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Re: Ethnologue

From:Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>
Date:Friday, February 7, 2003, 22:01
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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Ethnologue


> But what shocked me was when they claimed that Esperanto had a dative
suffix
> in -al, and that it had a genitive!! I really wonder who did this review, > because it's certainly not done very seriously (on the other hand, the > demographics are OK).
Esperanto has a genitive indeed, but only for 5 words: - ies, genitive of iu; - kies, genitive of kiu; - ties, genitive of tiu; - ĉies, genitive of ĉiu; - nenies, genitive of neniu. Err... Isn't "Zamenhofa" the genitive of "Zamenhof"? "La Zamenhofa lingvouzo" is the same than "La lingvouzo DE Zamenhof". -- JoFo jfcolson (a) belgacom.net