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"Kala" is also the name of a conlang our user masako has been working on for nearly 10 years...

See the link at the bottom of this page: https://footballbatsandmore.wordpress.com/kala-grammar/

I've been told that in Spain some people have trouble with the /gɾ/ cluster, especially in griego and grieta, which then come out as [giˈɾje.ɣo] and [giˈɾje.ta]. I wonder if those same people pronounce grueso as [guˈɾwe.so]?

ラテン語が死んだ言語だと言うのは、実だけど、ちょっと紛らわしいと思う。きっぱり、殺されなかった。ネーティブスピーカー が、今、ないけど、殺されたからじゃなくて、フランス語やスペーン語やイタリア語になったから。でも、ニーチェだね。 It's true that Latin is a dead language, but I think it can be a bit misleading to say that per se. Certainly, it wasn't killed. While there aren't any native speakers now, it isn't be...

I'd like to think this is attested though, as I don't *feel* it's wrong. It's hard to tell from grammar books because this tends to not be covered, but perhaps someone here is familiar with non-European languages that use postpositions such as Malayalam, Hindi-Urdu, Tibetan, Navajo, Lakhota, Osage, ...

He's talking about the order of a PP and the modified noun. Unfortunately, there is no WALS chapter for this, and it's also something that very often grammars do not bother or think of covering. An example would be " The man from Germany hadn't noticed this before." I was suspicious this m...

I had to remove a number of entries in today's update. Users who haven't logged in in the past 4 months: bob2356 (hasn't logged in since late 2015), Fmra (mid-2017), Kaenif (early 2018), Mecislau (early 2016), Radius Solis (mid-2014), Rhetorica (early 2015), Rik (late 2017), Rin (early 2018), Skomak...

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Lingua Latina mortua est. Lingua Latina mortua manet. Nos autem eam occidimus. Quemadmodum solacia praebebimus nobis, linguicidis linguicidarum? Omnium enim rerum, quas tenuit mundus, sanctissimam et potentissimam cultris nostris vulneravimus; sanguinem deinde effudit atque mortua est. Quis vero hu...

Methru, you should put up a template in the opening post, so that we don't have to erase somebody else's answers to enter our own. Basics Username: Ser Name: Renato Birthplace: San Salvador, El Salvador Place of residence: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Any particular reason you live there now?...

This post only incidently has to do with Describing Morphosyntax . My question is more about presentation of heavily inflecting languages. Basically, do you prefer when grammars: dump complete inflectional paradigms on you, as huge reference tables and then discuss usage - in other words, pretty mu...