Zompist Bboard Again

I had always assumed that the change in Hebrew was /t/ > /θ/, and then /θ/ > t in Sephardic pronunciation while /θ/ > s in Ashkenazi. Yiddish, I dont know about, but I assume it borrowed the pronunciation of Ashkenazi. Possibly both under influence of surrounding languages (no /θ/ in German or most...

Hm, my grammaticality judgments all align with Zomp's.

Can the glottal stop do anything other than disappearing or turning into /h/? Not much, really...glottal stops are pretty much the end of the line. Maybe turning into epiglottals or something very close, which could then maybe do other things? But I'm not aware offhand of any actual examples of tha...

Using a comma for the glottal stop is even worse than Tlingit's decision to use a period. :shock: Well, it looks like there are actually three separate orthographies, all of which use period for the glottal stop! One orthography using it is bad enough, but how other people thought it was an idea go...

The California languages you should be looking at for inspiration for a nonconcatenative system are really Yokutsan languages, which have very, very extensive nonconcatenative morphology. (Just be careful that you only use sources based on actual personal fieldwork; all the literature on the languag...

(Side note: Halkomelem (or at least one dialect of it) does have a weird orthography in general though. From http://www.languagegeek.com/salishan/henqeminem_text.html , a small sample: Xʷənaʔ syewənałct. Wilapiya θə nə sk̓ʷix, ʔi təli cən ʔəƛ̓ Scəwaθən. […] Səw̓ xʷən̓ ʔəxʷin̓ ʔal̓, ʔəw̓ sƛ̓iƛ̓qəł ʔ...

well even Japanese, which is cited by some as a language without swear words, does seem to actually have some words that can be seen as swear words, at least under certain contexts: https://www.rypeapp.com/blog/japanese-swear-words/ https://soranews24.com/2016/09/22/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-offensive...

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:28 pm I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Congrats!

Just one data point, but: I live in Texas and while I've occasionally heard people say "coke" to mean "soft drink" (though this is not common where I live, at least, which is the suburbs north of Houston; "soda" and sometimes "soft drink" are more common IME [...

one thing I've wondered is whether it's related to the fact that AmEng speakers also don't use the "PALM" (FAther/BRA) vowel in -alf words like half, calf (but they use TRAP rather than THOUGHT here). Really?! Someone's out there saying /hæf/ and /kæf/...? :shock: I guess now that I think...

It's perfectly realistic (and very common, in natlangs) to have only a restricted set of phonemes permissible word-finally.

Anyone else have laxing of vowels before /l/ in common contractions, such as we'll , you'll , he'll , and she'll ? (For me we'll and wool , he'll and hill , and she'll and shill are homophones outside careful speech.) Likewise - in fact, I would say that my variety has completely lost the full-vowe...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:27 am

alynnidalar wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:17 amDo you guys feel similarly or is this just me?

They feel about the same to me.

Yeah, same here