Re: My language, montanian.

--- Joe wrote:
My languages's main distinguishing charachteristic is it's lack of
distinguishment between singular, plural and posessive. Therefore, lhp means I,
we, and our. rara means both brick, bricks and brick's etc.

Here is a basic vocabulary, I have only developed approximately 50 words. Here are 10 of them.

khira-to be
lutau-to do
pukagu-to go
lhk-he, she, they, their, his, hers
lhp-I, we, my, our, my
lhalhaa-only, God
ksulilh- city
matia- every preposition possible
lhulhu-this, that
mimu-to have

That's all if you have any questions, ask me.
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Two questions, for now: (1) How is "lh" pronounced? Is it a voiceless lateral
fricative, or something else? (2) How is "matia" used? Do you distinguish
different semantic relations (to, from, in, above, below, etc.) by means of
nouns and/or verbs?

Matt.

Matt Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202 USA
ph:  503-771-1112 (x 7618)

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