Re: help with starting out

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Also, with verbs, in Ajuk verbs have a regular series
> >of affixes in a regular ordre, rather than having a different form for
> >each tense, and a different ending for each person, etc. An andvantage
> >of agglutinating langs, if your inflecting lang seems to have to
> >artificial a form of inflections, is that agglutinating langs usually do
> >have fairly regular systems of affixes, and thus a fully regular system
> >won't seem as out of place and unnatural.
>
> Saalangal has a regular series of affixes for tense, mood, and trigger.
> It's all regular, and I think is a pretty easy system to remember.
> Although, there's quite a few affixes (the triggers are passive or
> active). Here's a sample word in all of the tense, mood, and triggers.
>
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Saalangal sounds interesting, is there a website for it?

Ajuk is like that too, theres a whole crapload of affixes plus some
particles.

I'll put all of these in the 2rd person male, just for fun.

ib - to have

ibape - you have
ibapase - you (pl) have
ibapame - you had
ibapothe - you will have
ibapude - you are having
ibapamude - you were having
ibapothude - you will be having
ibapoke - Have! (imperative)
ibapeshe - you have yourself (reflexive)
na ibape - you do not have
ibape kan - you should have (subjunctive)
na ibape kan - you should not have
ibapoke kan - Please have (subjunctive + imperative = polite request)
na ibapoke kan - Please do not have

That's about all, but you can mix and match, of course. The order for
the affixes is gender, number, tense, completion, mood, object, and
person, with the negative particle going before and the subjunctive
particle coming after.

I calculated once, there are 576 forms for each verb, but each is made
regularly and does not have to be memorized on it's own, as it would be
in an inflecting language (gasp!) I don't know if that includes the
particles, I'd imagine not.

I really should make a website for Ajuk, that way I wouldn't have to
type this all up every time I wanted to explain it, I could just point
to the link

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Robert