... IIRC, Pavel Iosad, the creator of this group, said that it was also fit to discuss Baltic languages, as well as more isolated languages like Albanian (has...
Rhodanic is a Greek-derived (specifically, Ionic dialect) language with Romance-inspired vowel shifts and Celtic-inspired lenition and nasalization. It is...
A while ago, I invented Sanskrit-based orthographies for Greek, Latin, and English. So here the Greeek is. Comments are welcome (especially in regard to...
Imperfect Augment + Root + Ending Augment: C > [E] + C [a] and [E] > [jE] [O] > [wO] [e] > [i] [2] > [y] Type I [O] + N [E] + S [E] + F [OvE] + N [EdE] + F [O]...
Hello people! I am getting married tomorrow (yes, tomorrow!). And what I have been able to avoid until now has to be done at last: I must leave you for a...
Hello, ... Szczyra vitaju! Mojy shchyri vitannya! :-) Congratulations! Be sure to bring some photos, and a Danish grammar! :-))))) Pavel -- Pavel Iosad...
(Apologies for the crossposting) I've been making some updates to my "Last Word in the dictionary" site (www.zolid.com/lastword) and have a few notable...
Hello, After some tinkering and playing around with my North Slavic conlang Vozgian, I've finally decided that it will have thirteen cases. First of all, there...
... which ... No, as far as I know. Each language has it own tradition. E.g. in Czech it is: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative,...
... True. Well, these are the "standard" cases. For Vozgian I have: nominative, genitive, dative, accustive, instrumental, locative. I decided to list the ...
"regis977" <regis977@...> ... AFAIK In European languages the traditional oder of cases is modelled on the old Latin grammars: Nom, Gen, Dat, Acc, Voc...
Hi! ... Icelandic seems to use Noc, Acc, Dat, Gen for that reason (Nom and Acc are very similar, especially concerning umlaut phenomena). **Henrik...
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I have experienced that in almost all the case-flectional IE languages some grammars have N(V)GDA(AblInstLoc) while some others (newer ones?) have N(V) ...
Hi there, I add too slight, but important, features to historical grammar of Nashica, into the part of phonetical changes. 1) geminate -tt- and -dt- extinction...
... Interesting! Perhaps I could borrow this feature into Vozgian as well (after all, there must have been some sort of Proto-North-Slavic. ... So, this does...
Hello, ... Proto-North-Slavic. Hmph, we'll need to agree on the details! :) Skuodian of course doesn't miss the chance to have at least some geminates (I mean,...
... Does Skuodian appear in IB worlds? I would suggest to prepare some proto-north-slavonic substrate for IB, cos all other north slavonic languages...
... Unfortunately, no. Pavel has his own conhistory, that he believes doesn't fit in IB. A fact I can't cease to regret... ... Great idea! Because, despite all...
Hello, ... Actually, I'm thinking this might change. In the present conhistory, Skuodia is incorporated into Lithuania, but given the amount of Lithuanian...
... That's good news! ... Well, for the sake of convenience I have always supposed history of the RTC before the Partitions was similar to *here*. Mostly,...
... If you divide Serbian and Sanjaki into two languages, then you should add to this list Montenegrin, which is basically Serbosanjaki with the grammatical...
... Well, I don't really know the differences between Serbian and Sanjaki, except for the alphabet. I think I should have written "serbosanjaki" instead. ...
... than ... stage ... Ahem, IMHO, Slovakian and Slovenian are quite distant cousins... I do speak fluently Slovakian and do read quite a lot of things in ...
... In general I would say this is expected. L2 knowledge of a language, however good, tends to be more brittle than L1 knowledge in the face of closely...
... True. And by the way: Belarussian is essentially Polish spoken by a Russian suffering from a severe attack of akanie. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of...
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