... No. U hav tu no the individewl wrds, just like in English (tho not as meny). ... That is helpfl, but not olways correct. 'Skeptical' is speld 'skeptisk'...
... that 'transparent' ... Than(g)ks... Its prob^bli mor komplikeytid dhan duch speling... duch speling iz in eni keys les komplikeytid dhan j^^rm^n speling......
... I forgot about stj. That's prunounsd like a ch olso (not like sj). ... Nevr nu this. (In fact, I stil do'nt. I do'nt no wot u'r toking about hir. Sj is'nt...
... Man, du I make mistakes. Aftr thinking it ovr, saying difrent wrds tu myself, and finely verifying with my Swedish wife, I see I'm rong hir. Stj is...
/W/ has nothing to do with /w/, really - well, it's alsop labial, but it's a fricative and insofar closer to spanish j or english sh." down in yr throat" -...
... I cant reely think ov eny. Cood it be zhwh? (If it riplased the sh sound, I ges I'd stil hav tu sho it like that.) ... U ar a lingwist olrite. I use the Q...
... sound, I ... hm, yeah... so there's a h in it... i always perceived it as hw or - to be more exact - [çw] - [ç] is the German ich-Laut (palatal!) ... ...
I remember seeing something from Michael about how long it takes Hebrew to learn to read without diacritics. Could someone tell me the answer? Thanks Chuck...
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... I think u'r rite. Presteez is a pourfl influens. But I reely think tu, that thair had tu be smthing els. (Wy has'nt Basque died out?) Like wot cosd the ...
Gus and Nikki, Sorry, but I've been struggling to get my new computer into working order. Sometimes I have email capability and sometimes I don't. Anyway, I...
... I agree tu that, as I pointd out erlier. ... I do'nt agree tho this is wot happend in Ireland. The Normans conqrd it in the 1200s, but the English nevr...
wel, ie thingk dhat wee hav tue teyk KUVERT PREST'EEZH intue e'kount, tue. dhe valyuez mey not bee dhe seym for difrent klaasiz etc. dhat wie loaer klaas...
ie thingk its e mater ov pres'teezh, az ie sed - hou'ever, "WUN PERSENZ LANGGWIJ WIDH PRES'TEEZH MEY BEE E'NUDHER PERSENZ PRES'TEEZH- LES LANGGWIJ". baask...
... I did'nt no Welsh was band. (It's no mor.) I nu Basque was band. Franco tryd tu stop it being used. Maybe that's the reel reesn sm ov thees smol langwijs ...
Gus, After Cromwell's invasion, the English started to build great estates, throughout Ireland. Of course these were wealthy individuals (who were friends and...
... I went thair. Thanks. It was very informativ. ... U reely must hav gon thru a lot tu find this. I did'nt no thair wr so meny Basques or peepl abel tu speek...
Gus, I don't know how many Ainu speakers there are now, but it is probably safe to say that their numbers are minimal, and that the language is, practically...
Hello! I¹m new to saundspel and first i just want to say hi! Secondly, what is Ainu  is it completely different from Japanese? Thirdly, why do the French...
wel, meybee peepl aar goaing tue stop yuezing dher langgwij if its band - Provençal awl'redi died out in eni keys. ie thingk dhat french sentrelist polisi woz...
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> is Ainu – is it completely different from Japanese?
yes it is - it's not related (at least according to many scholars)...
Thirdly, why do the
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Thanks for your help amgiad. About the vowel cock-up: i know you said that it was probably the upper and middle classes who started to say things differently,...
... said that ... things ... know ... names even at ... well, in middle english the name of the letter a was /a:/, pretty much like in german - it sounds...
... yep, well, to be honest I wasn't a hundred percent sure (cause i'm not a native speaker) - and my dictionary sez that there are - in fact - two possible...
... As that 'minimal' did'nt tel me that much, I lookd Ainu up in Google and found a slu ov sites. It trns out that thair's between 17-24,000 peepl stil using ...
... I think rilijn's stil mor importnt. Look at the trubls we hav around the wrld bicos ov it. Pakistan vs India, Israel vs the Palestinians, Serbs vs...
There is an important issue involved. It seems that the Ainus were the first humans to arrive on this continent during the last ice age. But you won't find any...
