Re: Translation relay

Frank George Valoczy sikayal:

> Baa?
>
> Now I'm confusedlying....
>
> someone set up us the bomb...
Undubitably.  After Elliot's computer blew up, I passed the Yivríndil on
to you, Frank, but then I found out he would still participate in the
Proto-Lang challenge, but wasn't quite sure if he was still in for the
translation relay. . . . and it's all quite confused.  Sooooo, I guess
Elliot is still getting Yivríndil, and Frank can throw that stuff away.

> 1) What is the order of the subject and object? and can "al" express
> both nom. and acc. like nouns can, or are there seperate forms?
Word order is SVO, and the pronouns do not change for subject and object.

> 2)You didn't include the translation of "sena" (as in senayala) and the
> translation of "ta" (and?)in the vocabulary list.
'Sena' means 'stance' or 'stand (noun)'.  'Ta' is indeed "and."

> 3)In what order do adjectives and nouns come in? For example is the
> phrase: "aperen hossil" or "hossil kavedon"
Adjectives always follow their nouns, and genitives follow adjectives if a
word is modified by both.

Hope that takes care of everything.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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