Re: Languages without adjectives

ea-luna has 2 classes of words: content words and function words.
A content word can be an adjective, adverb, noun, or verb,
depending on its position in a sentence. Function words are
conjunctions, prepositions, etc. So you could say that ea-luna
has no words that are specifically adjectives, although in
practice, some words would *mostly* be used in adjective
positions...
Actually, I am thinking off the top of my head that "red" in "the
ball is red" would be a verb in ea-luna, but "red" in "John threw
the red ball at me" would be an adjective.

Fredrik Ekman wrote:
>
> Some time ago I read an article about languages which mentioned in passing
> that some languages have no or few adjectives, using (if I understood the
> article correctly) nouns and verbs(?) for the same purposes.
>
> Has anyone ever used this in a constructed language? How does it work?
>
> If it has not been used in conlangs, can anyone point me in the direction
> of some natural languages with this feature?
>
>   /Fredrik
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