Re: Montanian

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Montanian


> joe wrote:
> >I'm planning (eventually) to extend my montanian language (once I've got a
> >relatively full vocab) into a whole group, one of the languages will be
> >highly inflected, any Ideas on how to turn Montanian into a highly
> >inflected language believably?
> 
> Could you give us some more information on Montanian? I gather that it's not
> very inflecting?
> 
> If it uses prepositions, those could merge with the noun, in effect becoming
> case prefices. Similarly, any auxiliary verbs could merge with the main verb
> to become infections. Any existing inflections could be given wider fields
> of use (for instance, a genitive used only for actual possession could come
> to be used for almost any sort of association).
> 
>                                                     Andreas
> 
> 
Montanian is the most completely uninflected language ever, as illustrated in this
translation of the Babel Text

Sullim zaka mimu damu pirana.
all world have universal speak
khu lhullup jasu, lhk tisad pallum matia shinar, lhk papa
people move east, 3p find plain with shinar, 3p settle.
lhk pirana nasaf "lhp nugau rara." lhk kisaa sada furur, pumi sada nuju.
3p speak self "1p make brick." 3p use brick but stone, tar but glue. 
lhk pirana "lhp ksallalh ksulilh, matia puru laza gusu, lhp mimu kukhu, u lhuma matia zaka.
3p speak "1p build city, with tower lift sky, 1p have reputation, neg. scatter with world
sada lhalhaa dag jala ksulilh, puru khu ksallalh.
but God come see city, tower people building
lhalhaa pirana "mayi a khu, pirana damu pirana lhk masall lhulu, ksagu lhk pirana
luatau, khira palulh lhk.
God speak "if one people, speak universal speak, 3p begin this, nothing 3p speak
do, be impossible them.
lhp pukagu tuduu lhk pirana, lhk u ksukhull nasaf"
1p go confuse 3p speak, 3p neg. understand self."
lhalhaa lhuma lhk matia dapua, lhk mallalh ksallalh ksulilh.
God scatter 3p with there, 3p stop build city.
sumuu dapua khira babill, lhalhaa tuduu pirana zaka, matia dapua lhalhaa lhuma lhk matia zaka.
(Explanation) there is Babel, God confuse speak world, with there God scatter 3p with there.

Montanian does not distinguish between number. ie. a rara, lu rara (one brick, two
bricks) Nor does it distinguish between gender (montanian for woman is
translated as "Breasted Man")it does not distinguish between possesive and
non-posessive either.

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