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Last night, I learned a new word in two languages.

Esperanto lifto "elevator"
Spanish ascensor "elevator"

Visions1 wrote: ↑27 Jun 2024 00:15 Pretty solid adaptation. I'd love seeing more of these.
A while back I adapted Inuit script for Navajo. I'm pleased that I'm now not the only one.

Thank you for the compliment! I could put this Menominee writing system to good use. Yours might too.

I am thinking about proposing a new writing system for the Menominee language based on the Osage script. The only new letters not found in the original Osage script are the glottal stop (borrowed from the Latin script) and 𐓶 with a dot on the right (a modified Osage letter). Vowels Short: /a, e, i, ...

Icelandic ör "arrow"

I learned that word by searching the etymology of English word arrow. I also learned the Gothic word arhwazna from this.

thethief3 wrote: ↑05 Jun 2023 10:04 Actually tetrachromats don't have night vision they just can see more colours.

I changed it to make more sense. Thank you for pointing that out.

These vampire-like aliens live on the side of Proxima Centauri not affected by stellar wind. What do you think? Make sure to tell me.

Not sure how it is with universities vs. Christian missionary organizations, but they seem similar in terms of activity, in fact the Christians might be more involved in it even. So you can be a Christian missionary if you don't want to go the university route. [xD] Alternatively, if you live in a ...

Hello. I have been becoming more interested in historical and comparative linguistics lately. Some particular languages/language groups that I would like to study include Germanic, some Algonquian languages (especially Eastern Algonquian and Menominee), some separate dialects of Siouan languages, th...

I learned two new words in Esperanto: "sekvinbero," meaning raisin, and "flosglacio," meaning sea ice. I also learned a new noun in German, "Angriff," meaning attack.

I am currently in the process of creating a conworld taking place in outer space. The world I created is located in the Alpha Centauri system, specifically the Proxima Centauri system. Hence, I nicknamed the fictional race native here the Proxima Centauri vampires. Some races of Proxima Centauri vam...

Hello. Not any earlier than last year, I created a wordlist that I called the GeoLife Wordlist. Like the Swadesh list, a set of basic vocabulary in the first language (usually English) are compared with another language that are least likely to be borrowed from another language/dialect. However, unl...

Titus Flavius wrote: ↑11 Nov 2021 09:48

ThatAnalysisGuy wrote: /p̪ c q/ /b d g/

Each unvoiced consonant is shifted one POA backwards?
Why is /ɛI/ considered a diphthong?

Sorry about that, it was a typo. I meant he diphthong ɛi. Also, the unusual stop shift represents a unique development from an earlier stage of the language.

Hello. I just came up with a fictional language called Prud. This language has nominative-absolute alignment, is weakly agglutinative, and has VOS word order. Consonants Voiceless stops /p̪ c q/ Voiced stops: /b d g/ Nasal consonants: /m n ŋ~ɴ / Semivowels/Approximants: /ɹ l j w / Fricatives: /f v s...

I'm not sure non-scientists have any way to distinguish bees from wasps. Indeed, bees in a sense ARE wasps - a wasp is any wasp that isn't a bee or an ant or a sawfly. Apparently you can identify wasps by their branched hairs, the bifurcation of the seventh dorsal abdominal plate in females, and by...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑09 Aug 2021 17:13 Native American languages don’t have native terms for honeybees, because those came here from across the Atlantic.
Some must have terms for other kinds of bees, or more generic terms for bees.

What about wasps?

Hello. I recently made my own wordlist, and I included the terms "bee" and "wasp." One group of languages that I am interested in studying are the Algic languages (Algonquian and Yurok). However, I only found the term for "bee" in these languages. Can you name distinct ...

Today, I learned the Latin noun trabs, which means "timber or beam" along with its Esperanto descendant trabo meaning pole or beam

Mi praktikas Esperanton por helpi, ke Esperantistoj lernu la lingvon Kotavao. Ĉu vi konas Kotavaon? Mi kreis dulingvan vortaron en Esperanto kaj en Kotavao. Nun, ĉe Jutubo, mi faras videojn en Kotavao kun subtitoloj en Esperanto. Nomo de mia kanalo: Luce Kotavusik Ligilo: https://www.youtube.com/ch...

I have been looking at colleges for the near future that offer language documentation and revitalization courses. I am interested in studying and attesting various languages across the world, especially Algonquian, Eskimo-Aleut, Oceanic, Ket, Cushitic, and Chadic languages. I currently live in the M...

There is a phrase that I learned (orsaka) which means "Excuse me" in Faroese

I learned the French noun "temps," meaning time or weather. I learned this in the French part of the Esperanto book Fundamento de Esperanto. In Esperanto, the corresponding word for time is "tempo."