Re: DRAFT: Numbers from 1 to 12 in Ayeri

Hallo!

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:47:17 +0200,
Carsten Becker <post@...> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I haven't yet made up numbers for Ayeri, just thinking about them.
> LISTEN, JANKO GORENC!!! I CANNOT SEND YOU THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE I HAVE
> NOT MADE THEM UP YET!!!!!! Well, here is the thread on the ZBB where I'm
> discussing them. I know I'm stupid sometimes. My maths are always wrong
> the first time as it seems.
>
>     http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=4253
I have looked at it, and, the naturalist I am, don't find them
appealing.  They look like something a 17th-century (or later)
philosophical language inventor could have come up with, not like
something that could have evolved in a natlang.

And looking at your Ayeri grammar (to which I found a link in the
ZBB discussion), I hit upon a somewhat bizarre phenomenon, namely
an animate-inanimate distinction in 2nd person pronouns.  One doesn't
often talk to inanimate objects; does one need special pronouns
for this purpose?

Greetings,

Jörg.