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Well I just used the same word list that Artaxes used, and because it's their project I'm happy to let them pick the roots. Maybe our con people picked up a few Caucasian words on the way to the Arabian Peninsula or Northern Africa. I don't remember what I voted for the influence, but I'm happy to v...

I'm using <sh> to make it look even less like German [:D] 1. He is a boy. Er ish as buab. 2. The girl is a child. Ds maitli ish as kind. 3. A boy eats the apple. Dr buab esst dr öpfel. 4. The man steals the ice-cream. Dr maa stelt ds glace. 5. They see the girl. Si gseen ds maitli. 6. The woman and...

kanejam, I think Artaxes meant simplifying only /t+s/ and /d+s/ with compensatory lengthening in rule 42, like Latin pēs from PIE * ped-s . Ah, that might make sense. Just to nitpick, you forgot to remove the h in e/a/_h₂ e/o/_h₃ Really nice work, though! I did too, not that it matters because ever...

Sorry, the only thing I can find is the same teaching guide. If I'm not mistaken, Tongan is the nearest relative and there should be plenty of resources for that. You might be able to find more intorductory stuff in more general books on the Tongic or Polynesian languages as a whole. Can I ask why y...

So I had a go at redoing the sca2 sound changes, just to get them a bit neater than Artaxes'. I was only somewhat successful, but I think I caught a few mistakes, and also added in the latest round of voting. Most of the differences are simply orthographic (/ʋ ɛ ɪ ɾ/ → <v e i r>), but the biggest di...

Oh, crap, that is pretty ambiguous, isn't it? Sorry! [>_<] I meant it to be asking how far we want to go with sound changes before "going back" and working on morphosyntax and semantics and such. Ah, well in that case I think this is a perfect time to start on morphosyntactic changes. We ...

76) a 77) wait a minute, is this question asking where the sound changes we have so far have taken us? If so I don't think we're much past 1500BCE. Or is the question asking how far we should keep going? In that case I vote 0CE. Of course we'll need to take Morphosyntactic changes into account as we...

I would love to see some more! It all looks very interesting and the few forms you have shown so far are all very tantalising.

The one thing I'll request is a short discussion of common feautures in other Swiss dialects, especially where your own differs from the 'norm'.

74. a
75. b

Great work shimo

71. b
72. b
73. c and d, maybe we could even end up with a protolang c. 0AD then derive a whole family. Who knows what Artaxes had in mind, although I suspect option c judging by their own langs.

65. a
66. c - h1disappears, h2 → h (vel sim)
67. a
68. a
69. a (maybe merges with laryngeal?)
70. d

56. a

59. a
60. a
61. a
62. b
63. c
64. b

49. e
50. b
51. b
52. a
53. a
54. a
55. b
56. a
57. b
58. a

Outside influence: D.

Tone: where would tone come from? Pitch accent would definitely be possible.

For anyone who might happen to be interested, I just put De Chorographeiad up at Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/shop/wulf-ruodbrece/the-chorography/ebook/product-22234762.html Gadzooks, 694 pages?? That is certainly an accomplishment!! I have downloaded it just now, and I will peruse it sometime in the ...

Fine, but ... I didn't vote ! Uh, I think gestaltist was voting rather than pointing out the winning votes, though I might have misunderstood his post or your reply. 41. a 42. b 43. a 44. g 45. b 46. d (why no option for no lenition or lenition of only voiced/voiceless stops? also why not ts → s?) ...

24. Whatevs
33. b
34. c
35. a
36. a
37. b
38. b
39. b
40. a

21. b
24. a
26. b
28. a
29. d
30. a
31. b
32. a

I must say Wenedyk fucks with my Polish mind. When I see a text in Wenedyk, my mind expects to understand it, and goes into a „WTF mode“ when it doesn’t work. The same thing happens when I hear Dutch, especially the varieties that are light on the uvular fricatives. I don't get it in writing becaus...

21. b
22. c - I request a vote on whether /l r/ also cause depalatalisation (ḱl ǵl ḱr ǵr → kl gl kr gr)
23. c
24. Nomination: d) lose diphthongal element: VːV̯ → Vː
25. b