Zompist Bboard Again

I think you meant 'Phonemics' and 'Phonotactics' for those two headings, rather? Yes -- thanks! Good catch. Editing. You can imagine how happy I was when I learned that Punjabi has the system: - "direct": nominative-accusative, absolutive - "oblique": ergative, postpositions - &...

(Pro-)nominal marking and cross-referencing pronominal number & clusivity The language's pronouns have a few differentiating features. First, in terms of "person" the language relies on +2 and +3 features. The +2 feature (stemming from synthesis with a word formerly meaning " all...

Been trying to get out of a creative rut, so I am doing a bit of speed langing. All the following material(s) is/are deeply un-spell checked. Phonemics . /t, k/ /s, h/ (/s/ is [sʰ]) /n, ɪ, ɻ, ʊ/ /ʉ/ /a/ Stress is phonemic because I feel like it. It creates probl.... fun! See below. Phonotactics !! $...

Quick terminological question: what aspect would you call something like ‘he bled all over the place ’? (If it even has an established name, that is.) I’m guessing it’s an instance of the distributive, but I’m not too sure about that given that I’m pretty uncertain as to what the distributive aspec...

Any recommendations for good beginner to intermediate Spanish grammars/readers?

I have maybe ~a semesters worth of Spanish left in my head from way back.

Hope all are well.

Just found Paha. It has a pretty interesting kitchen sink-y phonology: interesting combo of secondary articulations and voicing contrasts with a bonus helping of non-sibilant coronal fricatives. I am assuming the "voiced aspirates" are just breathy voiced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa...

Just found Paha. It has a pretty interesting kitchen sink-y phonology: interesting combo of secondary articulations and voicing contrasts with a bonus helping of non-sibilant coronal fricatives. I am assuming the "voiced aspirates" are just breathy voiced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pah...

The 2*2 system of middle and modern Indo Aryan languages was not quite as solid in old Indo aryan. The voiceless aspirates were a bit tenuous in OIA and even more so in proto Indo Iranian. Even within OIA, the voiced aspirates had near holes in the palatal stops. Indo aryan languages of all ages str...

Found an interesting article on Armenian dialects with a breathy (murmured?) series with actual field work. Highlights include discussion on certain fronted vowel allophones near such series that show up as adjarian's law in other dialects. Also some minor discussion of a limited set of RUKI like ef...

@Moostache and @WeepingElf re celtic pronouns. Thanks!

Interesting little blurb on people making a script for Fulfulde and, apparently, working with Microsoft on implementation.

https://news.microsoft.com/stories/peop ... ?ocid=lock

Is there a good source on proto or early Celtic pronouns?

That reminds me also: does any language have two orthogonal class systems? So e.g. maybe with one slot for shape markers (flat/tall/round/etc.) and another unrelated one for size markers (big/medium/small) or animateness or color or what have you. Check out chapter 2 of Classifiers by Aikhenvald. T...

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/t ts k/
/s h/
/n/

/ʉ a/ plus accent, nasalization.

{s, h}CVC

Onset h only surfaces following an accented $.

Hindi and related indo-aryan languages do on the copula in the past and related TAM combos. The aspectual forms also show gender agreement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_grammar