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Japanese u "cormorant" Irish aodh "fire".. used as a name element, not sure of pronunciation because wiktionary lists both /e:/ and /i:/ Swedish & Danish have å "river" and Swedish also has ö "island". Loads of examples in Mandarin, as pointed out above......

We eat whales and dolphins, which are known to have languages .... any sea animal would likely have a language inaudible to human ears, so I'd say at least there'd be some situations similar to what we have today , but a lot depends on what you want to do....Maybe humans have retained instincts left...

Is that what Trump has? I just hear it as "biyyions and biyyions".

Is linguistic ability inherited within the DNA of each animal? Can some animals be born already able to speak? Can some animals speak fluently with other animals? Are there groups of species that evolved exactly the same language so they could more easily cohabit? I like it, and there's a lot of roo...

Other end of the planet but ... I wanted to post a link to this:

Austronesian/Ongan

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It's the same woman who linked IE to Basque.... I guess she has a bit of a reputation as an optimist?

I use prenasalized stops a lot. My major conlangs don't have them, but I've considered having it such that syllables in Poswa front load nasal+stop clusters, so e.g. tampa would be /ta.mpa/ just as it is in the languages with the true prenasals. I also have some languages with ejectives, but here ag...

I draw tables when I do this .... one axis for the first consonant in the cluster, the other for the second. Then I map out how I want each consonant cluster to resolve. See for example http://www.pabappa.com/pics/tarise-word-initial.png Of course, my languages tend not to be very cluster-heavy, so ...

Is there a simple explanation for where the masc plural -oi~ī of gk and latin came from? PIE doesn't seem to have had anything similar. Classical Latin in particular seems to have avoided plurals in -s.

Maybe he likes the sound of a fan when he's sleeping. Perchance sound-him fan-s-of like-it-he when himself-him sleep-does-he. Peppe, pobiambo babwažažo. correct-2P, noise-3P-LOC-1P.PASS comfort-TR.1P.PASS Yes, its noise comforts me. Pi, pubbos wemieža ... župilas pentšambo. but, bedsheet-1P-GEN thi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildin_S%C3%A1mi_language

Really? You cant just throw a bunch of extra letters and apostrophes into Finnish and call it a separate language. And, have you actually tried reading this out loud? I mean, jiev liijja, what even is that?

It reminds me of cardinals, e.g. Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston, where the "cardinal" always directly precedes the last name even if the first name is given.

Yo estoy a la franja
Buscando en la zanja
De mi viejita granja
Porqué tengo la tanja
Para una gran dulce naranja.

Arguably "me" is the basic form ... c.f. "it's me!" and children saying "me and Daddy went to the store".

There is a poem in nostratic :


http://www.suduva.com/virdainas/nostraticist.htm
But it's highly speculative because it doesn't assume inflections.

Raholeun wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:01 pm What about to sulk?

I've never heard that without the L, since it'd collide with suck.

Pappipetšosa wipambi, bappampopapie. sunflower-indoor-1p.POSS-GEN-3p break-REFL-3p-LOC-1p.PASS, new-3P-LOC-TRANSL-1P-SUBJ-need-1P.past My fan broke, so I had to buy a new one. Pi, pappipes wifopo, šannas bampo. but, sunflower-GEN find-1p-SUBJ-1p, winter-GEN struggle-1p But it's difficult to find fa...

Assuming those actually are the Iberian numbers, they look so similar to the Basque ones that I'd have to suspect borrowing, on the grounds that if the similarity is genetic the languages should be sufficiently closely related that Basque should have been more useful in understanding Iberian than i...

Bolth I've heard from a fair number of speakers, but I don't have it myself. I'm trying to recall if I have any instances of hypercorrection since I'm much more likely to delete coda /l/ entirely (e.g. folk , yolk , walk ). ...? Are you implying that some people insert /l/ even into words like folk...

I was getting hired by a hotel to do security. I showed them how easy it was to get into the building, without ever passing a security guard, or even passing thru the lobby. There was a staff entrance about 20 feet down the street from the main entrance, and it was unlocked, at least during busines...

Sloppy editing at the Rutland Herald tells us that in Vermont, craft breweries now outnumber people: Vermont is the friendliest state for small-batch suds with 11.5 breweries per capita .... As of 2018, Vermont tops the list as the most popular state for craft beer, followed closely by Montana and M...