Re: my grammar
From: | # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> |
Date: | Friday, December 31, 2004, 20:05 |
Tomas R. Wier wrote:
>#1 wrote:
> > Nominative Accusative
> >
> > Singular first person pi bi
> > Singular second person te de
> > Singular third person ka ga
> >
> > Plural first person pI bI
> > Plural second person tE dE
> > Plural third person ka~ ga~
>
>You know, although this is unusual, I think one could rather
>straightforwardly account for such a pattern by a few simple
>diachronic sound changes. The voicing of the accusative could
>result from some prefixed vowel (perhaps schwa) which later gets
>deleted. Likewise, the vowel quality in the plurals could be
>accounted for by some sort of nasal suffix, perhaps /n/, which
>also gets deleted. This would require one more change, however,
>to collapse all nasalized high or mid vowels together with their
>nonnasalized counterparts.
You think a such regular thing could be evolved from an irregular one?
It would be a good idea, I create a very regular language that would have
spontaneously evolved from a simpler irregular language (that I may create
after)
Usually, as much I think, a natural evolution probably lead to a more
irregular language
It would interresting and I can create all a conculture with this in wich a
people, with their evolution tend naturally to simplify their language or
the language could be itself auto-simplifier
Following the Sapir-Worf hypothesis it may have an effect on them and it
would make them completely different
Thanks