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Makassarese: u' (hair) Indonesia ironically has shorter word for more advanced concepts than basic concepts, barring grammatical words: am : Not limited to a certain person or race; universal. Usually used as "gereja am" which means a church that is universal regardless of denomination and...

Pedant wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:29 am Ooh, could make it rather difficult for anyone to reasonably be a carnivore with enough thought about what they were doing...perhaps you should consider investing heavily in designing protein-heavy plants?

Or more simply, ignoring what the herbivore is saying and just eat it.

The lack of nasal phonemes is very unusual. In real world, it only occurs in Puget Sound. Try adding nasal vowel or nasal consonant Try splitting a cluster into 3 position. (Initial, Medial, and Final). While /pr/ is good word initially, it's bad at final cluster. Example (This is not western, thoug...

After an unfortunately long period of being far too busy/tired to get any conlanging done, I finally have time again, but seem to be stuck with a case of "conlanger's block". I'm looking to derive more complex consonant clusters in a daughter language of Proto-Yonutian, whose syllables ar...

Speaking of horrible phonologies, Hixkaryana has the weirdest five vowel system I've ever seen: /æ e ɔ ɯ u/. I get it, you want to be special, but really? This and your language is OVS? You know there's more to conlanging than being weird, right? Actually, having OVS (or rigid SOV) typical of Carib...

That doesn't discount the Athabskan evidence though. That polysynthesis had to come from somewhere, and the virtual absence of suffixes, and especially person-marking suffixes, points to a historic SOV word order which was later grammaticalised into this massive verb complex. There's nothing about ...

Southern Tepehuan, unlike Nahuatl, (they're from the same family), has a horrible phonology. Really, you have /ɨ u o ʌ a/ as the non front vowel, but only /i/ as the front vowel? Also, what arbitrary consonant is /ɣ͡ʎ/?

How likely is unconditional shift from /s s̻ z/ > /r/(/s̻/ being the fortis /s/).

From syllable final /Vs Vh Vw Vj Vʔ Vn Vns Vnʔ Vwʔ Vjʔ/, how can I get rhotacized vowel? It doesn't have to affect all of them, as long as some of them results in rhotacization.

Nahuatl is perhaps one of the best conlang in the Earth. Unfortunately, it's not spotless. Can you explain why 1PL and 2SG subject and pronoun prefixes are identical? Also, can you explain why you need to decline noun based on "case" (which is more about whether the noun is possessed or no...

Can a SOV language becomes prefixal polysynthetic language also with SOV word order? From what I understand, Navajo is basically SOV (although more precisely the word order follows animacy) and very heavily prefixing. No, I mean a language moves from nonpolysynthetic to polysynthetic. But the word ...

Can a SOV language becomes prefixal polysynthetic language also with SOV word order?

I'm no huge fan of irregular verbs being all over the place--I'm looking at you, French--but it seems like there ought to be more than two. Scattering a few irregular forms through a handful of other verbs just...doesn't seem realistic. Uh, actually, Japanese's irregular forms is actually realistic...

mèþru wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:48 am

Akangka wrote:Is it plausible for /m̻/ (fortis /m/) to shift into /p̻/ (fortis /p/)?

Sure, but I would expect the shift to affect all nasals.

No, just all fortis nasal. The lenis nasal remains. However, fortis /n̻/ and all fortis nasals is also shifted

mèþru wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:59 pm me and half the board

Lucky you, in Indonesia, there is no such thing as gay right.

Are you sure that there is actually 7 degrees of distance and not 3 degrees, but there is variant demonstratives that have the same degrees of distance and visibility? I'm quite certain. My Field Methods class in university did Malagasy, and one of my classmates focused on deixis (I mostly focused ...

Also, would a phonoloɡy of m n ɲ ŋ p t t͡s t͡ʃ k f s ʃ x h l ɾ w j ± mb nd ɲd͡ʒ ŋɡ Allow for some exotic consonants, i.e. labio-velars or uvulars? The language was heavily influenced by Arabic early in its history, resulting in an extdnsive uvularized series, uvulars and pharyngeals, and since then...

Malagasy. Oh, Malagasy. Seven deictic degrees of distance. Seven. Really, seven? Seven??? Who needs seven?????? WAT? :shock: Seriously. Are you sure that there is actually 7 degrees of distance and not 3 degrees, but there is variant demonstratives that have the same degrees of distance and visibil...

Which is weird, because Indonesia is more corrupt Now I'm curious; can you explain how Indonesia is more corrupt? https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017?gclid=Cj0KCQiAvqDiBRDAARIsADWh5Ted8IcWhAAlm6hHWyDuK5acKgjS6urWnUNOV4QOPToM4YYtac8R9oEaAknjEALw_wcB You can se...

Is it plausible for /m̻/ (fortis /m/) to shift into /p̻/ (fortis /p/)?