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It can even make a fictional story: Do you know about the Sakha tribe? I once lived among them. In fact, a significant amount of my teenager life is spent there. When I was a young child, we were on a horse-drawn cart. The Sakha were very welcoming. When we got to our village, they asked if I wanted...

It sounds like it's no longer English to me.

Used between a velarized ("broad") and a palatalized ("slender") consonant: To write the sound /əu̯/ (in Donegal, /oː/): ⟨abhai⟩, ⟨amhai⟩, ⟨obhai⟩, ⟨odhai⟩, and ⟨oghai⟩ To write the sound /əi̯/ (in Donegal, /eː/): ⟨adhai⟩, ⟨aghai⟩ To write the sound /əi̯/: ⟨oidhi⟩ and ⟨oighi⟩ To...

Every /ə/ /i/ and /u/ is deleted. (except the rhotacized ones, long ones, or part of diphthong). Schwa is reintroduced to break some of the resulting cluster. (between identical sounds sans voicing/retroflex and between alveolar/retroflex stops). However, word initially, these vowel is instead hard...

Apparently Washo has a case-sensitive orthography. And to think I was foolish enough to assume Klingon was the only language with that particular mistake… (More specifically, ⟨ŋ Ŋ m M l L w W y Y⟩ correspond to /ŋ ŋ̊ m m̥ l l̥ w w̥ j j̊/ in Washo. At least this is better than Klingon, though: Kling...

⟨a b ƃ d ď ƌ e ẹ f ɣ ƣ h i k l m n ň ŋ o ọ q r ṙ s t ť u w y z ʔ ʌ ʌ̣⟩ /a b ɓ d ɟ ɗ ɛ e f ɣ ʕ h i k l m n ɲ ŋ ɔ o q ɽ r s t c u u̝/w i̝/j z ʔ ʌ ɤ/ Vowels may be modified by the following diacritics: ⟨a á ả â a̍ ä aƞ⟩ a = low tone modal voice á = high modal voice ả = low-falling breathy voice â = hig...

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:00 pm ⟨b ƃ d ď ƌ e ẹ f ɣ ƣ h i k l m n ň ŋ o ọ q r ṙ s t ť u w y z ʔ ʌ ʌ̣⟩

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Sample text:
⟨ƃa̍s yw kʌ̣p ƌoön γảŋsẃ hoʔ meeƞqâ dẹƞtŵ sëp ŵs ƣa ťaa̍ŋ ro⟩

Your language doesn't have letter a.

For the plural suffix, you can use adverb together or equally. (The latter is attested in Javanese) Muride padha nyaut The students are answering (the teacher) Also, Javanese apparently (according to a grammar book) has no plurality distinction in pronoun and in pronominal suffixes. (except for firs...

Schwa is dropped next to vowel, morpheme-initially, in Stop + Schwa + Liquid, in Vowel + Liquid + Schwa + Fricative, between two single consonant but not if the second consonant is word final and word finally after single consonant, except if it's the only vowel in the word. sibliant fricative, /l/...

This looks fun! Next: a ā b c ch č čh d dh ḍ ḍh e ē f g gh ġ ġh h i ī j jh ǰ ǰh k kh l ḻ ḷ m n ṅ ñ ṇ o ō p ph q qh r ṟ s š t th ṭ ṭh u ū v w x y z ž Romanization based off of Arabic, Farsi, Slavic, Native American, and Malayalam romanizations. /p t ʈ k q/ ⟨p t ṭ k q⟩ /pʰ tʰ ʈʰ kʰ qʰ/ ⟨ph th ṭh kh q...

I think this should be on Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0. Also, when asking the romanization, tell us the phonotactics too. For example, it's a good practice to use <ts> as the affricate, unless if that language has phonotactics like Polish, where /ts/ can be either consonant cluster or affricate.

Let's revive this thread

a aa ae ao b bp c d dt e ee ea ei eo g gk i ii ie io j k kk l m n o oo oi oa ou p pp r s t tt w x

dtiox kou sppae rkxoas e loa tseo pket tkser gkien.

What is the difference between anticausative and passive?

I read (in WALS article?) the reason for that is because language with SVO order can parse the sentence easier. In language with neither head marking or dependent marking, it's pretty difficult to parse whether "man stone break" means "A man breaks stone" or "A man stone br...

It's the forgotten language of a paleolithic tribe of humans living in north-east Siberia. They live in small nomadic clans and have a shamanistic religion. They hunt various kinds of animals, mostly seals, walrus reindeer and mammoth. Mammoth is the hardest prey, so it is held in high regards amon...

As comparison, bee's sexual determination system uses haplodiploidity and csd gene. Male bee has identical csd gene, either because it only has 1 gene (from haploidity), or because both the drone and the queen has identical csd (meaning it's inbreeding), although the latter is sterile and is then ki...

It's the forgotten language of a paleolithic tribe of humans living in north-east Siberia. They live in small nomadic clans and have a shamanistic religion. They hunt various kinds of animals, mostly seals, walrus reindeer and mammoth. Mammoth is the hardest prey, so it is held in high regards amon...

3 is attested in Andalusian Spanish
1 is attested in Filipino.
I don't know about the rest (English?)

Is Locative case -> Resultantive realistic? This applies to an adjective. Most verbs can't form resultative though. Later, many adjective gets derived to form stative verbs. But the original adjective is still used for compounding and resultative construction. Probably from "into" meaning....

Now, I'm interested with the human attitude toward bugs. But please expand the language first.