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nzk13 wrote:. And here I thought I had stumbled upon a bible reference .

The Biblical Aner would speak a IE language, anyhow.

During the second World War, the Germans snuck a spy into Britain. They spent months training the spy to have aperfect British accent while speaking English. So the spy walks into an English Bar, and orders a Martini. The Bartender asks him "Dry?" The spy says "Nein, nein, Nicht Drei,...

decemarietis wrote:

Click wrote:Next: mūrɣ [muːrɣ] v wash

v. murgi [ˈmuɾgi]

Next: basin/sink (n.)

What's the word?

nzk13 wrote:I like how you use the dagesh to signify the fricative, not the stop.

It's actually the aspirated stop, not the fricative.

don't occur in natlangs have no IPA representation Bilabial click /ʘ/ — occurs in ǂHoan Labiodental click /ʘ̪/ — occurs in Nǁng Linguolabial click /ʘ̺/ or /ǀ̼/ — occurs in Coatlán Zapotec Dental click /ǀ/ — occurs in Zulu Alveolar click /ǃ/ — occurs in !Kung Lateral click /ǁ/ — occurs in Xhosa Vela...

Ambrisio wrote:So it would be the same as the Greek 'aner', related to Sanskrit 'nara'.

Yes, it is a cognate, except semantically it means "people in general" instead of just "a man"

Fanael wrote:Yes. Except Dvorak is not the keyboard layout in question.

Azerty, as a lot o your weirder choices are in the home row?

nzk13 wrote:Btw, does the name 'Anerite' come from the biblical /aner/?

It's actually from an archaic word meaning "the People", cognate to "Ḥenri" meaning "Man"

Here's the Native script: It's adapted from the Phoenician script. It's read right-to-left, and it's an abjad with vowel signs required. Here are the consonants: http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/tt88/Shemtov/anerconst_zps86d88ff5.png [f] is written the same as [p], as there are very few minimal pa...

I know I'm going off-topic with this, but do I detect a Sephardic/Mizrahi-ish pronunciation (kamatz as [a] instead of [ɔ])? . Actually, I use the Ashkenazic pronunciation, but I used to use the Sephardic one until 4 years ago, so sometimes when I'm transcribing from my head I mix it up. These days,...

Ok, here's a really weird ad wacky idea: It's spoken by a species whose "mouths" are not connected to their respiratory system. However, their mouths have most the features we have, except an Uvula. Given this, they can only produce clicks. These are the clicks of the language. As many of ...

This is a creation myth my conpeople, the Anerites (Native name Aneriy) before the adoption of an Abrahamic religion known as Anerite Noahidsm. A Bit of Anerite history: They were an IE tribe, who settled in what is now Turkey and Syria, Near Ugarit. The Kingdom of Aner was absorbed into the (in suc...

Here's a flag that the modern versions of my conculture, the Anerites, have adopted as an expression of ethnic identity:

I've never seen that before (not even here ), and so I can't think of an explanation. Where did you come across that? Traditionally, Hebrew consonants are divided by there POA:' Labial Lingual Dental Dorsal Radical-Glottal The Lingual set is: t~θ n d~ð t ʕ l The dental set: s z s ʕ ʃ r If not for t...

Is there any explanation, other then linguistic ignorance, why someone would classify [ʃ] as a dental sound?

I don't know if Ancient Hebrew did this, but if it didn't, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the German(ic)-speaking jews involved would have had some sort of influence from their native language creeping into their Hebrew when the revival was first initiated. Actually, Biblical Hebrew did ha...

Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, and also Biblical and other Judeo-Aramaic dialects, have different pronunciations based on the exact ancestral and religious background of the reader. One text would be pronounced one way by an Non-Hungarian European Orthodox Jew, another way by a Secular European Jew, ...

I don't know if Ancient Hebrew did this, but if it didn't, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the German(ic)-speaking jews involved would have had some sort of influence from their native language creeping into their Hebrew when the revival was first initiated. Actually, Biblical Hebrew did ha...

Several scandinavian dialects have infinitives that are formed in the same way. (E.g. my own native dialect, spoken on an island off Vaasa). Also, Spanish, French and German sometimes require similar prepositions (zu, a, à) in front of infinitives in certain constructions where the preposition clea...

Is there any natlang that distinguishes a palatal nasal, and a palatalized alveolar (or other coronal) nasal as separate phonemes?