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The thing about true Wanderwörter is they are dead obvious -- words traveling between many unrelated and loosely related languages with gradual changes over space that do not obey typical sound changes within language groups as if they were inherited. I am sure if there were so many Wanderwörter peo...

My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform. I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves. :( And yet, you’re yet to give us any actual reasons why you think this… OK, I owe you an explanation. From my own resea...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 1:03 pm gaxaguyeya

Tadiziye /ɣaχaɣujɛja/ rixaa laxadaa
COP-DAT-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES /ɣaχaɣujɛja/ difficult say-ACTION
/ɣaχaɣujɛja/ is a mouthful.

The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") [...] I don't have the imp...

But I have the impression that Talksubilos hasn't grasped that the inconvenience of the fact is an important facet of the semantics of afraid . But then I am not a native English speaker and may be wrong ;) What I get out of Talskubilos's use of the word afraid is that they are insisting that they ...

• make, create, khayta

Ximame ha aariye ha khaytameya ibba gaxaguyeya /ay/ ay /aw/.
think-AGT.1.S-PRES COMP should-PRES COMP create-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN words exist-COM-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN /ay/ or /aw/.
I think I should make more words with /ay/ or /aw/.

The Democrats may not be ideal, but anyone who thinks that the Republicans are somehow better than them (including the people who think that the Republicans somehow favor the working class or that the Democrats should not be voted for because they are "elitist") is frankly either a fool or...

What I have done with Fad'ami is first to give each morpheme a number of different forms depending on what precedes it phonetically, and secondly to primarily put things like geminates, aspirated consonants, and ejectives in roots, and avoid them in affixes (there are a couple notable ejectives in a...

Um, French verbal clitics are already morphemes, and always have been…! Really? I thought they were still clitics. So what are some papers that discuss this aspect of French morphology? Clitics are morphemes… I’m wondering if you perhaps mean ‘affixes’? In response to which I submit that ‘clitic’ a...

jal wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 5:23 am

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:11 pm

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 9:39 pm[í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì]

Your posts look hard to write.

Dem fo specal luk ahcip fi tok.
They especially look difficult to speak.

• agree with (trans.), q'atti

Q'attimena
agree-AGT.1.S-PRES-PAT.2.S
Agreed.

• vary (intr.), caat'e
• many (coll.), niina

Ligimat'a ha gadi fad'a jafanit niina saxaat caat'ejatlaa.
know-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV-NEG exist-DAT language Japan-GEN many sounds-GEN vary-ADJ.PAT-GEN-P
I did not know Japanese had so many allophones.

Ximaajafaabin zon man.
think-ADJ.PAT-COMPARE-RES-ABL-AGT.2.S DIST.S.INAN 3.S-ACC
You have put more thought in that than me.

doctor shark wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 2:40 pm This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

Congrats!

alphabet, alfabet letter, character, sign, symbol, khaafu Bakizinuya fad'amii aana khaafutam alfabetit ingalisit taguyeyat'a ⟨p⟩ ay ⟨v⟩. use-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB-PAT.3.P.INAN language-POSS.1.P-ERG all letter-GEN-P alphabet-GEN English-GEN COP-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN-NEG ⟨p⟩ or ⟨v⟩. Fad'ami uses ...

• Japan, jafan
• very, strongly, deeply, soole

Nawiziye fad'anaa fad'a jafanit wiib'aja soole.
appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES language-POSS.2.S-ERG language Japan-GEN mutate-ADJ.PAT very
Your language looks like a deeply mutated Japonic language.

之ろ良き辞を名する゙辞縄有り゙ 「いろ𛀁ぅきつゐ𛀁をなする゙きつゐ𛀁にょふあり゙」 Ilo yeoki tiyônasuru tienyô ari. [í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì] proximal.LOCATIVE good.PREDICATIVE word.ACCUSATIVE.make.ADNOMINAL word.rope(=thread) copula.PREDICATIVE "This is a good word-making thread.&q...

Are there any natlangs that, like my new conlang fad'ami , have a complete lack of adpositions, expressing equivalent ideas with applicatives, relational nouns, genitive case, and relative clauses? Common motifs in fad'ami include using an applicative on a verb with a relational noun belonging to a ...

I think in AusEng present "got" is fairly rare and when it occurs it behaves exactly the same as "have got". What happens with the sequence of tenses, as in standard 'I said I'd got time to spare'? Does that get replaced by 'I said I had time to spare'? Yeah, the former sounds a...

collect (trans.), qarre go (intr.), aagi words (coll.), ibba post, message, kab'a Aagiyoma yoxa ut qarrebimaya ibba kab'am chiilaa. go-ALL-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV back and collect-ABL-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV-PAT.3.P.INAN words post-P old-P I have been going back and collecting words from previous posts.

equals, copula, ta language variety, fad'a to bore, qham bad, yoh to mean, wanni just, merely, sun new, gani sky, siima give, yaalu things (coll.), d'at myriad, yiseka nurture, wohade humankind, gaare have, own, possess, enna good, wot return, eeta die, t'aw surprise (trans.), coxi need (trans.), m...