Sāmapriyavasuḣ
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Interested in descriptive, historical & contact linguistics.
I like Caucasian and Indo-Iranic languages, and dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas and along the Nile. rẓ́w fan.
I like Caucasian and Indo-Iranic languages, and dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas and along the Nile. rẓ́w fan.
It never occurred to me before that habba has this etymology!!
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It never occurred to me before that habba has this etymology!!
Not just those two, all IA languages east of the Kunar Valley & west of Kashmir share v- > b-.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Not just those two, all IA languages east of the Kunar Valley & west of Kashmir share v- > b-.
That’s true, it is redundant and I might change the labels.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
That’s true, it is redundant and I might change the labels.
She says “fantasy, rainbow”, but I see Wiktionary give Arabic /tˁɑjf/ as ‘apparition, spectrum’. (Sadly, I don’t know any Arabic.)
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
She says “fantasy, rainbow”, but I see Wiktionary give Arabic /tˁɑjf/ as ‘apparition, spectrum’. (Sadly, I don’t know any Arabic.)
Sorry, I think she may be Ingush, not Chechen.
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Sorry, I think she may be Ingush, not Chechen.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
... nasals, at least, people have shown a number of side-articulations, such as mild palatalization or velarization, reinforce the contrast(s), but it certainly needs more studying, especially in the other languages.
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
... nasals, at least, people have shown a number of side-articulations, such as mild palatalization or velarization, reinforce the contrast(s), but it certainly needs more studying, especially in the other languages.
... Kurumba varieties, Jaffna Tamil, etc. do keep their retroflexes fully retroflexed (tongue curled back with sub-apical articulation at the palate) to maintain contrast not just with the lamino-dental position, but also the apico-alveolar. There, things certainly get tricky. In Malayalam, for ...
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
... Kurumba varieties, Jaffna Tamil, etc. do keep their retroflexes fully retroflexed (tongue curled back with sub-apical articulation at the palate) to maintain contrast not just with the lamino-dental position, but also the apico-alveolar. There, things certainly get tricky. In Malayalam, for ...
... among stops is certainly not unique to Yidgha, but extends to pretty much all of the subcontinent. In fact, the idea first occurred to me in Bengali, which I speak natively. I am, however, less confident of extending the analysis to the South as Dravidian languages like Malayalam, Toda, ...
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
... among stops is certainly not unique to Yidgha, but extends to pretty much all of the subcontinent. In fact, the idea first occurred to me in Bengali, which I speak natively. I am, however, less confident of extending the analysis to the South as Dravidian languages like Malayalam, Toda, ...
... the same probably can be said of “retroflexion”. Besides, that is how the sibilants of Basque are analyzed, and (in my opinion) the parallel contrast for stops in Dinka, Nuer and some other East African languages is pretty much analogous.
This perceptory contrast between laminal v. apical ...
This perceptory contrast between laminal v. apical ...
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
... the same probably can be said of “retroflexion”. Besides, that is how the sibilants of Basque are analyzed, and (in my opinion) the parallel contrast for stops in Dinka, Nuer and some other East African languages is pretty much analogous.
This perceptory contrast between laminal v. apical ...
This perceptory contrast between laminal v. apical ...
Thank you for your thoughts on this. For the most part, I don’t think this has any major consequences for analysis, mainly a relabeling that it true to perceptory phonetics of speakers.
As for whether laminal and apical can be called “places of articulation”, I think they are not quite, but ...
As for whether laminal and apical can be called “places of articulation”, I think they are not quite, but ...
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thank you for your thoughts on this. For the most part, I don’t think this has any major consequences for analysis, mainly a relabeling that it true to perceptory phonetics of speakers.
As for whether laminal and apical can be called “places of articulation”, I think they are not quite, but ...
As for whether laminal and apical can be called “places of articulation”, I think they are not quite, but ...
Thank you! Love dialectology no matter which language it is about!!
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thank you! Love dialectology no matter which language it is about!!
Haha, “big data” had its time!
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Haha, “big data” had its time!
Typo, the first дӕ /dɐ/ should be ды /dɘ/. (Second one is дӕ /dɐ/ — the 2SG copula.)
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Your question made me realize I’ve been typoing the ‘thou’ word. It’s
Уӕд ды Ирон нӕ дӕ!
where ды is indeed from *tuH(-om), but with irregular voicing of the initial (cf. more conservative in Digoron ду).
Уӕд ды Ирон нӕ дӕ!
where ды is indeed from *tuH(-om), but with irregular voicing of the initial (cf. more conservative in Digoron ду).
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Typo, the first дӕ /dɐ/ should be ды /dɘ/. (Second one is дӕ /dɐ/ — the 2SG copula.)
bsky.app/profile/avza...
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Your question made me realize I’ve been typoing the ‘thou’ word. It’s
Уӕд ды Ирон нӕ дӕ!
where ды is indeed from *tuH(-om), but with irregular voicing of the initial (cf. more conservative in Digoron ду).
Уӕд ды Ирон нӕ дӕ!
where ды is indeed from *tuH(-om), but with irregular voicing of the initial (cf. more conservative in Digoron ду).
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Your question made me realize I’ve been typoing the ‘thou’ word. It’s
Уӕд ды Ирон нӕ дӕ!
where ды is indeed from *tuH(-om), but with irregular voicing of the initial (cf. more conservative in Digoron ду).
Уӕд ды Ирон нӕ дӕ!
where ды is indeed from *tuH(-om), but with irregular voicing of the initial (cf. more conservative in Digoron ду).
I’m not saying it’s bad or good, just funny.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I’m not saying it’s bad or good, just funny.