Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language

Joe Fatula wrote:

JF> So both languages have different levels of
JF> compounding ability.  In Tongchola:
JF>   te-leowalkailu = a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle
JF>   walkailu = wheeled vehicle
JF>   chawal = something with wheels
JF>   te-leo = a horse-vehicle
JF>   te-teokolleowalkailu = a horse-drawn wheeled
JF>                vehicle controlled by a human

It looks like the root words of Tongchola do not
have fixed length. It may be difficult to tell where
one root word ends and another root word begins.

You probably have not explored the two letter roots
yet. Ygyde picks two letter roots from two tables.
(Its precursor, Ebubo had three tables.) One of the
unexplored possibilities is to use two tables (let us
call them A and B) for 5 an 7 letters long compound
words, and four tables (let us call them A, B, C, and D)
for 9 letters long compound words. Tables A and B
would be the same or similar to the Ygyde tables,
while tables C and D would be made of new nouns. All
9 letters long compound words would have structure
PXXCD where P is a vowel prefix, X is a root taken
from table A or table B, C is a root from table C,
and D is a root taken from table D.

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