Re: A Tiny Attempt at Conlanging [was: Re: Tiny lexicon languages]

Joe Mondello wrote:
> 1. can a word have multiple stresses/tones and still be considered one =
word
> in an isolationg system.  for example, are =E9po and ep=F3 considered o=
ne word?

Depends on the structure of the language.  Those could be two words, or
they could be other forms of one word.  For instance, plural might be
indicated by moving the stress.

> 2.  can a word's phonemes be moved around, e.g.  pako and kapo and poka=
 and
> kopa.  can these be considered one word if they mean ' a pako', 'pakos'=
,
> 'pako's' and 'pako-accusative'
Hmm, I don't think that would be very naturalistic.  Of course, a
20-word language isn't naturalistic to begin with!  :-)  I suppose you
could do that.

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