Re: Languages without verbs

Sylvia Sotomayor's Kēlen was the first to come to my mind:
http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php

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James W.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:55:22 +0100, "Fredrik Ekman"
<ekman@...> said:
> I use conlangs in grammar education for primary school kids. Some of the
> more advanced pupils create their own languages.
>
> One of them has decided that he wants to make a language with no verbs.
> He
> intends to use suffixes on subjects together with adverbs for the
> functions that verbs normally serve in a language.
>
> I suppose that verbless (sort of) conlangs have been attempted before,
> and
> I would like to hear some ideas of potential weaknesses and difficulties
> with such an approach.
>
>   Fredrik