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- Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:26 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Non-Arabic Semitic Poetry
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4277
Re: Non-Arabic Semitic Poetry
Well, there are the poems/songs in the Tanakh. (Basically all of Psalms, Job, and the Song of Songs, at least parts of some of the prophets, etc., as well as the shorter poetic or song insets like the Song of the Sea in Exodus or the Song of Deborah in Judges. The last two are probably very old, but...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:09 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 331
- Views: 350743
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
Hallow XIII wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:29 pm the proper amount of cross-linguistic knowledge to have is when you look at standard average european and go "what the fuck"
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1333
- Views: 841669
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I don't know if there's a real-world precedent but I don't see why not. Go for it
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3069
- Views: 2938036
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 4:48 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax borrowing
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14910
Re: Syntax borrowing
Eh, I'm skeptical about the "Ethiopian Sprachbund" in its current formulation. As far as I can tell it seems to be posited as an explanation for why Ethiopian Semitic languages are more like Cushitic syntactically that Asian Semitic which is presumed to represent the "Semitic Prototy...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3069
- Views: 2938036
Re: Conlang Random Thread
I prefer post-nasalised stops to pre-. /bmaɪ/, /dnai/, /gŋaɪ/. Even before I knew what they were called. Why not both? You might like the Hup language from the Nadahup family. They really go bonkers: "In oral environments, voiced stops are pre-nasalized in morpheme-initial position, post-nasal...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:10 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4967079
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
I have /æ/ in "length" and "strength" and I've been very concerned about this for a while because no one else seems to (including my family or people from the area where I grew up or people where I live now, as far as I've been able to determine)!!! (I have /ɛ/ in "penguin&q...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Syntax borrowing
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14910
Re: Syntax borrowing
I definitely am not sold on Afroasiatic as a whole, but agree that there's enough to strongly suggest that at least Semitic, Berber, and probably Egyptian are distantly related, with the person-marking, general morphological template, and nominal morphology being the main evidence. ("Grammatica...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:38 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Shortest words for basic concepts
- Replies: 67
- Views: 55091
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3069
- Views: 2938036
Re: Conlang Random Thread
No, it is definitely in Biblical Hebrew. Or at least in Hebrew by the time niqqud started to appear. Yeah, the collapse of the stressed diphthongs was a northern Canaanite feature (including possibly northern Ancient Hebrew -- IIRC there are spellings like <bt> instead of <byt> in some northern ost...
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:38 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Where are the analytic and nonconcatenative conlangs?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 54170
Re: Where are the analytic and nonconcatenative conlangs?
Since he's currently trapped as a translator in the distant, exotic land of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, with apparently little internet access, I'll note that yng has a very good relatively analytic language in Tsi . If by nonconcatenative you mean to include stuff l...
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:23 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Hmmm...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19058
Re: Hmmm...
Those are all reasonable, yes.yangfiretiger121 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:51 pmAre any of the following reflections viable after vowel defrication: [s͡l → ɬə], [z͡l → ɮə], [t͡l~t͡ɬ̤ → t͡ɬə], or [d͡l~d͡ɮ̤ → d͡ɮə]?
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:40 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: IE and Basque: Blevins' proposal
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19147
Re: IE and Basque: Blevins' proposal
I don't know much of anything about historical IE or Basque linguistics, but these brief examples of two of Blevins' proposed cognate sets (from dhok's blog) don't give me much confidence in Blevins' work or its conclusions.
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:45 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Basic Valence Orientation and Sint
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16169
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Evidentiality
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7916
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Basic Valence Orientation and Sint
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16169
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Basic Valence Orientation and Sint
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16169
Re: Basic Valence Orientation and Sint
I'm not sure I've seen the language with the "AARGH WE'RE MISSING SOMETHING!" particles. I guess this is similar to languages that only show object agreement when an overt object NP isn't present in the clause? I do have in Sint a verbal clitic that marks oblique/possessor fronting and ex...
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:50 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4753
- Views: 2241709
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:42 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4753
- Views: 2241709
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Does anyone know of any languages with fairly simple phonologies - especially ones with small phoneme inventories, and possibly ones with very simple phonotactics - that have a good amount of morphological alternations? I can think of rendaku and Lyman's law in Japanese, and those stem extensions t...
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:06 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 73122