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Re: Karnnugaan isn't working

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 13:27
Hi!

Geoff Horswood writes:
> It started out as such a great evil conlang idea, but > it's so difficut to write anything in Karnuugaan that > I'm really tempted to give up.
There are only very few texts in Qþyn|gài for the same reason. Also, the structure seems similar (roots + affixes). Did you have a look at Inuit-Aleut languages? When I studied West-Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), I found it wasn't too different. I am not sure what your word formation rules allow, but if you have problems with nuances, it might help to simply lexicalise certain root+modifier sequences with a specialised meaning.
> I'm trying to do away with regular semantic classes. > Karnuugaan doesn't have nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. > It has Roots and Modifiers.
Very similar to Qþyn|gài: http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s7/ **Henrik