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That's where I read about Shuluun Höh. I encountered some Sibe data in a more computational paper. But the original sources are cited in the source you give, IIRC.

Well, black as in operating in the dark or in secret, I guess. Haven't heard of the necromancers, will read up on it. The Black Angels are of course at least partly inspired by the Jedi in Star Wars. I guess the necromancers are more about balancing the cycle of life and death come to think of it. ...

Which makes sense because definiteness could be construed of as a kind of information structure. It should definitely be added to the list.

Well, black as in operating in the dark or in secret, I guess. Haven't heard of the necromancers, will read up on it. The Black Angels are of course at least partly inspired by the Jedi in Star Wars.

Fredauon Fun Fact #36: The secret society known as The Black Angels operates on all of Fredauon. They were originally founded in the area south of The Great Mountains and their ideology assumes a natural balance between good and evil. They usually restrict their operations to assassinating leaders ...

What do you think of this vowel harmony system? Is it plausible? It's /a e i ɤ o ɯ u/ /o u/ are rounded /ɤ ɯ/ are unrounded /a e i/ are neutral /a/ is usually unrounded/back in rounding/backness harmony systems and paired (or re-paired) with a back rounded or front unrounded vowel. Are there any ot...

Could it be interpreted as marking the more prominent argument acts on the less prominent argument and vice versa?

@Davush: Sorry, I must've misread your post.

I don't think anything and everything is the correct answer. I know of no language that uses only word order to distinguish person, number, tense, aspect, modality, or evidentiality. But I might be wrong of course. I can't name any, but I'd be surprised if there are no languages that at least secon...

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑29 Mar 2024 17:29 What do you think of this vowel harmony system? Is it plausible?

It's /a e i ɤ o ɯ u/

/o u/ are rounded

/ɤ ɯ/ are unrounded

/a e i/ are neutral

/a/ is usually unrounded/back in rounding/backness harmony systems and paired (or re-paired) with a back rounded or front unrounded vowel.

TAM in Indonesian part III SYNTAX examples Now that I know my categories, here are some examples. I decided to have a post with some examples but not all possible examples because this post is already very long. The modal adverbs mungkin and pasti can occur in initial position without any context. ...

I don't think there is an easy asnwer but here are some functions that I know of. 1) The difference between the two arguments of transitive verbs. Happens in English (and probably many other languages). 2) Information structure, so things like topic and focus. Happens in many languages including Eng...

One feature distinguishing Play from nearby languages is that its 1>2 verb marker is a zero morph, and the 2>1 marker is usually a doubling of the vowel. (All verbs have two arguments, whether stated or not.) Thus one can say ti deed; what I am doing to you tii what you are doing to me Tiitīs? What...

Isn't there also a lot of variation on Earth when it comes to clothing (apart from the satus symbol thing)? I was thinking of the variation in Indonesia alone between this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koteka?wprov=sfla1) and this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minangkab ... prov=sfla1).

Thank you for the nice words. I still might add some example sentences in the next post.

TAM in Indonesian part II SYNTAX So, I tried to come up with a consensus classification of the syntactic behavior of Indonesian TAM markers and I soon noticed that there is no consensus. Compare the three following classifications from Wiktionary, KBBI jaring (the official Indonesian dictionary by ...

[...] Do these creatures have any basis in the reality of the setting or are they really just myths? Well, they have a solid basis in *our* reality. The feathered, winged monsters would look like birds of prey/owls and the dry, furred creatures like wild cats. I estimate that said creatures would w...

Here is a revised guess.
Which doesn't share a whole lot of segments with my earlier guess

I noticed recently that many of the FFFs are not fun at all. I also noticed that fun fact -at least for me- does not mean a fact that is fun but is instead a fixed expression meaning 'a very small bit of information that is neither completely informally nor scientically presented and in itself of li...

My first guess hal.ta