Re: Languages without adjectives

myth@INQUO.NET wrote:
> Doraja (heretofore called Doraya) does it exactly the same way.  In
> fact, in Doraja, there is no morphological distinction whatsoever
> between nouns and adjectives,
Watakassí has no disinction in as much as one cannot tell if a given
word is an adjective or a noun (except for certain nouns) from its form,
and they take the exact same inflections.  However, with few if any
exceptions, a word is either an adjective _or_ a noun.  Adjectives can
be used as nouns by adding the prefix tai- (related to takí, person) for
people or nasa- (<na-, one who/that which + sa- verbalizer; i.e., "that
which is") for things, and nouns can be made into adjectives typically
by adding the suffix -yása (descended, incidentally, from Common Kassí
_qihása_, a postposition meaning "resembling")

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