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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

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:09 am Now that that one-liner from kodé made it to the Quote Thread though, I guess I'll have to change my username again.

Why is that?

Kinda thinking about changing my user name again, maybe to dlzh. It feels a bit more elegant, being just ASCII, but I'm not sure. Opinions?

私はサンスクリット語の勉強が続いても進歩が少し遅い。日本語と違って会話練習が無いからだろう。インドで「話されるサンスクリット運動」があって会話練習は問題じゃ無いだろうがアメリカではそういうことがあまり無い 。そう言っても、インド・ヨーロッパ語族の古典な言語を勉強するため、「大インド・ヨーロッパ祖語スレードの続き」がわかりやすくなった。 My study of Sanskrit has continued, but progresses is a bit slow. I think it's due to the fact that, unlike with Japanese, I don't ...

I am now also on twitter: @dlzhthephoneme, also tumblr: @Max1461

Welcome back! The pace of things around here has been little slower than usual recently, actually. It seems that quite a few people who used ot be frequent posters aren't around much anymore. Of course, I think these things tend to go in cycles. I often have long breaks where I'm not posting much, a...

I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao , a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism (" English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to...

Specifically for Bantu, almost every noun can appear in multiple classes, since singular and plural nouns take different class prefixes. Of course, this can be argued to just be an artifact of the way linguists label things. Another important fact is that in some Bantu languages (and IIRC this is th...

Perhaps this is better suited for the venting thread, though it's more of a question than a vent so I'm putting it here. I've had some level of competency in Spanish since I was a kid, due to having many Spanish-speaking peers and by general exposure. People say that my pronunciation is near-native,...

So I've had a particular idea for a conlang almost a year. In very brief overview, it's a strongly head-final fusional language, with a Tariana-style classifier system. The classifiers are also used as articles and pronouns, and mark the head noun for various categories including definiteness and pr...

Ah, I thought I recalled something like that so I did a search before hand, but I didn't see it I guess. What is the etiquette exactly in this situation?

Oftentimes, I get a random idea for a particular feature or other small element that I'd like to include in a conlang, but it doesn't really fit into any of my current projects. Or perhaps the idea isn't well fleshed-out enough for me to consider adding it to one of my more "serious" conla...

Right, wh-words end up in Spec-CP rather than the CP head, or something like that? My syntax knowledge is very rusty. I'm working on a head-final language at the moment, with relative clauses preceding the head noun, and I want to use European style relative pronouns that indicate the relativized po...

I'm currently reading The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen. It covers the history of the country roughly from the unification period (late 16th century) to the late twentieth century. I'm currently less than a fourth of way through its 800 or so pages, but my thoughts are mostly positive so f...

Let me know if this question is better placed in another thread, but does anyone know of any pervasively head-final languages with wh-movement? Presumably if the wh-phase moves to the CP head as in English, you'd get rightward wh-movement, right? But the WALS chapter on wh-movement says this is extr...