Re: Only verbs and nouns
From: | Elliott Belser <renyard@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 15:33 |
>Elliott Belser wrote:
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>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.