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

Wow, thank you for your input.
(And thank all of you guys for additional info)
There are so many ( and very major ones), huh?
It is always good to know my ignorance.

And actually I am already getting influenced by those inputs.
For example, I really like

(From: "Kala Tunu" <kalatunu@...>)
> Hebrew
> beit-sefer "house-book" = "school"
(It sounds really nice, and natural. I'm surprised!)
So maybe, I'll make up words like that in near future.

But....it is getting clearer and clearer that one of my ambitious targets, i.e.
an equal accessibility regardless of linguistic backgrounds, is just a naive
one. :-)

The good thing is I'm not constructing an auxlang so I don't have to worry about
it too much; this feature is not mandatory.

I think I made a mistake. From now on, I just introduce Ka's grammer as it is
without explaing the 'reason' of it.

And.... I want to speed up a little bit.
So far, I guess you haven't seen any idiosyncrasies of Ka.
Next time (#2), I'm going to jump straight to the weirdest aspect of Ka.
So stay tuned.

Hiro

From: "Elliott Lash" <AL260@...>

> > Or would anyone on the list provide me the interesting examples of languages
> >  where inflection is done by changing the begining of words?
>
>
> TONS AND TONS of languages in fact.
> A quick sampling:
> -----
> Zapothec (spoken in Mexico)
>
> palu:  stick  > spalube: his stick
> spalube is analyzed:  s-palu-be  Possession-Noun-his
> ------
>
> Luiseno (spoken in Southern California)
>
> ki: house  >  noki: my house
> as apposed to > chamki: our house
>
> -------
> Quiche (spoken in Guatemala)
> -sikix: to read > kingsikix: I read (present)
>                 > shingsikix: I read (past)
>                 > kasikix: You read (present)
>
> ------
> Then of course there's Swahili, the more well known one:
>
> -penda: to like > nitawapenda: I will like them
>                 > alikupenda: He liked you
>
> -----
> Finally Cree (spoken in Canada)
> -kime: to count > akimew: he counts
>                 > nikimen: I count
>                 > kaakimew: he will count
>                 > nikaakimen: I will count
>
> So..yeah, there's a bunch of languages that have prefixes as inflections...I
don't see what's so strange about it.
>
> Elliott
>