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Left turns at an intersection are dangerous and a major cause of accidents *here* and probably also *there*. But that only makes sense if they drive on the right, and if they've only got one-way roads, then they're not really driving on either side. Plus it's more natural to drive on the left so th...

Fredauon Fun Fact #39 The New Capital City of the Wizard Republic was planned in the Era Of Isolation and the Era of Reconciliation with private motorized vehicles in mind. The city features no four-way intersections, no left turns, only one-way streets and lots of bridges. Since it is mostly inhab...

The intermediate language was of course some form of the Basque-Algonquian Pidgin.

TIL there's a fairly convincing argument that the term Iroquois finds its ultimate origin in fucking BASQUE of all languages.

To rephrase that in terms of a surprising cognate, English Iroquois ~ Basque hil 'kill'.

/p t k kʷ/ <p t c k>
/s h/ <s h>
/m n ŋ ŋʷ/ <m n g q>
/l j w/ <l y w>


or

p t k kv
s h
m n g gv
l y w

/i u/ <i u>
/e o/ <e o>
/a/ <a>


Next

/p t ts k ʔ/
/θ s x/
/r/

/i ɯ u/
/ɑ/

/p b t̪ d̪ t̠ d̠ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ/ p b th dh t d ty dy k g rk rg x /β ð s ʃ ʁ ʕ/ v z s j r h /j ɰ/ y w /m n̪ n̠ ɲ ŋ ɴ/ m nh n ny ng rn /l/ l /i ɯ u/ i ɨ u /e ɤ o/ c e o /a ɑ/ a ɑ Next (bolded consonants only intervocalically) /p t ts k ʔ/ /pː tː tːs kː ʔ̞/ /bpʰ dtʰ dsʰ gkʰ ʔ̞h/ /s h/ /sː/ /m n ŋ/ /pm t...

/p b t d k g/ p b t d k g /f v s z x ɣ/ f v s z j h /m n/ m n /l j w/ l y w /i u/ i u /e o/ e o /a/ a Next /p b t tʃ k kʷ ʔ/ /f θ ʃ x h/ /w ɾ j ʕ/ /n/ /i y e ø o æ ɑ/ Phonemic primary and secondary stress (secondary always follows, and tends to fall two syllables after, primary) /ˈbwyʃkʷɑʕɾ peˈbæʃkʷ...

/t͡s/ > /θ/ is attested as a sound change, but is /θ/ > /t͡s/ attested at all? (Perhaps via way of /θ/ > /t͡θ/?) Finnish apparently The Finnish example is weird because it supposes a 'duke of york' shift */ts/ → */θ/ → /ts/ which is questionable to say the least (and apparently it's been repeated b...

Hooray! I was hoping for a thread on this. Your samples looked juicy. Yorkish ( Eurcisc /ˈʏrcɪsc/) is an Insular North Germanic language spoken in Yorkrice (ie. across our Yorkshire and going partway south) and in pockets in Angland. It is closely related to its southern sibling Markish, I assume Ma...

Here's a grammar of Imonda. I haven't read it but it looks OK.

Sorry, it doesn’t meaning like this. The ASCII letters are a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j. k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y and z . ASCII letters often aliased as ANSI letters, that was usually used in English. [:P] /p t k/ <p t k> /ɸ β v s x ɣ χ h/ <f/ph b v s/th x g j h> /j/ <y> /m n/ <m...

Wow, that is quite a challenge /p t k/ <S C SC> /ɸ β v s x ɣ χ h/ <SS SIS SISS CC SSC CIC SISC SSIC> /j/ <ICI> /m n/ <SI CI> /ɾ/ <CCI> /r/ <CII> /l/ <CCII> /i u/<AII AAA /e o/ <AAI AA> /ə/ <AI> /a/ <A> Next: /t tʃ k kʷ ʔ/ /d dʒ g gʷ/ /θ ʃ x/ /n ŋ/ /r/ /i y ɯ u/ /e ɤ o/ /ɛ ɔ/ /a/

/b t tʼ d k kʼ kʷ kʷʼ ʡ ʔ/ <b t d dh k g kv gv c x> /s sʼ z x ɣ xʷ ɣʷ ħ ʕ h/ <s z zh x ğ xv ğv ħ ḫ h> /m n/ <m n> /ɹ l j w/ <r l y w> /i iː u uː/ <i î u û> /e eː o oː/ <e ê o ô> /ə əː/ <u̇ ů> /a aː ɒ ɒː/ <a â ȧ å> /ɒsʼo ʡanɣʷo zɒːlbeħ əkʷʼuɹiː/ Ȧzo canğvo zhålbeħ u̇gvurî Next /bʷ bʲ t t͡s t͡ʃ k/ /s ...

A cool sentence in Koasati showing how succinct polysynthesis can be, and also an interesting construction: Mikkosoolaapok toknaawa ban. /mikkosoːlaːpok toknaːwa ban/ mikko-si-o-ːli-aːpi-ok toknaːwa ban chief-DIM-be-DEDUC-almost-SS.FOC money want 'It is nothing more than you can expect from Little C...

Definiteness can be kinda marked through word order in Hungarian Péter olvas egy újságot peter read.3SG INDEF newspaper.ACC "Peter is reading a [specific] newspaper" vs. Péter újságot olvas peter newspaper.ACC read.3SG "Peter is newspaper-reading" (?) The idea is that – crossling...

Something a little bit silly – the phoneme inventory of Delaware singing:


/t tʃ k/
/n j w h/

/a e i o/ + length

/tʃ/ only occurs before /i/
/w/ does not occur before /o/.


I love how it forms a complete little inventory all of its own.

Take all of the following with a healthy grain of salt; I have no qualifications at all. And I've never written a complete reference grammar, but I've gotten about half-way through before. Does anyone have any advice about how to make a reference grammar of a conlang in the style of a real reference...

/p ɸ m w oː o/ <p f m w ó o>
/t ts s n ɾ ɛː ɛ/ <t z s n r é e>
/tɬ l/ <ł l>
/tʃ ʃ j iː i/ <c x y í i>
/k x/ <k j>
/kʷ xʷ w/ <kv xv w>
/χ/ <q>
/χʷ/ <qv>
/ʔ h aː a/ <7 h á a>


Next:
/p t k/
/s/
/w ɾ j/

/i a/
/eː oː aː/

/m~n/ m /p t~c~k ʔ/ p t~c k~ʔ~ɂ~Ɂ~ˀ~ʼ~ʻ~Ꞌ~ꞌ /v l~ɾ h~x/ v l~r h /a e i o u y/ a e i o u y /a aː ã ãː/ a aa an aan /p b t d t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g k͡p g͡b/ p b t d ţ ḑ c j k g p̃ gb /ɸ β s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ/ f v s z ş z̧ h ğ /m n ɲ ŋ ŋ͡m/ m n ń ṇ ñ /r j w/ r y w /i u/ i u /e ɛ̃ o ɔ̃/ e ę o ǫ /a ɑ̃/ a ą Next /tʰ...

/p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k g/ p b t d ṭ ḍ c j k g
/f v s z ʂ ʐ x ɣ/ f v s z ṣ ẓ x ğ
/m n ɳ ɲ ŋ/ m n ṇ ɲ ŋ
/l j w/ l j w
/r/ r

/i iː y yː ɯ ɯː u uː/ i í y ý ʌ ʌ́ u ú
/e eː o oː/ e é o ó
/a aː/ a á


Next

/t ts ɟ k/
/v s h/
̯/ɾ~n/

/i o a/
/í i/