Re: CHAT: Introduction

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From: "Geoff Horswood" <>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Introduction

> > if I might ask, could I rely on your expertise when I do a Turkic-based
> >conlang?
>
> Please.  And that goes for anyone.
  okay...you mentioned one of the Turkic languages you know  has 12 personal
endings (apologies for not using the exact word...my memory fails at
times)...

 I can only think of this many...please let me know what others there are...
1)  I, me
2)  you (person being talked to)
3)  they
4)  he, she, it
5)  we(?)

and here's a few I had ideas for, for a con-Turkic lang:
6) you (person being addressed in the text, but isn't the person reading the
text -- ie, in part of the Babel Text, God talks to someone).
7) you (plural; ie "you [50 men] are nomads, I [one man] am not").
8)  we  (semi-inclusive....ie, "we are nomads, you are not").

 did those make sense?

>  Kazakh is the Turkic language I really
> *know*, with Uighur second, but Kyrgyz is about as close to Kazakh as to
> make it sound like "Kazakh with an accent", and Uzbek and Uighur are
> similarly close.