Zompist Bboard Again

So let's talk phonology (I don't think I'm gonna have a post on phnological history, mainly because it's a a bit vague and in my head, and also because I've covered most of it in the original post, but I'll cover a bit more in this post). In terms of consonants, like many mid-Plains languages it's n...

As a taster here are some example sentences. kuhti a‘taa‘uu a‘tuksuu ABS IC-night.II IC-cold.II It was a cold night u‘tu‘harhituur aahua‘suutuur akaaru‘ IC-shoes-put.on.AI-1s IC-exit.AI-1s tent I put on my shoes and left the tent huucta‘ u‘xaahku kutuuwui tree-LOC wolf-PL IC-see.TA-1s-PL I saw some...

dhok wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 6:49 amWhat's the name from--an Anglicization of akwikara or some such?

It's a shameless Anglicisation of a Arikara name for the Yellowstone River aahkawirahkatá [aːhkəwir̥ə̥hkətá] (yes I did delete the voiceless syllable dont @ me).

So after ages and ages I've finally got back round to that Algo-Lang project that's been driving me mad for ages, and I think I've hit upon something that I'm fairly satisfied with, so I'm gonna present some of the information I currently have on the language in this thread. I'm gonna give a general...

Welp, we now know what Stewart is up to: running fr Mayor of London. What a complete waste of his talents. Agreed, I honestly don't know why he thinks he can jump from nearly a decade serving a highly rural northern constituency with no settlements larger than 20,000 or so to being mayor of the lar...

MPs will be back in the Commons tomorrow. Aww, does this mean we won't get the utter joy and delight that is the Tory party conference? (*sarcasm alarm*) On the other hand: what the hell, Jeremy? If there's a VONC and Johnson loses, then the government has 14 days to present a new prime minister wi...

Narrowly defined, "public school" refers to just seven private schools (Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, and Charterhouse I'm slightly surprised by this specific list, in particular the inclusion of Shrewsbury to the exclusion of Durham, the latter of which spawne...

If I'm not mistaken, didn't the UK's private schools use to be called "public schools"? Has this changed, or are you just avoiding a confusing term? "Public schools" refers to the subset of private schools that are members of the Headmaster's Conference, which pretty much all pr...

Northwest Caucasian languages, in addition to all the nonsense of their phonologies, also feature in grammatical terms not only ergative person marking on the verb, but also polypersonalism that extends to incorporating inflected prepositions into the verb to increase the number of arguments marked...

Northwest Caucasian languages, in addition to all the nonsense of their phonologies, also feature in grammatical terms not only ergative person marking on the verb, but also polypersonalism that extends to incorporating inflected prepositions into the verb to increase the number of arguments marked....

A third example of vowel lowering is that many branches of Uralic (notably Saamic and Ugric) feature lowering of high vowels to mid or low as short counterparts to the lengthened low and mid vowels.

and I can definitely see the appeal of his avuncular Northern charm. And it would give a great chance for us to show off our regional linguistic diversities. Bercow had his positives, but I fear he did rather reinforce American stereotypes of us a tad, and a Lancastrian might help redress that... [...

I'm not sure if it's complete yet, but my director of studies has been working on a handy atlas of Welsh dialect forms, which can be found here: https://cymraeg.ling.cam.ac.uk/

What I can’t figure out is an equivalent sound change that would work for /ⁿz/ and its allophone [ⁿʒ] (which I guess would become phonemic following the apocope). Maybe because I’m not too skilled at prenasalizing these sounds (and end up producing something that sounds like fully nasalized fricati...

EDIT: and now the Speaker has yelled "Be a good boy!" repeatedly at the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. I think he may have heard that the government intends (unprecedentedly?) to stand a candidate against him in the election. As soon as I heard Bercow give Gove a drubbing down I ac...

This nifty map shows which constituencies have the highest percentage of signatories to the petition to stop the prorogation of parliament. If you mouse over, you can see who currently represents each constituency. Some thoughts: the map does look a bit like the 2016 Brexit map ( for reference ), b...

Forgive me, but if [ᵝ] is supposed to represent lip-flattening as it does for Japanese then surely that's incompatible with lip-rounding? So why is it that you've chosen to have it present only on otherwise rounded vowels?

Oh yeah and I forgot thay Failing Grayling^TM has been jettisoned finally woohoo I guess.

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:27 pmThey're now next to the Mgunikpe, who aren't defined at all, and so could have monosyllabic roots. But they didn't arrive to that spot till pretty late.

Monosyllabic roots doesn't mean monosyllabism, especially with a name like Mgunikpe (and how is that even pronounced? [mɣunik͡pe]?)

Richard W wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 3:11 pm

Frislander wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:06 pm Great, we now have Sajid Javid as Chancellor, Priti Patel as Home Secretary and Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary.

Presided over by Boris Kemal as Prime Minister!

I think this makes him our first PM with Circassian ancestry!