Re: Nyenya'a

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, laokou wrote:

> From: "Frank George Valoczy"
>
> > Well here is a little bit of rather premilinary information on Nyenya'a,
>
> > Nyenya'a has classifiers, like Japanese:
>
> > paiks: [soku]
>
> I assume a typo, but "k" and "r" are at opposite ends of the keyboard. Is
> this "pairs"?
>
Yes, it's pairs. How I managed fingeracrobatics like that I don't know...

> > Verbs
>
> > This is a lot like Japanese:
> >
> >                                    to go           to be
>
> > Passive: -rE-            minarEdEma      orEdEma
> > Reflexive: -wa?a          minawa?a        owa?a
>
> Are these hypothetical forms just to fill in the paradigm? How would one
> translate passive and reflexive forms of intransitive verbs like these?
Hm. I sat here for five minutes trying to figure out if that's possible,
but it isn't. Of course, these are hypothetical, I just forgot to put the
* in front.

---frank