Re: First post: presenting Classical Alyis

Edgard Bikelis ziánvalye:
>I like your phonology, and the overall sound of the language. Are
>all those words made from few roots? I hope so... my until now only
>language has ~850 words, made from just fifty roots or so; long live to
>the morphology.
Up to now, yes, I don't have many roots, but I didn't count them yet. :-)

And yeah, long live morphology, long live derivational synthesis!

>Don't you think 21 cases is too much? ; ) I have eight
>on mine and I already feel I could simplify a bit...  like  the
>difference between genitive and ablative, the same thing from PIE to
>ancient Greek.
Actually, my case system is inspired in the prepositions of Portuguese,
which I kinda like... I considered using "just" 18, but I missed adessive,
oppositive, and comitative; and I even thought about 23 cases, but noticed
that eliminating <éme> (Portuguese "estar", or "to be" in its transitory
meaning) and <éne> (Portuguese "ser", or "to be" in its more permanent
flavor) to have the stative and the essive cases made for some very awkward
constructions... :-)

21 is nice, that's 3x7... I can think of some cool concultural mnemonics
coming from that.

>Now... you are brazilian, are you not? With you it makes... three of
>us here? Probably more, but that's all that I saw. Maybe we could meet
>somewhere like our brothers-in-arms are going to. So much certainty in
>my speech, I'm so impressed ; ).
Yeah, I'm Brazilian, too. Who are the others?

And yes, if we live less than a few hundred kilometers away from one
another, we might very well meet in the near future... if not, there's
CONLANG and IM clients for that =)

Ah, and thanks for your kind comments!

Cheers,
- Abel.

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