Zompist Bboard Again

I appreciate the thorough reply, but this part of the analysis more or less convinces me that the analysis is wrong. That is, "zero cats" certainly does not make an assertion about the null set Ø. Actually, I think it does, at least in the context priscianic is discussing. Certainly if I ...

Ok, here's my list. Languages I've actually tried to learn: As I mentioned above, the language I've studied the most by far is Japanese. I'm actually embarrassingly rusty at this point (I've barely spoken the language in the past year). I first decided I wanted to learn Japanese when I was about 11 ...

Epperiense, vow naon awttawritey Wair in vih woart wair riih inowh tow mey Tow payh oaw wow vah ih in mæriait Foar lordinga, sih ie twai yair wah ow ait... [ɛpʰˈpʰɛj.ri.ɛ̃.sə voː nɔ̃w ɔːtˈtɔː.ri.teː] [wɛ:ʴ ĩ viː wɔʴːt wɛ:ʴ riːç i'noːh toː meː] [toː pʰɛːç ɔː woː vaː iː ĩ mæ.riˈɛːt ] [fɔʴː 'loʴ.dĩ.ga...

Of course, I'm sure most people on this board would say they're interested in all languages to some degree or another. Still, it seems many people have particular languages or families they've dedicated an especially large amount of study to (whether learning to speak the language(s), or just studyi...

Zju wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:56 pm Ômer Gêdl dŷs ita trî partêr.
[wōːβà̤ gɛ́ː dȳː jītā trī pɛʕá]

Unless you've moved the copula to V2 position, I think [wōːβà̤] should actually be [wōːβā]. That low tone is the copula, at least per my revision.

Gadl õmer is divis in trêr parter. [ɡæːt ɤːβa is diːs i tria pæːata] (0. stress assigned based on left-aligned moraic trochees. The copula ( is ), as well as function words ( in ) are parsed as enclitics. Thus [(ɡæːt) (ˈɤː.βa)is (ˈdiː.si) (ˈtri.a) (ˈpæː.a)ta].) 1. all vowels delete word finally in ...

Honestly, not to be overly critical, but I feel that if the preceding inhabitants don't leave much of a linguistic mark it's afar less interesting scenario. I think a primarily Germanic Shikoku adjacent to a Yamato dominated Honshuu could be extremely interesting, then you'd get Sinitic + Japonic + ...

German sounds nice, a bit like Middle English, but with a few rougher edges. I absolutely adore Middle English (...as evidenced by my signature...) and I must say I do not agree with this characterization at all. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade of course (if you like the sound of German, th...

What are some examples of weight sensitive stress systems losing their weight sensitivity, with stress becoming regularized on a particular syllable? I have a weight sensitive trochaic system that puts stress on the penult most of the time, and I'd like to do some stress-based vowel changes and the...

What are some examples of weight sensitive stress systems losing their weight sensitivity, with stress becoming regularized on a particular syllable? I have a weight sensitive trochaic system that puts stress on the penult most of the time, and I'd like to do some stress-based vowel changes and then...

I thought English was the odd one out in the Germanic family when it comes to phonology, at least, if not also syntax and morphology. Well, English certainly is the odd one out in a few ways, most of them due to heavy foreign influence. But some of the "weird" facts about English actually...

German has fantastically interesting syntax and nice morphology as well, but god it sounds ugly. There are so many great sounding Germanic languages as well, why in the world would you make a Germanic lang and then have it sound like that?

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:11 am

What?

How in the world did a system like this develop?

I spilled coffee on my laptop this morning, and then it wouldn't start up. Because Apple is a horrible corporation, their laptops are designed to be as difficult to repair as possible for anyone but Apple, so I've duly sent it off to see if the data can be recovered. That's 6+ months of un-backed-up...

It's surprising to me how stable the word "name" is across IE languages. It's one of vary few words (along with the likes of father, mother, brother, sister , and the number 1-10) that seems to be consistently, recognizably cognate across every IE language I've encountered. This is of cour...

I would possibly also expect the resulting vowel to be bimoraic */pʲ(j)áà/, at least in a content word (the one Japanese example I can think of is では > じゃあ, じゃ, the two forms now coexisting; if you want it to shorten from there, though, I think I would expect */pʲ(j)á/. If the language contrasts le...

... Yes, I was thinking of overhauling the phonology anyway, as I agree that's it's quite impractical. Creating a fairly unnaturalistic phonology was part of the design, so I'm going to keep that aspect. I'll just reduce the number of distinctions somewhat. With that in mind: Phonology, v.2: As bef...

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:34 am I... no. No he hasn't. He knows what the difference is.

Does this have an online presence? I feel like I may be familiar with who you're talking about, if so.

Rounin Ryuuji is referring to a speculative sound change where the already weak and often unvoiced vowel in the syllables クシスチツ is dropped entirely. I learned Japanese, which I have now mostly forgotten, incorrectly because I didn't hear these voiceless vowels - rather I thought, say, tabemasu was ...

The roots being bisyllabic doesn't double the number of possible roots, it squares it, so the number is (4*5*11*2*2*2)^2, or 3,097,600 possible roots. You are right, I feel dumb for making that mistake. Perhaps I will decrease the number of vowel qualities then, or maybe eliminate length. I like bo...