Re: Lord's Prayer in Enaselvai

Well, I thought of Greek because of words like
‘agedeimae’ (and endings like in Dreas), of Lituanian
because of the general external aspect of most words,
of African languages because of words like ‘emwe’, but
there is probably also some Latin in it (simil), some
words look like Aramean (nectandrani – at least that’s
my own idea of Aramean), other like Turkish (aivet),
other like Esperanto (regevato), some like Finnish
(silnova), some like Gaelic (Eara), some like
Hungarian (ornem) and I probably missed a lot of them.
That’s why I say that the language looks rather
familiar (also the fact that there are no cases), even
if I couldn’t guess any word meaning without the
translation.

Don’t worry if you don’t get your own messages back
after sending them. Generally they will come after a
while. Usually I go for a cup of coffee or to the
toilets, and when I come back, how nice ! there they
are. They are like ladies, you shouldn’t show them to
offently that you are expecting them. Just pretend
you’re not interested, and they will come.

--- Jonathan Lipps <conlang@...> wrote:
> Philippe,
>
> Yeah, I think my most blatant Greek rip-off was my
> verb "aged", from similar
> "ago". I haven't studied any Gold Coast languages,
> though, so that part must
> just be a coincidence!
>
> Actually, there is only one case marking in
> Enaselvai, and that is "-to",
> which signifies definiteness, whereas its absence
> signifies indefiniteness.
> (In fact, since the system is so weak we might not
> even want to call it a
> case system)
>
> So "ornem" is also nominative of the adjective.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> PS is it odd that I did not receive a copy of my own
> e-mail which was posted
> to the list? I.e., I would not have known that it
> actually made it through
> to the list had you not responded to it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constructed Languages List
> [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Philippe Caquant
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:40 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CONLANG] Lord's Prayer in Enaselvai
>
> Looks rather familiar. Could belong to some early
> Greek tribe lost in Lituania after visiting African
> Gold Coast.
>
> Just out of curiosity (acc.dropped):
>
> "Silverei lavewato emwe	ornem,
> Let it be made the name of you holy"
>
> - what is the nominative, if any, of *ornem*, and
> what
> case or desinence is that ?

=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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