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what-has-many-legs Ndaxuunuu tyélá waxeká! Xuunúúná, kaxankulál ndapaa haakáá xákáletexunku ká. /ⁿdaʃu:nu: tʲɨ́lá waʃɨká ‖ ʃu:nú:ná | kaʃaᵑgʊlál ⁿdapɑ: hɑ:kɑ́: ʃákálɨtɨʃʊᵑgʊ ká/ I like this! So much that I just called them 'many-leg-having-invertebrates' in Kaxangulá. ʔɛ́k ŋɑ́ ʔɐglɑ́ ʔṵ nɪɟɜ́ jɑ̤n ...

Out of curiosity, what is <ᵘ̊> supposed to represent, if you know? I’m assuming it’s a superscript form of ⟨ů⟩. From what I’ve seen, superscript vowels usually represent vowels which are voiceless or dropped. Yeah, that makes sense. I'm curious what <ů> is too - I've only seen that in a Czech conte...

χamᵊi diørɣut moqsan tandər əm duruⁿ banjəm. dači Ili birat ňimʁa dəvər dəvər. nadəⁿ saʁənč əm čiškə bətkəf jəm vajəqᵘ̊. son təva guruⁿ gum suyeⁿ ba? təsk laft jiʁa mind aqᵘ̊. χačačiⁿ nanᵊmaq yavm. if χůarənt bənərəŋəf giraⁿ čičivm zəm. əndürid ňi gəɹ əjəⁿ čiškᵊi. moɴmaq banšk ərindəri moɴ gəf laft...

Karch wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:45 am It does indeed look Chadic, but if it isn't, Fur?

Yes, it is Fur!

Sǔrŋá kɨrmó Poora kɨ́ dáíŋ Ba̱rʉ́ dɨó, ná lóó tog bɨ́r kôŋ Ásáŋ bá dáíŋ Sʉʉrʉ kaiŋ Bɨ́ sai la bɨ́wél, bɨ́ kila kwa Sʉʉrʉ dáíŋ-lé, bɨ́ aál aál béla Ná ba̱rʉ dáíŋ kí káíŋ kona-ii Going from the ⟨ŋ⟩ this looks African… but ⟨ʉ⟩ is more South American, so I’m not sure. The underlined ⟨a̱⟩ is extremely d...

Aw thanks. Great detective work yourself with Lamaholot! To be honest, I just spend way too much time collecting grammars and comparative dictionaries/studies. Comparative lexica give me a lot of inspiration for diachronic conlanging and general aesthetics. It's incredible how much stuff is availabl...

Is this Ashéninka Perené? I got there by noticing it looked South American, using Saphon to find phonologies that matched the text, and then going on a deep dive through the Comparative Arawakan Lexical Dataset - the words for 'fruit' and 'woman', chochoki and kooya respectively, were very helpful. ...

Kolõpohũ no'õ Lakolété ru'aka rai watã rai merĩ nuhãna. Ru'aka watã rai, géhã béro kedi baha rai nuhãna. Kolõpohũ belewaĩ, na'é baha nẽ Lakolété tobo lau béro wahã. Saĩ lau tahi lolõ, ru'aka deka niwã kedi nuhãna. Ra'é lo'o ané lodo, nẽ Lakolété na'ē ikã gã nolo. Na'é weda nolo. Na'é dorē géré béhi...

Yes it is! Here's the source if you're curious.

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:59 pm I somehow thought they were all extinct, despite having the Wikipedia page open. Is it a Comecrudan language then?

Yes it is

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:56 pm Is it a Yuma-Cochimí language?

No, they're not all extinct in that family

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:51 pm Is the family extinct as a whole?

Yes

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:28 pm Is this family sometimes considered to be part of the Hokan macrofamily?

It has been included in "Hokan" before, yes

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:07 pm Is the family it belongs to spoken in the US as well?

Yes

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:13 pm Is it spoken in Mexico?

Yes

Karch wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:14 pm Is it a language isolate?

No

Yes, it is from North America. Defining "Mesoamerican" as "spoken in Mexico/Central America" then yes, that is correct too! The original source doesn't specify I don't think, but I would suspect it's stress rather than tone just based on its distribution. The language is no longe...

Oops! I hope it's okay for me to google the text to check my answer if I've already arrived at it. If that's not allowed, I'll defer the confirmation to the person who posts the sample text next time.

Not Papuan or South American, though those are both honestly pretty good guesses aesthetic-wise.

It is Ekajuk. Ok, how did I get here? I first tried to find all the Bantoid languages with /ə/ by staring at Phoible and Glottolog, but there were way too many to narrow it down. Next I tried to stare at some words in Bantoid languages from ComparaLex but unfortunately, I didn't see anything with <v...

Karch wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:49 pmUrarina?

Good job, yes