Zompist Bboard Again

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 7:23 pm(By the way, I’m just wondering: where did you get the names from?)

Really?

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 8:59 pm an easy one and a less easy one

Duqaça meхkaška gholla tiysab az go,
Cecväхav qiça lättiy jalamo.
Хila mega uzh хozagha dikagha, sa dog xhoх laz!
Duqaça lätteх xha ċa khägilg az lurgdac!

Chechen? But spelled weirdly: gh should be ġ and xh should be ẋ, I think.

Owain wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 4:18 pm The Mail is asking what planet Boris is on and saying Cummings must go.

Unfortunately Orville is highly unlikely to fire Keith Harris.

Tropylium wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 12:46 pm

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 5:48 pm

Tropylium wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 4:56 pm I'm passing by this thread while reading something applicable, so here's an example given in IPA:

Note that some of this is phonetic rather than phonemic (and for ‹a› read ɑ).

Mansi?

fusijui wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 5:56 pmMongolian.

No and no, though you're certainly on the right continent.

Crimean Tatar?

Does anyone know of any good resources on syntactic ergativity, as opposed to morphological ergativity? I want to write a section about it as the next post in my ergativity series , but none of my sources (mainly Dixon, McGregor, Oxford Handbook of Ergativity ) seem to have much information about i...

So on another group I've got someone claiming that in "English English", "they feared for me" means "they were afraid of me". I've never heard this from anyone and I can't find any confirmation in lexicographical works. Has anyone across the pond ever heard such a usag...

To be honest, I would likely say “false balcony” in everyday conversation (like I would refer to the “side of the door” rather than “jamb”, despite being fully aware that the latter is the correct term).

Pá u xes amból-dé le at tetxáng txeryó ángqol qe nix ir tlámat qe, xanxi á Xanxi Ngir. Pá u fil amból le at tó tetxáng ángqol, gau tó u paláryó. Qeyo pá u mah amból-dé le at tó tetxáng-tetxáng txeryó kuru. Qeyo-tlás, u kuxni-gó kuru ! [ˈpɑ.u ˈʃɛs əmˈboɫ.de ɫɛʔ.tɛ.ˈtʃɑŋ ˈtʃɛʔ.jo ɑŋ.ˈkʷɔɫ.kʷɛ ˈniʃ.iɹ...

Juliet balcony?

I'm currently reading Bruce Trigger's Understanding Early Civilizations , and he classifies "early civlisations" into either "city states" (Mayans and Aztecs, Mesopotamians and Yoruba) or "territorial states" (Egypt, the Inca and the Shang). For the Egyptians and the In...

[*]I will be skipping those which are not relevant to the language: there's no value in having a grammar with content like Section 13.2.1.0.0.14.2 Language does not have this . So how do you document the absence of the feature? Not mentioning it could otherwise be an omission. There is a difference...

1. Demographic and ethnographic information 1.1 The name of the language What is the language known as to outsiders? While the majority of the modern Oxaric languages are spoken in and around the Ziani Mountains, the name of the family is derived from Oxareia , the historical locus of the classical...

A few points before I begin: prompts from DM will be given in this colour italics . I will be skipping those which are not relevant to the language: there's no value in having a grammar with content like Section 13.2.1.0.0.14.2 Language does not have this . the end goal of this is not to have a gram...

I believe it was, yes. Also, in some areas, I believe it's actually a touch outdated; although its focus on "General Linguistic Theory" has, in my opinion, made it less prone to this than some other textbooks I've come across. As I go through I'll throw out some references and recommendati...

Controversial opinion perhaps, but personally I don't think that the traditional "grammar" sequence is actually all that useful for creating a language. Going from phonology to morphology to syntax just doesn't really cut it for me. It's a great way to present a language, sure, but not hel...

It's at times like this that I wish the forum had a "like" button. I have nothing to contribute here except admiration!

Creepily, my husband just reminded me that Civ II ended in 2020.

Hmm .... I have a question. In proto-Atla, there are three voiceless aspirates, /pʰ tʰ kʰ/, but due to the diachronics, the only one that can occur in post-tonic position is /kʰ/. Would it be reasonable to do sound changes like ipékʰa "salt" ---> ipʰéka to shake it up a bit? Im not aware ...

Thank you guys, there's plenty for me to think about here. I particularly like Moose-tache's idea, but I think it would be a bit of a pain to implement in html. If I were writing a grammar of this language, I'd probably have a meaty section on the verb itself with full glosses, and then something si...

Travis, I have to ask, what on earth is zeptoforth (!) ? zeptoforth is a bare metal, native code-compiling Forth implementation for Cortex-M microcontrollers written by myself, aside from a small amount of code borrowed from Mecrisp-Stellaris (with the permission of its author), and a utility progr...