Re: Universal Translation Language

Charles wrote:
> In my experiments it seems impossible to have part-of-speech terminal
> vowels and SVO order without eventually gravitating to adjective-noun.
Aroven uses terminal vowels and -VC suffixes for all parts of speech
except the subject (although the subject often gets a suffix as well,
'specially if it's plural, or has an article, etc.) and is firmly
noun-adjective.  The language lies somewhere between SVO and VSO.
E.g.
 SVO:
  Piidel tinde halka fyarden. (ii =3D i", ee =3D e")
  child little trips [over a] piece of wood.
 VSO:
  In halka piidel tinde.
  Happens-that trips child little.
 =20
In my language, adjective-noun seems very awkward, so I'm wondering how
you came to the above conclusion!
Inversion is possible but alters the meaning somewhat:
  Piidel tinde halka =3D=3D a kid who is little trips (is tripping)
  Tindye piidel halka =3D=3D a (little-kid) trips.  The "little" is in this
    case especially essential to the subject.
   =20
Josh
 =20
        _/_/      _/_/  _/_/_/_/   Joshua Shinavier            =20
         _/        _/  _/         Loorenstrasse 74, Zimmer B321=20
        _/        _/  _/_/_/_/   CH-8053 Z=FCrich              =20
 _/    _/  _/    _/        _/   Switzerland                 =20
_/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/   jshinavi@g26.ethz.ch

Danov=EBn pages: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/5555/ven.htm