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Jo concordo. Sempre est bon ad agiterle de vez en quand. /ʐəkõkoːdə sẽpʁ əht bõ aw əɖ͡ʐitəːlə də ves ẽ kwãw/ [ʐə.kõ.koː.də.sẽp.ʁəht.bõ.na.wə.ɖ͡ʐi.təːl.də.ve.zẽ.kwãw] 1.NOM.SG agree-1.PRES.IND.SG be.3.PRES.IND.SG always good to shake.INF-3.OBL.SG from.time.to.time I agree. It's always good to change...

In Early Middle Laqar, which is a highly fusional language which can have rather long words, stress is placed on one of the three last syllables of a given word and is mobile. This is derived from stress in Proto-Laqar, which is agglutinative, which was on the left-most heaviest syllable of the last...

Ləzeccit šu nerèwo go.
fail-GER-PM NEG miss.IPFV-A:1S-P:3PM EGO
I do not miss the errors.

Crab rangoon can be either for me; it is a count noun when speaking of individual units of crab rangoon ("Could you give me a couple crab rangoons?"), and as you see right here when I speak of crab rangoon in a collective fashion it is a mass nouns.

And it's been on the BBC for a while and it keeps catching me: Top tips for making your family swim awesome. I don't get it. Maybe it's just a British thing. Here, one of the great shibboleths of class in language is traditionally distinguishing adverbs from adjectives: using adjectives adverbially...

Oh, an alternative way of looking at changes like ter > tcher... sulcalisation! Rhotic vowels are typically sulcalised - indeed, /3/ is typically sulcalised even in non-rhotic dialects. And what effect does sulcalisation often have on neighbouring consonants? Affrication! I should note that in addi...

Zíkę yúšilə laqárča q'ahtəwóxô lô sa.
some-PF sentence-PF Laqar-ALL carry.IPFV-PST-A:1S-P:3PF should DED
I should translate some sentences into Laqar.

I distinctly remember that from a young age I pronounced mister as [ˈmɘɕtɕʁ̩(ː)] before I switched to the pronunciation [ˈmɘsʲːʁ̩(ː)], which is more common here.

I on the other hand found it easy to learn to pronounce [x] and still tend to hear initial [ts] and [s] as the same sound. However, learning to pronounce German /x/ (which really should be called /ç/) was trickier because I had to learn how to pronounce the allophone [ç] in isolation (because my nat...

I used to hear German initial /ts/ as [s], distinguished from German initial /z/ by voicing alone.

Lahẽləla laź žiśǫnútęk'əl laź məlęnútęča sótorô ze.
language-PF-POSS.1S very split-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ABL very join-IPFV-PART.ACT-NOM=ALL vary.IPFV-3PF DIR
My languages vary from very isolating to very synthetic.

Actually, the conbination of English, Hebrew, and Romance speakers should specify a single stop series of /p t k/ because English-speakers often hear initial, stressed onset, and final [p t k] as /b d g/ due to English /p t k/ being aspirated initially and at the start of stressed onsets and preglot...

English speakers should rule out /ts/ and /x/ as phonemes.

/m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ń ŋ /p t k/ p t k /ts/ c /ᵐb~mᵇ ⁿd~nᵈ ᶮdʒ~ɲᵈᶾ ᵑɡ~ŋᶢ/ b d j g /f s ʃ x h/ f s ś x h /w ɾ l j/ w r l y /i iː ɪ~e eː ɛ ɛː æ æː ɑ ɑː ɔ ɔː o~ʊ oː u uː/ i ii é éé e ee ä ää a aa o oo ó óó u uu /nᵈemæːnᵈem bɛlɛ, jiːwoːɾokɑjnenᵈ ʃɛndɑsŋitijɛːxɔluːtuwɛːtijɛːnɛjimætɑmᵇæːti/ démäädém bele, yiiwóó...

This is my standard orthography: /laˈqʰaɾ/ laqhaar /m n/ m n /b d dz dʐ ɡ/ b d j ǰ g /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ kʰ qʰ/ p t c č k q /pʼ tʼ tsʼ tʂʼ kʼ qʼ ʔ/ p' t' c' č' k' q' 0 /s ʂ ɕ χ h/ s š ś x h /z ʐ ʑ ʁ/ z ž ź ġ /ɾ l/ r l /w j/ w y When stressed: /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/ í é è á ò ó ú /ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ ẽ ã õ When unstressed:...

This is an alternative spelling from my normal one: /laˈqʰaɾ/ laqhaar /m n/ m n /b d dz dʐ ɡ/ b d dz dr g /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ kʰ qʰ/ ph th tsh trh kh qh /pʼ tʼ tsʼ tʂʼ kʼ qʼ ʔ/ p t ts tr k q 0 /s ʂ ɕ χ h/ s sr sy x h /z ʐ ʑ ʁ/ z zr zy j /ɾ l/ r l /w j/ w y /i e ɛ a ə ɔ o u/ i é è a e ò o u /ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ ę ą ...

/laˈqʰaɾ/ /m n/ /b d dz dʐ ɡ/ /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʂʰ kʰ qʰ/ /pʼ tʼ tsʼ tʂʼ kʼ qʼ ʔ/ /s ʂ ɕ χ h/ /z ʐ ʑ ʁ/ /ɾ l/ /w j/ /i e ɛ a ə ɔ o u/ /ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ Stress is phonemic, and can be on any of the last three syllables of a word. Consonant length is also phonemic. There is no phonemic vowel length. All syllables a...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:29 am [m̩ˈm̥m̩] seems about right for me. (Glottal stops before either syllable are optional.)

I seem to have roughly the same pronunciation myself.

«heavy-3SM» əc «heavy-PST-3SM» «sílmə» əc «selãtəwə» tewúwo ləśbówə go. "heavy-3SM" and "heavy-PST-3SM" "sílmə" and "selãtəwə" equals.IPFV-A:3PM-P:3PM like.IPFV-A:1S-P:3SM EGO I like that "heavy-3SM" and "heavy-PST-3SM" are sílmə and selãt...

C'i laqárlo došécəre źélə selãtəwə ze.
DIST.SM Laqar=INST write-GER=DAT too heavy-PST-3SM DIR
That was too hard to write in Laqar.