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Papua Indonesian:
dong (from de+orang he+human) they
kitong (from kita+orang we+human) we

These are similar to Tok Pisin mipela and yupela, I think.

Supposing that the class marker is some kind of noun class/gender/theme vowel that depends on the root in question, I think it should be closer to the root. But theme vowels in particular are known to show up in unexpected places. I wouldn't worry to much about the neutralization in the construct st...

A word tone system I don’t believe this is all that common either. I seem to recall that the van Zanten & Dol chapter on Stress and pitch accent ( here ) made that conclusion, but I might be wrong. Rich morphology (concatenative/non-concatenative) This is the case for many families, but not TNG...

My personal Papuan prototype includes the following: Small consonant inventory (no/few fricatives) Prenasalized voiced stops or weak implosives (might be allophones) One super-rare consonant (like a bilabial trill, a velar lateral) Five vowels + length A word tone system Simple to moderately simple ...

Also bound verb (root)s is a term sometimes used for verb roots that cannot occur without affixes.

Turksprachen (Turkic) -> Indsprachen (Indic)

What does Indic mean? Is it a Sprachbund/linguistic area?

The construction looks very sensible. I am almost 100% sure there is a natlang precedent. What's the problem?

IIUC, maybe Egyptian Arabic is what you are looking for?

I recently read a paper that described the emergence of new phonemes by first deriving allophones and then stabilizing them through loanwords (amongst other). Looks like this is happning for geminates in your lect.

Yes

I think graphemes and vowel phonemes are similar in that they are not points in space but clouds. Each realization is a bit different. And vowel clouds frequently overlap even in languages with three vowel phonemes, e.g. Kabardian. Of course, but I wasn’t claiming that vowel clouds never overlap. J...

I think it's similar for graphemes and vowel phonemes. There is a tendency for them to be as different as possible (by exploiting given parameters) but it's just a tendency. Vowel phoneme clouds overlap (even in languages with small vowel phoneme inventories) and graphemes are somtimes surprisingly...

I think it's similar for graphemes and vowel phonemes. There is a tendency for them to be as different as possible (by exploiting given parameters) but it's just a tendency. Vowel phoneme clouds overlap (even in languages with small vowel phoneme inventories) and graphemes are somtimes surprisingly ...

Some countries seem to escape this, but I don't know how. (For instance Germany manages to keep the AfD under control. It's worryingly high but under control. Well, there's still the 1933-1945 experience. This still helps to concentrate minds, especially not to underestimate seemingly crazy people ...

I was thinking about a grand compromise, but it's a bit tongue-in-cheek:

Thorn: [-voiced,-glottalized]
Tyr: [-aspirated,-long]
Dag: [-glottalized,-long]

1. A 'paradigm cell' is what I have seen, but also simply a 'member' of a paradigm.
2. I have seen the term 'lexical category' used for nouns and verbs. This leaves 'inflectional category' for case.

If by vowel breaking you mean diphthongization, I am pretty sure it happened in some Bantu language.

Just to interject, why are reconstructions like *(mb,p)(i,u)t(iu)C 'fingernail', *k(a,o)nd(a,o)[C] 'foot, lower leg', *[si]si, *siti, *pisi 'urine' entertained or even accepted for Proto-Trans–New Guinean, but we are nitpicking Talskubilos for some metathesis here and there? Put differently, why ar...

Depends. In phonological or broad transcription, most people use the high tone mark on the accented syllable, IINM. Depending on the analysis, some people also use full blown tone marks on all syllables, the primary stress mark before the accented syllable or the downstep symbol after the accented. ...