Re: New to the list

Okay okay, I sit corrected. It is a natural language, but from my experience
in Latin speaking the language is very tedious, and I wish my language to be
more fluent, easily spoken.

Aggulinative has crossed my mind, I am still debating how it will work

One thing which I know will be, is the formality of the greetings and
farwells, the culture will be one of those which is very caste based, and
formality is a must.

We will see what comes out of it.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: New to the list


> Patrick Jarrett wrote:
> > but
> > it is such a pain to speak Latin I don't think any natural language
would
> > have as many endings as Latin.
>
> Eh?  Latin *is* a natural language.
>
> Also, you could try the agglutinative approach, that is, separate
> endings for different meanings.  For instance, Latin had a single ending
> -ôrum for "declension 2 genitive plural", while languages like Turkish
> have an ending for "plural", and an ending for "genitive", which are
> consistent (altho affected by vowel harmony, which means that the form
> differs depending on what vowels are in the word).  I can't remember the
> Turkish endings, buy my lang Utakassí is similar.  "Of the houses" would
> be:
> ufsaníif
> uf- = gender 6 ("animate") plural
> Saní = house
> -i = Plural (yes, plural is marked twice on nouns)
> -f = Genetive
>
> Cuts down on the number of endings you need to learn.

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