Nattiki (was: Re: speaking and saying)

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 25/05/99 22:05:48  , Matt a =E9crit :


>  I posted some details of Nattiki, together with a few sample sentences,
>  about a week ago.  The only new things since then are:
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>  -- Negation will be marked with the particle "mi" before the verb:
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>          Ichaloowoni             "I love you"
>          Mi ichaloowoni          "I don't love you"
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>  -- Yes/no questions will be marked with the particle "bawi":
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>          Nachaloola              "You love me"
>          Bawi nachaloola?        "Do you love me?"
>          Bawi mi nachaloola?     "Don't you love me?"
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>  -- We also invented some conjunctions, a handful of quantifiers, and
>  the numbers from one to ten.  Unfortunately I don't have my dictionary
>  handy, so I can't tell you what they are.  The conjunctions I remember
>  are:
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>          da      "and"
>          ep      "but"
>          zigaa   "because"
>          maki    "when, as, while"
>          bado    "after"
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>          Tebobjeeta        kuumajalaatem da  putaakatem
>          3p-Prog-eat.lunch elephant-Nom  and hamster-Nom
>          "The elephants and hamsters are eating lunch"
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>          Ichaloowoni zigaa   nadee boopa
>          1s-love-2s  because 2s-be crazy
>          "I love you because you're crazy"
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>  The only numbers I remember are:
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>          ed      "one"
>          zee     "two"
>          fuu     "three"
>          ...
>          pup     "six"
>          ...
>          gao     "nine"
>          sup     "ten"
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>          Iokima     fuuop     dibutmudokop
>          1s-Pst-see three-Acc magician-Acc
>          "I saw three magicians"
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>  This coming Friday we'll do reflexives/reciprocals, modal verbs,
>  and maybe evidentials...
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>  Matt.
Does making up this language make your students more comfortable with=20
linguistics ?

Mathias