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Salmoneus wrote: ↑

12 Aug 2020 13:34

[indeed, apparently this is theorised for Latin, explaining why it uses /s/ in borrowings from Hebrew: shabat>sabbath, jeshua > jesus.]

I thought that was because Latin and Greek did not have post-alveolar sounds, so the closest to the Hebrew post-alveolar sibalant was /s/.

The Future is expressed by using the auxillary verb dnrəi after the stem of the lexical verb. fp'iXʷak' qri qʷa:t͡sʰ madnrəiʔau fp'iXʷ-ak' qri-∅ qʷa:t͡sʰ ma-dnrəi-ʔau boy-ERG stone-ABS throw ANIM-FUT-REP "It is said that the boy will throw a stone" If the aux takes the past suffix, it has a purposiv...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑

06 Aug 2020 09:54

IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet
IPA - India Pale Ale

Cross-linguistically:
"IPA" Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam "Natural Science Studies"

If initialisms count..... I'd say that's moving quite far from the original purpose of this thread, so at the very least, I'd recommend starting a new thread for them. Personally, I'm also inclined to think that of course  any two- or three-letter abbreviation is going to have multiple uses, even w...

Yiddish is also a good example. (especially the Southeast dialect group, which I am most familiar with, and which I will be using) The normal word for "mother" is /mɪtr̩/, of Germanic stock, but "father" is /tatə/, from an unknown Slavic language. /futr̩/ is also a synonym, but in the SE dialect gro...

Verbs: Note that while I said nouns have no gender, I meant that they have no gender markers in the declension. However, for agreement, there is a natural gender split between animate and animate. Note that "zduçˤrin" "star" is animate, as the pre-Yonotaorian religion featured astrolatry heavily. Al...

If initialisms count.....
IPA "International Phonetic Alphabet" "Indian Pale Ale" "IPA" Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam "Natural Science Studies"

Is it possible for a language to have no overt gender marking on the nominal declension, but to have it on verbal agreement?
Also, can an ergative lang be split on noun/verb? That is, the nouns are marked as ERG and ABS, but the verbal agreement is always the S or A argument?

Mouth twister. Some of the things you make, my man. Jesus. Given that I'm saying that it's related to the NE Caucasian languages, with influence from NW Caucasian, the inventory is practically normal. The Caucasian sprachbund is known for having complex phonotactics. At least it's not related to Ka...

Sindunian (Native name: sˤindunan mlit͡ʃ') was a language spoken in the Yonotaorian empire, in the Taman peninsula. In the period after the reforms of Phospuros, the empire conquered them, but their were periods of rebellion and independence for the next 257 years, until they were finally permantly ...

A summary of The Book Of Ta'or: Note that before the depaganazation of the Taorian legend there is an introduction. This introduction is based on some verses from the Book of Wisdom, which tells people to "study the history of Theos and his creation and obtain knowledge" after which it gives a sligh...

I Stems, Mostly Feminine: ΧΟϜΙΣι "Sheep" Singular: Nominative: ΧΟϜΙΣι Vocative: ΧΟϜΕ Accusative: ΧΟϜΙΜ Genitive: ΔΑΙϜΑΣι Dative: ΧΟϜΑΙΣ Locative-Intrumental: ΔΑΙϜΕ Plural: Nominative: ΧΟϜΕΣ Accusative: ΧΟϜΙΝΣΑ Genitive: ΧΟϜΕΜ Dative: ΧΟϜΙΦΑΣ Locative-Intrumental: ΧΟϜΙΦΙΣιΥ U-Stems, motsly Masculine ...

Sindun, a language spoken in the Yonataorian Empire, related distantly to the NE Caucasian languages: /p pʰ p' b t tʰ t' tˤ d dˤ k kʰ k' g kʷ kʷʰ kʷ' q qʰ q' qʷ qʷʰ qʷ' ʔ/ /t͡s t͡sʰ t͡s' t͡sˤ d͜z d͜zˤ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ t͡ʃ' t͡ʃˤ d͡ʒ d͡ʒˤ/ /f fˤ s sˤ z zˤ ʃ ʃˤ ʒ ʒˤ ç çˤ ʝ ʝˤ x xʷ X Xʷ ħ ʕ h/ /m n/ /l lˤ r rˤ/...

I forgot that /r̩/ exists in the phonology. It's transcription is <ῥ> as some texts used a small Rho with a line on top to distinguish it from the consonant. The line may be representing the Greek pronunciation, which according to this theory was [rĭ] ,or another theory says, in some dialects it may...

<ata> 3P.PLR.MASC /ata/ 2P.SING.MASC

Note: Unless the section is written in red, like this, everything posted will be from the perspective of a an in-universe modern linguist. Red thus signifies "meta". Writing System: The language was written in the Greek Alphabet, however, spelling, of course, was not standardized. At least three di...

Albanian and Armenian: is anyone getting tired of these single language branches of Indo-European? I could write a whole essay on how weird Albanian is. Its phonology is odd for the Balkans, and WTF is that phonotactics doing in Europe? And who in their right mind would use <x> for /d͡z/ and /xh/ f...

Khanarian (also known as Pseudo-Anatolian, given that it was called Anatoli by some of the Hellenic-speaking Yonataorians who they were into contact with, whom they became a client state, and than a province of; And given the fact that many Indo-Europeanists believed in the Aryo-Anatolian or Anatola...

The arrangement of The Gospel of Peter: John 13:1-14:21 rewritten from Peter's point of view Jesus says that he knows the disciples trust him, and says John 1:1-5, ibid 9-14 from his point of view John 3 as a story told by Jesus John 14:25-31, leaving off the end of the last verse 1 Peter 4 rewritte...

A selection from the Yiseryelian scriptures, the Lead Up to the "Preaching in the Field" The Life of Yiseryel : Yiseryel and his men were approaching the capital, and they were walking by the edge of a field, and Dikelaos [The senior priest of Yiseryel's home town, who had been his right-hand man] s...