Re: A wacky language
| From: | paul-bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 4, 2004, 14:48 |
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:25:42 -0600 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
wrote.
>Nouns have changeable gender, and not an issue of semantics, as in
>having a single root for "boy" and "girl"
Let me be sure I've parsed this correctly.
For a single root |boi-| and gender markers |-m| (masculine) and |-f|
(feminine), the words |boim| and |boif| mean "boy" and "girl".
Is that what you meant? It's the pattern from Elamite, and IIRC Burushaski
(and also AFMCL Thagojian), but it's not magnificently weird. I suspect you
meant the exact opposite, but I'm having trouble figuring out what the exact
opposite would be, without doing things like most European langs do.
A more detailed explanation is in order, I feel.
Paul
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