Zompist Bboard Again

The maps 're nice, but I admit my first thought was that it looked like a bedroom. If more interesting features appear outside the focus area it would look more realistic.

Is north at the top? Is the north too cold to support large populations?

Next: buttress Poswa: tamaetša from tamae "arrange, order, set up" + tša , the classifier for furniture and objects found indoors. I used tamae as part of the word for crutch, so I think the current meaning of the standalone word is due to syntactic shift and that it earlier meant to supp...

I have seen on the internet where someone named Lee Craig Schoonmaker claimed to originate the term "gay pride". He passed away recently according to a Google search which shows an obituary. Did he really coin the term or is he just claiming to? Its possible, but I doubt it. I first heard...

What are the preexisting tones of this language? If none, I'd say don't do it, because you'd then have a language where tone contrasts only in closed syllables, which is unrealistic. I'd also say it's more likely that only certaincombinations would simplify. E.g. coda /mp,nt/ could change to /m,n/an...

I like it. Polysynthetic languages are my favorite type, and there's a lot of variety within that category, too. One question though, you didnt put up the IPA's of a consonants .... is this a scratchpad thread where you post a lot of posts with separate info in each?

Could you call the ones that do change "classifiers" ?

Spanish: coja back of the knee ... Not sure if related to pedicoj "jumping on one foot" (not listed as a verb, just a noun) coz to kick with the hind leg quid essence, gist delco distributor balí offering food to all animals mulla digging around vines My strategy is just randomly flipping ...

I think he meant loans, not genetics. Though few words with laryngeals are thought to be loans.

Do we really know if it was geminate? Could the hittites have been sloppy spellers, like us, where "egg" has 2 g's,"bee" & "be" rhyme, etc? They used double letters for voiceless single stops elsewhere, right?

They don't pattern like stops in PIE . E.G. there are no roots in PIE consisting of just 3 stops, but there are roots with 2 stops & a laryngeal, as far as I know. I didnt read the paper though.

While we're discussing syncope: what could happen after V > Ø / _# in multisyllabic words? Oddly enough the Index Diachronica reports this change quite frequently, so it appears to be plausible, but I'm worried it could result in lots of weird consonant clusters at the end of words in cases like e....

Polish has nasal approximants appearing before fricatives as well ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_phonology#Allophony .... and the historical nasal vowels seem to have merged with the historical sequences, so the sound change operated in both directions/. i read in an old dictionary once th...

Took me awhile but I figured it out without looking anywhere for help. My train of thought was similar to Vicki's on Language Log.

I think if /n/ assimilates for place, an eng almost certainly will too. For me, in conlangs anyway, /nf/ implies either /ntf/ or /npf/, so that would also assimilate, but not every language does this ....in some, /n/ before fricatives might just be a weak nasal approximant rather than a proper nasal...

I meant that you'd have /Ng/ from primordial /kN/ and /Nk/ from primordial /Nk/. If I'm reading it right. N=eng, of course

But wouldn't you have all those contrasts anyway just from the implosives turning into regular voiced stops, while the voiceless stops stay voiceless after nasals? All six of /mp mb nt nd ŋk ŋɡ/ would contrast so long as original /mp,nt,nk/ stay that way.

Sorry cantbtype IPA on phone

orf , a disease of sheep and shepherds. dun , a collector of debts, or a notice to send payment. Jp daigomi , essential part of an experience Sp culera , underwear stain Sp ñapa lagniappe; complimentary gift awarded to a valued customer Dutch wee labor contractions Jp might have a lot that are coin...

The Chevrolet car company was named after its founder, whose surname derives from a diminutive of the French word chevreuil , a type of deer, which itself comes from the Latin word capreolus . This word derives from a word for goat. Perhaps it originally referred to animal movements in general, beca...

The locals have a special connection with the Leviathan colony here in the north, and often form close bonds with the big friendly flying whales So, is Leviathan a term for a flying whale? If not, Im confused. When I asked the first question I didnt even connect those two clauses, I just wanted to ...

does it matter if the person uses the pronunciation "noice" instead of the normal? ivew seen "homemade" used to mean things made in the restaurant. e.g. homemade icecream doesnt mean that they brought it in from their homes, it means it was made in the kitchen of the restaurant. ...