"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
> a ch e i k l m n ng ny o p s t u w y
How is {ny} pronounced? Is it a palatal nasal, like Spanish {n~}?
> this policy was carried out with the very convincing threat
> of being sentenced to be eaten whenever pronouncing an homonyme.
Hmm, frightening! :-) And this succeeded in changing the language so
much so that the changes have survived past his death?
> ceso cakecake moto.
> village home-home man.
> the village is the man's home/ the man lives in the village.
Is {c} the same as {ch} above?
> reduplicating the first vowel of a word makes an active verb whereby the
> subject acquires something, uses a faculty or benefits of a facility
> reduplicating the first syllable of a word makes a transitive verb.
Lots of reduplication here. Fascinating.
> Tunu has an exclusive antonyme shown by prefixing nya-
Hmm, shades of Newspeak? :-)
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