Re: My new conlang
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 8:24 |
En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
>
> Are there any natlangs that have no transitive verbs?
Tagalog! With its trigger system, it can very easily be argued that it has no
transitive verbs, or rather, that the category of transitivity vs. intransivity
doesn't apply to them.
And treat trills
> and
> clicks as alophones?
That's a strange one I admit.
And use whistles as vowels?
Aren't there a few languages (Amerindian, African?) that use whistles as
phonemes or phones?
Christophe.
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