Talk:Laz grammar

Classification of screeves according to oldness

I believe the "Old (common with Megrelian)" // "New (specific Laz)" tables should be separated, as this formatting could suggest that the 'old' screeves have been replaced with the 'new' ones, i.e. the 'present' screeve is now the 'imperfective inferential' screeve. I suggest showing the old screeve table first and below the new one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.124.189 (talk) 14:03, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dissimilative consonant deletion?

The examples cited for this process don't appear to me to support its full generality; is there a more circumscribed way it can be stated? All but one of the examples are loss of the first n in a final -nVn sequence (and I don't know enough about Laz to know whether this is morphophonological). The remaining one, deḳiḳe ~ deiḳe 'minute', seems extremely questionable -- it must be an (ultimate) loan from the Arabic دقيقة daqīqa, and I'd want to explain any funny alternations in it as behaviours of loan adaptation. How is the Arabic q borrowed otherwise? Variably as Laz q' (> zero intervocalically) and ḳ? 4pq1injbok (talk) 03:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, changed it. 4pq1injbok (talk) 17:12, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]