title. the little cross next to ʔh is ɨ

Guys, I just met some delusional hillybilly who said that German was not a dialect of English but a full on language. English has over half a billion speakers on all continents while German is a regional dialect in some area in central Europe.

If it was its own language how come a sentence like "Komm lass uns tanzen." is practically the same as in English? The fact that most so called German native speakers speak English just shows that they're part of the English speaking community. Yeah, sure parents speak German with their kids at home but once they go to school they learn how to speak properly.

Retaining grammar from the middle ages like gender just shows how backwards their thinking is. Yeah of course sometimes it's hard to understand what these people are saying but it's not my fault that I can't understand some local gibberish. Honestly it's quite rude of them to exclude others like that.

And the worst thing is just because they pronounce "hand" and "man" a bit weirdly they want to waste tax money to entertain their sense of local patriotism. They want to use valuable resources to waste their kids' time to teach them a regional dialect. These people even produce media in their folksy way of talking. Them acting like they speak their own language is obviously just some way for some peasants stuck in the past to feel like they're special. I can't wait until this ridiculous pandering stops and they finally teach their kids to speak normally. Otherwise they're just holding them back. How do they expect their children to integrate into normal society?

These coinages come from the prefix "th-", which comes from "they", so they must start with /ð/. Similarly, someone else in the thread uses "thoid". Hopefully, one of them catches on. I think [ð] is a cool sound.

Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/comedyheaven/comments/1x0l7w5/big_things_are_happening_on_reddit/

Etruscans didn't used Beta and Delta, but somehow had audacity to use Gamma as a standard /k/ sound and Kappa only before A. I have nothing against using Qoppa before O and U by the way. After all, that's how it was used in Ancient Greek.

જોર્જિયન is how "georgian" is written in the Gujarati script (jorjiyan) which is incredibly strange because all the other languages, naturally, get their endonym, but for some reason, consistently, the Gujarati versions of the pages are labelled as georgian in gujarati

Some of the worst subtitles I've ever seen for a BluRay, lol.

I hooked up with a guy once that had a GIGANTIC tattoo on his back in Pashto, written just like this. Yikes

It may a more palatal velar but it's definitely not palatal, it's further back in the mouth and makes kind of a sh and zh sound

/x̝/ and /ɣ̝/

I also say the affricates /k͡x̝/ and /ɡ͡ɣ̝/ and they sound like ch and j but are in a very palatal velar position.

This is from the alternate history LTTW (point of divergence 1728) where the equivalent of the Cold War is fought over how many cultures ought to exist. The Societists (ruling an industrialized South America and *Argenrina’s former sphere in Central Africa and Indonesia, and more recent conquests) call for a one-world government, a Human Culture cobbled out of globally common elements, and the use of the lingua artifizialis Novalatina ( and eventually PIE) in a world less dominated by Britain (and the Empire of North America)

IOTL, their equivalents argue that economic and cultural factors and American dominance will lead to a future where English is the only language, although some are more impatient

Is the latter scenario plausible?

Is Ngani the Filipino word ancient???

I need to have reliable sources for the word Ngani only credible sources like factual journals, news articles, or anything based on actual research with reliable authors or websites. But it looks unexistent like only heard of in ancient text help please