Monthly Archives: June 2021

Just a quick tour of words for “cloud” this week. Muipidan has an archaic word uyk’udo [ˈʊj.kʼʊ.do] for “cloud”, but the usual classical word is ngek’üde [ˈᵑɡe.kʼʏ.də], literally “big wool”… Read more »

This week’s theme is reduplication. Muipidan uses partial reduplication to mark noun plurals (e.g. lilihmük’ide [ˈli.lɪˌm̥y.kʼɪ.də] “apples”, from lihmük’ide [ˈli.m̥ʏˌkʼi.də] “apple”), but nouns can also be fully reduplicated to indicate… Read more »

Last week was about counting things. What about if there’s nothing to count? The Nitherians had a good grasp on the nature of zero (sozmslo [soˈzm̩.ɬo], literally “they aren’t here”),… Read more »