I was going through my Carrajena word lists and found _jumbra_ meaning carpet, which I created for one of the weekly vocabulary exercizes way back when. I ...
... Interesting. Muddies the waters even further. ... Egad! Don't start giving me Farsi! Though it is interesting that Farsi and Turkish share the word. But...
... Thanks Steg. I couldn't get so lucky as to ask a question with one easy answer, could I. Why'd I have to notice that "little" error. Now I have NO idea ...
... Hardly surprising, as Turkish used to be shot through with Persian loans, and is still shot through with Arabic loans, many of which were shared with...
... "Overseas" doesn't count? In Hebrew there's Ha'aretz ('the land') and Hhutz La'aretz ('out of the land'). -Stephen (Steg) "Presumably, Sauron gave up...
... It's only in relatively recent times that foreigners all lived overseas (from the perspective of an anglophone in England). ... The latter sounds...
... Don't be so suspicious! ;-) The variant Hhutza La'aretz, with extra /a/, is attested at least as far back as the Mishna (first published codification of...
... Well, I just might keep that as a verb -- camari - to conceal, but I think it is right out for carpet. I'm gonna derive something from zarbiyya > zarrvija...
Adam wrote: <<(ducks and covers for the duration of David's _In Defense of Homonymes, or why only the foolishe man desireth not to compound them at every...
... Indeed. I've had several such late dawnings. One of which resulted in the fact that Carrajena *should* be spelled Carrajina, but I decided to keep it as...
After a while I decided to send this brief info about my new project to W.A.Conlangs too in a slightly modified mode, at least to create some traffic here. ...
Ok, guys. I hate to do it. But I hate spammers even more. Thus, these groups will follow the rules of all other conlang workshops. That means: from now on,...
... "zhe ... I don't think so. But there will be tons of /Z/ in Slavic loans. ... I'm still hesitating. It could have been a good idea, unless it had been ...
... Yes, I didn't think of that! ... [snip] ... Then rather Jj by itself. I think the problem is that the shape җ suggests /dZ/ to me. IMHO ӝ would more...
... In my Cyrillic transliteration of Rokbeigalmki, i use Ж for _zh_, /Z/ that comes from /z/, and Җ for _jh_, /Z/ that comes from /dZ/. For example, two...
Hi ppl. I'm still alive, but my comp, unfortunately, not yet. I'm trying to revive it, hoping to succeed soon. When I do it, I'll surely reply to your comments...
Heyall, I just found this webpage about Hugh Schonfield's revised script for Hebrew. Check it out :) http://www.geocities.com/snortar/schonfield.html -Stephen...
On Friday, July 30, Melroch 'Aestan wrote: <<<<<< ... Yes, I didn't think of that! ... Hmm. Tons may be exageration. For now I confound only _жарт_ 'joke'...
Isaac A. Penzev wrote: [snip] [representatiom of /z\/ ... Seen like this it actually looks a bit dyslectic. Does Serbian look like that to a Russian speaker...
... For and average reader - yes. Serbian with j, Ukrainian with i and i. But I've seen dozens of Cyrillic-based orthographies in my life, some of them looked...
Hi, all -- Just joined recently, and am looking forward to eavesdropping here. (Great to see so many familiar names from the old days on CONLANG!) I'm...
... Saw bol da jakshy gruppaa keldin! (Hello and welcome to the group!) ... Well, Tungusic is a kind of grey area between EACon and WACon, so it will definetly...
... Yes, since Persia in IB is predominantly Zoroastrian. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! ...
I'm not very good at presenting things, so I decided to expose to the wider public just my working notes for the recents project, somehow chaotic, but still...
... Hello again, and thanks for the welcome over here, too! ... OK, that's good to know :) I'll try to avoid cross-posting, though; that can be irritating. ...
... Well, stepping away from pure historical naturalism and giving way to some fantasy, one may try to use Arabic, Hebrew, Geez or Amharic vocalization ...
I've updated my Kuman Tyli web page. http://isaacp.narod.ru/kuman/main.htm It is still very raw, rather showing the very process of constructing. Any advices,...
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