Re: a "natural language" ?
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 29, 2004, 9:17 |
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Geoff Horswood eskribiw:
> Turkish, especially after the complex vowel harmonies of Kazakh,
Yet Turkish has 4-variant suffixes. So both labial and palatal harmonies
reign. OTOH, Standard Uzbek being based on Karluk group of dialects,
completely lacks vowel harmony.
> Still, I guess the Ataturk language reform would do that- they did try to
> eliminate borrowings and regularise the language, so it _is_ partly
> artificial.
As any literary language.
-- Yitzik
still alive in Kiev, Ukraine
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