Zompist Bboard Again

Where in Eretald did the majority of Verdurian speakers immigrate from to Šočyan? It would be interesting to reflect some smaller dialects in Lebiscuri, sort of like how US English is influenced by Scottish + West country dialects. Same with Kebreni. I know quite a bit about the development of US En...

Zomp, have you given much thought to the Kebreni and Verdurian dialects in Lebiscuri? I know there used to be sketches of dialects in the Verdurian grammar for Eralae, and I think some of that got moved to the Almeopedia, but the Kebreni dialects are AFAIK undescribed beyond being "highly diver...

Good that you're not looking at the morphology, it's very bad! Hmm, so basically you think that Bhögetan's will probably try and divide the semantic space up to limit the number of borrowings? A sort of minimization principle. Do later Bhögetan descendants borrow transitive verbs under the influence...

Zomp, how does Bhögetan borrow new verbs? in particular, how does Bhögetan descendants divide up the semantic space of new transitive verbs? So like, say you are a Bhögetanic speaker living under Verdurian rule and want to borrow duisir - "to drive" to discuss moving a car (you learned dui...

The Uluṟu Statement, though not official, has been translated into a huge range of languages. All of them have audio versions. While the statement itself is disgusting, I find the fact that they've failed to translate it into a single Aboriginal language hilarious . I see a number of audio translat...

Apparently, subapical palatals are the typical retroflexes even for speakers of Indo-Aryan languages or at least for Hindi-speakers. It feels weird to think that native Hindi speakers would, when speaking English, render /t/ as a subapical palatal stop (to contrast with /θ/ as a dental stop). I've ...

Vijay, wanted to thank you for writing rules for how to form the past. I was honestly convinced it was 100% irregular.

I've always found the nom./dat. switching in verbs neat. Definitely a reminder that languages conceive of "case" very differently.

The Hindi influence could definitely be it. Most Malayalam speakers I know are NRIs who don't know Hindi. My partner gets very agitated if anyone ever calls Hindi the "National Language of India", and they had a hard time when living in Delhi.

Ah, darn! Thank you!

In the article about Barakhun , there's a map labelled in Barakhinei. On this map just north of Barakhun is a small circle labeled "(F)" with two cities: "Tirond" and "Shandarukh" (sp?). If you go the map on the page for Eretald , there's a similar dot labelled (V) with...

As far as phonology goes, I'm not sure how strong the resemblances actually are? Australian languages and Dravidian languages both typically have retroflex stops, fine - but Australian languages often have three coronal series and I'm not sure if Dravidian languages normally do. The retroflexes in ...

No idea if you're still monitoring this thread, but I've been learning Malayalam for a while now. My partner is a native speaker from the diaspora and I've been learning from them and their parents. Something I've been trying to figure out is when do native speakers use റ്റ when borrowing for Englis...