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Fredauon Fun Fact #35: Another mythological creature in Fredauon tales is said to have black fur like a bat, a shape like an otter but to be as big as an ostrich. It stalks its human prey at night, at first without any consequences but then it jumps on the human's back and is carried until the huma...

Kalau gitu, bisa tanya ulang: ko memang?
So we can ask again: did you win?

There are also binary gender systems based on shape (usually sphere-like vs. stick-like) and based on animacy. The thing is, of you have a purely formal system that assigns different genders to very frequently used nouns (which makes sense in terms of frequency) than it is likely that either man and...

This was definitely fun (at least for me). @Arayaz: You are the winner. You can provide a new challenge or say that you don't want to.

Fredauon Fun Fact #34: The religion of Omlueuet-speaking Bólks includes a complex hierarchical pantheon. On the top are several higher deities, followed by creation deities and fertility deities in that order. Lower order include various wrathful and protective spirits, as well as deified ancestors...

It is retrievable, maybe even more than that. But I agree that the closest should win. That's why I said, I don't want to wait much longer before revealing it. So, why spend more time waiting. Here is the solution I had in mind. The protoform was simple: *ma, my favorite syllable. *ma >mba >>ba >>>p...

That's further away

You are very close.

You identified the problem but you need to think outside the box in order to solve it

One last time: 1. bæ 2. mõ 3. muaŋ 4. pa 5. wa 6. mva 7. mpà: 8. m: a: *mba bæ & pa (*ba) mõ & muaŋ (*mwã) mva & wa (*mwa) mpàà & mmaa (*mbaa) *mwã & mwa (*mwa) *ba & mbaa (*mba) *mwa & mba (*mba) please please please All intermediate forms and groupings are correct (or ...

E, sa su lama sekali tidak tulis di sini.
It's been a long time since I wrote in this thread

Padahal asik sebenarnya.
Even though it's actually fun.

New guess: 1. bæ 2. mõ 3. muaŋ 4. pa 5. wa 6. mva 7. mpà: 8. m: a: Protoform: ɓa(:)ŋ proto 2/3: ɓa:ŋ > moaŋ moaŋ > moŋ > mõ moaŋ > muaŋ proto 6/7/8: ɓaŋ > b: a: b: a: > b͡va: > mva b: a: > b͡pa: > mpà: b: a: > m͡ba: > m: a: proto 1/4/5: ɓaŋ > ɓa ɓa > wa ɓa > pa ɓa > bæ Your grouping 2/3 is correct ...

Fredauon Fun Fact #33: All over Fredauon there are mythological tales of feathered flying monsters. One kind of monsters flies through the sky without flapping with its giant wings only to quickly nosedive out of the blue and snatch small children that play outside. Another one is nocturnal with la...

AFAIK, the FOFC is supposed to be asymetric, so [V-O]-Aux is banned but Aux-[OV] is okay, contrary to what the name suggests. I hasten to add that this in itself does not explain anything and could only be a first step on the way to a potential explanation.

[mõ - muaŋ] [wa - mva] [bæ - pa] [mpàà - mmaa] [*mwa] [*mwa] [*ba] [*mbaa] [*mwon - *mwa] [*ba - *mbaa] [*mwã] [*mba] [bwã] I think there is a typo in the second row because you have [*mwa] twice. Incidentally, this is close for both. [*mwã] is also an intermediate form, you just have it at the wro...

Arayaz Okay, so your groupings are all correct, as are most of your intermediate forms, namely *ba, *mbaa, *mba, *mwa (reasonably close). *moŋ is wrong though and I guess this is one of the reasons why your overall reconstruction is still only 50% correct. Going back to an earlier cue, you could thi...

That's probably still an advantage of spoken language on Fredauon. As I explained elsewhere, the idea is that The Other Continent is pretty noisy. It's probably also relatively flat, except for the volcanos.

Fredauon Fun Fact #32: Since both sign languages and spoken languages developed diachronically since prehistoric times, a proto-language of all languages of Fredauon would have included spoken words as well as signed gestures. This is similar to the languages spoken on The Islands In Between, even ...

visions Wait, I think you changed your guess at some point. Your overall guess *mban, IIRC, is still only 50% right. Your grouping is spot on, though. Your intermediate reconstructions *mba (IIRC,you edited it out) is correct. *mwa and *mbaa, and *ba are also reasonaly correct. *mwon is wrong and mi...

Just wanted to mention that I am still working on the next post. Turns out, the syntactic properties of Indonesian TAM markers are pretty complex and still the subject of ongoing research. I am thinking about how to simplify it and what to exclude right now but I might actually have time to do this ...