Zompist Bboard Again

Another issue has been resolving hiatus through vowel coalescence. Apart from glide formation in particular cases, the current rule fuses the height (high or non-high) of the first vowel with the front and round feature (or absence of either for /a/) of the second vowel into one long vowel. Thus th...

Oh, yeah, and Ligurian and some other Gallo-Italic varieties developed /s z/ from /tʃ dʒ/ (thus Ligurian Zêna 'Genoa') - with some instances of the latter, at least, of course developing from Latin /j/.

Raholeun wrote: ↑Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:55 am Stay classy, zbb...

Hey, I don't choose which conversations to overhear. (The walls of this apartment are paper-thin!) And besides, I'm not going to turn away a great example of analogy in action just because it's X-rated.

You could just change the English name/spelling of the language instead of changing what it's called in Kala. Like in English it could be Kalese, or - if you have a definite article - you could do what tons of European language did to Arabic words. Say your definite article was "al", the E...

I'm going to share a piece of data I overheard a while ago and have been (strictly metaphorically) shouting from the rooftops ever since. As a preface, last semester, a professor of mine talked about how there's been a longstanding and ongoing trend in English where verbs that end in /t/ or /d/ are ...

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