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Re: Only verbs and nouns

From:Elliott Belser <renyard@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 15:33
>Elliott Belser wrote: ><< >Adjectives in Ng'and'ana can be a... hmmn... let's say 'ideal' >aggluginated onto a word, or just the word with the suffix marker 'u. >Umbr is 'darkness.' Umbr'u is 'dark.' Or, 'Anya' is 'female.' >'Anya'u' is 'feminine.' A 'dark woman' is Umbr'any'adi, >Dark+Female+adi (a gender that marks the word as referring to a type >of person). > >Need another example? Obal is 'moon' or 'insanity.' Umbr'obal is >'Dark+Insanity' or melancholy, while creativity is Mah'obal or 'Good >insanity.' > >Ama mah'obal, ae? >>> > >What does the apostrophe represent in your orthography?
...a glottal stop, I should have said that... And it also represents how the Ng'anda keep track of aggluginations.