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I can see why Theresa May would have good reason to like the EU, especially while she was home secretary (*cough* European Arrest Warrant *cough*), but in other respects she also has good reasons to dislike the EU, because it effectively prevented her from achieving the immigration targets the party...

It's sort of split-split-S: split-S in the case marking, accusative in the verbal agreement. That basically how Georgian works. So says WALS, but I can't find a clear explanation of the verbal agreement marking in Georgian anywhere He's wrong, Georgian verbal agreement is also split-ergative, deter...

OK so here's my attempt to make sense of this absolute kitchen0sink, as I procrastinate from this essay I need to write. /p t t͡s ʈ t͡ʃ k ʔ/ <p t c ţ ç k q> /pʰ tʰ t͡sʰ ʈʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ/ <ph th ch ţh çh kh> /b d d͡z d͡ʒ g/ <b d z ż g> /dʱ d͡zʱ d͡ʒʱ gʱ/ <dh zh żh gh> /f v θ s x h/ <f v þ s x h> /sʰ xʰ/ <sh...

When it comes to 1 there's several questions. Firstly why do the aspects have different sets of endings - why not? It's just redundancy and as we all know languages like redundancy, particularly in inflection. As for where they came from... that's basically the same as "where did PIE come from?...

I use TeX when it comes to conlangs I actually start documenting on m laptop because it means I can make everything look pretty.

I would still agree with Weeping Elf that a uvular realisation of h2 is more likely than velar, and would actually be similar to the situation in modern IE, where having "velar fricatives" actually have a uvular realisation is commonplace. That's not to say that it could have patterned lik...

My current project, Asta, has a phonology which was entirely determined by my desire for a romanisation which completely lacks ascenders (I've never much liked them, and I think that's part of the reason I don't use voiced stops much generally), which resulted in the lack of a velar stop (despite ha...

I have suggestion. If you're going to have Austronesian-esque conlang, you should have /ŋ/. And particle conparative (Yes, like English than) No, there's no need a for either of these. Firstly Austronesian is a very broad family, encompassing over a thousand languages of wildly differing structures...

Well, you could enact some such similar changes in your own IE-conlang, and indeed some of those may occur in a daughter language of this, however there is no reason these changes must or should take place at this stage at this time and place, and as this is an older IE language like Greek or Latin ...

I am confused with your conjugation. Can you give the verbal template? Well that's the problem - in IE there is really no verbal template per se outside of root + derivation + inflection, since all the inflectional categories of verbs are marked in a single inflectional suffix. However I will eluci...

How many times must the Maybot fail at dancing before she is deactivated?

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:45 pm I would suggest we all hug this out except English people are involved so I know that's right out but I don't know what to do instead so when in doubt--tea, anyone?

I mean I'm happy for the tea but also I'm a northerner I love giving out hugs to people and just generally being friendly.

Oh for goodness' sake. I was being momentarily flippant, but wasn't attempting to sound dismissive or condescending--I certainly appreciate Sal's discussion, and I think almost everyone else on the board does too. Yeah I can see that, but because nobody in the UK has ever heard the term "Britb...

I see what you're doing, but is it actually possible to have a language with clicks and not have a gazillion consonants? :lol: Damin ? Aye, but that's a ritual language; my general impression is that natural languages with clicks have consonant inventories to make the Caucasus and PNW look tame by ...

just in case some readers are wondering who this "Jacob Rees-Mogg" person, is I wouldn't have thought that was necessary - I thought JRM was one of the few politicians other than Treeza people outside the UK know about if only cause he's such an oddball. It's 18 years old, but this is JRM...

I like this, particularly rule 2, I hadn't thought about that change that way before. I can't wait to see what happens in another few thousand years if you bring it up to the present day. is ibi- the "augment"? what's the diachronic source of that? Looks like the augment was added onto the...

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Seriously though we need the "How do you Pronounce This" thread back for reals.

Cheyenne also: the /ʃ/ vs. /x/ and also the devoiced vowels are both allophonic, but they mark them in the orthography.

Is it attested to use conjugated verb to express genitive relationship. In my conlang Asent'o, alienable possession uses a transitive adjective that is conjugated for its possessor and possessee. For example. (Note that the word itself may change) My book. ngang-g-i kottuka. 3SG>1SG-POSS-PART book....

I think there may be the odd language with a specific malefactive affix, but I think most that have them tend to subsume them under the benefactive. Also have you worked out what your verb template is yet? Caus that's gonna affect how your applicatives work, because if it's anything like Athabaskan ...