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Pronouns: Non-Focus: 1P sing: Kee 1P plr non-incl. Keraa 1P plr incl. Kedu 2P sing: Loo 2P plr: Lolo 3P sing: Ngii 3P plr: Nging Focus: 1P sing: Cee 1P plr non-incl. Ceraa 1P plr incl. Cedu 2P sing: Nhël 2P plr: Nhëloo 3P sing: Nhii 3P plr: Nhing Possesive alienable: 1P sing: Ket 1P plr non-incl. Ke...

Inter-Chinese false friends:
Mandarin [tʰai˧˩t͡ɕi˧˥]"Tai-chi" Cantonese: [tʰai˧˩t͡ɕi˧˥] or [tʰai˧˩t͡si˧˥] "Grape"

k1234567890y wrote: ↑27 Mar 2021 15:29 got a wave of false cognates:


Chinese 浪 /lɑŋ⁵¹/ "wave" v.s. Icelandic hrönn /r̥œnː/ "wave"

Zhengzhang reconstructs the Old Chinese form as /*raːŋs/, and the non-Mandarin reflexes often have /ɔ/ as the vowel, so sometimes it's even closer.

A great orthographic one:
<Like> in its meaning of "similar" <Like> "id."

Could a house be considered an inalienable possession, if in traditional society, people didn't change houses?

That reminds me:
/ʔein/ "NEG.EXIST" Jewish Babylonian Aramaic /ʔein/ "yes"

The Locative suffix is the same as the źAy allomorph of the instrumental-comatative, except it reveals hidden consonants.
The elative suffix is Orţ, and it reveals hidden consonants.
The illative is OOmUUłq and it reveals hidden consonants.

The instrumental-comatative case does not reveal hidden consonants, and has four allomorphs: iźaa/ää after consonants in back vowel words ijee after consonants in a front vowel word źa/äy after a back vowel jey after a front vowel Noun "Möłü(ğ)" "Horse: Instrumental-comatative singular: Möłüjey Inst...

Also, I question the fact that the voiceless palatalization is a sibilant, and that the voiced is a shibilant. Is that attested?

I like it, but one question: You list /d͡z/ as a phoneme, but not an orthographic representation. Should the phoneme not be there or did you forget to list the orthographic representation of it?

The Genitive Case is the hidden consonant revealing suffix -viłj or wiłj after a vowel. It also has an ablative meaning, though there is a seperate elative case. The Dative case, which also has a possesive meaning, and a allative meaning (there is a seperate illative case) has the hidden consonant r...

Grey Kököräki (Fuhean name) or Grey Göölähi (Native) is a language spoken by a group of nomads in the plains north of the Fuhean empire who are part of the Göhöläki people, who live in the plains north and northwest of Fuhe, east of Göhöläki Mountains. Phonology: /b t d t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g q/ <b t d...

Waanian does not have tense, but has aspectual preverbs. Perfect: Lo Terminative: Iing Continuous: Maas Habitual: Wuunhë Delimitive: Pat The perfective and termanitive differ in that the latter means the change of state is closer to the temporal locus and/or that while the effects have ended, it doe...

The pre-Mikhonic Khanerian bull sacrafice took place every feast day. In urban centers, this was in a temple. The plan of the temple was mostly the following pattern: It was a long chamber, with the door at one end. Around the sides were statues of all the gods, with small lamps lit in front of them...

The Khanerians had a belief system that is called "Khanerian Monotheism", which was a syncretism between Mikhonism and the native paganism. To understand Khanerian Monotheism, one must understand Khanerian Paganism. They believed that the world was created by a battle between Dževapater, the Sky-fat...

Raginaharjaz wrote: ↑24 Feb 2021 00:39 puszka (a can)
пушка (a cannon)

Just to add, Yiddish borrowed the word, and it narrowed in meaning to "Charity collection box", and is used in that sense in some Jewish English varieties.

Waanian also has Benafactive-Dative, Instrumental, and Locative voices. They are formed based on the patient voice. The Benafactive-Dative takes the suffix -(w)on, the instrumental the circumfix ge(y)--(w)on, and the locative the suffix -(y)il. If an utterance has more then two arguements, and it is...

In the Yonotaorian Empire, a kind of pancake called a "Pan-Fry" was a very common dish, especially for the higher classes. This is fried dough with honey and wine, though savory versions were made, even with honey. Pan-fries were often the way the flour brought with the Feast Offering was eaten. Thi...

Verbs: The base form of the verb is the active voice: Mërout "love" Houdis "kill" Luwaap "construct; make; create" To turn this into the patient voice, one adds the infix <inh> after the first consonant. Note that this may change the first consonant in some stems where they are velar: Minhërout "Lov...

I doubt it. For one thing the final -i in the English is clearly from Latin, not the original Persian, so that brings the intersection down to just two phonemes, /ul/, unless we count /z ~ l/ as an intersection. The etymology given on Wiktionary eliminates even this correspondence, and although wit...