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Re: MADJAL New corpus and some questions

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Saturday, July 3, 2004, 4:43
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From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>
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Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: MADJAL New corpus and some questions


> 268 entries in the Corpus now. > http://fiziwig.com/corpus.html > > Nobody has yet discovered how plurals are formed in > Madjal, or questions either.
Fadjo mem Jan khi pulam. Temin mem Marja khi shokhasta. Temin im khi pulam. Marja em temin im khi shokhasta.
> For example, given the statement: > > Fadjo em Jan khi pulam. = John ignited the torch. > Scholars of Madjal have yet to discover how the > coresponding question is written: Did John ignite the > torch?
Fadjo em Jan khi pulam pesh?
> And how is "Selam aki mwana ta'ha" turned into a > question?
Aki mwana ta'ha selam em pesh? Sally

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