Re: Kalini Sapak - new lang

Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Ieur Andreas Johansson an tegeidd:
>
>>Obviously, there's no such form as **_kuzalu_ "(he) is womanly"!
>
>What about that feminine guy in the HR department? :)
Apart from that the Kalana (I guess I should be refering to the speakers in
the accusative case - the genitive of course occurs in the lang's name)
don't have any HR departments, I guess you actually could say _su kuzalu_
"he is womanly", but it'd be really insulting to the guy refered to (saying
_su tuhaki_ "she is manly" about a woman wouldn't be nice either, but hardly
as insulting). But since lexicographers generally are nice people, they'd
use the non-insulting and much commoner feminine form, despite that the
masculine present is normally considered the lexical form.

A note on personal pronouns - the basic stems are M, T and S, for 1st, 2nd
and 3rd person respectively. To indicate case, a vowel is attached, the same
as for nouns. So nominative "I" is _mu_, accusitive "thee" is _ta_ etc. For
pl, the vowel is added both before and after the consonant, whence _ama_
"us" for instance. Gender is never shown on the pronoun, but you can of
course tell the subject's gender from the verb. Thus, "I love you" would be
_mu muzatu sa_ if said by a man, and _mu muzati sa_ if said by a woman.
Should some sexless entity feel a need to say it, it'd say _mu muzata sa_

                                              Andreas

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