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Re: Set of basic adpositions

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Monday, November 10, 2008, 16:06
> Carl Banks <conlang@...> wrote:
> I suspect IE languages in general might tend to be heavy in > adpositions, and maybe English has a lot for an IE language but > Latin seems no slouch.
I'm glad to hear this. Senjecas purports to be the original language, the ancester of pre-PIE. To date it has 50 postpositions, 38 of which are basic, the rest derivative. I have finally given a name to my Senjecan homeland: Sefdaania, Seven Rivers. It is analogous to "Punjab," Five Rivers. Sefdaania is bounded on the east by the Ural Mountains, on the south by the Black Sea, the Caucasus, and the Caspian Sea, on the west by the Central European forest, and on the north by the southern edge of the glacier or the Arctic Sea, depending on the geological period. Sefdaania refers to the seven rivers that flow into the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea: the Danube, the Dniester, the Bug, the Dnieper, the Don, the Volga and the Ural. My next task is to allot portions to each of the Six Loquent Peoples. Charlie