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Thanks for the write-up! Good to have an idea on the variation that has been published on this.

Creyeditor wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 08:29I should probably compose a more detailed post and compare a few varieties.

I would appreciate that. Even just a presentation on your opinion on the capital's more prestigious dialect would be interesting for me.

Here's a new question for you: what do you think about stress in Indonesian? Is there a noticeable stress? Are there morphophonological rules to predict it (what are they)?

My remote understanding is that this topic is a bit controversial...?

I've seen both "level" and "flat tones" in ling literature.

Sanskrit नाग nāga- 'snake, naga', Proto-Germanic *snakô 'snake; worm' Hebrew נָחָשׁ nakhásh 'snake' Proto-Bantu *nyókà 'snake', Swahili nyoka 'snake', Zulu inyoka 'snake' Middle Chinese 腳 [kɨɐk̚ ] 'foot', Cantonese goek3 [kœːk̚˧] Chechen ког '(animal) foot, paw', Ingush ког '(animal) foot, paw', Kom...

Arabic شعر ʃiʕr 'poetry, poem'
Hebrew שִׁיר shir 'song, poem'
Chinese 詩 shī 'poetry, poem'

[thought experiment: imagine a society in which social status were extremely important linguistically, and in which the word 'monarch' were feminine. We could imagine similar substitution processes to the above leading to monarchs by default being referred to as 'she'...] This reminds me, I was sur...

Ah, I see. I'm looking at the languages in question, and I see even some famous ones are included: Languages with cases and obligatory use of numeral classifiers: - Burmese (8-9 cases) - Garo (8-9 cases; Sino-Tibetan; in India) - Semelai (3 cases; Austroasiatic; in Malaysia) - Nivkh (8-9 cases) - Ko...

I've been thinking of a system where (like several Asian languages I think) every noun is preceded by a classifier noun such as "person", "animal", etc. Hopefully unlike those languages, while the noun root never declines, the classifier can be inflected for number, case, etc. I...

How would you say, "He who dies having smoked the most of me wins" in Spanish? Imagine this line is spoken by a joint of marijuana. El que se muera después de haberme fumado más que los demás, gana. Gracias. Ah sorry! Just noticed I misread your English. I translated "He who dies hav...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑19 Apr 2022 23:13 How would you say, "He who dies having smoked the most of me wins" in Spanish? Imagine this line is spoken by a joint of marijuana.

El que se muera después de haberme fumado más que los demás, gana.

I think that the problem is that neither "which" nor "which one" can be comfortably said in the same rising, emphatic tone of "Whaaat?", "Whooo?" etc Eh, I think I've sometimes heard "Which one!?!?" said in a very emphatic way. Sure, the -i- of &quo...

but I'm a little overwhelmed by the next steps: syntax and morphology. With phonology, I basically know what I need (consonants, vowels, phonotactics, allophony, stress rules), but with the grammar, I don't really have that kind of indication. I feel like I have that kind of indication in my head f...

I apologize if I am about to say something ignorant, but wouldn't a purely analytical language like Mandarin be optimal? As I am to understand it, each syllable represents a core unit of meaning; they are "words," as well as, "chunks of meaning." (Whether it can be applied with ...

Hello. This is my first experience with making a conlang. I've been doing my research and putting together a phonology, and so far I have the consonants mostly figured out. One goal I had in mind for the language was for it to be decently "co-learnable," because an established fact of the...

I can't think of any conlangs that do this, among the ones I've come across. I think I've seen this in a couple, inspired by some West African language (Yoruba?) and Iau respectively, but I agree it's very uncommon. Does anyone here use something similar in any of their conlangs? Where you have a m...

Very interesting posts! (As per usual.) Since I am awesome, Also a good out-of-context quote. Thank you for your well-thought-out reply, Salmoneus. And I was surprised to hear that linguistics is more susceptible to pseudoscience than psychology. I don't know about how psychology compares to linguis...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑19 Jan 2022 14:40 Did anybody ever conduct a typological study on their own conlangs? Maybe on basic word order or phoneme inventory sizes or the like?

Does a CALS profile count?

Arabic شاطئ‎ ʃaatˤiʔ 'beach' Mandarin 沙灘 shātān 'beach' Arabic عين ʕain 'eye' Mandarin 眼 yǎn 'eye' Arabic سرّح sarraħa 'to comb (one's hair)' Mandarin 梳理 shūlǐ 'to comb (one's hair)' Sanskrit sū́tram 'a rule of grammar or law; a sutra or discourse of the Buddha' Arabic سورة sūra 'a surah or chapter ...

Yeah, Vulgar Latin can refer to a large number of dialects in space and time. In fact, specifically among the kind of scholars who write etymological dictionaries, "Vulgar Latin" can even be contemporaneous with Early Medieval Latin, as in, the 8th century. I can't think of a good example ...