Re: more Maggel banter (wasRe: Conlang Typology Survey)
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 17:35 |
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>As for the edible/inedible distinction, I remember reading somewhere a
>while ago that some languages with noun classes had this distinction. But I
>don't think it applied to human beings :)) .
One of the dialects descended from Mayan in South America has the edible vs.
inedible distinction for nonhuman, but I don't remember which.
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