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Re: Seezzitonian

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, August 29, 2005, 9:56
Hi!

Dennis Paul Himes <himes@...> writes:
> Hi! I'm Dennis Himes. Those of you who have been on the list for a > while may remember me as the creator of Gladilatian, which I was developing > as a fictional language and incorporated into my novella A Diamond Found on > Paradise.
Hi, and welcome back!
>... Seezzitonian (/se DI 'to nI @n/ in English, Paapaitit >Seezzitoyit (/'p& paI tIt/ /'se DI to jIt/ in Seezzitonian) ...
The -tit endings remind me of Greenlandic, but that's probably just my working with that language much recently. :-) ,Paapaitit Seezzitoyit' sounds nice.
>.. Seezzitonian is a highly inflected language. Nouns come in five >genders and have 25 cases. The genders are feminine, masculine, >positional, transportable, and uncountable. ...
Positional vs. transportable! :-)
>...<very interesting brief description>...
Very promising, especially the agreement and inflection complexity in general.
> main Umuto page: http://home.cshore.com/himes/umuto/umuto.htm > main Seezzitonian page: http://home.cshore.com/himes/umuto/lang.htm > my main page: http://home.cshore.com/himes/dennis.htm > my novella: http://home.cshore.com/himes/dennis/diamond.htm > main Gladilatian page: http://home.cshore.com/himes/glad/lang.htm
Reading, **Henrik PS: The first glance at the grammar reveals that you have some same cases for both verb and noun modification. Now that's very interesting. :-)

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