Zompist Bboard Again

The Kobardon speaking people of Fredauon generally classify the judical systems of Fredauon according to their complexity when dealing with punishment and reward. Very simple systems only distinguish between punishable and non-punishable actions. In more complex systems some actions are also rewarde...

Why not ꓤ? Or at least ⅃? You could also use L l in general, which is similar to some Romanizations of Tamil.

Looks like a form of (Low German/Dutch/Frisian) diminutive -ke to me, which was either shortened or not expanded in the first place. So a complex form of non-standard origin. But it seems pronounceable at least.

There is assimilation in Senf, Hanf and fünf for me.

Green campaign posters rarely show Baerbock here. I feel like the CDU hasn't started really campaigning here, apart from showcasing local candidates.

This is so great

At least einschenken, I use colloquially.

But those rumors have been around for nonths now, right?

I think I translate Webseite as Homepage in my head and they can have all three meanings, even though I know the 'proper' use. Maybe it's just me.

Why is it considered assimilation and not lenition?

Mainly because 'page' is 'Seite' in German, which sounds a lot like 'site', right?

(let me know if this is too open-ended of a question for this thread) what are sound changes that happen to tones? that is, not where do they come from, but once a language has them how do they end up changing later? do they stick around? split? merge? go away? etc. I think you can google tonexodus...

Yes, many, many languages in West Africa and East Africa have ATR harmony and lexical/grammatical tone, like Akan, Yoruba and Maasai.

zyxw59 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:18 am Imagine a language which 1) is pro-drop; 2) extensively uses auxiliary verbs. Could those auxiliary verbs come to be reinterpreted as tense-marked subject pronouns?

I think this happened in Hausa. At least I was taught so.

There is a paper by Dalrymple and Mofu (2012) on Indonesian number semantics. Maybe they talk about it or give some reference.

Has a natlang (or a conlang for that matter) done a number system contrasting specific and non-specific numerosity? The specific number would be used when the number of entities is known to the speaker (or alternatively, available from context), such as when the noun is modified with a (cardinal) n...

Similar to Mee "nota" (no-ta eat-NLZ) which means "food", but also "sweet potato".

I've been reading a little about the Polynesian language family and was considering reducing the available consonants even further, testing for minimal pairs, and I noticed that this conlang 2.0 already consistently avoided using both voiced and unvoiced stops in one root. So far I have only five e...

I don't really know where else to post this, but I'm working on a minimal phoneme conlang atm and I had the idea that syllable structures could be shiftable, with segments being reinterpreted as consonantal or vocalic alternately depending on where the stress is. It's simpler to demonstrate what I ...

I misread "mouse" for "house" until you put in in the drawer.