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Sḿtuval wrote: Здравствуйте! Я учу русский.
Hello! I'm learning Russian.

Хорошо!
Good!

τοῦτο ἡ πᾶσα φρόνις μου πρὸς τὰ ῥωσικά ἐστι.
That is the whole of my knowledge regarding Russian.

threecat wrote:

Xing wrote: 1) The cat and the dog ate the mouse.
2) The cat barked and ate the mouse.
3) Something miaowed and barked and squealed while eating.

Anaha distinguishes between the three sentences by context

What sort of contexts would distinguish these?

word-final geminates are def. possible but wouldn't take up a whole separate syllable. separate mora, sure, but that's not how periods work. oh. thank you for that. So I make certain I understand...Germinates are when the consonant is found on both sides of the syllable break,,, [bet.a] becomes [be...

Sangfroidish wrote:

Znex wrote:συγγνώμην ἔχε! ἠγνόουν γὰρ ἀνθρώπους οἰκοῦντα ἐπὶ τῆς σελήνης.
Forgive me, I did not know that people lived on the moon.

Éduque-toi.
Educate yourself.

οὐ δύναμαι ἰδεῖν αὐτόν. δοκεῖ μοι τὸ βίντεον κατεαγέν.
I am unable to see it. It seems to me the video's broken.

ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῆς γῆς εἰμι. ἐκεῖνο λέγων ἀήθες ἦν. I am a man from Earth. That was an odd thing you said. [:P] Je trouve cela très raciste. Les Clangers sont les gens aussi, tu sais. I find that very racist. Clangers are people too, you know. συγγνώμην ἔχε! ἠγνόουν γὰρ ἀνθρώπους οἰκοῦντα ἐπὶ τῆς σελή...

Ya hablo tres idiomas a niveles avanzados (que incluye el inglés, mi lengua materna), y otros idiomas a niveles variados. I already speak three languages to an advanced level (including English, my native language), and other languages to different levels. Les premières trois langues sont l'anglais...

What is the empire's attitude towards slavery?
Who throughout history are the empire's greatest enemies?
What's the national dish?

Shemtov wrote:

prettydragoon wrote:
So Eka mated with several male wild animals

Did you take this detail from the Jewish stories about Adam?

Wait, there are Jewish stories about Adam that say this sort of thing?

Μῆλον καρπός τε καὶ αἴξ ἐστι.
"Mēlon" means both fruit and goat.

πόσοι ὑμῶν μανθάνουσι γλῶτταν ἄλλῃ;
How many of you learn a language by use of another (I mean apart from your native one)?

masako wrote:

Lao Kou wrote:How's that career move working out for you, Kev?

ta ke ha ua kemalo unya ka
2SG TOP 3SG other task.PL know Q

taăd nw aw fú noè
not-understand SP EVD-1 1SG 2SG
I don't understand you.

I've been considering the various ways my conlang Proto-Oeg could evolve given the features I've created for it. I have a reasonably good idea about how the consonants would evolve, however it occurred to me that they would change over quite a longer period of time compared to the vowels. Now I have...

Q#4 What vowels should there be? /i ä u ə/ - (triangular) /i e æ ɒ/ - (bow-shaped) /i ɨ u ä/ - (T-shaped) /ɨ ɘ ɜ ä/ - (vertical) /i a ɒ u/ - (square) /i ë ʌ̈ ɑ/ - (diagonal) Or something else? Spider-shaped! /ɪ ɨ ʊ e̞ o̞ æ ä ɒ̽/ :P That's a little more than four, isn't it? But it can work fine, if ...

EVIDENTIAL ADJECTIVES: Evidential constructions are alongside mood particles one of the most common grammatical objects within Proto-Oeg. Almost invariably, they are placed between the main agent and patient, before their own agent, expressing a wide selection of things including primarily indirect ...

Keenir wrote:

Xing wrote:Q#3 Should the typical root be mono- or bisyllabic?

Bisyllabic.

The typical root should have similar proportions to a spider's body: small first syllable, big second syllable.

Great, let's start with this! This site might be able to help you visualize IPA letter spellings for some Tagalog words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Tagalog And here's the main sounds of Tagalog in IPA Chart form http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/nl-ipa/tagalogipa.html#othersounds these ...

Attic Greek

1. τίς κόπτει θαυμάζω τὴν θύραν.
INT-M-SG-NOM knock.3SG wonder.1SG DEF-SG-ACC door.SG-ACC
I wonder who's knocking at my door.

2. ἠρόμην αὐτὸν τί ποιήσειε.
ask-AOR.1SG 3P.M-SG-ACC INT-N-SG-ACC do-AOR-OPT.3SG
I asked him what he was doing.

Anyway, I'm assuming that by addressee you mean someone not physically present in the situation? I have difficulty imagining a situation where you'd actually need to distinguish between 1. just plain addressing multiple people with one word and 2. addressing some people while simultaneously referri...

This is somewhat already covered in the "Count to 10" thread , where most people tend to count way beyond 10 in their conlangs. However, I'll be a good sport and say Proto-Oeg uses a duodecimal system (ie. base 12). There is no word for zero, but if any of the Oeg were to express it, they'...

Affixes hatred Ho ho ho, you'll like this post: :con: Proto-Oeng kád pad a gìg ywk gkyu aēm eu gun [kʼan̪4 ban̪4 a ŋiŋ2 ɞkʼ2 ŋkʼø̞2 ɛm3 ø3 ŋyn3] kick run now girl EVD-6 someone around tree ball The girl ran around the tree and kicked the ball. 9 words, 9 syllables, 9 morae. Also, :grc: Ancient Gree...