Henry_Wong

香港人 Hoeng1 Gong2 jan4 // Conlanger // 渠/其 // East Asian linguist with a penchant to wander afield

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@32nd_guessing Too much Irish coffee I fear…

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

Was #OldChinese pharyngealisation a Sinitic internal innovation? Join me in this exploration where I propose it is not and instead may find a cognate in #Tangut uvularisation

https://t.co/d8Zw1fXY3i

[J Pystynen ✽🫐 🗒☕⌘🚯🧦ᴤ @JLingPystynen]

A new big milestone in classification of the languages of Africa: a lengthy study from Pozdniakov & Vydrin on demonstrating the relatedness of Mande and Bantu. Thus, despite its well known lack of noun classes, Mande indeed belongs in Niger-Congo.
https://t.co/iuUw8xPcLe

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@avzaagzonunaada Though as Marten correctly notes, many of those properties are also found in languages which are generally treated as having a “regular” plural, eg Romance

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@avzaagzonunaada Furthermore, he also notes that therr are cases where the plural class is not analysable as the singular + a [+plural] feature as conjoined nouns of the same noun class are sometimes forbidden from taking that noun class’s corresponding plural class concord

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@Creepertrainz @asubparusername Bc that /v/ < OIr ṽ was a lenited *m

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@hekwoys It can always be so much worse (*side-eyes Hindustani for turning their simple present into a future subjunctive)

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@ClassFirst2 @PhiloCrocodile In a syntactically ergative language you might even get “I love him but died” with “him” doing the dying 😆

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

Taishanese then underwent a backing of the apical vowel ɿ /z̩/ into u, which we can also find with 思 above: lhu1 in Taishanese

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

This is a regular sound change

In Coastal Yue, MC’s TSY- and TSR- series all become *Tɕ **except** in the specific condition of *TSRI-type syllables where instead they become *Tsɿ

[Sameer ud Dowla Khan | সামীরুদ্দৌলা খান @SameerudDowla]

@Troobninge @gwoyeuromatzyh @cobbaltt @aaronjlee there are only two exceptions i've found so far, both where LMC ʂ(ɦ) > TS ɬ where we would expect s.

the exceptions are:
師 (srij /ʂij/ > lhu1) 'teacher, master'
事 (dzriH /ʂɦî/ > lhu5) 'thing, task'

not sure what's up with those but otherwise the correspondence holds!

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

This distinction is lost in Cantonese but if we compare for example Nanning Baihua, a variety closely related to Cantonese:

思 sɿ55 < si
市 ʃi24 < dzyiX
師 sɿ55 < srij

Noting that MC ie, ij, i all merge into /*i/ in “Common Dialectal Chinese”

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@avzaagzonunaada @The_Equationist Dark woke is to be referring to the Delhi dialect of Sanskrit the Parisian dialect of Latin

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@bryancsk Cantonese songwriters generally write lyrics with tone contours that match their melodies to preserve the functional load of tones

[David Porter @huwaliyasuntob]

This isn't bad because it's worse than things various Western states have done, it's bad because it is remarkably similar to policies like Canada's residential schools that most decent people now recognize as moral abominations.

[David Porter @huwaliyasuntob]

In any case, the recent discussion of Tibetan language education has been driving me crazy, so here are some key points

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

@cobbaltt Enjoy :)

https://t.co/kDBgmOzGwS

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

Chinese poetry, a small thread 🧵

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

“People all raise their children expecting (them) to be smart;
I was hindered my life by smarts;
(I) only hope that (my) child is stupid and rough;
(so that he can) become an official without trial or tribulation”

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

Chinese poetry, a small thread 🧵

[Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaltt]

@wong417 Interesting. How does that work?

[Henry_Wong @wong417]

people all / raise child / expect smart
I PASS / smart / hinder entire_life
only hope / child / stupid and rough
not.have disaster / not.have hardship / arrive official