Zompist Bboard Again

I'm just for interest's sake gonna throw in the Scottish Gaelic reflexes of as many of those terms as I can account for to try and provide a comparison. stem class nominative singular nominative plural gloss ā-stems beann beanntan 'mountain' o-stems mac mic 'son' i-stems flath flaith/flathan 'prince...

"Subject incorporation" is a bad term here, because what's typically being referred to is specifically the incorporation of transitive agents, not any "subject" (however it's defined in any given language). This is because intransitive subject incorporation is pretty common among...

The problem with polysynthesis as a term is that it's historically been used more to describe a particular "feel" of a language rather than the presence of any feature in particular, with the end result that it's pretty much useless for actual theoretical purposes, and when people have tri...

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 6:04 amEDIT: But reading on a bit, I’m now thinking that it’s more likely to be Kaike.

Well done, you got it.

Is it at least Himalayish? It's classfication is slightly uncertain but Himalayish doesn't appear to be a group it's been put in. Bodic then? (At this point I don’t really have a clue what it could be, and I’m just guessing in the hope that I eventually find the right branch…) Yes Tamangic? If so, ...

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:12 am

Frislander wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:11 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:19 am

Dhimal then?

Nope

(I'm quite glad, this is my first sample that hasn't been guessed outright in ages).

Is it at least Himalayish?

It's classfication is slightly uncertain but Himalayish doesn't appear to be a group it's been put in.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:19 am

Frislander wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:17 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:16 am

Another guess: Newari?

No again

Dhimal then?

Nope

(I'm quite glad, this is my first sample that hasn't been guessed outright in ages).

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:16 am

Frislander wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 9:12 am

Karch wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:31 am Is it some Kiranti language from Nepal?

Nepal yes, Kiranti no

Another guess: Newari?

No again

Karch wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:31 am Is it some Kiranti language from Nepal?

Nepal yes, Kiranti no

Now let me guess: Sino-Tibetan? Correct. Oh, good! I like guessing Sino-Tibetan languages. :) Now: do the digraphs ⟨bh dh jh⟩ represent voiced aspirates/breathy voiced stops? If so, that should narrow it down a bit. I have no reason not to think so given what I know about where the language is situ...

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:24 amNow let me guess: Sino-Tibetan?

Correct.

Oh wow lol, didn't realise I'd got it, anyway here's the next one (it's a poem so the backslashes are line breaks). Pusha Magh na Khyari ngyabo/Ling palma na sagun ngyabo/dhon puru tata tosya puru jhajha/woicha lai kappo thaal syang phaannan na tite tiwar/chhaigo swabo, lapsol swabo, musya koya phib...

Consider that your audience here is for all intents and purposes the latter, and write accordingly. Writing for both audiences is just going to be condescending, as if you think we need all these things explained to us like we're five-year-olds. I write my posts for post facebook and zompist bboard...

The vowel system seems on the simple side, so is this a rendition of Xibe?

Well it's progress I suppose, now we need to get to work on instilling the value of following a common set of notation principles for description to help us understand the above mess, which shouldn't be too hard given his academic record...

Please Bob, I'm begging you, write a response to another thread that doesn't involve you going on and on about stuff you have done.

For all of the trumpeting of his BA, if this style of presentation is consistent with that he used at university I don't know how he could have even graduated. So either he's lying about having the BA or has earned the BA and therefore is capable of writing in a more coherent style but chooses not t...

Did I miss another "This is the World's Best Conlang!" thread? It would seem so. We've all been toiling away for naught. We should immediately recognize our folly and join the cause. Why the sarcasm? Bob’s most recent threads ( https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=636 and http...

If you want to properly develop an alternative to something, you have to understand it well enough that you can understand what is wrong with it. I don't think I would have such a solid anti-Chomskyan position in my theoretical persuasions if I hadn't been at a solidly Chomskyan university for three...

The only reason I can think for removing the statue from the Avon is if it posed a legitimate danger to shipping (which of course depends on how deep the river is there/how close to the harbour wall it is etc. The argument that he should be memorialised because of his charitable donations entirely m...