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Znex, are you working on Mercian, the North Germanic language with even more Old English influence? Ʒ'hak giare mik wark pae marcisc gin at is awi tha ettles, ut gin tha wil, ʒe kun skrive ei breve um at braith. :) I haven't done much work on Markish if that is what you mean, but if you like, I cou...

[ew] > [øː]

[xø̀ː.gʎé]
偽 | へうりぇう | へぉれゃえぉ | 허러 | heowlyeo
Kanji | Traditional Hiragana | Reformed Hiragana | Hangeul | Romanization
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious; (military slang) cover story, pretext, what’s released to the public (especially if fabricated)"

Why the term Adnominal rather than Determiner for that particular series? Just curious ‘Determiner‘ in IE grammar generally refers to a syntactic slot which can be filled by a whole range of different items: articles, demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers, etc. Eŋes doesn’t have any single slot ...

jal wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 8:33 am

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 6:24 amI normally do this.
I do this fcr a small set of verbs such as ta[/t] (the equational copula) and [i[ga (the existential copula).

Makes sense! Thanks.

Forget about ga there - ga is intransitive (I was half-asleep when writing that, hence my many typos in my original post).

• tradition, rihta

Taye yoh rihtasefa.
COP-PRES yogh tradition-ADJ.GEN-COMPR
The yogh is more traditional.

• appear, naw
• Latin, latin
• write, scratch, xaca

Nawizinu yoh xacakakufa latinit.
appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB yogh write-NOM.AGT-ADJ.LIKE-COMPR Latin-GEN
The yogh looks more Latin-script-like.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 12:28 am *a *e *i *j *k *kʷ *l *m *n *ń *o *p *r *s *ś *t *u *w

/a e i j k kʷ l m n ɲ o p r s ɕ t u ʋ/

Of course, I use ergative and accusative in non-standard fashions to refer to marked arguments of intransitive verbs in a fluid-S arrangement along with antipassive and passive verbs, where agentive S is direct for animates and ergative for inanimates and patientive S is accusative for animates and...

⟨a e i o u⟩ /a e i o u/ ⟨aa ee ii oo uu⟩ /aː eː iː oː uː/ ⟨m n⟩ /m n/ ⟨t c k q⟩ /t t͡ʃ k q/ ⟨th ch kh qh⟩ /tʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ qʰ/ ⟨t' c' k' q'⟩ /tʼ t͡ʃʼ kʼ qʼ/ ⟨b d j g⟩ /b d d͡ʒ ɡ/ ⟨b' d'⟩ /ɓ ɗ/ ⟨f s z x h⟩ /f s z x h/ ⟨w l y r⟩ /w l j r/ (I did see this language a couple of days ago, so I’ve tried to avo...

. (I also have a tenuous unstressed /u/ in some unstressed C_V such as in mutual that in careful speech is pronounced as a full vowel but readily becomes [w] in everyday speech.) That's not unusual in words with -ual ; in fact, some speakers can have no /w/ at all, making -ual and -ial homophones. ...

Schwa epenthesis after final consonants. (Note that the schwa takes the tone of the preceding vowel.)

[çỳ.wǿɺʲə́]
偽り | つわり | hyuweolh
"perjury; alibi, especially if dubious"

This reminds me of someone I know who considers themselves a feminist -- she dunks on Muslims to no end because of this kind of thing (in addition to essentially believing in collective responsibility, where all Muslims are responsible for what some Muslims do (and all men are responsible for what ...

Well it's from a leftist, so they're not using it as a brainless offhand for "progressive thing I don't like" The brainless use is so common I'm afraid using either term about instantly loses my attention :) Same here. ...about America (and Israel) using progressive politics based on iden...

Frankly, I can't decide if this goes in here or the us politics thread (because both are relevant), but I saw this video by the Kavernacle about the rise of "woke fascism" or the use of progressive identity politics in service of illiberal policies. I'm very dubious of the 'woke' and 'ide...

Well it should be remembered that just because someone is opposed to teh Empire does not mean they are good or that they are even better than Amerika. Take the case of China, as has been mentioned repeatedly on here. If any country replaces the US as hegemon in the foreseeable feature it will be Ch...

People get sick of not having normal rounded vowels and semivowels.

[çý.wó.ɺʲì]
偽り | つわり | hyiwari
"lie, falsehood; (criminal slang) alibi, especially if dubious"

Well it should be remembered that just because someone is opposed to teh Empire does not mean they are good or that they are even better than Amerika. Take the case of China, as has been mentioned repeatedly on here. If any country replaces the US as hegemon in the foreseeable feature it will be Chi...

On that note, I assume that I'm not odd in having a very tenuous unstressed /i/ in many unstressed C_V positions that in careful speech is pronounced as a full vowel but which readily becomes [j] or even disappears in everyday speech. (I also have a tenuous unstressed /u/ in some unstressed C_V such...

I was today years old when I realized that for me, I think I approach* [-ʃɪ-] in “associate” the noun and [-sɪ-] in “associate” the verb (plus a reduced vowel in the ultima of the former whilst it’s full in the latter). * I’m not 100% sure what is going on but I perceive some sort of nontrivial dif...

Existential copula: The existential copula is ga , which is an intransitive verb that is special because it is not marked for 3rd person singular arguments regardless of animacy. Relative clauses: Relative clauses are placed directly after the qualified NP, and for core arguments rely a gap strategy...