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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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