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Two years ago a British transgender women sook asylum in New Zealand

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I'd follow Adams and Fellner and have a later split of Tocharian from somewhere around Germany or Poland with a Slavic-like rapid eastward expansion. The Balkan thing is a little weird. the balkan/germanic connection is interesting .... i've seen it before, but it's definitely a minority view. inter...

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Space60 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 4:58 pm How do you pronounce "idea"? I am American and I pronounce it with two syllables. The last syllable sounds like a nonrhotic pronunciation of the word "dear".

three syllables for me but two is well enough attested that Shavian has a single letter for /iːə/

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No. There's still no consensus on where Sinitic falls within Sino-Tibetan, so it's unclear what it should be compared with. Aside from Chinese-internal evidence, there are early Sinitic strata in Bai (which are probably not of much comparative use yet because Bai is highly eroded) and pre-MC sesquis...

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The amount of verbal morphology to reconstruct is one of the major points of debate in the reconstruction of PST. Rgyalrongic and Kiranti have some verbal person marking affixes that look cognate, which, assuming it isn't a huge coincidence, means that either PST had verbal person marking or Rgyalro...

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/p t ʈ c k q/ /pp tt ʈʈ cc kk qq/ /(b d)/ <bh dh> /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ/ <m n ṇ ny ng> /r/ <r> /θ s ʂ/ <th s ṣ> /w l j/ <v l y> /i ɨ u e o æ a/ short high, short low, long high, long low, long rising and long falling <á à áá àà aá áa> All vowels (both unstressed an...

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Linguoboy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 11:11 am I often bring up to folks who stigmatise "liberry", "Febuary", etc.

"Febuary" as opposed to what, [ˈfɛbruːeri]? I don't think I've ever heard that.

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it's close enough to Rau that it can be written as it, right (wrong) p~f pˤ~fˤ t tˤ ʦ ʧ k q ʔ b bˤ d dˤ ʣ ʤ ɡ <b̠ b̠r d̠ d̠r j̄ j ḡ> m mˤ n nˤ ɲ <m mr n nr ñ> r rˤ <z zr> s sˤ ʃ x χ ħ h <s sr sh kh h hr h̠> z zˤ ʒ ɣ ʕ <d dr s̠h r̠ r> w l lˤ j i ɨ u ə a i...

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p~f pˤ~fˤ t tˤ ʦ ʧ k q ʔ <f fħ t tħ c č k q j> b bˤ d dˤ ʣ ʤ ɡ m mˤ n nˤ ɲ <m mħ n nħ ñ> r rˤ <r rħ> s sˤ ʃ x χ ħ h <s sħ š x xħ jħ h> z zˤ ʒ ɣ ʕ <z zħ ž gh għ> w l lˤ j <w l lħ y> i ɨ u ə a i: u: a: <ii uu aa> /á à â/ <á à â> /inə̀ʔχːɨrt nɨ̀ɣmɨjtːɨ̂mʃ || tːˤə̂rfɨt j...

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I don't think I have any such constructions, but I live in enough of a bubble that I wouldn't know.

AmEng is very lexically innovative, but its lexical innovation is much less geographically localized than its phonological innovation.

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zompist wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:14 pm My question is, especially for our French members: is there anything to this? I just looked at the Wikipedia article on rosé, and I didn't see anything about wine snobs looking down on rosé.

I haven't heard of this before, but rosés are heavily marketed, so it's not that surprising

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i've never heard "salmon" with an /l/ or "catalpa" in general (evidently some botanist's misspelling of "catawba"?)

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FWIW, this is George, not his father. Are their views particularly different though? He strikes me as more cautious. I read one of his Khoisan papers yesterday and it was a lot more sober than I remember him being, but I haven't looked into the details of the proposed cognates / correspondences yet

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Is it normal for bumblebees to appear in large numbers? Because right now there are really a lot of bumblebees at a particular stretch of flowers in my neighbor's/landlady's garden. yes - I have a lot, and haven't tried to optimize my garden for bees. they seem to like plants in the mint family. (m...

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Oorlams reportedly does, but that’s a creole. Source? What circumstances were there for Dahalo? The clicks are preserved from a non-Cushitic substrate. Haven’t read the paper (link please?), but that last proposal sounds reasonable to me, except I think Tuu–Kxʼa is more likely a Sprachbund than a c...

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As for clicks, they probably were an areal feature widespread in sub-Equatorial Africa before most of the languages there were displaced by the Bantu languages. I see no reason to assume that Proto-World (if that ever existed) had clicks and all non-"Khoisan" languages have lost them. But...

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1) iĕ yø̆ uŏ > iə øə uə; ʉi̯ > øj 2) ɥ > j 3) Most cases of liaison are generalized to linking and intrusive ʁ, but some remain 4) ɸC- > Cw- 5) VC: > VˀC (probably via V̆C) 6) pl > tɬ 7) Educational standards decline; a hardly-standardized social media orthography takes over [li wɔ dʒy nuəʁ‿i li suə...

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Given 1000 years, who knows? But remember that Damin is restricted to warama -initiated men — as such that exerts a pressure against Damin words and sounds being borrowed into everyday language. It's only taught to initiates, but my impression is that they didn't try to stop non-initiates from deve...

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Of course the above implies kr > kʰ as well. *dr was a unit *ⁿdʳ, the prenasalized equivalent of /r/. I can't recall any sources or languages, but there were those two random sound changes in two different oceanic languages, without any apparent motivation or intermediate steps: 1. b > c / #_, nc /...

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Apparently *s > n is attested in Arapaho, but I don't know any theories about what the intermediate steps, if any, were. Plains Algonquian languages in general have a ton of really bizarre sound changes. https://www.academia.edu/2107195/The_sound_change_s_n_in_Arapaho I can't recall any sources or ...

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