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Re: Pro-drop was RE: Conlang collaboration

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Sunday, February 16, 2003, 19:07
En réponse à Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>:

> > Re: diminutives: The ones I am familiar with are: -le, (Channa > > Channale) and > -ke (Shlomo [Solomon]> Slomke) both AFAIK to Hebrew via Yiddish. > Where Yiddish got them from I don't know.
I don't know for -le, but -ke is definitely Germanic. It's found as is in Frisian and Dutch, and is probably cognate with German -chen.
> > Maybe overexposure to the Spanish-language soap operas > that fill up our airwaves! ;-) >
No Brasilian ones? ;)))) Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>