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- 13 Apr 2019 17:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: A riddle for you guys
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2365
Re: A riddle for you guys
This reminds me of linguistics olympiad problems. Can you translate “the sun is rising”?
- 13 Apr 2019 02:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
On that note ,Cantonese /hyːn³⁵/ Danish <hund> /hun/ both "Dog" As noted in the previous post, these may be true cognates (Cantonese hyun2 is cognate with Japanese ken, and Danish hund is cognate with Italian cane). The Wiktionary entry doesn't explain how the IE and the ST words. It says...
- 11 Apr 2019 04:55
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
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- 02 Apr 2019 22:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 883
- Views: 279330
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Guarani ore "we (exclusive)"
俺 ore "I, me (informal)"
俺 ore "I, me (informal)"
- 02 Apr 2019 22:26
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
Guarani ko "this (determiner)"
この kono "this (determiner)"
Guarani amo "that over there (determiner)"
あの ano "that over there (determiner)"
(Is there a flag code for Paraguay?)
この kono "this (determiner)"
Guarani amo "that over there (determiner)"
あの ano "that over there (determiner)"
(Is there a flag code for Paraguay?)
- 05 Feb 2019 03:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
かぶる kaburu "to put on one's head; to be covered with"
cover
cover
- 31 Jan 2019 04:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1056
- Views: 272704
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
So, I actually haven't had as much free time as I thought I would, and I'm probably not going to have time to do this in the near future. I didn't mean to keep everyone waiting for this long. You can go ahead and post the results if you have them ready.
- 12 Jan 2019 23:55
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 153
- Views: 108818
Re: Surprising cognates
If Latin fūnus comes from the PIE root *dʰew-, then "death" and "funeral" are related.
- 23 Dec 2018 00:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
تقاتل taqātala "to fight one another" (particularly forms where the first syllable is reduplicated like tataqātalūna "you are fighting each other")
戦う tatakau "to fight"
戦う tatakau "to fight"
- 20 Dec 2018 01:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1056
- Views: 272704
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
Alright. My last exams are tomorrow, so I should have time after that.
- 18 Dec 2018 06:24
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1321718
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I can think of rendaku and Lyman's law in Japanese, and those stem extensions that exist in some Polynesian languages, but I'm unsure of what else is out there. Does Japanese have anything else? Not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but Japanese has some somewhat interesting alterati...
- 18 Dec 2018 05:27
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 883
- Views: 279330
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
haa “what, how”
how
how
- 15 Dec 2018 22:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Quick Diachronics Challenge
- Replies: 1056
- Views: 272704
Re: Quick Diachronics Challenge
I was planning to make another guess if I had time, but you don't need to wait for me.
- 14 Dec 2018 03:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Looking for "hanyu da cidian" radical list
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1289
Re: Looking for "hanyu da cidian" radical list
Are you talking about the Kangxi radicals (of which there are 214)?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
- 14 Dec 2018 03:39
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 883
- Views: 279330
Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Just found this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/보지#Korean in Korean, 보지 can mean "cxxt" and also " preservation, holding, retention" and "notice, announcement" Koreans might want to revive Hanjas because of things like this I guess It says that the last two senses are ...
- 03 Dec 2018 04:59
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Today I learned ...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 101677
Re: Today I learned ...
Sorry meant to answer this earlier. Wikipedia agrees that they re stops , but the description seems the same as that of a nareal fricative. A voiceless n resembles /nh/, not /nt/, so I would group it with fricatives at least acoustically. [n̥] has the same place of articulation as [t] (and [d] and ...
- 03 Dec 2018 04:56
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1321718
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is there a reason other than personal preference he'd include [ˠ] in the transcription, if he's the only one to distinguish it from the velar allophone, when [ʷ] labiovelarizes non-velars and [f] is a fricative? While [w] is labio-velar, I think [ʷ] technically only indicates that a consonant is la...
- 01 Dec 2018 07:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Today I learned ...
- Replies: 120
- Views: 101677
Re: Today I learned ...
(Note that voiceless nasals are not stops ... the difference between voiced and voiceless nasals is not quite the same as between and voiced and voiceless stops). Can you elaborate on this? My understanding was that nasal stops are considered stops because they block the airflow in the oral cavity ...
- 26 Nov 2018 00:41
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
I might be wrong, but as far as I remember Cuneiform changed to a fully logographic writing system, without any pictographs left. Yes, but some of the logograms originated as pictograms. Same with Chinese characters. (Also, cuneiform in its most developed state wasn’t fully logographic; there were ...
- 25 Nov 2018 16:30
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 909
- Views: 332622
Re: False cognates
Sumerian 𒋗 šu “hand” :chn: 手 shǒu “hand” The last two are even graphically sort of similar - a vertical line with several horizontal lines. Which is of course because both started as a drawing of a hand. Such resemblances are common in logographic scripts. Oh yeah, I guess you're right. I'm not sur...