The only thing that can save a language is if it is spoken by a governing class. Most languages are doomed if they aren't the common tongue of a community.
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
Nice reo.
- Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:59 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Lexicon Building
- Replies: 4308
- Views: 809441
Re: Lexicon Building
Bah. Ninjaed. The next word will remain the one Christopher gave, then. Uhwrāūphok-hu-wronphoka (Uhwrāūphok for short) lit. - Viscous liquid rock which is thickly black (Thick liquid rock for short) Next - Indigenous Vanga: vąulaimáhj ; to be indigenous ; to be native (broad /ˈvã͡ũla͡imaːhj/, main ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:27 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Alahithian
- Replies: 71
- Views: 15181
Re: Alahithian
Om alahirtel alahith, ûx on alahirt alahith?
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other langs
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8757
Re: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other lang
'Ceffyl' in welsh sounds like 'careful' in English.
- Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other langs
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8757
Re: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other lang
Numida meleagris = Fr. pintade de Numidie ; Cat. pintada or gallina de Guinea ; Eng. helmeted guineafowl . Meleagris gallopavo = Fr. dinde ( poule d'Inde . Male: dindon ); Cat. gall dindi , also indió, paó, pioc, titot ; Eng. turkey . What about Gallus gallus and Pavo cristata/P. muticus ? and the ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other langs
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8757
Re: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other lang
Numida meleagris and Meleagris gallopavo?
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:36 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other langs
- Replies: 57
- Views: 8757
Re: Endonyms that have intersting connotations in other lang
Between Maori and English ate - liver; seat of affections here - string; tie up; leash kite - see; discover, find; recognise mate - danger; dead; death; ill; sickness; in love; suffering me - and; if; with; like; should mine - to gather together more - bare; plain, not decorated; toothless nana - ey...
- Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41609
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Try toki pona for inspiration.
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Your Native Language
- Replies: 228
- Views: 35804
Re: Your Native Language
Native language: English
Ancestral languages: English, Welsh, possibly dutch
Ancestral languages: English, Welsh, possibly dutch
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Welsh lessons.
- Replies: 158
- Views: 111142
Re: Welsh lessons.
Clywedais i gymraeg yn siop ddoe, bydd hi'n siarad a ei phlentyn hi. Wel dw i'n meddwl ei bod hi cymraeg. Dydw i ddim yn ei deall hi cyd. Bydd hi'n pert cyd. Wyt ti'n defnyddio cyfiethydd Gwgl, Turtlehead, neu jyst nag wyt ti'n medru'r iaith o'r gwbl? Dydw i ddim yn defnyddio cyfiethydd Gwgl. Dw i ...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
Sounds like a dealRodlox wrote:Turtlehead, please, just admit you're wrong. it costs you nothing, and may benefit you.
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
How so?Reo wrote:Epic failTurtlehead wrote:genauWhimemsz wrote:...Scottish Gaelic...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
- Replies: 488
- Views: 75045
Re: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
So whose areas are whose?
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:25 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Bottoms up! - Follow the development of a game
- Replies: 76
- Views: 22150
Re: Bottoms up! - Follow the development of a game
How big is the file?
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
genauWhimemsz wrote:...Scottish Gaelic...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:13 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Bottoms up! - Follow the development of a game
- Replies: 76
- Views: 22150
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
- Replies: 488
- Views: 75045
Re: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
STATUS REPORT
Rorschach Reported in Dec. 18, 2011
Ollock Map Pending, Early January Report due
Amuere Post Xmas
Torco Pending, No Pressure
Theta New Year?
Turtlehead Active
6 more Pending...
Rorschach Reported in Dec. 18, 2011
Ollock Map Pending, Early January Report due
Amuere Post Xmas
Torco Pending, No Pressure
Theta New Year?
Turtlehead Active
6 more Pending...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
- Replies: 488
- Views: 75045
Re: Istion - an Age of Sail Conworld.
By the authority of the High Chairman I declare this conworld not-dead. come on, guys, year's ending and we all have families, jobs, or schools, and other end-of-year responsibilities. Things have been going slowly and that's perfectly okay, not all conworld development needs to go at the speed of ...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
What are the effects of the English language on Maori? And the effects of Maori on the English spoken in NZ? Maori to english, bad grammar. English to maori, funny transliterated words. A maori and some Europeans say, ride on a car, I presume this is influenced by the maori linguistic construction ...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:31 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Maori
- Replies: 102
- Views: 18736
Re: Maori
What are the effects of the English language on Maori? And the effects of Maori on the English spoken in NZ? This gives some idea of the ongoing effects of English on Māori: http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/3238/Keegan,%20P%20et%20al.pdf;jsessionid=CD0EB0B671B12DCA7981D70...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:25 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almean Megafauna
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9827
Re: Almean Megafauna
The real pattern is the near total absence of large animals from south america - but a large part of that is simply that the biggest group of seriously big animals are the bovids, and bovids never reached south america (only a few species even reaching north america). When people talk about the big...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:12 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Welsh lessons.
- Replies: 158
- Views: 111142
Re: Welsh lessons.
Clywedais i gymraeg yn siop ddoe, bydd hi'n siarad a ei phlentyn hi. Wel dw i'n meddwl ei bod hi cymraeg. Dydw i ddim yn ei deall hi cyd. Bydd hi'n pert cyd.