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Parallel Development in Pronouns (was, Valentine's Day Translations)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, February 12, 1999, 21:30
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:10:11 +0100 Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> writes:

> in Azak: >Vem-esh-as. /v'emeSas/ >(love-you.abs-certainty)
> Christophe
Grandsire Hmm....interesting... non-subject "you" in Rokbeigalmki (and ool-Nuziiferoi) is also _esh_. subject "i" is _az_, which also appears in someone else's conlang.... weird... Here's the whole list for comparison: az /az/ = i ez /Ez/ = you iz /iz/ = she oz /oz/ = he uz /uz/ = it, neuter gender uhz /Vz/ = 'one', unknown, neutral gender For the "plural" forms, an _m_ is inserted between the vowel and the _z_. (amz emz, etc.). The non-subject forms use _sh_ /S/ in place of the _z_. -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]