Re: My new conlang
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 9, 2001, 8:04 |
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Quoting Joe Hill <joe@...>:
> > joe hill wrote:
> > <<
> > <snip Interesting stuff>
> >
> > The grammar is interesting, noun and verbs are without vowels, and
> > cannot be pronounced, vowels are added in to distinguish case, nouns
> > and verbs can then be pronounced.
> > >>
> >
> > Sounds like Arabic...
> >
>
> D'oh. I with my ignorance of languages thouht I was totally original.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. You can take solace in
the fact that Semitic morphology is profoundly weird in
typologicaly terms.
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