Re: Polysynthetic nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 4, 2004, 3:24 |
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Amanda Babcock wrote:
> The blurb for this book on Amazon makes the language sound like something
> which, if it didn't exist, we'd have to invent. The speakers traditionally
> marry outside their language (a new idea on me), and are therefore likely
> to speak 5 or 6 languages each. Furthermore, they have imported grammatical
> features from other languages. Talk about a conlanger's carte blanche...
Well, from what I understand, by now the languages have influenced each
other so much that they're almost identical semantically, syntactically,
and phonetically, differing only in vocabulary (which it is taboo to
borrow)