Re: THEORY: 'true' nature of nouns vs. 'illusionary' nature

Danny wrote:

<<Since I want Tech to be highly inflected and polysynthetic, I'm beginning a
study on languages with that sort of thing. Eskimo-Aleut is the family that
interests me the most now, though obviously I could also use Mohawk or an
Algonquian language as inspiration. I've already studied a little on
Georgian verb grammar, which has polysynthetic features (the language itself
isn't polysyntethic but is strongly inflected nonetheless).>>

Hey, I'm doing one of these guys too!   Mainly influenced by the grammar of
this language I got (Eastern Canadian, though I'm not sure what it's called:
Inuvialuktun?   Siglituun?), but also has drawn inspiration from Georgian and
Middle Egyptian.   I don't have much on the web, since I'm still working on it,
but the phonology's up:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/epiq/phonology.html

(The name's a play on "epic" and "Yup'ik".   I'd call it a portmanteau, but
the /q/ came from me.   Maybe I'm the one holding the suitcase?)

-David
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