Re: Moesteskin
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 5, 2002, 5:34 |
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Quoting Santiago <sanctifeld@...>:
> I'm glad to be welcomed so warmly... This is a wonderful group, really
You have discovered one of the wonderful traditions of this
group. :)
> Unfortunately, I don´t have a webpage with my language, but I´m thinking of
> making one soon
Some of the more widely followed schemes can be found here:
<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html>
> Following the rules for the plural, this would be "vrícenal", which means
> more than one pair of feet. Not 3, not 5, but pairs of feet.
>
> I would like to know if you know some natlangs that share this feature or
> some of your conlangs that do so...
This sounds somewhat like distributives: e.g. Greek _sunduo_ "two by two"
_kata pente_ "five by five". Many conlangs have an analogous construction.
Phaleran accomplishes this, according to dialect, either by reduplication
(_nû_ "two", _nunu_ "two by two") or by a form homophonous with adverbials
(_teo_ "four", _tyuþi_ "four times; four by four").
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