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Pabappa wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 12:14 pm the famine of 1823 in Nama caused Nama to invade its much weaker ally, Paba

What? Is it the other way around? For example, Java invaded Bali in 1284 because Samalas eruption in 1257 depopulates Bali. (Java is affected to lesser extent, but still)

Sorry if this has been posted before, but old school conlang blogger Justin B Rye has some new content on his website. The fact that his site is still growing after twenty years is amazing; it's like finding out that Richard Kenneway is still collecting conlang links or something. Anyway, check out...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:48 am Conceivably there could also be verbs for some higher units like 'ten' or 'a hundred'.

You mean, there is word for to be 5 and to be 20, while there is no verbal form for number between them, except supported by tsuu?

How to pronounce alveolar flap next to alveolar approximant. This consonant cluster appears in American English. I can pronounce either just fine. However, when the two are together, it becomes a difficult cluster. For example: party is pronounced [pʰɑːɹɾi]

I had an engelang about a language without any nouns at all. My idea is to have 8 person markers and make a noun a verb with copular meaning. For example 3SG-be.sick 3SG-be.mother 1SG.S-3SG.P-own My mother is sick Shuffling the order has the same meaning, but with different emphasis. Verbs that appe...

If what you are asking is whether its plausible to have quantifiers that look like (or have grammaticalized from) possessive phrases with number agreement, Yes, that's right. Additional question. Is it realistic for a numeral system is marked verbally for 1-5, but nominally above that, with verb to...

sea cucumber: sea pillow

Next: black dragon

If what you are asking is whether its plausible to have quantifiers that look like (or have grammaticalized from) possessive phrases with number agreement, Yes, that's right. Additional question. Is it realistic for a numeral system is marked verbally for 1-5, but nominally above that, with verb to...

I don't know what you mean by "3 SG " though. Do you mean something that'd mean "whole" or "entire" instead, as in "the entire thread"? In Arabic, the singular is only used in this construction for collective nouns that trigger singular agreement: third perso...

I had to unlearn the pronunciation for either pidgin or pigeon. They're both either [pɪdʒɪn] (British) or [pɪdʒən] (US). I used to pronounce the former as the [pɪdʒɪn] and the latter as [pɪdʒən]. Since I align more to US English (despite Indonesian usually align more to British), I'll use the latte...

Is it realistic if my universal quantifier is formed with this syntax:

Noun 3SG/PL-all

How about existential one?

I had to unlearn the pronunciation for either pidgin or pigeon. They're both either [pɪdʒɪn] (British) or [pɪdʒən] (US). I used to pronounce the former as the [pɪdʒɪn] and the latter as [pɪdʒən]. Since I align more to US English (despite Indonesian usually align more to British), I'll use the latter.

The term "Pigeon English" is a source of amusement. I do wonder if 'pigeon' as in "It's not my pigeon" comes from the Chinese-English pidgin. I searched it on google and I only get this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_English For which the headnote says, "For the lang...

Richard W wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:42 am The term "Pigeon English" is a source of amusement. I do wonder if 'pigeon' as in "It's not my pigeon" comes from the Chinese-English pidgin.

I searched it on google and I only get this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_English

Khitan language sounds like something Muslim has to do to their male organ.

jal wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 3:37 am three ZBBs.

Three?

JAL

But you're just bloating your own post.

I'm kinda wingin' it here...let me know if this is crazy; root: kir - tooth; dental; ivory noun: ikir - tooth >> ikirim - teeth verb: kirek - bite; chew root: dus - cure; heal; mend; fix noun: udus - cure >> dusin ( -in is agentive) - healer >> gidus ( gi- is tool/device) - medicine; medication ver...

By the way, what is the difference between:

A man who is standing over there is my friend

versus

A man standing over there is my friend

jal wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:44 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:53 pmBy "sie" I meant "they", as in "the banknotes".

Right. I must've been sleeping.


JAL

Yet, you consistently put "JAL" at the end of each post. (By the way, why don't you use a signature?)

Also, the way into linguolabial itself is pretty rare. It's allegedly from labial consonant after a nonrounded vowel. But it should be rather stable for me.