Re: Breton (WAS: first try at conlanging)

Michael Poxon wrote:

> Not in Welsh and Breton, where the affirmative/negative
> answer depends on the person/stress/tense the question is
> asked in!
And the same holds for my conlang Cein, in which there are
no words 'yes' or 'no'. Instead you answer by affirming what
was said. Examples:

If someone asks _Aenth te?_ [@jnT te:] or rather [@j~T te:]
'Are they?' you simply answer _Aenth._ 'Yes they are.' Another
thing is that you use the question form of the verb even in
the answer and not e.g. *naenth. The question form of the
copula you get by simply dropping the first consonant: _naenth_
'they are' -> _aenth_ 'Are they?' or 'Yes, they are'.

||| daniel

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