The CBB

Derivational prefixes would probably be reduced or lost altogether at some point.

Wow, these are some badass names. Are all their names like that?

I coined a new word in Kobardon: pabódaia happening, feast, party, celebration, festivity which is an augmentative noun derived from pabóia event, incident, occurence which is itself an action nominalization derived from the verb apó I happen . And the verb is from the abstract root pói which roughl...

Consonant inventory runoff

C)
/p t k k'/
/m n/
/s/
/w r j/

Chapter 131: Numeral bases
E) Extended body-part system

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Also, I am really looking forward to voting on Tone.

/m n ɳ/<m n g>
/p b t tʼ d ʈ ʈʼ ɖ k kʼ ʔ/<p b t tx d c cx j k kx q>
/t͡sʼ ʈ͡ʂʼ k͡xʼ/<sx zx hx>
/s ʂ h/<s z h>
/l ɭ/<l r>

/i i̤ u ṳ/<i ì u ù>
/e e̤ o o̤/<é ê ó ô>
/ɛ ɛ̤ ɔ ɔ̤/<e è o ò>
/a a̤/<a à>


Next:
/b t tˤ d dˤ k g kˤ/
/f s sˤ z zˤ ʃ ʒ x ɣ h/
/m n ŋ/
/l j w/

/i u/
/e o/
/ɛ ə/
/a/

I vote for C) and H) because we need some R in our CRVC

Did it start with a low vowel?

Did the -ang- morpheme start with a consonant in PG?

I think I have heard both strategies, but usually the no(t)-strategy is more common. Note also that in many languages so-called tag-questions are not the main strategy for polar questions.

Is it true that a cluster of coda stops will have the further-back PoA before the further-front PoA unless there’s a following vowel? And a cluster of onset stops will have the further-front PoA before the further-back PoA unless there’s a preceding vowel? If either of those is not an absolute univ...

Chapter 10: Vowel Nasalization
B) Contrastive nasal vowels absent

Consonant inventory submission:

Lonely Ejective
/p t k k'/
/m n/
/s/
/w r j/

Lots of Ejectives
/p p' t t' k k'/
/m n/
/s/
/j/

Fricatives ftw
/p t t' k k'/
/m n/
/s h/
/j/

Pairs
/p t t' k~k'/
/m n/
/s h/
/j w/

IIRC, the generalization in German is that a coda stop cluster can only end in an alveolar stop and coda stops cannot have the same PoA. I heard an explanation based on markedness. Alveolar stops are least marked, therefore they are allowed in that position. I think a similar generalization might ho...

I vaguely remember that some time ago, someone asked about a script where the writing direction of words is different from the general writing direction of that script. Does anyone recall what thread that was in?

I think your post magically reappeared today (or it's a strange déjà vu on my part). Anyway, thank you again

C0 in some notations also means at least 0 consonants (maximally 1 is implied usually), i.e. the consonant is optional. That would make sense for the Afar pattern, if I recall the data correctly. Not sure about the specific notation in PBase though.

Has your recent interest in rivers awakened because of Artifexian's (kind of) recent video "How to river"?

Ekari? It's the most spoken Paniai Lakes language, after all. Yes [tick] [tick] [tick] You are the winner. I was afraid that I mentioned the language too often in other threads. The language is known as Mee or Mee Mana ("human language") by its speakers. The text is part of a folk song called . Her...

qwed117 wrote: ↑27 Dec 2020 20:02 Wolani? Basing this merely off the fact that Wikipedia claims to have a link to Paradisec materials with Wolani

No

Wikipedia's coverage of Paradisec as a source is very irregular. The data are original, if that helps. I got them from a speaker myself.

Click wrote: ↑27 Dec 2020 00:48

Creyeditor wrote: ↑12 Dec 2020 22:34 Ibo bago kotupotu pekudo. Kou idima doukodo dike dake. Noukaimaa naitaimaiyaa ikiidima koya tou too. Wadouto koya touto.

Could this one be Abui?

No

qwed117 wrote: ↑27 Dec 2020 03:31 Is it a Paniai Lakes family?

Yes

That looks neat [:)] I have some small questions. Why does nyàcoti mean 'the one who saw' and not 'seer'? Is there a way to predict the tense of the nominalized verb? Can clausal nominalizations with - ta include subjects/two argument, e.g. 'my destruction of the city? Can it include adverbs? Does t...