Re: Telek -- Invent a Language

Nik Taylor wrote:
>Marcus Smith wrote:
> > BTW, there is no word for "die" referring to animals.
>
>Then how would you talk about an animal dieing?
You would use a euphamism.  The most common one is:
sajekaxiwwa
sajek-ax-iwwa
NAME-GOAL-meet
'meet up with Sajek'

According to Telen mythology, Sajek was the first person to die.  It really
traumatized everyone, and it has remained a significant story for
centuries.  Normally, names cannot incorporate into the verb, so this shows
that the phrase has become somewhat lexicallized.  But they still recognize
the word Sajek and the goal applicative, so they have not reanalyzed the
expression into a single lexical item.


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Marcus Smith
AIM:  Anaakoot
"When you lose a language, it's like
dropping a bomb on a museum."
   -- Kenneth Hale
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