Thread:User talk:Fenakhay/Makasar

Hi Fenakhay, thank you for guidingly watching over my novice efforts! One answer, one question and one remark:
 * A: The prenasalized letters ᨃ /ŋka/, ᨇ /mpa/, ᨋ /nra/ ᨏ /ɲca/ are only used in Bugis, but not in Makasar. So you spell /lunraʔ/ ᨒᨘᨋ in Bugis but ᨒᨘᨑ  in Makasar. The reason for this is that the Bugis prenasalized obstruents (historcally *ŋg, *mb, *nd, *ɲɟ) can also appear in absolute initial position in Bugis, and the nasal was thus "felt" as part of the following syllable, or in phonemic words, historically, these clusters were single segments in early Bugis (e.g. /lu.ⁿdaʔ/ in the example above). With the fortition of the stop in these clusters (except in /nr/), and the introduction of /mb/, /nd/, /ɲɟ/, /ŋg/ in recent loans, the single segment analysis is synchronically not applicable anymore (/lun.raʔ/), but the spelling convention remains. OTOH, Makasar never had initial NC-clusters, so syllabification was and is /CV(C).CV(C)/ in words with medial clusters.
 * Q: How can I suppress per default the display of the links in the head of composite entries, such as ? I find them visually distracting and unnecessary, since I also parse the phrase in the etymology section.
 * R: The semitransitive form of transitive verbs is not derivational, but part of the inflection and should IMO appear as part of the head; pretty much like tense forms of the English verb which are emulated by the template en-verb. The formational prefixes are aN- (nasal replacement), ang- and a'-, the choice of which is lexical. I have added them manually; they could also be emulated per the morphological and sandhi rules of Makasar, but I am too much of a dummy to alter the template myself for this purpose.