Zompist Bboard Again

Where is this claim from? What is "wide-ranging" even meant to mean?

I think different Korean sociolects and dialects differ. I heard phonologists claiming that in older speakers the following vowel is glottalized and in younger speakers it has evolved into a pitch difference. If you're referring to the tonogenesis currently taking place in Seoul Korean, the distinc...

Dravidian has more in common with Australian languages, phonologically, than just fricativelessness. In particular, it's lack of fricatives + a three-way dental/alveolar/retroflex contrast among coronals + nasals at every stop POA + lack of voicing contrast (at least for Proto-Dravidian) + a prepond...

The problem is that the time depth of the original settlement of Australia is sufficiently far back that it is practically impossible for us to find a connection with any outside languages using the methods of legitimate linguistic inquiry. The article I linked (a genetic study that, to my complete...

Ok, so, everyone here has probably noticed at some point that, generally speaking, the basic phonology of Dravidian languages looks a lot like that of the indigenous languages of Australia. I know very little about Dravidian, but judging by Wikipedia's articles on some of the older Dravidian languag...

jal wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:38 am
I'm sorry to hear this.

kestes soteqosdeχχar. kufu paheleppumbiʈ hihi!
ke-ste-s so-teqos-deχχa-r kufu pa-hele-ppu-mb-iʈ hihi!
M-small-ABS INAN-hon-kindness-INESS today 1sg.A-become.more-good-INTRANS-NPST somewhat

Thank you. Today is somewhat better!

So, rereading my post, I realize that I've only covered the metaphysical background issues without getting to the "meat" of this conword, which is the society. The background is necessary, because the social conflicts that exist wouldn't really make sense without it, but there's a lot miss...

kufut sodabas tuketurqembi pajalambi...
kufut so-daba-s tuke-turqe-mb-i pa-jala-mb-i
today INAN-life-ABS 3sg.INAN.A-be.difficult-INTRANS-CNV 3sg.A-be.tired-INTRANS-CNV

Today life is hard and I'm tired.

A language with SOV word order and prepositions, where prepositional phrases are frequently post-verbal (à la Persian). There are also lots of phrasal verbs consisting of verb + preposition. Eventually the prepositions fuse with the verb, perhaps even eroding phonologically to some degree, but the w...

I feel like I read somewhere that there was some Germanic language in which (i-)umlaut only affected the stressed vowel, i.e. the stressed vowel assimilated to a following /i j/ but other vowels didn't. But I haven't been able to find it again. Does anybody have a source?

Random thought: nobody around here seems to use X-SAMPA much any more, I wonder why that is? Back when I first joined it was at least as common as IPA.

Agreed on all points.

What the hell is this sound? For the life of me I can't figure it out. At the very least it's voiceless and lateral. I'm fairly confident that it's velar as well, and perhaps the ejective velar lateral fricative? It seems to have a lot of articulatory force behind it. And, most strangely, I can dis...

How well can we actually read the script? I'm assuming these names are attested solely orthographically (on ancient "welcome to ____" signs, perhaps? :lol: ), and we've reconstructed which areas they refer to on the basis of archeological evidence ("Welcome to Texas" signs only b...

I would believe that. I can kind of feel myself contracting my cheek muscles to some degree when I articulate it. As a side note, despite being voiceless, it almost looks like it has formants... I wonder if some part of the tongue or cheek vibrating is mimicking the vibration of the vocal folds?

What the hell is this sound? For the life of me I can't figure it out. At the very least it's voiceless and lateral. I'm fairly confident that it's velar as well, and perhaps the ejective velar lateral fricative? It seems to have a lot of articulatory force behind it. And, most strangely, I can dist...

There's definitely evidence for a suffix - land , from Portland, Oakland, Maryland, Road Island , and Cumberland River , with a possible variant - leans in New Orleans . It might mean "inlet" on the basis of Oakland, Maryland, Road Island, and New Orleans , though this leaves Portland and ...

I've had some ideas for a fantasy world floating around in my head for a while. My main conworld (in which all my currently conlangs are set) is aimed at naturalism, and I thought it might be fun to play around with something different for a change. Thus, I've congealed these ideas together into the...

How would you read the name of this dinosaur, Yandusaurus Hongheensis? I'd say [jɑ̃ndʉwsɔɻˤʷɨs hɑ̃ŋhʊɪ̃nsɨs].

I had that reaction as well, then saw they had over 1000 posts and was briefly very confused.

「口が硬い」って、どんな秘密を守ってるんだかなぁ