Re: Comments required ... please : )
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 23, 2000, 23:51 |
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Mangiat wrote:
> Vaiysi has inherited from Suimeni, its mother tounge
Just a little correction - the term in English is "ancestral language",
"mother tongue/language" refers to the language one grew up with.
> the English one. Vaiysi has five tenses: present, past, future,
> anterior and posterior
What are anterior and posterior?
> q /q/ is a glottal stop
The phonetic symbol for glottal stop is /?/.
> Well, Pablo proposed to call this last feature "shortening" or
> "length dissimulation" because "vowels' reducer" sounds like a
> shrinking machine. : ) Anyway I think this is one of the coolest
> features of the language.
Very interesting. I like the term "shortening".
What aspects and voices exist? And is there any trace of gender in the
verb inflection? What are the numbers? Is it just singular/plural, or
is it singular/dual/plural, or what?
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