Zompist Bboard Again

For some reason I've been on a huge Malayalam movie music binge lately, so this is a pretty fun thread to see. I'm also just generally interested in the Dravidian family. They seem like interesting and often overlooked languages. Thanks for this thread! Regarding wh-words, is Malayalam a wh-in-situ ...

Nikolay Nevskiy's Miyakoan dictionary is not unusual for the languages included so much for the fact that it's in all of Russian, English, and Japanese; some definitions are given in one or two of these, others are in all three, but it's sufficiently inconsistent that you basically have to understan...

My absolute favorite is probably A Grammar of Bella Coola (Davis & Saunders 1997) which is pretty unique as far as grammars go. It sort of… abandons normal linguistic frameworks and develops a Salish-o-centric approach to linguistics and analyzes Bella Coola (aka Nuxalk aka xłp̓χʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ lan...