Re: Ethnologue
| From: | Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 7, 2003, 21:55 |
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----- Original Message -----
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;
- cies, genitive of ciu;
- nenies, genitive of neniu.
Err... Isn't "Zamenhofa" the genitive of "Zamenhof"? "La Zamenhofa
lingvouzo" is the same than "La lingvouzo DE Zamenhof".
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JoFo
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net
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