Re: average syllables per word?

Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
>
>         Well, everything is on my webpage (can you learn French?), but here are
Very funny. :-X

> some examples. In fact, the basic role of 'n' is to make a root from a
> suffix. This root can generally be translated as a pronoun (or pronominal
> adjective, as adjective is a case of the noun (it's called
> 'complementative'). I call those new roots 'grammatical words'.
>
>         With -ek, which is a question suffix (like the 'ka' particle in Japanese),
> I can make 'n-ek': what? With the declination suffixes, I can make other
> question pronouns:
> n-ek-ev (at what?): where (are you)? when?
> n-ek-av (because of what?): why?
> etc...
>         With the indefinite suffixes, you make indefinite pronouns:
> n-ab: something
> n-oz: this, that (yes, I know that's not indefinite, but -oz is put in the
> same list as indefinite suffixes. Not my fault)
> n-eg: everything
> n-ab-ab: a few, a little
> n-ek-ab: how much? how many?
So <n-> is a "general" noun root? I mean, if you take the word for
"house" and add <-ab> it means "some house", <-oz> "this house",
etc., right? And <n-> fills the noun slot... Very, very interesting.

>         With the absolutive personal suffixes, you make possessive pronouns:
> n-in: mine
> n-esh: yours
> etc...
>         With the ergative suffixes, you make personal pronouns:
> n-ef: I, me
> n-ash: you
> etc...
This is curious. Do you have an explanation for this?
Aren't there any free pronouns apart from these?

/snipped redundancy pronouns -- niiice!/

> >(Speaking of consonant clusters... my favorite Georgian word
> >is _vprtskvni_ 'I am peeling it', which is supposed to be
> >one syllable. I don't know which part is 'peel', but I'm quite
> >sure it's not the vowel.)
> >
>         How is it supposed to be pronounced? With a lot of schwas or with a
> consonnant cluster of 8 consonnants?
My grammar says "one syllable per vowel". So it *is* a consonant cluster
(v-p-r-ts-k-v-n, seven consonants, since /ts/ is affricate). And it also
says "almost no assimilation"! Wow.


--Pablo Flores