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Australian English has frication of /t/ almost to [ʃ]. I've never heard this. It's weird because in my experience most Australians voice /t/ in these contexts, while the fricative realization is voiceless. For me, the realisation of /t/ varies between flapped [ɾ], unreleased [t̚], affricated [tˢ~ts...

I'm guessing it was speaking specifically of the plurals of nouny things, and not of verby things, but it occurs to me that regular verbs in French would probably qualify: j'écris, tu écris, il écrit, nous écrivons, vous écrivez, ils écrivent , three distinct plural forms, the singular forms having...

zyxw59 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:18 am Imagine a language which 1) is pro-drop; 2) extensively uses auxiliary verbs. Could those auxiliary verbs come to be reinterpreted as tense-marked subject pronouns?

I think Wolof does, it's pretty famous for doing so.

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Early old norse
Phonological history of Swedish

I tried something like that once; see it here . You may judge for yourself how well it worked. It looks like a mess at first glance, but you see consistencies still. Even if you're not really aware of the consonant/vowel allophony, you can start to pick up that each word has different stems that al...

I don't really know where else to post this, but I'm working on a minimal phoneme conlang atm and I had the idea that syllable structures could be shiftable, with segments being reinterpreted as consonantal or vocalic alternately depending on where the stress is. It's simpler to demonstrate what I m...

Did Proto Germanic allow subject dropping? All attested Germanic languages are non pro drop Apparently some Old Germanic languages actually do show signs of subject dropping! I've linked below some papers on Old High German and Old Norse by George Walkden, and there's papers on languages like Old E...

Quite interesting results. Given my language's opposition to onset or coda consonant clusters and how the laryngeal stops cause gemination, the result would probably be: paruḫnespa or paruḫnessep paraḫnespa or paraḫnessep paraḫḫanespa or paraḫḫanessep Which aren't very pretty. That gives me strong ...

There are many guides on how to make a triconlang, but what is a bit annoying is that they're all based on languages with right-leaning stress and primarily prefixing with prefixed person markers. There are none for doing it with languages with right-leaning stress that are primarily suffixal with ...

For other languages, it gets very catch-as-catch-can. I recently saw some comments from a native Javanese speaker so I asked them a few questions. Almost a month later, I’ve given up waiting for a response. Speaking of, I actually have a Javanese friend if you want me to pass on the same questions?...

jal wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:31 am

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:28 pmhe wants to not very reduceable

[iˈwə̃stə]?

Yep, I'd use that pretty commonly

Only just got around to reading (well, skimming) through this, and it looks pretty interesting — thank you! But given that I know nothing of Celtic diachronics, and the paper looks somewhat dense, do you think I would be able to read it just now, or would I need to look at some more introductory st...

True, I had forgot about Hittite (which indeed has a rather elaborate clitic system). I’m similarly unsurprised that Vedic Sanskrit has them as well — most of the conservative IE languages do. But I hadn’t known about clitics in Old Irish, which is rather divergent; do you have any more information...

A questions for the Indo–Europeanists here: what happened to the clitics in IE? I know that PIE had a set of second-position (‘Wackernagel’) clitics, which have been preserved quite well in some families and language — Slavic comes to mind as the big one, but I know Pashto has some, as did Homeric ...

У Шидоний ри тогышта цани таксы кушка мырадой COVID-19 шёурей та. Мио папамама и я цани цагордом, хароши, но мио пырада цани у Шидоний а. Касчиджира тайджоувы а, но моджиппи у нас Раджиспо аджин. オシドニーリトグシタチャニタクスクシカムラドイCOVID-19ショウレイタ。ミオパバママイヤチャニチャゴロドム、ハロシ、ノミオプラダチャニオシドニーア。カシチヂラタイヂョウブア、ノモヂッピオナシラヂシポアヂ...

Below I've written out a gloss of JM Schulz's 1802 Latin translation of the text, for comparison's sake. Proficiscor per ea, quae secundum naturam sunt, donec occumbens requiescam, in id animam exspirans, inde quotidie spiritum haurio et in id cadens, unde pater semen collegit, sanguinem mater, nutr...

Ва мио варыдай ядзы пя-бойн тайгей кадори тодже маного пырастой. Цёра венджира ва джингогенго - гаспаджи варыдай сырова ио пыдайджи на овингоузоу. ワミオワルダイヤズピャボインタイゲイカドリトジャマノゴプラシトイ。チョラウェンジラワジンゴゲンゴガシパジワルダイシロバイオプダイジナオビンゴウゾウ。 wa mio warudai yadzu pya-boin taigei | kadori todza manogo purastoi | tsora w...

Space60 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:49 am "Carl" and "Charles". One or two syllables. I have "Car-l" and "Char-les". Two syllables.
+ Kyle

These are all unambiguously monosyllabic to me.
/kɐːɫ/ /tʃɐːɫz/ /kaɪ̯ə̯ɫ/
[kʰɐˑo̯] [tʃɐˑo̯z̥] [kʰɐe̯o̯]

anteallach wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:49 am prerogative?

Seemingly [pʰɻ̩ˈɻʷɔgəɾɨv~pʰɞˈɻʷɔgəɾɨv]

Hokkaido Russian: Мио симя цёра нас Лазию-на таагый о мяс ю яси. ミオシミャチョラナスラジオナターギーオミャスヨヤシ。 Mió shimyá chóra násu Rájio na táagii o myásu yo yáshi. /mió simjá tsjóra násu rátsio na táːkiː o mjásu jo jási/ 1SG.POSS family TOP 1PL Christmas for turkey GEN meat OBJ eat.IMPF Me and my family eat turkey ...