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- 22 Mar 2018 11:01
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Will Indo-Aryan no longer be an accepted term in Linguistics?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10708
Re: Will Indo-Aryan no longer be an accepted term in Linguistics?
The Indo-Aryan-speaking people of Europe were subject to Nazi genocide because of their ethnicity. Why would you deny them the right to refer to themselves with the name their ancestors used? If anything, it can be used to combat warped Nazi-influenced redefinitions of the word. Anyway, my view is t...
- 17 Mar 2018 19:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Will Indo-Aryan no longer be an accepted term in Linguistics?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10708
Re: Will Indo-Aryan no longer be an accepted term in Linguistics?
Surely, replacing 'Indo-Iranian' with 'Aryan' or replacing 'Indo-Aryan' with 'Indic' would make the nomenclature more consistent. What political situation?
- 12 Sep 2017 20:14
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Hypothetical Slavic passive
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4567
Re: Hypothetical Slavic passive
The Proto-Slavic dialectal 3rd person ending -tъ might continue the PIE middle -to, depending on what you believe the Slavic outcome of PIE o# should be. Your reconstruction *beretrь looks as good as could be. Not *beretьr, though? Proto-Slavic had things like *tьr, 2-3sg aorist of *terti, from *tr-...
- 31 Jul 2017 11:47
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Don't know if you mean that, but in Australia there was a "secret language" (de facto a cipher) among the Dyurbal people that was only taught a few men. Nah, I'm pretty sure it was in Asia, not in Australia. The speakers were supposedly nomadic shepherds or sth like that. Could be somethi...
- 24 Jul 2017 18:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
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Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I vaguely remember there was some obscure language in SW Asia (Iran or thereabouts) that was supposedly spoken only by men. Or at least there was some striking gender division in its usage. What was that?
- 29 Jan 2017 11:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4535
Re: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
Well interestingly, I found a source that suggests that Bornholm is Buyan http://denmark-travel.com/cities/island-bornholm "The island of Bornholm is located in the Baltic Sea, just between Sweden and Poland. In ancient legends Bornholm supposedly was called for the island Buyan." Most ot...
- 27 Jan 2017 14:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4535
Re: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
Also pleophony? Does that fit? /rj/ would always be treated as a syllable onset and thus be immune to pleophony or metathesis, cf. *morjǫ 'I cause the death (of), I famish' → Russian морю, Polish morzę, not **морою, **mroję. Something like, say, [ɹɣ] could presumably sound a bit like /j/ to a Slavi...
- 25 Jan 2017 23:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4535
Re: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
Wikipedia mentions several old names: Borgundarholm in Old Norse, Borghand~Borghund in 'ancient Danish', Burgendaland, Burgundehulm, Borghandæholm (in I dunno what) and finally the Old English Burgenda land . But with a plosive [g] (if that's how they were pronounced) they seem too distant phonetic...
- 22 Jan 2017 21:06
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4535
Bornholm in old Scandinavian / Buyan Island
It appears this board has quite a few North Germanic-speaking members so I'll give this a shot. I'm currently researching some East Slavic ethnographic stuff and I'd find very helpful if I could figure out the etymology of certain mysterious names that show up in folk songs, tales and spells. Among ...
- 21 Dec 2016 11:17
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Another question for Slavicists: Why is the name "Nicholas" taken in with an <m> in many Slavic languages? E.g. Mykola in Ukrainian. The form with an initial M is also said to exist in rural Russian. Uspenskiy: 1) can't be explained in terms of historical phonetics 2) the n → m change is ...
- 17 Dec 2016 00:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
No, because ěR. wasn't even an allowed sequence to begin with. Only the short vowels e, o, ь, ъ could combine with a r/l coda.Ælfwine wrote:Did East Slavic pleophony affect yat? (ѣ?)
So like sequences ѣR > ѣRѣ?
- 12 Aug 2016 11:02
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197113
Re: English Orthography Reform
Here's the thing, that's partially wrong. Let's look at the old English and Middle English cognates love < love/lufe < lufu [tick] wonder < wonder/wunder < wundor [tick] mother <moder < mōdor [cross] month < month/moneth < monaþ [cross] other < other < ōþer [cross] brother < brother < brōþor [cross...
- 15 Jun 2016 11:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
CSl. č, šč, žǯ → Russian alveopalatals [t͡ɕ ɕː ʑː]* , CSl. š, ž → Russian retroflexes/depalatalized postalveolars. This can be compared to Polish, where all of them became depalatalized postalveolars. Also in Russian CSl. tj, dj** merged with CSl. č, ž, respectively. *in case of the long fricatives,...
- 28 May 2016 12:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Otchestvo in Gothic language
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2123
Re: Otchestvo in Gothic language
I'd be surprised if it were much different from the patronymics used in other Germanic langs (i.e. name.GEN + -son/-daughter, Guðmundsson, Guðmundsdóttir). But let people who actually know something about Gothic speak.
- 16 May 2016 17:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks to all for the examples! In any language, is there a phoneme that only occurs in one grammatical morpheme? I may be misunderstanding what you intended "grammatical morpheme" to mean, and I'm no expert on the language in question, but I believe I've read at least a few times that /ɫ/...
- 14 May 2016 00:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In any language, is there a phoneme that only occurs in one grammatical morpheme?
- 11 May 2016 17:45
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317729
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I'm sort of getting this. /*o/ is short, right? Right. The main issue is that the notation of Proto-Slavic is heavily influenced by Old Church Slavonic orthography and can thus be misleading. Something like "*storna" (Ru. сторона) is anachronistic because at the stage when liquid codas st...
- 06 May 2016 22:20
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Hangulisation of Polish
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4363
Re: Hangulisation of Polish
You lost me here. I would never interpret [lɛ͂k] as /lɛk/ - I would interpret it as someone affecting a French accent or something. (For all you non-Poles on the thread, the typical pronunciation of <lęk> is [lɛŋk].) Well, to me [lɛ͂k] with a pure nasal vowel just sounds like "lek" said b...
- 04 May 2016 16:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Hangulisation of Polish
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4363
Re: Hangulisation of Polish
Interesting. Would clusters like /ɕ.j/ be possible across morpheme boundaries, such as in compound words? Or does this situation never occur? I found a couple of compound words on Wikipedia where the first element was ćwierć, but none of them had a second element that started with j. As opposed to ...
- 04 May 2016 00:05
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Hangulisation of Polish
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4363
Re: Hangulisation of Polish
ć, ź, ś, sounds though differently than ci, zi, si I assure you they don't. They are as different as French ç and s or German tt and dt. Exceptions are few: a handful of borrowings like sinus where "si" is [si] and certain prefixed verbs like ziścić where "zi" can be [zi] (it ca...