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.