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@elemtilas: Read Re: Naming Practices Post by eldin raigmore » Tue 26 Sep 2023, 14:05 Correction Concerning Individual Anthroponyms in Adpihi and Reptigan below. …. Would you like to hear more about the contingencies? …. (What to do if strict obedience to the system would require you to name your ki...

I did it. I can’t say I was very successful. I also can’t say I can tell anyone how to do it. For me, the problem was not so much the course-work; instead, it was that I had forgotten how to be a sophomore! OTOH I was glad I did it. The campus was nice. Classes and labs were more fun than work. [edi...

…. In the text - IIRC - they explicitly leave open the possibility that the variety of Standard Indonesian as spoken by native speakers of Toba Batak might have something like word stress. Also, you are right, contact induced change is probably more common between varieties of the same language tha...

floatremes In :tlh: grammar, there are verbal suffixes which can jump numerical position, adding to another suffix's meaning/intensity. These are called 'rovers'. This is only among the subset of verbal suffixes; this does not occur in the subset of :tlh: nominal suffixes, nor :tlh: verbal/nominal ...

@JohnDoeDoe : Your ideas look great to me! I saw one (only one!) possible problem with humans (of the kind we have around here nowadays, anyway) being able to perfectly pronounce the spoken version(s?) of this/these language(s). And that is: phonemic volume! Phonemic length and phonemic pitch are at...

I was specifically thinking about a series of experiments by van Zanten and Goedemans (reported a.o. here: https://www.academia.edu/download/81343807/01e4fcd48e852b051f2cbc168a42dd03ebc8.pdf ) which seems to suggest that Standard Indonesian as spoken by Javanese native speakers has phrasal stress b...

…. @Eldin, @qwed: I think I have seen good arguments that some languages have only phrasal prominence (as diagnosed by pitch and duration cues) which is not aligned to any particular position inside a word. Some of these languages (e.g. some varieties of Standard Indonesian) also do not show any in...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑06 Nov 2023 17:27 This looks interesting!
I'm often skeptical with these alien projects but I'll read this through.

It makes me want to revive my Treecat language.
I should think about cat sounds.

Talk to LinguistCat, maybe, for some additional ideas?

I think most people/books I know call /i/ advanced or non-retracted and /ɪ/ retracted or non-advanced. …. But they’re not talking about the Tongue- ROOT . They’re talking about the main body of the part of the tongue that is in the mouth. /i/ is Front and /ɪ/ is Near-Front. The “root of the tongue”...

So, is RTR the same thing as - ATR? Yes? I’m afraid the answers are really “maybe” and “sometimes” and “it depends”. In vowels, Advanced Tongue Root is contrasted with Relaxed Tongue Root. (One can’t articulate a vowel with a Retracted Tongue Root.) In consonants, Retracted Tongue Root is contraste...

@Imralu :
In re Balog :
1. Wow!
2. What VapuantaDoi said!

Piphilology. I learned it from Sandi Toksvig’s QI. So, maybe it’s English? It refers to the habit or custom or hobby of making up word-strings as mnemonics for the decimal expansion of the dimensionless constant pi, which is the ratio of a Euclidean circle’s circumference to its diameter. (Such a mn...

I found the questions difficult to interpret; and also, uninteresting.
I don’t see how or why this information would benefit any Ukrainians people or any Ukrainian people.
So I won’t answer it.

How does stress-ogenesis work? Does it work like tonogenesis or can stress just spontaneously appear in languages without word stress? IM(H?)O: I don’t believe there are any natural languages, with two-or-more-syllable words, totally without ANY primary stress (on syllables in words), AND also tota...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑30 Oct 2023 12:32 …. Eldin's TAG ….

None of the various forms of Tree-Adjoining Grammar are “mine”!
I haven’t been responsible for the innovations in any of them!

I wish I were that good and that productive a linguist; but I’m just not!

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Thanks for your faith in me, though, Creyeditor!

What makes them "triphibious", ? The members of each species in that phylum go through three* life-phases. For instance; aquatic, then land-dwelling, then flying. Some may have a burrowing phase in place of one of those. *Like amphibians go through two phases, an aquatic one, then a land-...

I'm assuming that is an estimate based on our world with 8 billion people and a lot of mobility, mass media and mostly free communication all across the world, and not meant to be a generally applicable number to languages in any setting. …. Yes; I got my “about 1 million to about 3.5 million” esti...

I have my “space centipedes”, but I haven’t given enough thought to their furniture or houses or clothes(?) or tools etc. I’ve given thought to their overall shape and their musculature and to the anatomy of their limbs and eyes. They are in a phylum of “triphibious” animals. And they’re the best me...

That's not a "serious pronunciation problem" until you learn a language that has a phonemic contrast between them and I am not aware of there being any. UPSID doesn’t know of any. 22 languages in its sample have a voiced uvular fricative. Only 4 have a voiced uvular trill: namely BATAK, F...