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Jeg begyndte at lære Dansk i dag med Duolingo. Det er ikke hårdt men udtalen er... ja. Ikke sjov. Jeg var ikke rede.
I started learning Danish today with Duolingo. It's not hard but the pronunciation is... yea. Not fun. I wasn't ready for that.

o boj i sure i hope i got this right

Niu galaisides ni trauan imma?
[niu̯ gɑˈlɛ:siðe:s ni ˈtrɔ:.ɑn ˈim:ɑ]
not-Q learn-PST.2SG not trust-INF he-DAT
Haven't you learned not to trust him?

Where does the Icelandic word hraun (lava) comes from? I've done a bit of searching (not too much though, work and all that), but I haven't found anything yet that takes it back further than Old Norse " hraun ". This may also help (or not): http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?si...

:got: Is ist fiskja. he be.3SG.PRS fisher He is a fisherman. Is ist swinþaz. he be.3SG.PRS strong He is strong. Is ist meins aba. he be.3SG.PRS my husband He is my husband. Is ist in meinamma razna. he be.3SG.PRS in my.DAT house.DAT He is in my house. It's as unimaginative as you would imagine.

:got: Is ist auhuma mis. He is taller than me. he be.3sg.prs high.comp I.dat Is ist þata auhumist barn. He is the tallest child. he be.3sg.prs the high.superlative child I don't know what word Gothic used for "tall" as in human height, so I'm just gonna go with the most obvious word.

Where does the Icelandic word hraun (lava) comes from?

Himma daga, frarann ik in meinamma þridjin dreibkustau. Ik drobna.
Today, I failed my third driving test. I'm upset.

:got: Gothic Þiudans: Ƕaru ist mein gais? Þius: Ƕa gais? Þiudans: Mein taubrisk gais. Þius: Ne wait ƕar ist þein taubrisk gais. Þiudans: Ƕa? Ne waistu ƕar mein taubrisk gais ist? Þu is meins þius. Þu skalt witan. Þius: Sokeisu in þamma wepnaruma ? Þiudans: Duƕe skalu gaggan in þata wepnarum? Ik im s...

Gothic

Saiƕa þuk.
[ˈsɛʍɑ θuk]
see.1SG.PRS thou.ACC
I see you.

Gothic

In þamma fruma, Guþ skop himinans jah airþa.
[in ˈθɑm:ɑ ˈɸrumɑ guθ sko:p ˈhiminɑns jɑh ˈθo: ɛrθɑ]
in the.DAT beginning.DAT god create.PST.3PS heavens.ACC and the.ACC earth.acc
In the beginning God created, heavens and the earth.

:got: Gothic Ƕaiwa haitaza? [ˈʍɛ:wɑ ˈhɛ:tɑzɑ] how call.2SG.PRS.PASS What's your name? Haitada Skauns Bloma. [ˈhɛ:tɑðɑ ˈskɔns ˈblo:mɑ] call.1SG.PRS.PASS beautiful flower My name is Beautiful Flower. Ƕaiwa so waihts haitada? [ˈʍɛ:wɑ so: wɛhts ˈhɛ:tɑðɑ] how that thing call.3SG.PRS.PASS What's that thin...

Does anyone know what font is used here?

Lambuzhao wrote: + Moja på tvoja

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:rus: Как ты учишься норвежскому? У тебя есть языковые курсы или только учебники и веб-сайты? Ты можешь рекомендовать мне какие-то хорошие? How do you study Norwegian? Do you have language courses or only educational books and websites? Can you recommend me good ones? :got: порекомендовать jah ne р...

Not sure this is the right place to put this... Do you ever have this happen to you when conlanging? I came up with the word aısı̨n ['ʔaɪ̯sɯn] for TLFKAT and was going to put it in the Reverse Lexbuilding thread, but then totally fell in love with both the look and sound of the word, and now I'm co...

ríklosíns [ˈri:klɔsi:ns] n anarchy, lit. rulerlessness

next: socialism

What do you mean 'simultaneous changes'? The outcome depends on which order the changes occur in. So, if your list of changes was o: > ju u > a/_r then it would be /hjar/. But if it was u > a/_r o: > ju then it would be /hjur/. Well, in hindsight, what I meant is inaccurate. This answers my questio...

Would the following change make sense: /kʷ/ > /s/ before a front vowel, elsewhere /kʷ/ > /k/ /gʷ/ > /z/ before a front vowel, elsewhere /gʷ/ > /g/ EDIT: Also, can there be simultaneous sound changes on one word? For example, /ho:r/. SC1, /o:/ > /ju/. SC2, in the same era, /u/ > /a/ before /r/. Would...

More Gothic questions! Does anyone know anything about a possible -aia declension, to which words like Iudaia or Galeilaia , obviously Greek loans, may belong? Skimming through the bible, I've noticed these suffixes: -aia nom., -aian acc., -aia dat., and -aias gen. A quick look at Ancient Greek's mo...

Gothic

Sa bloma ist skauns.
[sɑ ˈblo:mɑ ist skɔ:ns]
the.MASC flower be.3SG.PRS beautiful.MASC
This flower is beautiful.

Jai, ƕan skauns sa bloma!
[jɛ: ʍɑn skɔ:n sɑ ˈblo:mɑ]
oh how beautiful the.MASC flower
Oh, how beatiful this flower is!