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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