Affixes and other things... (Was: Basque Article)

hmiller@io.com writes:
>I've done two languages (Deverrin and Sari) that were inspired in part by
>Esperanto, back in the early 80's when I was still in high school and any
>information about conlangs was hard to find. Both these languages have
>tables of correlatives that were similar in pattern to Esperanto, and they
>used negative prefixes instead of separate roots for antonyms. Sari even
>used -n for the accusative case. Deverrin, the later language, was less
>similar to Esperanto, and eventually evolved to be more like my Alzetjan
>Elvish language.

Well, i should have figured a few people would have done what i'm doing
:). Anyway, it actually makes sense to me for the affixes because i can
get a lot of words out of roots. I'm finding i can add more than one affix
into the roots now. For instance, the root <tul> has to do with selling
(tulobo - to sell). Tuleka means "store". The offspring of a store:
tulekona - franchise (or branch store) :). A group of these stores:
Tulekoneja - corporation :).  That's what i have right now. i can see this
heading towards very very long words (like tulekonejewa - CEO (boss of the
franchises / branch stores). Mostly i have been playing around.
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>The idea of using final vowels to distinguish parts of speech is one that
>I've borrowed in a number of languages or sketches, such as Jaghri and an
>early version of Eklektu.
I actually am doing this somewhat (such as the <a> ending to distinguish
nouns). But i did think of that before i read deeply into Esperanto (a
couple of years ago i toyed with the idea of using vowels to distinguish
parts of speech).





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