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Nah. Steam only manages your collection and installs: the games still have to run on your actual OS. Some games are available on Linux, but they're a minority. Those games are made available with Steam Play, a manager of compatibility tools (in this case Proton ). It is possible to toggle the setti...

In trying to make sense of Old Greedian tone patterns for the relevant section in the reference grammar, I had to review each of the dictionary's 589 entries and took the opportunity to update the "legacy" formatting (from a time when I was sure I'd eventually come up with a better lexicon...

Started writing a reference grammar of CT today. It's deliberately a bit of an old-style throwback in format but it should hopefully be useful enough to me to refer to instead of all the various forum posts that exist out there. (The lexicon, however, will remain a GDoc, at least for now.) I'm curr...

That depends: fusion does not exclude regularity, especially if analogy works its magic along the line. Given intransitive agreement markers ma -, ti -, sol - corresponding to three noun classes, the following combinations for transitive agreement could occur: ma- ti- sol- ma- mã- mak- maad- ti- tĩ-...

I'm trying to learn Wolof. Do you have any good resources to recommend? I'm not happy with the grammars I found. I bookmarked this a while ago: Resources for learning Wolof . Courses, dictionaries, grammars, and linguistic papers both in English and French. Free, with links to non-free resources.

Well, in Latin, some place nouns (cities, small islands, miscellaneous) have a standalone locative case, morphologically similar to the genitive for nouns of the 1st and 2nd declension class, to the dative for nouns of the 3rd declension class, and a distinct ending for domus 'house'. Other nouns no...

Waybŏnicomon! 'I give you a royal order!' Yin Iynĭbayam 'He's making a sword'. Tletonenrĭwisi an tlecayin. 'He dislikes women, especially his daughters'. Yin sewannin tlebaqo sômâ. 'This panther has eaten grandma.' Noyindi watlexwatcham wobis tlesâs. 'I made her sister give the ball to Noyin'. Late...

Is there a clusivity distinction in the 1PL pronouns? What about dual number on pronouns? On nouns?

Zju wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:13 pm To be clear the arabic script was used to write the language. I didn't make it up.

For me, that's still in the spirit of the game then.

Is it spoken in West Africa?

Are verbs an open class?

Does this language have nominal genders/noun classes? Does it have more than three?

Does this language have vowel harmony processes? Does it have non-pulmonic consonants?

Could you show us one of the revised entries?

I do hope the format in which you keep your lexicon makes the process easier, rather than being another hindrance!

Does the nominal plural suffix have a labial?

I cannot advance much further without googling. I'll throw my piece: Evenki?

Is the verbal negation marker a conjugated auxiliary?

Does the text contain lexical borrowings from Samoyedic languages?

Is the traditional mode of subsistence of the speakers reindeer herding?