Zompist Bboard Again

i'd expect that if this happened, it would soon resolve itself back to having stress on the stem, or towards a stressless language (Ive seen French described as stressless). Stressing the least grammatically salient part of a word is unnatural. imagine if in english we said "THE crew OF four HA...

spiced up the climatology of my world a bit .... http://pabappa.com/pics/fish/climates.png This planet has its eccentricity about 0.45, which greatly overwhelms the axial tilt (about 16 deg), meaning that the whole planet has its hot and cold seasons at the same time, apart from some areas far out t...

Putin's United Russia party currently leading the results as votes come in for the parliamentary election, though perhaps with a slight loss of seats; note that this election does not involve Putin himself as the president is outside the parliamentary system in Russia. Meanwhile, voting in Hungary r...

i may not be able to help you there ..... i drink wine a lot but my tastes are primitive. to me all wines are good wines, because i mostly mix the wine with other drinks anyway .... i used to mix it with icecream too .... and all that really matters is what type of wine it is. i like fruity drinks a...

unicode is FINALLY giving us a backwards k, as I've been wanting for many many years. https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-14.0/ https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-14.0/ I dont know how long until the implementations will start showing up in fonts, but Ive been wanting to use this for the ejecti...

my post was serious ... i have over 100 minor "conlangs" which consist of a name, a few sound changes, and a place on the map .... attempting to give them all internal names would be ridiculous and such names would all go out of date anyway (even the name Pabappa is technically incorrect n...

just a passing comment ..... Wikipedia suggests that proto-Nilo-Saharan might be even older than proto-Afro-Asiatic, in that it was spoken in the Upper Paleolithic, which began around 50000 BC and ended around 20000 BC.* that's a REALLY old proto-language. However I wish they had just given a year i...

you could follow me and just use exonyms for all your languages .... that way if you change the language later on, the name wont go out of date. most of my languages are just English words, like Moonshine, which is what started me on that trend many years ago.

if you consider nasal vowels separate vowels, why not go all the way and include registers and tones too? Consider the Taa language, whose Wikipedia article contains one of my all-time favorite sentences: A long, glottalized, murmured, nasalized o with falling tone is written ⟨ ôʼhõ ⟩. I didnt count...

A lot of fruits .... in fact, I'd wager nearly all of them ..... have been heavily cultivated and look unlike anything elsewhere found in nature. My favorite example is the pineapple, which originated from a tiny seed-bearing structure found on the top of a single blade of grass. It's possible that...

A lot of fruits .... in fact, I'd wager nearly all of them ..... have been heavily cultivated and look unlike anything elsewhere found in nature. My favorite example is the pineapple, which originated from a tiny seed-bearing structure found on the top of a single blade of grass. It's possible that ...

Fafa žayas šifap tanaba. "The wind combs the hair of the unkempt." First full sentence I've written in any conlang for months .... I'm too out of practice to use the conlang fluency thread. The words for comb and unkempt are unrelated, so there is no redundancy here, although I've come up...

all over Australia, yes ..... you see it all the time ...... e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbainggar_language but that's just one example, and you can see the K in the name .... some of them have voicing of stops not just intervocalically but everywhere

PIE is typically described as being heavily based on verbal roots, though, even for truly elementary concepts like fire, water, frogs, weather, and people. As Ive said further upthread, I think people go a little too far in trying to break down even these very fundamental concepts into preexisting c...

basque also has madari as a variant of the word for pear, making it less likely that either word contains a morpheme /uda/. thats really all i have to say. This m(a)- is a kind of prothesis found in variants of some words, namely hegal 'wing' -> magal , or udare, udari 'pear' -> madari . According ...

basque also has madari as a variant of the word for pear, making it less likely that either word contains a morpheme /uda/. thats really all i have to say.

In fact, 'apple' happens to be a Wanderwort found in several families, including IE itself (although somewhat disguised). :) What families? Why is the loanword hypothesis better than the idea that *h₂ébl̥/*h₂ébōl is an irregular metathesis of *méh₂lom, which has much the same relationship to *méh₂-...

working on idioms by putting words from three vocabulary lists together ..... the leftmost list contains a wide variety of words, whereas the other two have a smaller selection, more repeated words, and more obscene words. some of these idioms will just turn into regular compounds. this is paralingu...

mmmm .... i dont know .... first of all, sorry, I had only 4 hrs of sleep last night, and while that's usually enough for me ,I've noticed something's quite off about me today. that said, while Im not sure about my own post up above, i still would say that "in bed" and "in school"...