Zompist Bboard Again

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ṣ̌ (S + hacek + subdot)
ṣ̌ (S-subdot + hacek)

There's no one unicode codepoint for an S with caron and dot below, but there's actually one with a caron and a dot above: ṧ.

A bit tangential, but related to Sal's point: am I right to think that both the following are true? Languages very rarely acquire clicks as part of their core phonology, except under the influence of another language (though paralinguistic uses of clicks, like English "tsk tsk," are common...

Independent graphs for vowels, that can be used in onsetless syllables, like in Devanāgarī?

I have already looked and haven't found anything, but I don't want to assume it's impossible for this to exist. So are there any languages in which long prenasalized stops exist, even arguably? If not, are there languages with long voiced stops? If not again, what would be the closest I could reaso...

Oops, okay.

The paper cedh linked had no > nope as an example of one of those changes.

That was a fun paper! ...In other news, I have t and d palatalising before i both initially and after a vowel. (They go to c and ɟ , if it matters.) Intervocally you also get geminate t and nd or ⁿd , which may represent geminate d . Any idea whether these are likely to palatalise as well?

Thanks!

Sorry if you've answered this already---will you be adding all corrections and updates to the top post? (I'm trying to avoid looking at the thread till I've been able to spend some time on it myself, so I hope so, and also may have missed it if this has already come up.)

Some googling suggests that "ordered that the ship was to be seized" is the most common variant (that I can think of, anyway).

How does this sentence read to y'all? Italian authorities ordered that the ship was seized and launched an investigation into the alleged aiding of clandestine immigration. "was" definitely seems wrong to me. "be" is fine, maybe a bit fancy. "ordered the ship to be seized&q...

Ah, great. Thanks!

those make perfect sense. Is your r like the English r, German, or something else? I think this would work best with a sound that s already liquid...Spanish R's would need to change to a liquid before they could start the change. Great---thanks! ---Dumb of me not to have said anything about which /...

I've been relying on a sound change that I'm not sure about, thought it'd be worth asking here. It's ur → au̯ with the r in coda. I'm imagining something like ur → ɨrʷ → əu̯ → au̯ ---with rounding shifting off of the vowel and onto the coda. Does that seem plausible? (There's a parallel ar → ai̯ tha...

M Mira wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:08 pm There were quite a few inventions that spread like wildfire, like bee keeping: English "mead" is cognate to Japanese mitsu "honey, nectar".

Also Mandarin mì 蜜 (< Baxter/Sagart OC *mit), as I'm sure you know.

I've always been a fan of mare ~ mǎ 馬.

Didn't Deng Xiaoping end up as (only) the chairman of the bridge club? (Bridge as in cards.)

I think I'd never remember which arrow is which, and would prefer a more explicit sort of annotation, even if it takes more keystrokes. (I've been playing a bit with phonix, and it doesn't offer those options, but you can flag a rule with "direction=right-to-left", which is really easy to ...

...I don't know if anyone here would be interested, but I put something up over at u/conlangs (specifically here ) based on that last post as well as the recent one on resultative complements. The most significant difference from what I posted here, I think, is that I started from the assumption tha...

One of my own hurdles is getting invested in exploring certain typologies and not daring to set things in stone before reading just a bit more literature on the subject. Having several less important side projects is good advise. The downside is that if you are too worried in putting half cooked id...

Serial verb constructions are usually defined so that they must be monoclausal, and that's usually (sensibly) taken to mean that there can only be one TAM setting for the whole sequence. In some supposed serial verb constructions this TAM setting gets marked on all the verbs, but that's definitely n...