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Ich habe eine Frage: Im deutschen Wikipedia-Artikel zum Berliner Dialekt wird erwähnt, dass dort der Wegfall des Schwas in Infinitivendungen mit dem Entstehen eines "gutturalen" (gemeint ist wohl glottalen ) Stopps (gemeint ist wohl Plosiv ) einhergeht. Ich selbst komme aus der Nähe von H...

We have cognates from five related languages in random order. Not all cognates are shown. Determine the geneanalogical tree of the languages and reconstruct the missing cognates. Also derive the words for the protolanguage. -mavatɕɛ kosi tɛtɕɛ atɛla vahi karɛ hatɕi -kare laʔi ʃiro tʃeʔe atʃela vaj ...

cedh wrote:Received.

And done. I like this text ;)

The torch is on its way to Helios now. Have fun translating!

Received.

I'd like to participate too, using Buruya Nzaysa.

I have a question about syncretism and analogy in verbal agreement: In my latest project, a highly synthetic language which marks both subjects and objects on the verb (by means of prefixes that also encode past vs. non-past tense; these prefixes always end up in an unstressed word-initial syllable...

Visinoid wrote:Still no Latin translation. :C

I'll try.

Scrīptīs quibus contingendum est.

Ich sage normalerweise /nɪç/. Wenn ich sehr schnell rede, kommt manchmal auch ein noch weiter abgekürztes /nɪ/ vor, aber das ist eher selten (und ich könnte dir jetzt keine phonologische Umgebung dafür nennen, wahrscheinlich gibt es die auch nicht). Schreiben würde ich aber immer nicht , sogar im Ch...

Quote: [...] the first separate proto-form for the *ɡaiso group is actually *ɡʷaiso, [...] This one was particularly difficult. Everything seemed to break so nicely into just g-group and w-group... I'd never imagine an insular reserve of ɡʷ deep inside the g-zone :( It's actually quite simple: the ...

Did you mean something like the following? Yes, although not necessarily this detailed. Your subdivision of the *ɡʷaise group is almost completely correct, except that jɛsə belongs to the same group as ɡɛise and ɡɛsɛ , the first separate proto-form for the *ɡaiso group is actually *ɡʷaiso , and the...

The second word *ʐaːti is correct [tick], and the first one is very close - it's actually *ɣaːti . I think we've gotten as close as we're going to get. Why not give us the answer in a spoiler box? OK, here's a summary of the first and second level divisions. I'm still interested in seeing your guess...

I can't figure out what the proto word for red could be. Now that we know g_waikti is correct, we can use that to help us. I'm leaning toward *bVçti , but that first vowel... Many of the modern forms have a rounded vowel, so I'm wondering if it's something like *we or *œ, but then some forms also h...

Both of your proposals for the major divisions are pretty good. Brandrinn has even found the correct protoword already: it's indeed *gʷaikti [tick]. Well done! As for the subgroups: - Aszev's blue group is a valid genetic grouping [tick] (though not a first-level branch), but the protoword *ʐæːti is...

I hope people are still interested in this kind of game [;)] After playing this a few times, I thought I'd like to make one too... http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/8451/otoemiha.png This time, researchers have collected cognates all over NW South America. All of the above forms are related. It sho...

Blue clearly does not fit in with the other southern groups. The sibilant seems to be the result of some kind of palatalisation, or maybe even the reflex of the original nasal that the southern group provides evidence for. The blue group might be related to the Bright Green group to its north, but ...

There are ten coherent groups I can identify easily:¹ http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/7357/68histlingcedh1.png Some of these are obviously more closely related than others, so we'll have to group them in a second step. But let's begin with reconstructing protoforms for each of the above groups, s...

I think the problem with Cedh's analysis in the NW and SE is that it relies on pn > pm word finally... twice. It's not a very logical sound change. But that final m is difficult to explain in both of those families. It's easy if we insert an extra syllable, to make *tepimni:. But that's bad histori...

Sorry, I didn't read the additional rules before posting a fairly comprehensive solution. I'm hiding it now, about half an hour after I originally posted it, so others can still try figuring everything out themselves. As a contribution to that, I suggest that the last common ancestor of all the wor...

There are five subgroups, which I name after their distinctive sounds: "V": two dialects on Sakhalin ( vwò, əvò ) "Ž": six dialects on Hokkaido ( ʃáo, ʒáwo, ʒɑ́wo, ʒɐwò, dʒáwə, tʃáʊ ) "L": four dialects on the Kuril Islands ( ɛ́ːl, áɪl, jál, jálo ) "D": nine d...

:usa: The Cheyennes, like other Indians, do not speak to each other when they are away from the camp. If a man leaves the village and sits or stands by himself on the top of a hill, it is a sign that he wants to be alone, perhaps to meditate, perhaps to pray. No one speaks to him or goes near him. :...