Re: And now for something completely different - Chatiga
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 27, 2004, 6:59 |
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:53:28 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
> This time, I took a completely different approach :D
> Chatiga possesses neither verbs nor adjectives, as nouns are used in their
> place. Words are never inflected, making it a highly isolating language
> which uses particles for grammatical functions like indication of time and
> modality, or to mark nouns for their function if neccessary.
Looks a little bit like Lojban, which has not only no verbs nor
adjectives, but not even any nouns! Only brivla, which act like all
three depending on position in the sentence and whether they are
preceded by cmavo ("articles"/"prepositions"/... depending on the
category of cmavo) or not.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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