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Večʼapruga Večʼapruga, or otherwise known with its anglicised name Vechaprian, is a language spoken in the Caspian Sea on a fictional island which splits the lake into two major parts. Due to this favourable position, the island became comparatively wealth thanks to trade routes, but these routes a...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑21 Jul 2021 10:01 Why is a python called a "brocade snake" in Japanese?

My guess would be that it's just because of the similarities between their skin and a brocade pattern.

Is it possible for a lang to reassign stress to the last syllable of a root?

Does anyone know how Spanish acquired the pronunciation of /x/ for <g> before front vowels? /g/ before front vowels never (IIRC) palatalised into /ʒ/ in Spanish but instead either deleted it, turned it into /ʝ/ or /θ/ or merged it e.g. /ngF/ > /ɲ/, so there were no native /ʒF/ sequences that stem fr...

Just a quick comment to say that I really like the idea with the circumflex!

I notice this too with names beginning with "Mc". Many people say what to my ears sounds like /mɪk/, as in "MickDonalds" (even the parody name "SickDonalds" reflects that pronunciation). I seem to say /mək/ or as close to it as I can. I'm not saying I'm better, I'm jus...

I guess the definitions make it obvious that they're not cognates but I always liked how Kuppel 'dome' is not cognate with kuppeln 'to clutch, to connect' and Kupplung 'clutch, socket', their variants koppeln and Kopplung (who are all cognate to Koppel 'paddock' instead). Kuppel however is cognate t...

So that means that sarī- can also be used on its own with no other verb accompanying it, right?

I vote for pronouns and after that, verbs!

Sorry, I meant to quote this in my reply so it wouldn't get lost. For my answer, see above... Don't worry, I already saw it without the quote. I found maki and makr as well, but I am quite surprised there is no cognate to the two verbs I talked about. They always felt very core-Germanic-vocabulary-...

Do North Germanic languages not have cognates of make and do? Or am I just blind?

The real answer, of course, is that you should use Germanic logograms... ...but unfortunately you'd have to restart the Germanic logogram project again to do so. And I'm guessing it's been pruned... Yeah, this would be the best option of course. I tried it once myself when I first started the proje...

I think you misunderstand my question, but then I may have been mistaken about the way you are building your language. "Sound developments" refers to the (imagined) sound changes from Proto-Germanic to your language. But maybe you are not even using that method, so my question may be moot...

Do the sound developments matter? It's about whether the characters are good choices to represent the meaning of the word. Or do I misunderstand your question?

I've been working on my not-so-serious CV tonal germlang again and I have three scripts for it: tonal, historical and Chinese characters because why not. The Chinese characters are a bit of a problem when it comes to the personal pronouns. This is what I currently have: 俉/吾 /i˩˥ - me˩˥/ - 1SG 俄/我 /v...

Well, if there's evidence that the regular change was /kk/ > /s/, then of course that was the case. But the point remains that there's no reason why Pabappa should just assume that this would be the case [in French, obviously it was the case in Iberia] and ignore evidence to the contrary! As dormou...

Can tone influence the vowel's pronunciation? Like causing vowels with tone A to rise while the same vowel with tone B would stay the same?

Portuguese really is the worst when it comes to that. Two times I was wondering what it was and then minutes later there was always the headnod with an obvious "sim" [xD] But another question about German (I'm sorry [:P] ). Voiceless stops turn into glottal stops before syllabic nasals for...

For me, the progressive "am"-construction is fully productive. With transitive verbs, I feel like I can use all kinds of noun phrases there. At least before the "am". A few hours ago I was talking to a friend on the phone and told him: "Ich bin gerade [das tolle Kürbiscurry...

I've been thinking about how I speak lately and now I've got some questions for my fellow German speakers here. I. Would you call the construction "ich bin tanzen" a progressive? If so, is there a difference for you between "ich bin am Tanzen" and "ich bin tanzen"? I fe...