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Dem tok se "mi-dem a go lef wok di fim". 3.PL talk DS 1-PL.EX FUT PTV go DEF film They said "we (excl) are going to the cinema mi-dem is exclusive we, I assumed the listener wasn't part of the cinema gang (otherwise minu would be the correct form). Dem tok dem-ya a go lef wok di fim....

Sajiwan: Dem gwin ayja nahf no kola u slip fiyas. [dem gyːn ɐjˈɟʝɐ nɐːf no ˈkolɐ u slip ˈfijɐs] DEF.PL green idea NEG.have NEG.INDEF colour HAB sleep fierce Green ideas without colour sleep fiercely. Depending on the exact meaning, one could translate "Gwin ayja-dem" instead of "Dem g...

<y> is in Frisian, and mostly in Dutch. It derives from long /i/ written as <ii>, then as <ij> digraph with or without dots. As has been said, <j> is [j] in Dutch (and Frisian). Since European languages are the only one originally using the Latin alphabet, I think it doesn't add much to the discussi...

As always, it rather depends on the phonotactics and possible combinations, but as-is, I'd say something along the lines of (without any accents or the like): /p b pʲ bʲ t d ɖ ɟ k g kʷ gʷ/ <p b py by t d dd gy k g kw gw> /f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ ʜ/ <f v sf zv s z sh zh sy zy h> (or perhaps <si zi> i/o <...

I realize the previous poster was already necromancing this thread, but anyway. "teaching", "telling stories" and "creation" are not moods in the traditional sense, and should probably not be described as such to avoid confusion. They are, probably but we haven't seen e...

Ok, I have to admit my Polish is severly limited, but are there any Polish speakers here?


JAL

Veris wrote:Any example languages that do such?

Slavonic languages, e.g. Polish (czy vs. trzy).


JAL

a question is formed simply by stating a normal sentence with one of two markers: one asks if the question is true or false, the other simply asks for details about the scenario that the person mentions. The former is attested in e.g. Polish: the particle "czy" signals a polar question. T...