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Maybe we can cut the difference and go with Aramoid (not to be confused with Oromoid).

fusijui wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 10:28 pmEven after a couple decades of rust & corrosion the grammar and maybe half the vocabulary is immediately obvious to me, so I'm wondering how it's not Mongol.

Because it's instead:

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 10:35 pm Kalmyk?

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:09 amMari is also an Upper Markham language, except when it's Uralic.

… or an Eblaite citystate.

Mande is a family in western Africa; Manda is Dravidian; Mandaic is a variety of Aramean.

you shouldn't steep tea for more than three minutes I do like Very Strong tea also when the occasion is right, and generally prefer it to Very Strong coffee even; but it will need a hefty amount of sugar too to offset the bitterness (won't override it). There's a Middle Eastern variant I like which...

I'm passing by this thread while reading something applicable, so here's an example given in IPA: Xaːnædn̩ʲ kyrtʃ irnæː. Neg ykʏ̆sn̩ kʉːg neg kʉːn ysʏ̆næːsn̩ʲ tataːd̥ gøbdɛːd̥ bæːdɐɢ̥ bolnæː. "Odaː ykʏ̆dʒ-od̥sn̩ kʉːg gøbdɛːd̥ bæːxɐ, jaːksn muː xøwtæː kʉːnbtʃ?" "Ʉːnlæː daln̩ tawn̩ ars...

What the hell, let's do Kḧamna. Vowel phonemes: ‹a e ė ı i o ǫ u› /a ə e ɨ i o ɒ u/ Consonant phonemes: ‹p b ɓ m f v› /p b ɓ m f v/ ‹ᶈ ᶀ ᶆ ᴃ› /pʲ bʲ mʲ vʲ/ (no ˣfʲ as an accidental gap) ‹ṫ t d ḋ ſ z n l ŀl r› /tʼ t d ɗ s z n l ɫ ɾ/ ‹ċ c s ƶ› /tʃʼ tʃ ʃ ʒ/ ‹ć ᶄ ȷ j ʃ ȥ ᶇ ᶅ ᶉ y› /cʼ c ɟ ʄ ɕ ʑ ɲ ʎ ɾʲ j/...

I've heard that the reason some people don't like tea/coffee is because they're particularly sensitive to tannins. I've wondered if this is why I dislike coffee and black tea so strongly, but on the other hand, I don't mind dark chocolate, which also has lots of tannins. Trying to steep your tea in...

I'm passing by this thread while reading something applicable, so here's an example given in IPA: Xaːnædn̩ʲ kyrtʃ irnæː. Neg ykʏ̆sn̩ kʉːg neg kʉːn ysʏ̆næːsn̩ʲ tataːd̥ gøbdɛːd̥ bæːdɐɢ̥ bolnæː. "Odaː ykʏ̆dʒ-od̥sn̩ kʉːg gøbdɛːd̥ bæːxɐ, jaːksn muː xøwtæː kʉːnbtʃ?" "Ʉːnlæː daln̩ tawn̩ arsl...

IMO you shouldn't call it a Juliet balcony unless it's deep enough to actually stand on, which the one in the picture is not. I'd call it a fake balcony. I would extend this same judgement also to the term "French balcony"; though it's not obvious to me from the picture which one it is ac...

BGMan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 6:49 pmBut how to make ď distinct from d? Maybe have ď evolve intervocalically as it did in Spanish, but have d arise from intervocalic nt or t?

Start one step earlier with *ð < Proto-Italic *θ still separate from *d? (You could use this same approach to also get e.g. /z/ for free.)

Wrt. Tropylium's linked post, the rarity of T + Dh roots in contrast to the frequency of Dh + Dh roots doesn't demand that the breathy feature was originally vowel specific and then spread, because long distance consonant voicing assimilation is attested Bonus content: this part of the wild specula...

I've got a /i e a u/ vowel system that I'm trying to collapse into /i a u/. The easy route is just to merge /e/ with /i/ and /a/ in various environments, but that's kinda boring. Any ideas as to something more interesting I could do? i u > ɨ ʷɨ e > i a > o > u (maybe remaining in some positions) ɨ ...

There are 131 different main consonant correspondences asserted, and then 57 more for word-medial consonant clusters. Even if there were a decent amount of cognate vocabulary from all branches, already a normal distribution of consonant frequencies will ensure that a lot of these will be in many br...

I don't know of critiques by others because I assume most Algonquianists aren't even aware of the publications, which were a few years ago in the Journal of Language Relationship ( which is...... I mean it's got what look to be SOME reasonable articles among the more insane ones, but it's not like ...

We tend to assume that the Neolithic PIE speakers were more advanced than the Mesolithic PU speakers, but before the former adopted farming (mostly pastoralism, but also some agriculture in the western part of their domain), the forest people may have been more prosperous than the steppe people bec...

There were people, and thus languages, there around 3000 BC, so why shouldn't they have spoken Proto-NWC, Proto-NEC and Proto-Kartvelian? PNWC and PKv, why not. NEC looks older than that however. I don't know of any pressing reason to "pull away" any of the NEC branches (Burushaski etc. c...

Some scholars assume an NEC origin south of the Caucasus in what is now Azerbaijan, but I am not sold to that idea. I consider it more likely that NEC also originated north of the Caucasus on the Caspian coast, i.e. in what is now Daghestan (which is, of course, the place where NEC diversity is gre...

I see. In fact, with the two families spoken side by side, a common origin makes sense. Yet, when two languages or families share much lexicon but no morphology, aren't loanwords the more likelier hypothesis? But I know too little about NWC and NEC, and nothing about Starostin's dictionary to make ...

but where is the evidence for North Caucasian? Those two language families look so vastly different from each other that I find it hard to believe that they are in any way demonstrably related. I mean, they have less in common with each other than IE and Uralic. I recommend starting with S. Starost...