Re: beginner

Hi!

Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> writes:
>...
>  I'd say isolating or agglutinating are the easier choices. :)
Indeed, I had the same experience.  Interestingly, they seem easier
than isolating languages.

> About the hardest to do is a polysynthetic style language: you have
> tons of affixes, which isn't so difficult, but the hard point is
> that in examples from every polysynthetic language I've seen they
> tend to merge with each other a lot of the time. And when you have
> so many bits involved it just seems difficult to me to design it so
> it all works well.
>...
Right!  In Qthen|gai, this is currently ignored, so same of the really
hard stuff is yet to come in a future version. :-) Currently, I have a
clear affixation system, and the polysynthetic stuff is apparent only
in the amount of things that can be done at morphology level.  So
incorporation is very, very common in Qthen|gai.

> much.  Have you ever studied any native South American languages at
> all? If you can find any information about them they might be a good
> source of ideas.
And to get move ideas, Inuktitut or Kalaallisut, Finnisch, Chinese,
Tagalog for a start. :-) After that, everything else! :-))) There are
so many things to learn about language that it never gets boring.

Just to get a kick-off of different ideas.

**Henrik