Re: milimpulaktasin
From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 18:57 |
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> En réponse à Robert Hailman <robert@...>:
>
> >
> > That's the bigest problem I have with Ajuk, too. Ajuk's agglutinating,
> > and the stress falls on the ultimate syllable of the root, regardless of
> > the number of affixes or whether the root is a compact word. My
> > favourite example is the (informal) single word sentance
> > "Shukajapasamudesha.", meaning "We used to search for ourselves." (In
> > the philsophical sense.) I don't know how often someone would say that,
> > but it's pronounced /Su'kajapasamudeSa/ - urk. On the other hand,
> > sentances like that are *very* rare, even in informal speech.1
> >
>
> My Azak also stresses the last syllable of the root, regardless of the number of
> suffixes (Azak contains only suffixes, and since it's agglutinating words can
> become really long :) ). Funny, the names of the languages are similar
> (Ajuk~Azak), the orthography in Latin alphabet too, and the stress rule is the
> same :) .
>
And they're both agglutinating, and they both only have suffixes. What's
that... uh... 5 similarities/identicalisms. (I just made that word up. I
like it.)
I'm scared now. :-o
--
Robert
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