Re: Spoken Thoughts ( My second, better formed, non crappy Language)

On 29 Dec, Patrick Dunn wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
>
>> From a different direction, the articles could be:
>>
>> 1) independant words (eg. English)
>> 2) suffixes (eg. Scandanavian langs)
>> 3) prefixes (I can't think of my examples, but I've seen them)
>
>Hebrew.
    Only the definite article ("the"). Hebrew does not have
an indefinite article ("a"). If you want to emphacize that it was
one thing, you have to use the number "one".

    In my conlang, rtemmu, the articles are suffixed to the number
which precedes the word for something countable. If the word
signifies something of the "mass" type, no article is used.
For example:

 kehs ykal  = [kehs: the ykal is objectively changing at a "normal" rate]
                        water (as a "mass" , uncountable)
tikuh-luh kehs ykal = "one-the "kehs" water",  ie "the water" (but water
                                    considered as countable; more like "the
[unit of] water")
wtik-uh kehs ykal = "two-a "kehs" water", ie  "a double [unit of] water"

    In addition to the indefinite and definite articles, "-uh" and "-luh",
rtemmu
also has an "indeterminant" article, "-nuh", which is used for talking about
something of which one instance of it is definitely known, but whether the
instance is unique or not is not known.

Dan Sulani

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