Re: Languages without verbs

> Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> A common thing is to remove *most* verbs, often leaving only one
> verb. Japanese is famous for borrowing verbs as nouns and
> using 'suru' (to do) to make it a verb in Japanese.  And Basque,
> IIRC, only has very few verbs, in the order of five.
What are those five verbs?  I'm trying to think what are the verbs
that would be included in this minimalist list of verbs.

I'm thinking of "do," "be," "move."  I guess not "be."

Charlie

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