Re: Ablaut/Gender[was Re: A Conlang by de group:

Nick wrorote :

>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > Or
> > what about using reduplication of the first syllabe for a meaning and the
> > reduplication of the second for another: benol > bebenol > benolnol. There's
> > a problem with single-syllabe roots, but we can add a new rule or make
> > meanings that can't have both reduplications. We're free!
>
> How's about we have *partial* reduplication of the first/last syllable.
> E.g., benol > bebenol > benolol; thus, a one-syllable word like _nol_
> would be nol > nolnol > nolol
Yeyes, bubut onlyly when we're deadead druuunk !

 (altho this still creates a slight problem
> with one-syllable words that are open syllables (like ko), but perhaps
> we
> can forbid this? OR (I don't know the term for this), but
> prefixes like kV-, where the V is the first vowel of the word, thus
> benol > kebenol, nol > konol, etc
ke....an ?

Selamat pembacaan, Saudara !

(you're an Indonesian Ismlamimist spypy, aren't youyou ?:-)

Mamathiassss

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