Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 18:52 |
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:26:10 -0700, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
wrote:
>Somali was difficult to the point that
>I gave up on it, but more so due to inarticulatable phonology than
>grammar...
Hear, hear! Somali is indeed no.1 in my list, too.
Anybody can explain me what anteriorization is?
Plus tones. Plus semitoid morphology. With I forget how many articles,
partly conveying tense (in nouns!) And on the top of all that, the most
alien syntax I've ever dealt with.
No.2 in my list is Tagalog. Mainly 'cause I don't know if it's still
nominative-accusative, and I don't understand how its four passives
interact with word order, and no grammar I've seen cared to describe
the exact rules for secondary stress/vowel length/vowel deletion...
Basilius
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