Re: Grie Ka #1 (was Re: ,Language' in language name?)

avid Peterson a écrit :

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jafix   vs.     fixja
jahari  vs.     harija
jasom   vs.     somja

    I still find the second list slightly easier.  Maybe
it's just me.
Anyone else want to take a stab at this?

-David
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it's fun to try. i find the first easier list. maybe it's
because i'm french plus i guess what fix, hari and som
roughly mean. so i think "ja [de] fix", "ja [de] hari", "ja
[de] som" like i would do with khmer or indonesian (and
that's why my conlangs have this word order). really the
secular head-tail vs. tail-head word order dilemma. BTW i
think in old french the genitive was made without "de": "le
cheval le roi" = le cheval du roi. but i have no pb to
reverse that word order when switching to english or
japanese. it's just that my poor brain feels the "jafix"
word order more natural. it would be interesting to know how
other romance language speakers on the list feel about that.

Mathias
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