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Re: And now for something completely different - Chatiga

From:Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
Date:Monday, December 27, 2004, 1:04
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:06:44 +0000, Joe <joe@...> wrote:

>Pascal A. Kramm 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 similar to my new Language (unnamed). Except mine isn't highly >isolating, and has interesting ways of creating meanings for words. And >I simply don't distinguish between nouns and verbs. Adjectival >constructions are formed by the construction 'word1+pa+word2', where >word2 is a property of the first.
No such construction here... it simply goes like this: The men are diligent = Plu grchum nu rocha. /plural/ man /present/ diligence. However, if it's neccessary to individuate the nouns, the particle "na" is used: The men speak diligently = Plu grchum nu woch rocha na. /plural/ man /present/ speech diligence /adjective/adverb/. This way it is shown that the noun in front of the particle modifies the noun indicating the action or state. -- Pascal A. Kramm, author of: Chatiga: http://www.choton.org/chatiga/ Choton: http://www.choton.org Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/ Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/ Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/