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Ich denke, das Astérix und Obélix mehr lustig auf Deutsch ist. I think Asterix and Obelix is more funny in English . Anglais ou allemand? English or German? Oops, ich habe gemeint, das Astérix lustiger auf Englisch ist Oops, I meant to say that Asterix is funnier in English. Itu Google Translate. T...

Frislandian

Tatoakasluorahiitson
[ˈt̪a.t̪o̞.a.ka.s̪l̪u.o̞.ɾa.hiːt̪.s̪ɔn̪]
die-make.IND-PST.3-REFL-PRF
The die is cast.

(Frislandian doesn't have a passive, and "to cast a die" is a compound verb, so I've decided to use the reflexive. "IND" stands for "indefinite")

Ich denke, das Astérix und Obélix mehr lustig auf Deutsch ist.
I think Asterix and Obelix is more funny in English.

This is interesting. Could you describe the diachronics leading to the ergative alignment? What happened to the pharyngeals? I'd presume that the pharyngeals debuccalised to h and ɦ respectively, although why this didn't leave some residual effect on the quality of adjacent vowels is anyone's guess.

A Lolo-Burmese language, particularly Lahu?

Hello, I've come over from the ZBB. I'm not new to conlanging and I have a good deal of linguistic knowledge, so I don't consider myself a noob anymore. I have one relatively fleshed-out conlang called Frislandian (which, if I have time after my exams I might put up the PDF of someday) and numerous ...