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Re: Four, was Re: "Sentient"

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Sunday, January 9, 2000, 0:25
Christophe Grandsire:

> > I tried to do that with Notya, which has a structure > > unlike any other language, and still may be human enough > > to be understandable after some training.
> > The main idea of Notya is: no nouns, no verbs, nothing that > > looks like them, but roots and four suffixes to give the > > "grammatical" relation
Yasmin:
> Hmm. Interesting. I have 2 langs with no nouns or verbs. One of them has > four particles that clarify their relations. I've also looked at Kelen~ > (?sp), which at the time also had four particles to clarify relationships, > but worked differently. I wonder if Notya can provide us with yet a third > possibility? Please, share!
I've recently been thinking about making a very different language, but I don't really get anywhere. I'm thinking about having a 'head' in the beginning of each sentence which controls the rest of the sentence and helps clarify the syntactic functions (or perhaps semantic relations) of the sentence. I only have this idea of it all beginning with a 'boom' and then it kinda flows on. It should have something that drives the language forward. Oh, could I *be* any more vague... I'm not even sure what I'm talking about myself. Anyway. Both Notya and Draqa seems very interesting, but Christophe still hasn't updated his website... ;) and as for Yasmin, do you have a website? It would be very interesting to take a look at Draqa (and the other verb-noun-less lang) and Notya. The only thing I know about Draqa is a poem you posted about a week ago and a bunch of pronouns and classifiers. Well, at least I have a print-out of the Keleñ grammar. :) So, I say as Yasmin: Please share! Daniel Andreasson