Re: natlang stuff: vowelless words
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 19:46 |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Danny Wier wrote:
> Since I've been studying this, I'll mention something that might
> interest you, and one or more of you might have this in a conlang...
>
> Russian (and other Slavic languages) have a few words made up of one
> consonant and no vowel. These are all prepositions:
>
> _v_ "in; at; to"
> _k_ "to; toward" (with dative)
> _s_ "with, accompanied by" (with instrumental); "from" (with genitive)
>
Denden and related languages have a few of them, though
all of them could be analysed as having an implicit shwa.
_p_ copula
_t_ too (as in too much, not as in me too)
_d_ this
Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt