Haitian Creole was Re: Spelling ....
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> | 
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 20:10 | 
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On Wed, 29 May 2002 09:12:52 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
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>> What I find funny is the incorporation in the lexical noun= >  of
>> what in French are articles (like "larivi=E8" for "river", from "la
>> rivi=E8re", "dlo" for "water", from "de l'eau", "l=F2t" for "other" - I
>> suppose "youn" means "one" - from "l'autre")
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>To a first approximation, all Haitian Creole French mass nouns begin with
>"d" and all count nouns with "l".
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