Abstract: The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other...
A serial comma (or Oxford comma) is an optional comma used before the last item in a list. For example, "bread, butter, and tax evasion" uses a serial comma, whereas "bread, butter and tax evasion" does not....
4. Philosophy of Language, Interpretation, and Translation...
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Basically the title. What's your favorite consonant sound as of late, and has it changed in the past?
Pretty much what the title says. What's a feature in your conlang that you find especially cool?
Recently, I've been playing around with tense, aspect, and mood in my conlang, Hip'alŭk' [çiˈɸalʊkʰ]. A lot of this will probably change completely as it has in the past, but here's what I currently have....
I find that translating this is a great way to come up with new bits of grammar & vocabulary when conlanging, so I decided to try translating the Lord's Prayer in my unnamed conlang. Came up with some fun stuff, such a "subjunctive" suffix to change the meaning of auxiliary verbs, a way to write first-person plural pronouns, and...
This magazine has existed for a while, but it's now under new moderation. Come over to share & discuss conlangs!...
While I haven't done much conlanging in a while, I figured it'd be fun to showcase a cool feature from my conlang. In this conlang, gerunds are used to make dependent clauses. The best way to demonstrate this is probably to show an example, starting with content (noun) clauses like indirect statements....
When I'm romanizing my conlangs, I tend to prefer using diacritics over digraphs—e.g., I'd rather write /ʃ/ as than . It gets rid of any possible ambiguity, and makes things a consistent one letter per phoneme. What do you guys think?
Linguist Marina Yaguello traces the myths, legends, and religious narratives that have shaped humanity's understanding of the origins of language.
“Despite numerous studies, many questions still remain as to the origin of Indo-European: where was the original Indo-European language spoken in prehistoric times? How long ago did this language group emerge? How did it spread across Eurasia?…...
Painted Rock is located on the Tule River Indian Reservation, above Porterville, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of central California. This site, also known as CA-TUL-19, is a rockshelter associated with a Native American Yokuts village. The site, located immediately adjacent to the Tule River, includes bedrock mortars, pitted...
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
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For any here who are both multilingual and also experience synesthesia/ideasthesia -- concepts such as numbers, days of the week, educational subjects, music, etc. being felt or experienced to have a specific color, taste, smell or whatnot -- is the color, etc. of that thing different depending on which language you're thinking...
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sharing it here because it mentioned SEA as another under-studied multilingual region, and we share the same issues:...
A Twitter user highlighted striking similarities between the Filipino, Indonesian and Malaysian languages in a viral TikTok video. The video showed three
This is an article I found about the frequency of apophony (母音交替) in nonce compound words as read by 616 students of Yamagata University. The nonce compounds with an >50% apophony rate were ｢船旗｣, ｢上所｣, ｢船猫｣, ｢雨風呂｣, and ｢稲蝉｣. ｢上所｣ and ｢雨風呂｣ were the nonce...
大家好, I started this magazine as a place to group content related to learning Chinese. It doesn't look like there are currently any other magazines/communities on kbin or Lemmy that deal exclusively with Chinese language topics so let's be the first! Please feel free to share any questions you might have and hopefully we...
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