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I'm very interested in what "ex-glottalicists" have to say, because while I don't subscribe to the glottalic theory it brings up many interesting points. Thanks. I dont know that much about ex-glottalicists in general, because theyve all gone different ways ... my own theory starts with t...

You could suppose that the voiceless stops were also allophonically aspirated....I haven't looked at it lately but some of the "ex-glottalicists" seem to be moving towards a setup with suprasegemtnal aspiration, once per word, with a voiceless stop taking priority, then bh, then voiced sto...

In Poswa, "he's speaking worriedly" would be

Pobba totšafas.
speak-3P worry-3P-GEN


Where the GEN is a serial verb marker to show that one verb happens at the same time as the other. Not sure if this is attested, but if it is, it'd fit well into a polysynthetic framework.

Anyone ever done a conlang with portmanteaus? In Old Andanese, portmanteaus were a grammatical process .... the language only had 75 syllables, so it was easy to find words that fit each other ... and Late Andanese has only 30 syllables, so it's even easier. e.g. /kina/ "nose" + /alu/ &quo...

Does anyone have a link to a pDF of https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/archive/intro/index.php ? i had it long ago but i think it was on my other computer which broke down. the new site wont let me browse more than 1 feature at a time .

thanks

How realistic would it be to have a sound shift were /pˤ fˤ bˤ vˤ/ become /kw xw ɡw ɣw/ intervocalically and word-initially, then the latter two clusters merɡe into /ɣw/ and subsequently become /ʕw/, which then simplifies into /w/? Word-initially, the Cw clusters develop a prosthetic /a/ before the...

Ive had conlang fatigue lately, but I did come with a new idea recently for something that could be developed into a nonconcatenative language that is also unlike Semitic: indeclinable suffixes fusing to the nouns, pushing inflections inward and then developing paradigms that spread to new forms. Fo...

Feel free to go on, but it seemed like all of the conversation was aimed at me.

I see some good arguments here, some terrible, and some completely irrelevant. I made clear at the beginning that I wasnt taking a side, so I'm not going to be embarrassed to change my opinion. But both theories presented in the OP rest on evidence that I haven't seen, and that hasn't changed in thi...

By the same logic, we could say that since uvulars are rare in India, its most likely that the parent language didnt have 'em and that Malto must be the outlier. /q/>/k/ is not a common sound change outside of superstrate influence, so perhaps one language influenced the others.... but if the entire...

Uvulars are normally prone to loss. You can find examples of superstrate influence like Hebrew /q/ > /k/, but I dont think that the particular sound change /q/ > /k/ is likely to happen in a language surrounded by others of its kind. If anything it seems that it's more likely to shift to /ʔ/ than t...

I remember that Cheyenne's word for winter is ae, having learned it from this board once as an example of radical sound change in motion. The only dictionary I can find spells this áa'e , however.

speaking of North Dravidian, I wondered if anyone here knows more about it and could answer me a question I had when I was browsing some of the literature. In The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia: A Comprehensive Guide , Suresh Kolichala notes McAlpin's hypothesis that Proto-Dravidian must h...

Ive heard this called "present (person)", though that wont really help with a gloss since the term "present" already has a meaning.

Danish ble "diaper" Possibly Hebrew peg "premature baby".....I remember reading this long ago but its hard to confirm English bat "bat (animal)"... it seems plain to us, but in much of Europe this animal is often named with a compound such as french chauvesouris or Span...

I understand that but the whales have a high protein diet like any other predator and a high protein diet allows for a large brain that burns lots of calories. It may not make much sense to classify an animal that doesnt even have teeth as a predator, but from the dietary perspective they are predat...

Or more simply, ignoring what the herbivore is saying and just eat it. Yeah - humans are quite capable of killing other humans, particularly if they convince themselves that certain sorts of human are somehow "lesser", so the fact that the prey can talk wouldn't necessarily put predators ...

Im surprised you say that. I thought that pretty much everybody outside Greece sided with Macedonia 100%, and that the common assumption was that regardless of what the official name is, everybody was going to just call the country "Macedonia" with no modifiers. I think this is the stupide...

Adraja ēťo dītbārbåt nissa, ēnbha. fog\PL NEG around=go<3sm>\NPST.GNO=often for=1p.EXCL, VIAL=smoke We don't get much fog here, anyway. Poswa: Wažžalipambopa, pipi šannap tidžemba puvvabas pedžefas. fog-LOC-1P-ACC-3P, sun snow-ACC ground-LOC-3P melt-TR-3P-GEN incomplete-REFL-3P-GEN We get fog when ...

Okay, thanks.

I remembered one more: Basque lo "sleep"