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Creyeditor wrote:At least all the signs that do not have diacritics. IPA is a phonetics phonology bastard after all.

Except ɱ

I worked out the number systems of both Mesak and the substrate sprachbund, but I can't talk about them here cause I'm working on making a reconstruction challenge out of them.

I worked a bit on Mesak kinship. I started from the premise of a Matrilocal society and then tried to figure out what that would mean for kinship terminology, and derived a kinship system that is similar but not identical to Crow kinship (making up roots as I type this out). Words are presented in t...

Fair enough. There was a talk on LCC6 about romlangs and the guy who presented it showed his own romlang which was set somewhere in, afaik, Swabia. It was a pretty good presentation and the entire event is on youtube, might wanna track it down.

a Germanic language that somehow ended up in Sub-Saharan africa Afrikaans too modern? Yea, I meant descended from perhaps some variety of Old Norse and separated from the other Germanics for a long time before globalization. Basically "what if the Vikings went to Africa instead of America"

A Romance language spoken along the Rhine. The non-engadine dialects of romansh are spoken along 5he Rhine (unless you don't count the anterior and posterior rhine as "rhine" yet, in which case only the dialect of Domat/Ems is spoken on the Rhine). [/pedantry] I've always kinda wanted to ...

Okay, so one examples is <Chips> /tʃɪps/ which often becomes [tʃʏps], (actually [ʃʏps] in my dialect) . I don't think German low vowels act that way though. Also re: aspiration. As an unconditional change tʰ → t makes a lot of sense, but word initially I think t → tʰ is more natural. Either way, it...

I'm gonna need some examples of German doing that. I am completely unaware of such a process.

Since you contrasted it with MSA, mind also explaining how they work in MSA (and other dialects you're aware of how they work)?

Alright (watch me get beaten while I type this out), time to fit the data in. First, a touched up reminder of what I reconstructed last time: https://i.gyazo.com/c9845a6c7af280ec26bdfe771635bcec.png Now I'll try to fit in every newly given word, adjusting my reconstuctions as needed. tʰɛsanx fits in...

That sounds like a good type hint, yea.

What you call rambly i call thorough. I had a similar thought process to yours but decided not to document it. We've mostly agreed about the west because the west is far less divergent, and in my opinion a more recent expansion. I'm fairly certain the urheimat is in the east. Heh, I had the same th...

Well, I'm bored. So let's give it a shot too. First just some thoughts I get from staring at the map: First of all, I am not convinced the final is a cluster. It would certainly be convenient, readily explaining the alteration between the scattered coronals in the west and the more persistent velars...

What are some ways that a split-ergative system could arise from an ergative-absolutive system and what would cause the shift? I'm just looking for a general guideline rather than a specific detailed strategy (if that makes sense) so it doesn't completely come from someone else. Antipassives. A lan...

Well, any statement can be converted into a quesiton by either: 1) Asking for the truth value of the statement (yes/no questions such as "Are you hungry?" < "You are hungry.") 2) Asking for the value of any NP (wh-questions such as " Who is that?" < "That is my fr...

Well, any statement can be converted into a quesiton by either: 1) Asking for the truth value of the statement (yes/no questions such as "Are you hungry?" < "You are hungry.") 2) Asking for the value of any NP (wh-questions such as " Who is that?" < "That is my fri...

Our justification is setting: normandy. Obviously the language's orthography would be inspired heavily by french over the years. But yes, we did have to cheat.

Me and a friend successfully managed to trick reddit into thinking a language was Romance, when it was actually North Germanic. What kind of sorcery did you perform? :wat: Some sound changes (this is only a selection): Initial f, þ fortify to p, t (thus undoing the most obvious part of grimm's law)...

Me and a friend successfully managed to trick reddit into thinking a language was Romance, when it was actually North Germanic. That was a fun challenge.

Thanks. I didn't think about the optative as necessarily involving the speaker's wishes (even in 2nd and 3rd person). That clears it up a bit. One way to explain the Optative is that it acts much like an Imperative, but less command-y and more wish-y, which is why it tends to be applicable to more ...