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* [[Turkic words in Yiddish]] - Beyond kabaks and kavanes | * [[Turkic words in Yiddish]] - Beyond kabaks and kavanes | ||
* [[Relations to Turkic]] Turkic words which are similar to words in other language groups | * [[Relations to Turkic]] - Turkic words which are similar to words in other language groups | ||
* [[Turkic sound changes]] - attempts to reconstruct Turkic | |||
* [[Changes to Turkic]] - Potential sound changes connecting some Turkic words with other languages | * [[Changes to Turkic]] - Potential sound changes connecting some Turkic words with other languages | ||
=== other === | === other === | ||
* Exclusive coverage of [[musings from Kazakhstan]] | * Exclusive coverage of [[musings from Kazakhstan]] | ||
Revision as of 02:32, 8 May 2007
This is just data I gather for fun. Better thought-out discussions on some of these themes and others may be found on the Topics page.
English
- English Syntactic Musings - Interesting syntactic things in English
- English Quotatives - Collection of quotatives in English
- JNW's English - Jonathan North Washington's idiosyncracies in the way he speaks English
- ABraver's English - Jonathan doesn't like the way I speak
- Pronunciations - Dialectical differences in people other than JNW
- Æ - the vowel I call /Æ/
- Proto English Vowels - some comparative data, aiming at reconstructing a proto-Modern-English vowel system
- Australian English hiatus - /r/, /j/, /w/
Turkic
generative stuff
- Kypchak rounding harmony - needs work, ugh.
- Kazakh Syntax Topics
- Turkic Sonority Constraints - needs work, ugh.
comparative stuff
- Turkic words in Yiddish - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
- Relations to Turkic - Turkic words which are similar to words in other language groups
- Turkic sound changes - attempts to reconstruct Turkic
- Changes to Turkic - Potential sound changes connecting some Turkic words with other languages
other
- Exclusive coverage of musings from Kazakhstan
- Kazakh pages - more Kazakh topics
- Why Turkic languages are awesome =)
Yiddish
- The Weirdnesses of Yiddish Indirect Questions
- Yiddish noun classes
- Is Yiddish an Eastern Germanic language?
- Turkic words in Yiddish - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
Romance
- Faux Genders - The discrepencies between Romance-language cognates' genders
- Gender of nouns in Spanish - Rules in Spanish for noun gender
Misc
- Kabaks and Kharbuzes - Several words for squashes and pumpkins and melons and watermelons in many of the world's languages are similar. Take a look.
- Random musings about potential relations
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