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LinguoFranco wrote: ↑05 Dec 2020 12:26 How are slack voiced stops pronounced?

I get it in theory, but I have a hard time telling whether I'm doing it right.

Basically by not trying.
If you don’t think about what you’re doing and don’t listen to what you’re saying you’re probably doing it right.

Round 3
Chapter 8: Lateral consonants. D) /l/ and lateral obstruents
Chapter 9: The velar nasal. A) Velar nasal, also initially
Chapter 19: Presence of Uncommon Consonants. F) Clicks, pharyngeals, and 'th'
Chapter 6: Uvular consonants. D) Uvular stops and continuants

Maybe it’s “satiation” or “saturation”. I tend to think of it as “Bill and Ted get all screamed out”. If you remember Bill and Ted fell into The Pit. They screamed all the air out of their lungs. Noticed they hadn’t hit bottom, filled their lungs again, and screamed it all out again. By the time the...

Thanks, Sequor! I appreciate knowing about Arabic. ... I think for the three parts of my first question, where you said “no, no, and no”, you meant “I never heard of any, I never heard of any, and (therefore obviously) I never heard of any”. Or do you really mean you know for certain there aren’t an...

I have no familiarity with this show, but major urban areas in the South, Atlanta most of all, have seen huge migration from other parts of the country, especially the Midwest, especially middle/professional-class transplants. That means there are large numbers of people in Atlanta and other southe...

Omphalomancy?

Did you miss oneiromancy?

The cells with grey text represent values that are assumed not to exist by WALS. (I hope this isn't excessively confusing.) Actually I think these are just combinations that aren’t represented by any of the languages in WALS.info’s sample. I don’t think they state that these don’t exist; just that,...

1&2) A. Small and small.
4) A. No voicing contrast.
7) A. No glottalization.

I still don’t know what I’m going to wear to the living room today.
I might not go.

Syntax Most sentences are topic-prominent. That is, the consist of a topic NP and a clause. The topic NP is not part of the clause, and thus has no case marking or such. The clause is strictly SVO. If the subject is the same as the topic, the surface clause is, of course, VO, and if the object and ...

Porphyrogenitos means “romanization” instead of “orthography”.
You can’t have an “orthography” until you’ve settled on a writing system for your conlang.
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With that small change the advice in that post is all good; and I myself wish I had followed it earlier!

Is it specifically gerrymandering? EDIT: oh, beaten to it. Knew I should have suggested it in my last post... You can have it! Only 54 minutes difference; just luck in my opinion. Oh no, you take it. It'll teach me to be bolder next time. [unless you genuinely don't want a turn right now, in which ...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑22 Nov 2020 19:14 Is it specifically gerrymandering?

EDIT: oh, beaten to it. Knew I should have suggested it in my last post...

You can have it! Only 54 minutes difference; just luck in my opinion.

shimobaatar wrote: ↑22 Nov 2020 16:14

Salmoneus wrote: ↑22 Nov 2020 15:35 Does it mean the delimitation of electoral constituencies? (i.e. 'redistricting', 'determination of seat boundaries', etc)

Very, very close! welledges is indeed "electoral constituencies/districts". teketting has decidedly negative connotations, however.

Gerrymandering?

Phoneme inventory All 13 consonants are pulmonic egressive. By manner of articulation: Plosives: /p b t k g/ Nasals: /m n N/ (/N/ is the voiced velar nasal. IPA notation would be engma, but it’s hard for me to type that.) Fricatives: /s h/ Approximants: /w j/ (/w/ is the voiced labial-velar approxim...

3 D (or C if there are 5 or more vowels)
25 C
81 G

Yes.
No.
Yes.

I wrote to Rachel Nordlinger about Wambaya and this is her reply. I haven’t written to anyone about Waanyi yet. ..."..... Dear Thomas, Thank you for your email and for your positive comments about my work. I am glad that you have enjoyed reading it and found it useful for your interests. Your questi...