Re: A single Saalangal (Saalkamis) sentence.
| From: | Ph. D. <phild@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 8, 2004, 1:24 |
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Trebor Jung wrote:
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> Ph. D. írta: "Are there trigger languages in other parts
> of the world besides the Philippines?"
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> IIRC Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar. A phonologically
> cool language (nothing really exotic, just nice-sounding).
> Wish I had the time/resources to learn it... Tho I've not
> searched for info on it recently, Google wasn't helpful
> when I checked... :((
Hmmm. I have a textbook of Malagasy, and I've worked
through about half of it. I'm not a linguist, but it doesn't seem
to be a trigger language to me, at least not the way the
Philippino languages work. The most interesting feature
is that the headword must be the subject in a relative clause,
so there are ways to mark the verb for active, passive, and
oblique.
In any case, Malagasy is an austronesian language, related
distantly to Tagalog et al. Are there any trigger languages
in families not related to the Philippines?
--Ph. D.
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