Re: Languages without adjectives

At 16:46 21/03/00 +0100, you 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?
>
In Moten, adjectives are simply nouns, and only word order and context can
show which is which, as adjectives used attributively are simply nouns
apposed to other nouns. the only difference they have with usual
complements is that they follow the noun they complete instead of
preceeding it. So for example:

ka|se: man
odun: youth

ka|se odun: a young man
ka|se odejun: the young man

But also: odun: a young person.

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