Re: no language no people

Matt McLauchlin sikayal:

> Which reminds me, I came across a Welsh proverb today. Would we like to
> conlang it:
>
> Welsh: Heb iaith, heb genedl.
> English: No language, no people.
Yivríndil:
kévapar, kévayira

Since par=language, yira=people (ethnic group), I assume that the analysis
of this is obvious.  I'm not sure that this is grammatical in
Yivríndil, though and since the more exact meaning is "Without a language,
there is no people," I'll translate that, too:

Elat paron eot kévayira.
Elat par-on eo-t kéva-yira.
Without language-ABL [there is]-not no-language.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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