Re: Kalini Sapak - new lang
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 21, 2001, 5:59 |
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In a message dated 7/20/01 1:00:02 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
<< Hee hee. In Uatakassí, the dictionary form is first person singular
non-punctual present, antipassive for transitive verbs. Which means you
have forms like _iuínuki_ "I am dying" :-) >>
In Medgevi it's, oddly enough, the command form. It's a triconsonantal
language, and the command form is just each consonant followed by "a". It's
the same reason why they use the third person, masculine past tense ast he
dictionary form in Arabic.
-David