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Ossicone wrote:Another comic. Possibly dirty.

http://comic.ossicone.com/browser-history/

Loved it!

Just dropping by to deliver some exercises and to tell you that these lessons rock. I am eagerly awaiting the next lesson. In the meantime I will be sure to study kanji/vocabulary and really make them stick, because I had to run back and forth between the various vocabulary lists for a few words I h...

The LLL is awful at phonological realism so here's an attempt at it. Presumably would be set somewhere in Western Europe. /(p) b t d k g kʷ w/ <(p) b t d k g q w> /ts̻ s̻ ts̺ s̺/ <tz z ts s> /mː m nː n/ <m mh nn n> /lː l rː ɾ j h/ <l ll r rr j h> /a e o i u/ <a e o i u> /ai au ei eu oi ou/ <ai au e...

@Fleur: Very nice map. The eye was nice, too.
@Vampire: Awesome stuff as usual.

Here's a portrait study of a friend. Roughly 2 hours (between 1h30-2h30).

Well, that is a weird pronounciation. I'd say [¹foː.ɾə.nɐ] myself. In Jamtish we don't even have the word får , though; one'd say souðęn [²sɞɵː.ʋæn] (Old West Norse ack. sauðana ) instead. Well, normally I'd probably just say ["fo:rEn] or something like that. I'm not really sure where I got it...

Question: How did Icelandic develop the weird syllabic sonorants, and the plosives before them in some words? Example: ['hauːkʰadl̥] <hákarl>, [jœːkʏtl̥] <jökull>, etc. A ring below marks voicelesness, not syllabicness. [;)] Also, take a look at the Wikipedia article on pre-stopped consonants. It s...

Thanks. My Icelandic is basic at its best, so I'm still relying heavily on my knowledge of Swedish. It's probably gonna take a while for me to shake that off.

I'm afraid I have /e:/ in both det and med , although I do realize these two with an [E] in unstressed positions. I do have /E:/ in erkänna and words like that. I think that's something I got from my mother a few years ago, though, so before that I had /e:/. I could probably learn to use /E:/ in det...

I suppose you could write that as: i,e > Ø / {(C)i,e-}_ I think morphemes are usually written in curly brackets, so that could work, althogugh curly brackets do fill another function in rule notation, so just to be sure you might want to get a second, third or even fourth opinion. Another option wou...

Again, I don't really think there is a standard for marking morpheme boundaries in sound changes. Just use whatever works for you and define your usage so people can follow your notation. I might add that while short-hand notation for phonological processes/sound changes a nice, nothing really beats...

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Ceresz wrote:Are you perhaps referring to this thread?

No, that one was more of a tutorial or something. I searched it among the sticked ones, but alas none of them was it. IIRC it also had the terms of glossing explained.

There's a sticky on glossing rules in Translations, but that's about it.

Are you perhaps referring to this thread?

In a sound change, such as a > e / #VC_[+whatever] # marks word boundary, but what about morpheme boundary and others? This site uses + for morphemes and o for syllables, but I've seen $ as well as a greek s used for syllables. I suppose you could use whatever you feel like (maybe a greek lowercase...

Í dag horfði ég á Black Books og núna vil ég hafa sígarettur og reyðvín.
Today I watched Black Books and now I want cigarettes and red wine.

Fanael wrote:But doesn't Wichita have /k_w/ and /?/ too?

Oh yeah, sorry. For some reason I read your post as lacking /p/ being the unique part rather than only having two plosives. My bad. I can't think of a language with only two plosives. I'll try to do some digging.

I made a language that, in practice, has two stops. Really, two stops. Just /t/ and /k/. Don't all natural languages have at least three? I've seen quite a few languages with only /t/ and /k/. I can't think of an example at the top of my head, but either eay it happens. So I'd change that last stat...

About Kent, I know. What I know that they spell-pronouce, I avoid it. That's actually a reason why my teacher avoided Kent, even though he likes their music much. I have one song from them, and their spelling pronunciation is annoying. The spelling pronunciation doesn't really bother me that much. ...

I'm not sure how stable it would be, but I see no problem with it. I mean, it's bound to change eventually, given enough time, but I wouldn't classify it as unstable, if that's what you're asking.

Wiktionary has lots of stuff. Indeed. You can also use this . It includes links to the Icelandic Wiktionary as well, so that's nice. Oh, and this might also be of interest to people. Just search for a word and it'll give you the declension/conjugation. I guess, if anything, it's a nice reference. J...

Ossicone wrote:But don't ask him because he'll teach you all the bad things!

Yeah, probably...

Just last night I looked up the etymology of kuk, for whatever reason, and learned that gök (common cuckoo), is apparently related to kuk and is another way of saying... well, kuk. Spread the word!